Ron did you have a senior moment while welding?
Nice project.
Ron did you have a senior moment while welding?
Nice project.
Steven Frederick
NER
ITA Miata-24
Naw, that's Jeffrey. I'm the guy taking the pictures. Jeff Young was also over ambling about with Ed the Dog but didn't have pics of either of them.
All good stuff you guys. I am just jealous that you are outside working on race cars and although it was 50 today the weather supposed to turn into the teens at night this week.
Keep the pics coming of the project.
Steven Frederick
NER
ITA Miata-24
Thinking of painting it orange with either white stripes down the side like this or white racing strips running over the hood and roof.
Any other ideas for color are welcome, I am talking to the painter tomorrow.
Jeff Roussel
Soon to be ITS Datsun 260z
Ohhh crap!!! This is giving me nasty flashbacks to our rebuild from this past summer! I just did get the scent of metal grindings and argon out of my system. That's looking good Jeff, and congrats. Doing a z won't feel like a senior moment once you're out on track. That cage looks good. Did you guys do it?? Has some similarities to our cage. I keep meaning to post some pics on here from our build, so I'll try to do that this week. I look forward to seeing more of yours on here. Good luck with the paintwork!
Chris Carey
Central Florida Region
ITS/Vintage Datsun 240Z
Favorite tool to remove undercoating---- A curb!
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you."
Chris Schimmel at Competition Cages did the cage. It's a good cage.
Jeff R. and Ron E. have been working their tails off on the car, I mostly just drag it around (which I am fine with). This one is going to be built RIGHT from the shell up, so we'll see what it does.
These are such simple cars.
NC Region
1980 ITS Triumph TR8
Forgive the threadjack (the project looks cool, BTW!) but might I inquire why you guys are going for the 260z, versus the 240? I understand the extra displacement, and I'd imagine there's more flexibility with carbs vs. the injection on the 280, but I have nightmares of tuning the carbs on my dad's 260 as a child. . whereas the 240 was a relative breeze. What am I missing?
You should be right around min weight if that's 1.5" tubing in the cage. We are a bit over 240 min, but Tim and I could both stand to lose a few pounds, plus we are real heavy on wheels/tires. We also have a couple extra braces in the cage running from the bend in the main hoop up to the rear shock mount that I think Jeff's cage doesn't have. Hard to tell in the pics. The cage is very similar though with the way the main hoop pinches in. We liked the way that tied into the chassis by the old seatbelt mount. Looks like it's gonna be a great car. And your right about how simple the cars are. As we redid ours we kept saying that over and over again. And amazingly they are still pretty fast. Good luck!
Chris Carey
Central Florida Region
ITS/Vintage Datsun 240Z
Favorite tool to remove undercoating---- A curb!
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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