Doing it GRIP style... pics

[ZK]

I took the car out at Thunderhill for a open track event. I was helping instruct the event and got some seat time in too.

I still need to dial in the suspension and brakes. Power is pretty good but still rather underpowered compared to a lot of the cars out that day. Still packing some surprise for a lot of people and I was pretty impressed how it did against the big guys.

There was some professional photographers there and they got some good shots of the car in action. Too bad they charge a lot for the prints or I'd order a set! ( the blue tape is to protect from rock chips)

[DRFT]

looks great man! love the kouki bumper

you should to the Sac BBQ!

[dvdevo]

hey u were at the autornd meet huh? anyways, nice pics. I want to goto a track for some grippage

[kandyflip445]

Nice pics. Are those OEM style side skirts?

[msaskin]

How did you like thunderhill? I'll probably be out there later this year for an event with speedventures.net

~matt

[ZK]

msaskin, Thunderhill is a very beginner friendly course. I'd been there probably about 10 times the past few years in my old car. Other places like Laguna Seca are more dramatic and have better scenery but is a high powered course since the turns are sharp, walls closer, racing lines harder to find and you need power to accelerate out of turns. I think Thunderhill is a very good place to learn the handling of your car and some good racing lines.

kandyflip445, Yes, those are OEM JDM sides from the "chuki" 180SX/Silvia. I like OEM body parts - functional and designed to fit and look good.

dvdevo, Thanks, Yes, I was at the AutoRnD meet, did I meet you there?

DRFT, You know Alfred right? I will try to make it but dunno what is going on that weekend yet.

[msaskin]

Originally Posted by ZK

msaskin, Thunderhill is a very beginner friendly course. I'd been there probably about 10 times the past few years in my old car. Other places like Laguna Seca are more dramatic and have better scenery but is a high powered course since the turns are sharp, walls closer, racing lines harder to find and you need power to accelerate out of turns. I think Thunderhill is a very good place to learn the handling of your car and some good racing lines.

Cool. I'm not new to open track events (been to a few in my old stealth @ las vegas motor speedway, spring mountain motorsports park, and gingerman raceway). Two weeks from now @ streets of willow will be my first track event in the 240sx though. I'll have a few more under my belt before thunderhill, since speedventures.net won't be there until much later this year iirc.

~matt

[DRFT]

Originally Posted by ZK

DRFT, You know Alfred right? I will try to make it but dunno what is going on that weekend yet.

yea i know him, havent seen him since he left MD though...hes living in the bay, i dont think hes ever coming back to Sac heeh, and his car aint running either

[dvdevo]

yeah u met me there..i was the "tall skinny chinese guy with glasses" bhahaha.. DAMN IT I KNOW ITS GENERAL BUT I THINK I WAS THE ONLY ONE HAHAHhahah...

oh yeah how do you know about these open track events.

[MakotoS13]

Doing it GRIP style

and here i was thinking we all died out with the new DrFT ReVaLutIUn

[aznpoopy]

very nice... how'd you fare against the other cars? was that a NSX and FD tailing you in tandem? i'd be scared if one of those pulled up on my ass lol.

[mad s13]

damn man..looking nice. I like the color..what year is yours and whats that color..just wondering if its the same as my color code on my 90. oh and i like how your in front of all those other expensive cars in the background. give us a mod list if you want..

[Propagandhi41]

they're probably getting ready to lap him....haha

just kidding

[thx247]

Its hard to compare cars when they are not being driven by the same driver. All cars can be driven slowly!

Where were those picts taken? It looks like the photographer was running around all over turn 5

[ZK]

The pics were taken at Thunderhill Raceway about 1 hour north of Sacramento CA in Willows

DRFT, yeah... he is in the bay now and i don't know if that car will run any time soon.

dvdevo, i think i remember, were you kinda walking around looking and talking to everyone out in the parking lot when i was there?

Well, I've been doing them for a while so I know a lot of people who go to the events a lot of it is just passed around. I've been instructing for unlimited laps http://www.unlimitedlaps.com and that was the group i was with that day. that day was a Audi/VW club event so the majority of cars out that day were european.

The color is "Misty Blue". Kinda a blue-silver metallic I think it was only in 91-92.

Like i said, i had a slower car that day... the FD and NSX did pass me. Those pics were taken when they were on my ass and I pointed them to pass me because i didn't want to hold them up. If u look at the pics, the M3 was behind me, he had passed the RX-7 and then i let him go, I hung with the RX-7 a little and a few turns later, the NSX passed the RX-7 and then they both passed me on a corner with the RX-7 on the NSX's ass.

The yellow Porsche 996 turbo in the 1st pic was just behind me briefly, came out of no where, blew by me and was gone...

Lots of other cars out there. I found that I could go head to head with some of the WRXs, E36 M3s and VWs but the Evos, more modified WRXs, Porsches, new M3s, NSX etc were way faster.

my friend's 240sx


A pretty modified & fast NSX



Even a rally car was out there tearing it up.


I think this is Vanessa in her WRX, she instructs sometimes and is a regular at the UL events.


Here are some of the other cars out that day.

[Propagandhi41]

damn...all those cars are bad ass...is it just me or does that rally wrx look like a cat? damn i jsut remembered why i hate roof scoops

[sykikchimp]

sweet pics!

[old_s13]

your 240 looks nice. actually, the 96-98 bumper flows real well with the square s13 silvia body.. real nice.

i like your car, looks like its put together real well.

[aznpoopy]

that looks like so much fun... sweet ass pics. i think you just motivated me to get my pos car together faster. leaky rear main seal = t3h suck.

[mad s13]

nice pics man..your friends 240 is the same color as mine..love that color too..the misty blue color is my other favorite..lol

your car is so clean but not stock looking...thats the way i'm trying to make mine look..clean compaired to the ones in my area..

nice stuff..

Gray

[mellojoe]

I had the opportunity to got to Hallett Racing Circuit out in Oklahoma. Its a 1.8 mile road course that is VERY technical. The nice thing about it is there are no walls or guardrails. Just open grass... and a few tire barriers. If you totally screw up and head out to la-la land, you don't hit anything. Just get your car muddy.

I loved it. It was the best time I'd ever had in a single day. An absolute thrill!

[ronny5]

whens the next streets of willow event?

[ronny5]

oh yea, wat size are your wheels? theylook like enkei rs evo wheels, correct?

[thx247]

Speed Trial USA is running streets this weekend.

[OptionZero]

kickass...great pix phil

[msaskin]

Originally Posted by thx247

Speed Trial USA is running streets this weekend.

and speedventures.net is running streets July 10th/11th and July 25th/25th, then the big track at willow springs August 7th/8th



I'll be there the 10th, and probably at big willow the 7th or 8th (or both if $$ allows)

~matt

[thx247]

If I had a faster car I would run the big track. I just don't see the point right now though...so slow on the straights.

[ZK]

old_s13, thanks! I try to keep it clean. I was originally thinking of doing the Silvia front end but I saw some pics of Japanese One-via conversions and wanted to keep it that way. Now all I need is one of your projector headlight conversions!

What really did it for me was this pic from the old velocity site:

It's a JDM RHD S13 converted to a One-via, same body color as mine with a Kouki-style bumper and the Chuki sides. I wanted something like that but retain the functionality of OEM body parts.

ronny5, wheels are 16x7 and 16x8, +32 offset all around Enkei Racing-S. Pretty popular in Japan about 8 years ago but not so much now.

thx247, it's fun just to get out there and drive! You don't need tons of power. I've driven one of my friend's bone stock 91 240SX coupe with 200,000 miles on it and some ghetto cooper cobra tires at the track and had tons of fun.

[DRFT]

your car and that onevia is hot!!!

[iknowyoulike]

just Nice and Clean....that also looked like major fun.