Congratulations to our customer James Stephens on his Best of Show win at Saturday’s Z Day in Atascadero, CA. James’ 1972 Turbocharged L-series S30 has a few more upgrades since being featured in Speedhunters, so expect a full report soon!

 

Here are few photos from the show, it looks like a great turnout. Long Live The Z!

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James’ turbocharged L-series Datsun just got a new set of wheels. Big thanks to Love20bee for sourcing and re-finishing these SSR Watanabe RS8s sized:
Front 10.5, -6 offset
Rear 12.5, -32 offset

 

The crew at ZCG worked diligently to ensure the 275/40 front and massive 315/35/17 rear NT-01 tires cleared at full lock and suspension travel.

 

Our ZCG Big-Brake Kit( 328mm) is framed nicely behind the RS-8 spokes:

  

We also installed fender mirrors and James’ already hit the roads to Enjoy The Ride!

 

Enjoy this video of the Z rolling with the new footwork, speakers UP!

 

 

Stay tuned for a full report with dyno/tuning!

 

 

Glenn is an avid Datsun enthusiast having owned and raced several cars. You might remember his VIPS 240z vintage race car from the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion last year where he ran it alongside our hero John Morton:

 

We also dyno-tuned the Z in preparation for race week. Look for #39 at this year’s RMMR!

  

Glenn loves his vintage race cars and he recently added this B-sedan Datsun 510 to his stable. He plans to race it this year with SVRA, and it also got accepted to the 2018 RMMR event!

 

In preparation for the upcoming RMMR, Glenn visited Z Car Garage to have the B-sedan dialed-in with chassis dyno tuning.

 

Chassis dyno tuning is extremely beneficial for race cars. You simply can’t run your race car up and down a city street to emulate race conditions and “guess” how your engine settings are performing. In most cases our customers have their engines built and tested on an engine dyno, so it is prudent to confirm performance on the chassis dyno before heading out to the track.

 

We run a series of dyno tests for the customer, including fully heat soaking the engine to ensure it can perform throughout the rev range. Glenn’s 510 was optimized for drivability in his desired powerband and like all race cars that get dyno’d at ZCG, his 510 left with more hp/tq! Enjoy the video of a few dyno pulls and listen to that L-series sing:

 

 

We can’t share numbers as racers like to keep them close to their heart, but you can count on the 510 being ready to rock in the B-sedan group at big race. Thanks for letting us tune your Datsun, Glenn!