If your bored : S13 Silvia Tarmac Rally Car

[SirSilvia]

sweet ride

[s14derrick]

yes!!!! this is exactly what we need. more 240s set up for grip or rally.too much focus is set on drifting since its popularity skyrocketed

[SullivanRacing06]

very nice very nice!

[Slappy]

Glad you guys enjoyed!

WIN!

Nice!

[Stripes]

lap.

Holy crap yes!!! If I had money I'd do this to my coupe so fast..... This is what I like to see

[Kalypso]

more

[ca18detgabby]

very sweet

PS Mitsu makes the CAS on both the CA and RB...... would not shock me one bit of the SR does as well. who makes the alternator on the NA SR for that matter?

[Slappy]

Damn....I sent Fletcher Williams, the driver of the white 240sx, asking him for more pics of the car and some specs, he replied with.....

What do you have in mind? Do you wish to buy it? Or what? Attached is a pic, what specs and why? No big secret, just wondering why? Thanks, Fletcher

I replied..

No no , im just a fan of anyone who drives a 240sx in a series such as GT2. Is it for sale or something?

[brizanden]

^ i saw the championship race for gt2 yesterday and finally got a glismpe of that car at the end getting smoked by a 300 and porsche. i think he got 5th. two 350z's got first and second

[TekuDrifter18]

thats a kick as silvia.

[USsil80]

wow awsome thread.... i remember a thread a while ago of a guy that bought a 240 that was a gt series... said he was going to restore it, the car came with the motor,though nver saw the inside of it.... +1 for just enjoying your car

[Slappy]

I think i remember that car^

Anyway, i found some more!!

http://www.theautochannel.com/....html

Rolex 24 at DaytonaSpeedweeks 1999Daytona International Speedway

#57 Kryderacing Nissan 240 SX (GT3)

[Slappy]

IMSA RACING S13S

http://speedhunters.com/archiv....aspx

When I was in my teens, every year I'd look forward to the six hour drive from Vancouver to Oregon, to watch the G.I. Joes Grand Prix at Portland International Raceway. It was an amazing time for sports car racing in America, with factory entries from Jaguar, Nissan, Toyota, and Ford as well as a host of privateer Porsches. In the support role to the big prototypes were the GTs, which amazingly enough, had enough numbers to run in a totally separate race. The main players back then were the AAR Toyota Celicas, Roush Mustangs, Cougars and XR4Tis, Nissan 300ZXs, Maxda RX7s, Audi Quattros and various tube frame Camaros and Firebirds.



There were plenty of lower class GTU (under 2 liters) cars racing too, but I didn't really pay much attention to them at the time.



This brings me to the subject of this gallery posting.... I was planning to put together a few posts looking back on Nissan's great IMSA racing campaigns from the 80s and early 90s and started to look through Mark Windecker's photo archive to get the images rounded up. In looking at his pictures from this time period, I started to notice Mark was displaying a fair number of factory Nissan racing S13s in the GTU category from around 1990 to '93.

If I dig in to my memory banks I can just about remember these cars... barely....



It appears that when the 240SX S13 was still a shiny new car in showrooms across America, it was supported by a factory backed racing program in the IMSA Camel GT series.



It is hard to track down details of the campaign now, but judging from my knowledge of IMSA GT racing from the time period, the cars would have been full tube frame silhouette racers. This is the American Instrument Racing entered S13 at Topeka in 1990.



The main Nissan factory supported team for the duration of the program was Leitzinger Racing, a family run operation headed by Bob Leitzinger, the father of Butch, who some of us may be more familiar with. This is one of their cars at Topeka in 1990.



By 1991 the cars were adorned in more familiar Nissan racing colours and sported updated body-work. This is Bob Leizinger piloting one of the team cars at Road America, where he took third place in the GTU class.



1991 was the first year Nissan won the IMSA GTU Title with Leitzinger Racing. They went on to take the overall manufacturer's title every year to 1993... Interesting huh? Did any of you know the S13 had this type of GT racing success?



By the time this photo was taken at Mid Ohio Raceway in 1992, the cars had changed again with a much more radical wide body setup. The car is piloted here by a very young Butch Leizinger.



1992 was a great year for Leitzinger Racing, with the drivers locking out the top three places in the drivers championship.



Butch ended up 2nd in the championship with David Loring taking the overall title.



The older spec chassis' ended up in the hands of privateers. This is Reed Kryder's entry at Mid Ohio in 1992. I wonder where these race chassis are these days...



Pictured at Road American in 1993, Butch went on to win the IMSA GTU title that year. It was the first milestone success in his racing career which has seen him drive for Panoz, Cadillac, Bentley and of course his mainstay: Dyson Racing.

[keith0486]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqmpm2fIhOk

[s14derrick]

that 240sx motoring car is way sick

[gmac708]

Here is another cool link with lots of info on tracks and drivers and cars.

http://www.racingsportscars.co....html

I have an advantage here in central Ohio with Mid-Ohio track just north of me. I can grab the family and sit on a blanket on most weekends and watch some great racing. SCCA events (or any for that matter) are mostly geared towards family and I would highly recommend everybody try it at least once.

Nissan heritage is something we all share

Cool thread Slappy, great pictures everyone!

[veebee]

to thicken the already thick plot, that canadian 240 has a subaru sticker on it :O

[impact240sx]

I'm guessing that subaru and castrol sponsored the event so all the cars prolly had that sticker on the windshield? I'm wondering in these rallys are there differant classes like awd and rwd? Cuz i can't see a 240 comparing 2 a sti in a rally thats just unfair cuz those cars have extreme grip on all surfaces. I'm also diggin all the race 240's they are so cool and i wish i could afford to all out trackify my car.

[Ruff Ryder 6]

I like how the 240sx motoring car blitzed the GTR on the straight and he about caught him going into the previous turn had the traffic car not been in the way.

[asoomal]

Here are some action shots of a local Canadian rally 240.

That car looks beautifulllll with the snow

[wa-chiss]

Here are some action shots of a local Canadian rally 240.

HAHAHAHA, the car looks like a timid frenchman.

[cody180sx]

that was some sweet two wheel action

[Slappy]

From NICO's own ITA240SX

Here http://boostrot.net/gallery/v/....html is a pic with the latest colors. There are a few others in that gallery also.

The car is prepared to SCCA's Improved Touring A class specs, which includes: *interior gutted, six point cage, race seat & six point harness*Ground Control suspension w/Koni sport shocks/struts, ERS springs (450/325), GC front camber plates, poly bushings, solid subframe bushings*Torsen-type LSD with 4.36 gears*engine bored .020 over, balanced/blueprinted/decked, Wolf custom ECU, modified S&S header into custom 3" exhaust*ACT HD clutch w/4-puck disk*many more little things, like stainless braided brake lines, ARP wheel studs, Koyo rad w/Flexalite fan, and so on...

The video was shot with a Sony handicam mounted to an I/O Port camera mount, attached to the cross bar on the main hoop.

Here are some more pics of that event....

http://boostrot.net/gallery/v/...age=6

Vids

http://www.vimeo.com/2616409

http://www.vimeo.com/2190190

[Conquerer]

Awesome, that one's a beauty, Slappy.

[Slappy]

Thats where im headin once im done with drifting. Well, not at that guys level but i will be doing track days.

Im actually gonna be getting my feet wet this season in between drift events.

[roadboy240sx]

this makes me want to build a rally 240sx

[brizanden]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqmpm2fIhOk

car is way sick. if anyone finds info post it

[supreamS14]

THIS THREAD=100% WIN!!!

[gmac708]

Looks like a KA-T............Wonder why he didn't use an SR? JK

[brizanden]

weird i thought it would have a rb, but you seem to be right. Anyway i emailed them hoping they could post up some info about the car or anymore pics. Hope i get a answer back.