If your bored : S13 Silvia Tarmac Rally Car

[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.

[brizanden]

ugh ohhhh i got MAIL He says its on stance 3 ways and is kat with a gt3071r Tial housings. He gave me a link to their time attack website. Have fun kids.http://site.240sxmotoring.com/...s.php

[abrok99]

http://www.nissansilvia.com/fo...71178



Modified by Slappy at 7:46 PM 12/12/2008

THAT IS SO SICKK!!

[USsil80]

i remember that site... that is the first site i went to for my 240

[xX RB Xx]

this is such a great thread. i like reading all the info about the cars back in day and how they pwd everyone.

[Slappy]

Anyway i emailed them hoping they could post up some info about the car or anymore pics. Hope i get a answer back.

Nice!

[brizanden]

^they gave me a link did u see it a few post up? he says they are currently refreshing it and their site should be updated fairly soon.

[Slappy]

Check out this email i got

Quote »Tom (Slappy),Rather than post a response, I thought I would send you an email. I am Rob Jones (nemo65), the second place SSB car at the 1994 Runoffs. I ran the attached a photo of the 240SX from the Runoffs. I was going to post the picture to the reply in the forum, but could not get it posted. I could give you any history you need for that year and the issues we fought through with the car's development. At the conclusion of the 1994 Runoffs Dave Daughter and I were offered 1995 240SXs by Frank Honsowetz (spelling) of Nissan. I pulled out of the SCCA after that season, and Dave Daughtery carried the car's development into the next year and won the SSB Runoffs with the 1995.[/quote]

Im guessing theres more info to come, i replied...

Quote »This has to be one of the coolest emails ive ever received. Any race history about the car or you will be much appreciated. Im part of a rather large group of individuals that love everything racing, especially SCCA runoffs ect.

Thank you for the reply man.[/quote]Quote »Congratulations to Collin Jackson, polesitter and GT3 Class winner SCCA National Runoffs 2006. Nissan 240SX prepared by Specialty Engineering, New Westminster, BC, Canada. SDS EM-4 4E equipped. http://www.specialtyengineering.ca[/quote]http://www.sdsefi.com/



http://www.bmandm.com/special%20event.htm





S14?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/j...0339/

Quote »GT3 Nissan 240SX 1998 RUNOFFS Winner !1998 Runoffs Winner. Winningest West Coast GT3. Neely/Murillo chassis, COMPTECH KA24, fuel injection, Hewland SGT trans, Speedway quickchange, Brembo/AP brakes, Penske triples, cockpit adjustable bars, Pi System2, 16 wheels, more. Race ready, fast, no expense spared. $39,500 with spares complete Speedway Quickchange, full Hewland gearset, numerous quick change drop gears, and much more . Call Steve 408 748-1022 or email: [email protected] Phone 408-748-1022 [/quote]

http://www.roadracecar.com/cgi...cisco



http://ultimatecarforum.com/blog/

[Onizuka]

In response to previous posts, Mitsubishi make just about everything, including beer.

[Slappy]

Quote »Track Ready S13

http://kultivate.wordpress.com...y-s13/

Here is something different, a S13 that is driven hard on the Fuji Speedway and not even going sideways. I really like the look of this car, clean and simple but very effective. Note the stickers on the front window indicating the amount of trackdays this car has seen, impressive.[/quote]

[Slappy]

It has a 2.1L Tomei SR20.HKS GT-3037S , Apex'i N1 damper , HKS twin disk and dog box, OS Gear set.

Best Time: 1 minute 58 seconds Sendai Highland

http://riskydevil.blogspot.com....html








Modified by Slappy at 5:18 AM 2/3/2009