After a hard but fairly successful season of events Bob has dropped the car off with me for a major makeover and revision.

As before I just have the rolling shell.

Jimmer at Power Zed has already removed the engine and box.

He will be doing a strip down /inspect/replace routine on the Kyle Puckett engine.

Bob has dropped the gearbox of at Advanced Motorsport engineering at silverstone for a similar strip/inspect/replace routine.

The rest arrived at my place last weekend .... looking a little worse than when it left in the spring!!!!

 

The brief from Bob is long and detailed.................. but it starts with a reinstate of the 99 spec front with splitter and the TwinZ rear bumper.

I already obtained a good used 99 spec from Mikey Bean and I have a new Twinz rear from Mark Derbys group buy.

I will get a new sheet of ally and make another front splitter. good job I kept the template!!

There are numerous detail improvements on the schedule too. More details to follow!

Probably the most important/significant is a new custom loom for the car. Over the development period of the car numerous items have been added by several people. The result now is a total mess of wiring everywhere with no one personknowing exavtly what is joined to what!!!

This winter I am lucky that our new race day team member Paul is helping at my place with all the work.

Im simply getting too old for some of the harder physical jobs needed.

In addition the newly formed Bodymech team of "Boldy" and "Manta V8" are doing the panel fitting and giving the whole shell a fresh coat of paint inside and out.

so Im sure everyone will be adding to the thread as they get their quota of jobs done.

 

So a few pics meantime and can you spot the brake problem???

I have also highlighted some fittings that need "improving"

Check out the rats nest of wiring too!!

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Yes James I was going to pick your brains a little later in the week if that's OK :)

 

np ;)

This is what Dan my tuner is working on today. He looks after a couple of these and both with VG30 engine this has same turbo set up as Jaffa.

 

Someone recently suggested that since Dan wasn't a zed specialist he might not be up to scratch lol

 

PS. Very slight chance I'm going to Cadwell T/A next weekend for some more testing. Fingers crossed :-)

omg whats the model called a gt ?

omg whats the model called a gt ?

 

Nissan NPT-90

 

 

The Nissan NPT-90 was a racing car developed in 1990 for Nissan Motors by Nissan Performance Technology Incorporated (NPTI), formerly known as Electramotive Engineering. It was a replacement for the highly successful GTP ZX-Turbo that had won the IMSA GT Championship in 1989. The NPT-90 would go on to win the championship in 1990 and 1991 before being retired by Nissan at the end of the 1992 season.

 

Although officially known as the NPT-90, the car continued to race with the GTP ZX-Turbo naming painted on it. This was an attempt by Nissan to continue to use that name to market for the Nissan 300ZX road car.

 

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Very nice! any pictures of the business end :)

Is it a vg30dett or a vg30ett? I personally love the R390

Is it a vg30dett or a vg30ett? I personally love the R390

 

 

You'll love this then.

 

 

Great thread this, always look forward to the updates. Well done at TOTB Bob, you should be proud of your results and also the interest you have ignited in other members using their Zeds' in a Motorsport capacity. Along with Slickpete, Jaffa and Noz amongst others too. Great stuff.