One for the Events Organisers :-

 

From: "Option motorsport"

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Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:55 PM

Subject: OPT drift competition

 

 

> Dear 300zx Owner’s Club,

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> Opt Drift Club is holding the D1 round 3 Competition at Silverstone Race

> circuit on 17th July. We would like to invite you to bring along a maximum

> of 20 cars to set up a free display stand to promote your club (any extra

> cars will have to park in the main car park).

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> All the owners of the cars displayed on your stand will be offered 50%

> discount to spectate at the event.

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> There will be awards presented to those cars in the stands that are

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> a.. The best looking car

> b.. The most highly engineered car

> c.. The cleanest car (including suspension and the engine bay)

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> Please let me know if you will be able to attend and how many discount

> tickets you will require and the address they should be sent to.

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> Regards,

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> Kiki

>

> OPT Drift Club

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I'm up for it,i think 300ZX should get involved in this one,(infact we should get invloved more than we do to promote the club period!)surley we can muster 20 Zs from here,or is that being too optimistic :rolleyes: ,great place for a meet with plenty of action etc,and the cameras will be there :)

 

Tony

HI Andy,

 

sorry mate - sounds great but i cant see me having the zed back by then :cry:

 

Regards,

 

alex

 

 

p.s wouldnt you have to disable the HICAS to get a zed to drift well??

Count me in then. Anything for the cause. ;)

I'll be up for this too

I've attended most of the D1 events and they're worth watching!

 

Jon

bet its on a saturday.

 

ive heard hermans car is a bit grubby, maybe he should enter the cleanest car comp. if nothing else just to make sure it gets cleaned.

he says looking out the window and seeing his car covered in dust. both fooking neighbors are having the builders in and all their crap is landing on my fooking car.

I'm up for it,i think 300ZX should get involved in this one,(infact we should get invloved more than we do to promote the club period!)surley we can muster 20 Zs from here,or is that being too optimistic :rolleyes: ,great place for a meet with plenty of action etc,and the cameras will be there :)

 

Tony

Not looking too likely yet Tony. Come on you lot. Help put the Z on the map.

 

So far.

 

1. TonyC

2. Tack

3. JD'S-Z

Count me in, I'm up for watching other people shag there tyre's instaed of me!!

 

1. TonyC

2. Tack

3. JD'S-Z

4. Chunk

p.s wouldnt you have to disable the HICAS to get a zed to drift well??

 

Yes and no - drifting is all about slip angle... you just have to remember that the rear wheels are turning relative to the chassis and hence the slip angle is not what you think it is.

 

HICAS will reduce that when cornering - hence you can corner harder - but will -increase- it when on opposite lock - hence less lock required for the same drift. The better grip from HICAS also means some drift techniques won't work because you can't break grip in the first place. Power-over still works :cool:

 

IOW it still works, but a different balance between lock and throttle is required compared to other cars. This is why people think it's broken - it's not broken, it just behaves differently to a Silvia and therefore confuses the hell out of a person. You need tiny tiny steering motions to correct oversteer compared to a lot of cars.

 

Z is slightly nose-heavy and tends to understeer which doesn't help either - you can't (or at least I can't) drift it just by carrying a lot of speed into a corner - you have to do something positive to upset the balance.

Is this still on? I'll probably go anyway.