Congratulations to Scott Smith for winning the SPEC Z racing series with the GreenZ!
After earning his SCCA license Scott started competing in the SPEC Z series with his silver race car and eventually prepared the GreenZ to finish the season. Scott had a small team consisting of himself and his sidekicks Al and J. You could catch these three practicing at open track days like Thunderhill or Laguna Seca trying to dial the car in and find weak spots(see wheel bearing failure below!).
Here’s a video clip from a SPECZ race at Thunderhill:
Scott would like to thank Z Car Garage, William’s, CityTech, Evil Genius, NISMO and BFG. Great driving Scott, we are proud of you!
That’s right everyone, the Camaro is back and Enrique’s ’67 restoration has reached some important milestones: paint and drivetrain! In the picture above you are looking at the body panel reflection from the expertly applied paint by William of Williams Auto Body. Here are a few more teaser pics:
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by Alvin G @ 11:13 pm on February 10, 2013
We had an enormous turnout on today’s fun run to the coast. I think we left ZCG with a caravan of 20 cars of all years and makes. A few more cars joined us in downtown Saratoga and we were all off to enjoy some twisty roads up HWY9 and Skyline. Though it was cold, the sunny sky and great visibility provided some impressive views of the Bay Area and coastline:
At our first vista point off Skyline I noticed all of the late-model machinery in our caravan including Eric’s FR-S, Meghan’s Z33, Kurt’s C5 Z06, a Z34, Michael’s Vortech Mustang, and Scott’s Z32TT
I was so happy to see how many vintage Datsuns showed up too! We had 9 Datsun roadsters, 2 510 coupes, 1 510 wagon, 2 S30s and a’77 S130. From left to right: Mike’s ’68 SR20(he drove from SoCal!), David’s 67.5 SRL, Mike B’s ‘67.5 SPL, Rob’s 67.5 SRL, my 67.5, Eddie W’s ’66 SR20, Stacey’s ’70 SRL, Ken’s blown KA SRL, Tony’s flared turbo L-series 510, Matt G’s Turbo KA 510, Matt D’s 510 wagon, Rico’s 240z, Randy M’s 240z and Lou’s RHD FairladyZ:
Whoa! Now that is alot of Datsuns! You know you are driving something special when the Ferrari and Porsche guys whip out their fancy cameras to take a picture your DATSUN 🙂
We motored on past Alice’s restaurant and headed west to the coast via 84 to Pescadero beach. 84 is one of my favorite roads with endless turns. After lunch at Duarte’s Tavern remaining drivers drove up Pescadero Rd and back to Skyline/Hw9 for one last stop and a nice photo-op:
Huge thank you to everyone that braved the chilly morning to come out and enjoy the ride today. With spring and summer around the corner you can count on more fun runs to come!
Kit T has a very clean silver Z33 that ZCG has worked on. Like most Z owners it is hard to leave a car completely stock, especially if modifications can improve the fun factor. Kit’s commuter car is this Nissan Versa and to spice things up on his commute we installed NISMO suspension and replaced the brake lines with SS pieces, followed by a brake bleed with Stoptech fluid:
Here are before/after pics of the struts and springs:
Front:
Rear
The change in ride height is barely perceptible but the ride itself is vastly improved over the stock, economy -minded setup. Stock vs NISMO:
Alberto R bought this pretty 300z Twin Turbo as a project car. He has been DIY’ing most of the car including the interior while ZCG has been lending a hand with the rest. The latest upgrade are these nice WedsSport SA67R lightweight wheels. We think they are a fantastic improvement over the G35 setup.
Stay tuned for more updates on Albert’s project Z32!
