atw: Re: O.T. Brainwave - Finding how drivers think... or don't think!
- From: wlewington@xxxxxxxxx
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 18:53:24 +1000
I helped modify them. For rallying.
I also drove a couple of them too.
On racetracks.
One of them features highly in relation to ropes, collars, trees and dog
food.
But I will say this about Nissan engines. They were hard to re-engineer for
performance because the engines were already damn well near perfect in the
cylinder head design (always the big start point for a high performance
engine). We had to go to some pretty extreme cam durations to get more out
of them. And that was hard if you didn't have a really good electronic
ignition. Stroking them and putting in high tech pistons, rods and stuff.
Hell, they even came with steel cranks. Standard. (You ought to see how
many were machined to fit Cosworth spec-ed race engines for Formula cars
with Ford 2.0 litre and Kent 1600 engines...) 180 plus horse power with a
standard crank! I think Nissan made more out of selling cranks than they
ever made out of selling 200B's. And most of those cranks went to racing
engines...
God damn-it; they're hens teeth now.
And the Turbo Bluebird group C touring car; I remember that day at
Bathurst, I will never forget the lap the Jap started. He was headed for an
all time record until the missed gear into skyline blew the hand grenade
engine ... God they were fast!
Another lovely Bluebird trait was to catch fire, a nicety related to the
carburetor. It was a convenient optional extra related to hot engines and
traffic lights. Worked well.
Thank God for wrecking yards. At least there were no recyclable parts!
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