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Shorter arms here, with bump steer spacers if your lowering the car?
http://www.arizonazcar.com/lowarms.html
http://www.arizonazcar.com/lowarms.html
By all means if you want to change the diff. and box and swap out the softer factory suspension fine, but then draw the line...... and it isn't even a necessity to do that to enjoy the cars anyway, a nicely set up factory standard US car is still a great drive.
chrisvega said:I have driven LHD American and European, RHD British, Japanese, Australian and South African S30s.
Low blow Mr.T tut tut you old cynic and not correct assumption as to why made the commentSure, a nicely set up and mechanically correct north American market car is a nice thing (especailly if you happen to be selling one...
1973 Fairlady 240Z-L HS30I'm interested to hear what specific model(s) of Japanese market S30-series Zs you have driven (and why you didn't notice any difference...)?
1973 Fairlady 240Z-L HS30
HS30-S I think?
1973 Fairlady 240Z-L HS30
Driven in California. large roads with no tight bends maybe the reason I didn't notice a difference or maybe because it must be very difficult unless you are an F1 driver on an empty Stelvio type road to notice a 3% difference in rack ratio ie 2.7 turns lock/lock on ROW car against 2.8 turns on US.
chrisvega said:Just to put the cat amongst the pigeons if you want to spend money on steering then put it towards a power steering upgrade
Mr_Tenno said:HS30-S I think?
I wouldn't want to loose the lovely standard wheel.
PS is for the French/girls.
He's managed to keep out of this thread so far, now you've done it :lol:
I used to think that too but coming round to the idea and added bonus that Mrs.Vega will be able to drive it home from the pub
You're going to have two walkable pubs in Woodbury soon.
How so ?
Maltsters Arms and ..........
17.8:1 was North American market ratio.
All other markets got (faster) 16.4:1 initially, but it changed in later production.
You have the (factory) option of fitting shorter steering knuckles if you want to improve the ratio.
Most of us only drive the cars for leisure, a few hundred miles a year, maybe a few thousand for the lucky ones and almost all will have been modified from standard whichever country they originated from ( no-one say Japan )
Humor me as I seem to repeatedly seem to keep seeing your name pop up along with extremely detailed and informative responses in pretty much every area. What's your background with Z cars?
Alan is 'Encyclopaedia Nissanica'
Alan, you mentioned earlier in the thread that you have an example of the North American spec. S30 in the collection.
Have you kept it true to original factory spec. ( if indeed it arrived in that condition ? ).
If not, interested to learn what changes/upgrades you yourself have made ?
I'm not sure I understand the question. A few weeks back another forum poster was (rather worryingly...) asking what was going to happen to all my 'stuff' (eh???) should I happen to cark it in the near future, so it's all starting to get a little strange...
Are you asking me for a self-assessment of my bona fides, my full CV, or for a one-liner?
I'm not sure there's anything particularly special about what I post here. In the case of the subject of this thread - the steering rack ratio data was provided by Nissan in their technical literature for the cars, so it's bread and butter stuff really.
What can I say? I like S30-series Z cars and I own a few. My area(s) of particular interest in the subject may be a little off-centre, but basically I tend to focus on the Japanese side of the story because they are Japanese cars...