SeanDezart
Well-Known Forum User
I'm desperately trying to find out the technical spec on this car - any help please ?
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R380 Proto Racer
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Mr.G
Club Member
Principal statistics
- Total length 4,080mm
- Full-width 1,685mm
- Total height 985mm
- Wheel base 2,360mm
- Tread (before / after) 1,424/1,372mm
- Vehicle weight Above
- Engine GR8 (direct 6 DOHC)
Entire aerodynamic volume displacement 1,996cc
Fuel type Lucas fuel injection
The highest output /8,500rpm above
- Transmission Hue land 5 speed
- Brake ZF 5DF - 25
- Tire (before / after) 55OL-15 (Dunlop R7) /65OL-15
- Total length 4,080mm
- Full-width 1,685mm
- Total height 985mm
- Wheel base 2,360mm
- Tread (before / after) 1,424/1,372mm
- Vehicle weight Above
- Engine GR8 (direct 6 DOHC)
Entire aerodynamic volume displacement 1,996cc
Fuel type Lucas fuel injection
The highest output /8,500rpm above
- Transmission Hue land 5 speed
- Brake ZF 5DF - 25
- Tire (before / after) 55OL-15 (Dunlop R7) /65OL-15
SeanDezart
Well-Known Forum User
George, I have some Citroen info for you, I have to sift through some mags to find it first though ! Thanks !
SeanDezart
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PM'd ya !
Albrecht
Well-Known Forum User
Sean,
Are you asking about the very first R380 ( later to be known as the R380-I ), or the R380-II, or indeed the R381 / R382 / R383 ( which themselves had several different versions for each code number )?
Which specific version are you asking about?
The very first R380 was actually based on a Brabham BT8 coupe. This car still exists in Nissan's collection in Japan. I have taken quite a few photos of it over there.
The whole subject is very complicated, and it is probably impossible to cover it on a forum like this and do it justice.
And what's the big hurry?
Are you asking about the very first R380 ( later to be known as the R380-I ), or the R380-II, or indeed the R381 / R382 / R383 ( which themselves had several different versions for each code number )?
Which specific version are you asking about?
The very first R380 was actually based on a Brabham BT8 coupe. This car still exists in Nissan's collection in Japan. I have taken quite a few photos of it over there.
The whole subject is very complicated, and it is probably impossible to cover it on a forum like this and do it justice.
And what's the big hurry?
SeanDezart
Well-Known Forum User
My dear Count,
The original request was for the R380 but that's in part because I only knew about that one ! Didn't realise that R380S like the HS-30s in the States have version numbers
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I thought I read that the R380 (I and II) did turn a wheel in the States (are we being finnicky here and saying "yes, but it never raced" ?) !
Sean
ps, Belated, but your pictures from Gama and Ginza and others' contribution (on a certain free website thread) are fabulous - a Z convention over there with a day in each 'museum' would be worth saving up for...!
pps, pm/email me your email address and I'll explain the hurry and also the desire to get the correct facts !
The original request was for the R380 but that's in part because I only knew about that one ! Didn't realise that R380S like the HS-30s in the States have version numbers
!I thought I read that the R380 (I and II) did turn a wheel in the States (are we being finnicky here and saying "yes, but it never raced" ?) !
Sean
ps, Belated, but your pictures from Gama and Ginza and others' contribution (on a certain free website thread) are fabulous - a Z convention over there with a day in each 'museum' would be worth saving up for...!
pps, pm/email me your email address and I'll explain the hurry and also the desire to get the correct facts !
SeanDezart
Well-Known Forum User
I forgot, anything you might have (photos but specifically tech spec, build history, why etc ) on the 126X prototype would be nice too, looks a bit like a Marzal, gullwing, I believe ?
SeanDezart
Well-Known Forum User
Maybe I mis-understood (again)
The R381 ran with a Nissan ordered Dean Moon (southern californian) small block chevy engine whereas the R380 began life as a Brabham BT8 chassis No.SC 9 1964 with a Nissan GR8 engine ! Better ?
I thought that the R380 had been run and tested using this US engine before going onto South America to race ! That would have been logic.......?
The R381 ran with a Nissan ordered Dean Moon (southern californian) small block chevy engine whereas the R380 began life as a Brabham BT8 chassis No.SC 9 1964 with a Nissan GR8 engine ! Better ?
I thought that the R380 had been run and tested using this US engine before going onto South America to race ! That would have been logic.......?
