RE: Tommykaira ZZ | Spotted
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Duncan Lang said:
Yes, you are right. They struggle a little though so I swapped mine for twin 45 webers.
They are great handling cars and the Nissan running gear is very reliable and cheap/easy to maintain.
I've got two of them, one road car and one race car. The previous owner of the are car used to race in the MC750 championship and I'm led to believe that he never lost to the motorsport Elise in his class.
The ZZ2 was never more than a concept car. Apparently it just about ran enough to get it from the truck to the show stand.
I've been told as few as 80 and as many as 200 were produced.
If anyone wants to know more, just ask and I'll rack my brain.
Well they look fantastic! Thank you They are great handling cars and the Nissan running gear is very reliable and cheap/easy to maintain.
I've got two of them, one road car and one race car. The previous owner of the are car used to race in the MC750 championship and I'm led to believe that he never lost to the motorsport Elise in his class.
The ZZ2 was never more than a concept car. Apparently it just about ran enough to get it from the truck to the show stand.
I've been told as few as 80 and as many as 200 were produced.
If anyone wants to know more, just ask and I'll rack my brain.
kiseca said:
anarki said:
RobEB said:
Having not played GranTurismo for many many years, can someone load it up and confirm the car did 0-60 in 4 seconds
I'll load up GT4 and GT6 later and get back to you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM0tsxtgdCc&fe...
I could probably get it down further if I had a steering wheel/pedals.
I couldn't find my copy of GT4 but I would assume it would be about the same as that car was rehashed for GT6 anyway.
anarki said:
Managed to hit 5.9 dead on my second run in GT6. (Using a dual shock 3 pad)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM0tsxtgdCc&fe...
I could probably get it down further if I had a steering wheel/pedals.
I couldn't find my copy of GT4 but I would assume it would be about the same as that car was rehashed for GT6 anyway.
Problem in GT4 was, firstly, pulling away quickly was difficult so all the cars looked slower than expected unless someone with more finesse than I had was balancing the wheelspin, and secondly, 0-60 and 0-100 time measuring wasn't in the game. It gave max speed, standing 400 metres, and standing 1000m. To measure 0 - 60 you'd have to watch the replay of one of the other two sprints and keep pausing to see roughly what the clock was at when the speed hit 60..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM0tsxtgdCc&fe...
I could probably get it down further if I had a steering wheel/pedals.
I couldn't find my copy of GT4 but I would assume it would be about the same as that car was rehashed for GT6 anyway.
I think it should have been roughly the same figures as the Sport 190. Based on the quoted power and weight and gearing.
However, it does make you wonder about the faster track time than the Elise as you'd think the wheel/rubber set-up wasn't significantly better on paper - the set-up, although tricky, didn't seem to be losing much/if any time in the corners. Albeit a proper race driver was doing the laps in both
However, it does make you wonder about the faster track time than the Elise as you'd think the wheel/rubber set-up wasn't significantly better on paper - the set-up, although tricky, didn't seem to be losing much/if any time in the corners. Albeit a proper race driver was doing the laps in both
I was involved in the design, testing and setting up the Hingham factory for this. I'll try and answer a few questions....
The chassis was all aluminium, with extrusions welded into cast corner pieces
Design-wise it was a peach, very elegant design work. And simple to build as well, but there really wasn't much to it.
I've never drien one on the road for any great distance, but its on-track performance was ok - not exactly an Elise, but pretty close
As far as I'm aware, all of the production cars went straight to Japan - producing them in England was really nothing more than a gimmick on behalf of Tomita.
The engine was a basic SR20DE, but with the carbs fitted. I'm not going to say how we got it past emissions legislation, but we did - and legally, too.
The best little touch was the roof, which was the same shape as the engine lid - when you took off the roof, it simply stowed just like an extra engine lid - genius
The chassis was all aluminium, with extrusions welded into cast corner pieces
Design-wise it was a peach, very elegant design work. And simple to build as well, but there really wasn't much to it.
I've never drien one on the road for any great distance, but its on-track performance was ok - not exactly an Elise, but pretty close
As far as I'm aware, all of the production cars went straight to Japan - producing them in England was really nothing more than a gimmick on behalf of Tomita.
The engine was a basic SR20DE, but with the carbs fitted. I'm not going to say how we got it past emissions legislation, but we did - and legally, too.
The best little touch was the roof, which was the same shape as the engine lid - when you took off the roof, it simply stowed just like an extra engine lid - genius
2woody said:
I was involved in the design, testing and setting up the Hingham factory for this. I'll try and answer a few questions....
I have a question - Most of the examples i have seen around the internet over the years seem to have that hardtop that can be stored on top of the engine lid but have seen the odd example that seem to have more of a targa style arrangement with an extra section of bodywork over the hoop and a rear window - was this something that was offered from the factory or is it aftermarket?
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