To all those who have never experienced it and would like to see for yourselves:
- Get the car down to 1/4 tank or less
- Find a safe spot to do this with a reasonably long right turn:
- Take a right turn at 0.8g or harder. You can use an iPhone or Android app to check that.
- Hold that turn for a total of 3-5 seconds with the go pedal down pretty hard and at high RPMs. Have a passenger count it on a watch.
- How long it takes depends partly on how hard you're turning and partly on how much fuel you spend while cornering hard.
- That's it! When your car dies, you had fuel starvation. Note that this does not require any speeding--it just means you are cornering hard on a longer turn. I have an exit ramp with a very tight bend on the way home and have gotten it there 2-3 times. Without breaking the law.
On the bright side, I had a 5 gallon gas tank and found I could get the car to start up after putting 2-3 gallons in (from an indicated 1/4 tank). I guess somewhere in there it's enough to either pool near the pickup or spill over the saddle of the fuel tank.
Also, when going around a long right hander near 1/2 a tank or less, I've started to just take my foot off the gas--that seems to make starvation almost never happen. But fuel starvation in this car is still very much a real, genuine, and initially totally unexpected design flaw than can happen to any 370Z owner on the street if they simply come across a long right hand corner and take it hard.