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Originally Posted by 370zForever Yeah, that stuff has been done, but to balance the car to 50/50 with the Z's actual weight distribution at around 55/45 or 54/46, you would

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Old 01-26-2010, 11:31 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Yeah, that stuff has been done, but to balance the car to 50/50 with the Z's actual weight distribution at around 55/45 or 54/46, you would need to move around 160 pounds and around 155 pounds if you really lighten in to around 3100 pounds. I wish nissan could have made the Z's transmission rest in the back like the GTR's. That would have helped.
Why would you want to balance the car at 50/50 when the car's designer put a small forward bias that was designed to give the car perfect 50/50 when exiting a corner under WOT?
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