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All Repped Out & getting ready for another Monday...lol ;)

New workout yesterday evening, I can sure feel it today. Only hit by a small truck, or maybe a juke, but enough to notice.

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Evo x wanted to race at the light this morning. It was pouring rain..... Kids these days.

I am genuinely curious what my car can hold up against now next time it goes to the track. Last time, I was lengths behind lightly modded WRX's and EVO's. Yet it was winning against stock typhoon v6 moostangs.

Madwi is now using Wallpaper Engine

It's all that keeps popping up on my screen lol

That POS is crashing like a champion. I was watching netflix and then FVCK YOU MADWI! and **** started crashing. :icon17:

Drag track or road course?

Beauty of turbo cars are $500 for a tune and they really wake up even with no other mods. Plus awd from a dig helps. Are you fully bolted and tuned now? Should be fairly even from a roll unless they're really cranking the boost. Those cars fall flat up top stock

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Watkins Glen track. Froma dig, it was no contest for them. I was as slow as a Pinto. Looking at their mods, nobody seemed to be going crazy. I know Evo's are pricey to start modding as well.

I'm fully bolted other than LTH's/Manifold work. Ecutek tuned. Just curious to see what I make now and how it'd hold against other fun cars. I can run a freight train on the genius modding his base model Civic that says Type RR on it....

Weird that yours would be crashing like that. I am over here with a single screen setup when just on my laptop and plugging into my dock via thunderbolt 3 allows dual monitor wallpapers to run. Right now, it's the Matrix screen with rainbow lettering that spells out my name lol.

Ahhh. Yeah all about the launch with a 6MT. I was never really good at it but wonder what was done if you felt that slow against them.

Yea. I need to find time and a closed spot to really mess around with LC and different percentages of TC. The few times I have tried LC, I am chirping the tires going into 3rd. I cover no ground from 1st into second. Then again, i am launching at the default 4,200rpm. I need to lower that and I think I need to reduce tire pressure as well.

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Definitely lower it. Try around 2500 rpm.

^ This. I used to launch at 2500-2750. Seemed to be the best range for me where I wasn't spinning and didn't look like a total noob wheel hopping down the road.

Hopefully this weekend I can test out everything. Haven't had many chances.

Damn I miss manual. My Q is definitely faster from a dig than my Z but there's not much involved in launching that car lol.

Well considering we now have people like this genius trying to sell junk, you're better off with the Q. The Z is cheap enough now that the morons can pick them up.

http://www.the370z.com/parts-sale-pr...9-17-370z.html

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I'm seeing more and more plastidipped modded 370s and it makes me truly sad. Same ones are also drift kings in the parking lots and streets.

ahhh, the automatic crowd. We have a yellow 350z here with a fake hood scoop attached to it and air inlets fixed to the front bumper, but nothing running inside of them. It's just 2 gaping holes that were superglued on.

Nothing beats the old Nissan Altima 2 door running around town with a massive wing on the rear end, fake hood scoop, knockoff volks, fake fender air things, those plastic bbk caliper covers, and racing stripes.

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Try easing into the throttle at 1500 RPMs. Once you get that smooth, quick launch right around the engagement point, that should help give you a better feel for what's needed to launch at 2500 RPMs, which is a pretty ideal spot for mostly stock Z's. You can get a perfectly smooth, quick launch at 4K and 5K RPMs all day long - you just wear out the clutch plate a lot more from feathering longer and at higher RPMs. And clutch dumps aren't good for much either unless you just like wasting money on tires and clutch wear.

I have been trying to feather at around 3k when I do it manually, but I just suck in general. It'll take a few more track days to properly get it down. LC just makes cool sounds, so I had been messing around with that. I'll lower the rpm drastically next time I attempt it and attempt to not clutch dump.

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Do you have the RJM clutch pedal assembly? Seems to help all around, shifts and smooth launches.

Yup. Absolutely love it. Way smoother throughout every gear. It's just a matter of practice at this point. DD capabilities are as smooth as they've ever been.

+1 for this.

What about this Mercedes Benz Sports car wanting to be a truck?

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You can try the launch control at the same rpm and turn the tc about 25%. Maybe a little more and it should be pretty good there at least it was pretty dang spot on when Seb did it in my car and that was with boost!

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That's a lot of money spent but a dumb person making a lot of money most likely. The genius Altima owner works at Valvoline here.

I'll give that a shot next time! I haven't even messed with TC much yet. Still hesitant of letting loose in an open parking lot with 0% TC due to the cops around the area. It'll be another month before I get another track day in.

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That's the one mod "regret" I have. If I did it over again it would've been one of the first things I do.

It's something that you sorta just can't fully comprehend until experiencing the difference. I read the reviews from people and always knew it would be good. But the change really was drastic.

Same with people saying to get a tune. Night and day difference. You read stuff and know what to expect, but are still blown away when the initial hit kicks in.

I said the same thing to Megan. I'd have done the RJM before anything else if I'd really grasped how good it was.

Another stupid thing I wish I had got before EW showed me the light was a weighted shift knob. Coming from 2 TWM basic shifters, a weighted aluminium one makes all the difference. It seriously is the stupid little things that help the car soooo much.

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Seriously man, I love that damn thing sooooooo much!!!