I checked the dealer location, and it is New York, so yes, it has been bought from a northern state.

Hope you have a good set of 6 point sockets, a must for the rust belt mechanic, which you are now an honorary member of. :icon17:

:iagree:

Something for my mechanic to worry about :rolleyes:




but really, I work there sometime, and all equipment from Usag.

More progress and the car nearly ready to install roll cage. Also, I need to change the bolts on sunroof delete.

Getting there. :tup:

What's up with the Smart Car in the background?

Hyabusa swapped smart car?

Correct Zezus, Smart has a busa engine swapped, but not a normal one, it is a modified engine that has been supplied from a Radical SR3. Unfortunately, the owner has issues with engine management and he may swap it for normal hayabusa engine.

Got the chance to try the new Supra, it is my friend car, it only has an h&r lowering springs. Sorry about the music :rofl2: and I forgot to zoom out a little.

What are your impressions?

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Good to do fast laps without killing yourself :rofl2:


Really, it is part of the truth, the handling characteristics are pretty good, nice turn in, and puts its power beautifully on exits. Tbh, it is like 90% of what Z owners want from Z35 with VR30. The power on lower speeds is fantastic, you don't feel turbo spool, and low end torque is nice and smooth. I wasn't pushing it and it did 2:25 there in the video, I think I can cut 2-3 seconds if I am going to push it, the owner did a 2:21, which is as fast as I did in my 370z, where I am on Nexens and he is on stock PSS. It is a very communicative car as far as handling. The seats are great and supporting the body nicely, seating position is great and can go to a very low position (but high hood doesn't offer good visibility, which you don't need at track).

The things I didn't like, it has a lot of body roll, even with lowering springs, it is comfortable as a daily, they perform on track, but I have it as a negative, because it needs some time to get used to all that angle. Brakes feel aren't good, they don't have bite or the feel of good stopping power, but it is stock pads. Although it is communicative, it is not a fully engaging car, and transmission option isn't the best for purist (which is the only option anyway :shakes head:)

To sum up, as a dual duty car, daily and track, it is a great car, very streetable and have a good handling characteristics.


Hopefully next track I can try ND2 Miata :D although it is slow, I am excited for it.

Nice review and I agree with it. I didn't get to drive one but was passenger and felt the same about the car.

I really enjoy my NB Miata at the track. Because it is slow you are at full throttle a lot which is fun. I also teaches you to not make mistakes and pick the best line. You can't make up time if you miss your marks!

The most amazing thing about it, locally, where most cars are overpriced, we guessed it will be over $75k, for a fully equipped car, but it surprised us to be sold for 63k, fully equipped, but no launch edition here.

A hardtop NB mazdaspeed, is one of the cars I would love to get, but I am sure it will be too small for me, I drove the ND in street and it has good torque mid range, unlike 86/brz, where they lack it, I have a good time invested behind the wheel of them, 86/brz, and I am pretty fast in them when I compare myself with my friends, I agree with you as not to make any mistakes, it is hard to recover the time with them, also it is important to get the brake point right, brake smoothly so you don't disturb the balance entering the turn (most important in my book, as many friends brag about their late braking but they cannot enter turns right because of it :roflpuke2:), and using the throttle as fast as possible.

Mine is the 1.8 version n/a version. I am 6'1" 215 so I had to do some modification to the floor to get the lower. My car is well sorted and you are exactly right about keeping your inputs smooth and handling the car aggressively at the same time. Too many do not follow the basic rule of slow in fast out when comes to cornering. I have been focusing on my braking as the last track weekend was at small technical track as is the next track I will visit in two weeks. I am really trying pay attention to gradual applying the brake up until full braking and then releasing the brake in the same way during trail braking so as to not allow the front of the car to lift and induce under steer.

I am not that far, 6' and 230 lbs.

And yes, after being very good in turn and exits, I am also working on my braking, this is the most part I am lacking right now. Hopefully racing will improve it a lot.

So, a sneaky look on Smart engine

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1574631542

And finally roll cage work starts

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1574631542

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1574631542

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1574631542

We are trying to fit all the cage pipes and see if we need to make any adjustment to them, with testing welds, and if everything fits well and looks nice, we will start the final welding.

Also I tried out the seat position and fitment inside the car.

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1574631661