Car and Driver Crashes a Nismo 370Z

Old Chuck

I have a question. If we go to the upgraded pads to avoid any problems, what will the driving experience be on the street? I have not purchased yet but will soon and plan on doing a bit of mountain driving and would not want to have any problems. Perhaps Modshack or someone who has pushed the Z throught the mountains can comment on their opinion on the stock pads down a tough stretch such as the tail of the dragon.

One other unrelated comment: when someone say boxsters suck it seems to take away from the discussion. Likes are a personal issue but if you look at how the boxster/cayman performs it hardly sucks. Whether you like the P cars is neither here or there but they all perform well...May be expensive to buy and maintain but perform well.

MightyBobo

Just get some Hawk HPS pads for the street. Should be just fine. But I doubt you'd have too many issues in stock form doing some mountain driving...the stopping areas at VIR are EXTREMELY intensive! We're talking, 130MPH->40MPH. Unless you're doing stopping like THAT on a mountain drive...you probably shouldnt be too worried.

A+ for recognizing a great sports car without bias, btw. Lots of Nissan fanboy-ism runs deep here, and its sad to see that a lot of times, the only ones who dont show it are the exiles from other walks of the automotive life...

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Modshack

Personally I've found no shortcomings with aggressive street driving. Hard mountain running, tail of the Dragon stuff and aggressive turning/braking put the car in it's element. The brakes have good bite, are predictable and don't fade IMO on a good run through the mountains. I've had other cars I've had to upgrade the brakes on to perform this good. For street use, even very aggressive street use, I wouldn't worry. Nor do I find a need to upgrade anything related to the brakes. If I were doing 130mph braking on a track that "might" be different. In the mountains, you're typically doing hard 80 to 40mph braking with some cool-off time between the turns..

On the Boxster comment, the author of that is obviously Uneducated. Having owned a Boxster, even a lowly 214 hp version, IMO they are magic on the road. Telepathic and VERY well balanced. One of the best handling cars on the planet...but there are car bigots everywhere that "think" otherwise without ever having had any experiece with them..

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