370Z Rigidity (Hz or Torsional/bending Nm-Deg) anyone?
 

Does anyone know these numbers? I could not find them. I am very curious as to how rigid the car is in actuality. A lot of people think something is rigid and it's not, for example, a Cobalt LT is more rigid than a C5 Z06. Noone would have seen that coming. I am curious how the 370Z fares before the cold glare of engineering specifications.

http://www.phenomenon.org/fff/no_idea.jpg

I wouldn't know where to look for these numbers, although I would be interested to see them in the context of competitive models in the Z's range.

I think the only way to get them is to actually test the car, and I doubt anyone has done that with a z yet.

Raw numbers like that are useless anyways-- they are
only useful in the context of the overall car.

Lol.....

LOL...that damn bunny pancake thing gets me everytime

maybe an e-mail to nissan directly?!

The real question here is, do you (OP) even know what you are talking about?

I am going to go out on a limb here......7

I do not have anengineering degree, but I can tell you when Ford increased torsional rigidity in the mustang for the 2005's by 31%, the result was very tactile. The whole car felt different for it, and creaked a lot less. Most cars I have been in that are "supposed" to be very rigid, feel floppy to me, like the C6 corvette. I looked up the rigidity, and it was lower than that of a cobalt, coming in at around something like 9100 nm/* (This was for the C5, which the C6 is SLIGHTLY more rigid than, but not too much so), IIRC. GM usually does their stuff in Hz, which I do not understand nearly as well as nm/* or other torque per degree measurements. I do know that higher is better, and can feel the difference in a car when I drive it.

Newton...measure of force. Newton meter per degree (Nm/Deg). Number of newtons required when using a leverage point 1m long to effect a 1* change in alignment along the axis of a structure (My personal definition, feel free to correct my ignorance if it has exposed itself).

Start watching at 7:25 and they show some bendiness to it... don't see any numbers, but gives a good idea versus 350Z I believe...




edit: make your own engine noises :yum:

ohh excellent post Eazy!

+1 on the vid. Didnt see any torsion numbers but its nice to see the flex in the Z.

Nice vid!

Now we need to call Albert Einstein to see what the OP is talking about...

When are you buying a 370z again?

LOL. Here we go.

Actually thinking about it soon (1-3 months?). My credit-union has seriously tightened up their lending proceedures and the Z06 may be out of the picture. They would finance 100% of a $40K MSRP vehicle, though, and that would leave me with the downpayment I saved up for the Z06 to put a twin-turbo setup in the 370. I'm a flexible person with life and like to keep my options open. It seems like the issues with the FI setups have been worked out, and like I said all along, my only issue with the 370Z was the cheap paint and the lack of power. The TT kit fixes the power, and about a month ago I became aware of "car wraps", which takes care of the cheap paint. Besides, buying a cheaper car would allow me to move/do whatever I wanted a lot sooner than a more expensive one. So, will just see what the bank says and go from there. :tiphat: