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Ive owned my 40th 370z for about a month and a half now. I can say that they car is very solid and has a nice quality feel to it. It's a very comfortable sports car. The power is plenty for the street for me. I think as you do and plan to keep the car mostly stock. I've grown out of having to have the most power possible, no car really impresses me power wise anymore and you get used to whatever you drive. I've been road racing motorcycles for a few years, so I'm used to a much quicker acceleration than most cars within a common mans reach can provide. For me, a good smooth power and, and a modest amount of torque are all that is required to have fun driving a car. The z has both. I've also debated the exhaust upgrade, but I think I will stay stock for now. It's quiet on the interstate, but it does have a decent growl when accelerating hard. Are you going to hear it while the stereo is blasting Metallica? No, but I don't think thats what I want.

For what it's worth, I've owned 2 camaro's. The last was a 98 SS (which had the same ls1 motor as the c5). After the shitty interiors rattled me to dearth, and that car started having significant problems at 65000 miles, I swore off Chevy for life. I primarily buy Japanese now, I've got a pilot, an FJ cruiser, and 3 Honda motorcycles. I get a lot more reliability out of the imports. The pilot haas 160,000 miles on it and the FJ 96,000. Both drive like new cars. The 370 is my first Nissan

:iagree: Good choice.... me too.

Hey i'm going out on a limb here, from what i know of him (6'2 205 or some sh1t) he is a hell of alot bigger than me (5'9 150).

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it's okay red_zed will take care of him.

But ZED is on a :ragequit: at the moment.

I'm always around to back up my boys.

OMG the first post ragequit red__zed spotting!

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/\ IC, you mentioned pads, the stock sport package pads are fine for dd on the street, very quiet, low dust etc. Won't hold up for sh!t on track, and if you were to do some "spirited" street driving, ie. tail of the dragon type stuff, If it were me, I'd swap them out.

That said, I run carbotech xp8's (see sig), they're good for the track and so far (5K miles or so), jsut fine on the street, they dust alot, but have actually been fairly squeak free, a bit of surprise as I was expecting worse.

I haven't run the Nismo's but those that have report significantly more dusting over the stockers and they are NOT up to handliing the rigors of an HPDE day. However, I would imagine that they'd do okay for some "spirited" street driving.

Good post! I say get what makes sense, right now the economy is a little shaky. But if your set with a good savings then GTR all the way. =]

Just reading your posts whining about my thread and your little anime Justin beiber avatar prevent me from wanting to ever meet up. Pass.

Stock sport package brakes are plenty fine for spirited driving on mountain roads. I did plenty of spirited driving while i was home on leave (East tennessee) to include a couple days spent at the dragon and a trip out to Devil's highway in eastern arizona, not once did I ever experience any brake fade. Now i'm not foolish enough to say the brakes will stand up to any kind of track day. But as long as you keep things sane on the street i don't see the brakes being an issue.