Former Z Owner's Rant about the 370z

NYBladeZ

Perhaps, I mean its easy to find all the gripes with the car after its gone. I still stand by my assertion that the Z is a great car and I loved having one but I didn't love it say as much as I loved my 2004 Mustang GT. It was a fun ride while it lasted.

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2008 Lotus Exige S Club Racer aka Bella, always leaves me smiling

UNKNOWN_370

The important part is you had fun while it lasted. Good luck bruh.

alcheng

Mr.kenchan, take it easy on Mr.UNKNOWN_370, it's allergy season right now, anything can't breath thus non-aspirated.

Back to the topic. The Z has a 3.7l engine that bunps out 332hp on flywheel. On the book, it's pretty much max out the ability of a production N/A engine.

To extract much more hp from it, unless you race-tune it, and that will cost you a fortune and reduce the lifespan of the engine.

Cheers

m4a1mustang

Like I said earlier to go from 270 to 315+ is pretty impressive with just simple breathing mods and a tune.

For reference, the 4.6L 3-Valve V8s in the older Mustangs typically dynoed 315-330whp with intake, exhaust, and tune. Keep things in perspective and the 3.7 is fairly impressive.

Perspective is the operative word, of course. If you expect to to behave like an LSX when you cam it... you're in for nothing but disappointment!

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NYBladeZ

^^ I feel exactly the opposite. It wasn't my daily driver, perhaps that's why I wanted more. When I did drive it, it just didn't give me that giggle. Oh well, Camry ain't gonna give me giggles either. Perhaps the wife will....haha.

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2008 Lotus Exige S Club Racer aka Bella, always leaves me smiling

red6spd

Sad to see another Z gone on the Island. I'm also not ashamed to say my $34,000 Z will get out run by a stock $60k+ M3 a modded $50k+ Cayman and a modded $40k+ BMW that looks like a clown car... Just saying.

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brucelidat

I agree. If I wanted to beat those guys, I could go FI and the Z would cost equal or less still and beat most of them.

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NYBladeZ

Now I shouldn't say this but...when we ran at the "track" when fully modded I feared no m6 e92 m3. The Z has a great power to weight ratio.

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2008 Lotus Exige S Club Racer aka Bella, always leaves me smiling

lemon-fresh

Sure you aren't just trying to find justifications for your decision?

Congrats on beating e92's, not sure how you managed to get up to 330-340whp with all NA mods.

Red__Zed

Ny dynos are as real as the average streetside rolex

NYBladeZ

Long tube headers were a big factor, they really wake the car up. Its not for everyone, only the guys who like a louder car and don't mind the VQ hiss.

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2009 Carbon Fiber/Red 370z aka Trish: Sports Package, Meisterschaft full catback, Fast Intentions Longtube Headers, Injen Long Tube Intakes, UpRev Tune: Sold
2008 Lotus Exige S Club Racer aka Bella, always leaves me smiling

lemon-fresh

Interesting, good to know. Even at ~315whp I'd say the Z puts up some decent competition against stock e92's.

NYBladeZ

I admire and respect the members who have gone F.I. its a huge investment. Thankfully the Z community is backed by GTM, although I'm sure TT and SC members will tell you that reliability is a concern. Nonetheless, with gears and bolt-on's you should leave an e92 m3 behind.

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2008 Lotus Exige S Club Racer aka Bella, always leaves me smiling

LakeShow

I'm going to do a Nissan Leaf motor swap and everyone on this forum will start hating when I have my Z plugged into an electrical outlet.

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MattP725

I think what you aren't really covering (and if someone mentioned this I apologize, I didn't read the whole thread) is that you are comparing a car that maxxes out slightly above 40k to cars that start around 60k+ (M3 and Cayman S that is)... with the difference in price you are not only beating M3s and Caymans but probably Z06s and other higher end performance muscle cars. Sure you have to go FI but that shouldn't be anything you should be embarrased or upset about. Dollar for dollar Nissan gives you a whole heck of a lot with the Z... it is already pretty well tuned so everyone has to expect that bolt ons aren't going to free up a whole heck of a lot.

Everyone including myself gets sucked into spending thousands on NA mods and not seeing any astounding results which I can understand frustrates people but that just proves you have something pretty good from the factory.

Now if FI kits would only come down in price we would really be able to show those guys something... just my 2 cents.