Former Z Owner's Rant about the 370z

NYBladeZ

Tell the Mustang and Vette guys that they get huge bang for the buck on bolt ons. I think VVEL both maximizes gains and limits potential future gains. Fact of the matter is if you buy the Z and you are going into the purchase happy with the power then that's great. If you buy the Z and want to tune it and get more, well expect to pay big bucks. In comparison the Evo's, STi's, and n54 BMW's need far less and get far more because of their turbo setup. I still wouldn't take any of those cars though.

The only thing I would do differently is pick a very very very reliable installer for my headers. I don't want to say who I used as they have a reputation as a well to do shop but upon uninstall we found prolific amounts of liquid gasket which was a huge pain in the @$$ for my mechanic to remove.

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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

Cmike2780

Those two N/A engines have a lot of advatages from the get go. V8, larger displacement, larger aftermarket supplier sources, etc. If it comes down to cost, you either pay for it up front or during the build. You're already spending big bucks if you buy a vette for example. I think we can all agree an unlimited bank account would probably solve all our problems.

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[09][MB][6-Spd MT][Touring][Stillen Gen III][K&N][Borla CBE][Evo-R]

MacLean

......... Absolutely

lemon-fresh

^ Naturally Aspirated

In the back of my mind I know there are other faster cars cruising around but where I live the 370 is seen so rarely it feels like an exotic. If I owned a 135i or an sti it would only be about modding the **** out of it so I could compete with all the other 135's and sti's.

With the Z I feel I can take my time, the mods actually mean more than just getting the car to be faster, finding a perfect exhaust note or adding that evo-r rear diffusor are things I never would have considered on other cars because I felt it wouldn't have mattered.

Maybe I'm just settling for something slower... I just feel that if it were a "street king" or some cheaper turbo car the obsession with blindly dumping money into it would be greater because it would be so much less about the total package and more about being the fastest drag racer around.