Who's making the move to STU?

SITOZ

I tried to find you up at Packwood for the Champ Tour to chat about Zs but didn't find the time. I was up there with my blue 350z in STU. I think I saw you when I was packing up to leave but was ready to get on the road.

BTW, your Z looks great.

My Nismo 370z is built STU lite with camber arms and Eibach springs for that look. I originally installed a Hotchkis front sway bar but that was terrible so I swapped it out for a Eibach bar and it actually turns now.

Have fun with your Z.

Steve

Zewerr

Ah, in Bryan's old car. I was only able to beat that car once. Luckily it was during the Pro Finale in 2017. I would have loved to chat with you. Unfortunately I was stuck getting demolished in SS trying to drive the Tesla against people with much smaller, lighter cars with much bigger tires and camber.

Anyway, I ended up racing the on Saturday and Sunday this last weekend and am very happy with the results, finally being able to compete at the top of the region, again. The car felt great. It wasn't drastically different as it was previously on 275's and 285's with RE's, Rivals, and 660's. But, it just did everything better. Cornering grip was better. Braking was better. And what I felt was extremely important, I could actually be more aggressive on the throttle when accelerating out of corners. The only thing I'm kinda worried about is the shorter second gear with the 315's. It's perfect locally, but it might not be ideal when in Lincoln or Crows Landing. But I ended up with FTD and 2nd in PAX, 0.055 back from first with a low turnout (30ish) with a local club on Saturday, and then with top PAX and fastest run on street tires with NWR-SCCA on Sunday. These results got me excited, so I signed up for Nationals when I got home and purchased another set of Yokes.

Vids for research purposes or whatever. I'm pretty sure my lens was smudgy.




EDIT: Not sure why the videos previews aren't working but here are the direct links.
Saturday
Sunday

madwi

First video is borked or link is bad. And this is the second reason...

SITOZ

I can only imagine how the 315s felt as I'm running the 295 Yokes on the 350z. Bryan actually drove the car a few weeks ago at Crows Landing and loved the grip from the 295s. With the 295/30/18s I'm at 70 mph in 2nd which is pretty darn perfect for most venues.

Look forward to chatting at Lincoln.

Brendan

It's pretty easy to run 18x10.5 or 11 up front but I'm not sure what you mean by goofy offsets. If you are on stock suspension you will get some poke. Once you lower the car and add the appropriate amount of negative camber you shouldn't have any fit issues. I run a +24 up front with room to go to maybe a +18 comfortably. A stock offset wheel actually might have inner clearance issues when you add camber.

Wigjiggy

I run Enkei NT03-M 18x10.5 +30mm offset square. With 5mm spacers in rear and 20mm in front. Plenty of room and you can comfortably fit 295-30s on them. They do protrude out past the fender in the front and I’ll be installing splats soon to help that. They fit nicely with OEM Sport calipers and to my delight fit over my new Stoptech Trophy Rs. And they are affordable you can get a rain set and also replace them when you bend them (I’ve destroyed three already in off-track adventures).

Brendan

Unfortunately one of the rules of stu is that the top of tire can't protrude past the fender so no f1 fitments.