The Official 370Z Autocross Thread

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Originally Posted by Shamu

Its more of a fun car than a car that will be nationally comptitive. 370Z in CS is likely best chance but yeah big bar up front and saggy nasty stock springs you have to live with. I had a hard time with Nismo springs being too soft up front. My car rides better on 1000 lb front springs with 400 lb rears on JRZ coilovers than it did on stock Nismo Tokico junk. And performance is like night and day.

Its nice to have car setup on 315 rears and 285 fronts that actually turns! I'm just running against 500 HP turbo 3 rotor RX7's now. No delusions of making this a nationally competive AX car.

After taking apart my front suspension I found that the front of the car spends almost all of its time on the bumpstops. There is maybe .5" of travel at most and then a big squishy 3" bump stop. In the rear there is more travel, maybe 1.5" before you hit the bumpstops.

And my car turns just fine. Is it like a miata? no but its much better than many other car's I've driven.