Fuel starvation, who else?

wstar

It's a compromise car. All reasonably priced consumer sportscars are. After all, what percentage of them will ever even *see* track usage? Most people buy them for looks, and Nissan has to play a certain marketing, pricing, and looks game here more than anything just to keep the car alive. The oil cooler is a non-issue on the street in most climates (and they put some extra cooling in some hotter markets from the start, and added it to all of the cars in the US in the most recent MY update).

Personally, I think given the situation, they've managed to hand us a pretty awesome platform that's just a few obvious mods away from basic track duty (oil cooling, brake upgrades).

Even the fuel starve thing: most people will never notice this off the track, and even on the track it's mostly avoidable by keeping the tank topped up. It's not *that* huge a deal at the beginner level. If you're out there in slicks and wings and doing some definitely-not-beginner-level driving, you're already in a position where you're doing lots of upgrades to any factory car, so this is just another one to add to the list.

Well, obviously it all depends on the cars' respective mod levels and money input and of course the drivers, but I highly doubt that with other things being comparable, a '71 Z/28 can keep up with a 370Z on a road course, especially if it doesn't have a power advantage. The handling in the modern Z is just miles better than almost anything you could buy in 1971.

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