Fuel starvation, who else?

wstar

I won't defend Nissan any further. In other threads/places you'll find me cursing them up and down the wall on some issues. But you (and they) have to look at reality too. Even on a very enthusiast forum like this one (which, IMHO, is a step above the car culture in many car forums), take a look around at the ratios of "types" of owners by the threads and mods and whatnot.

Most people buy sportscars to look sporty. Whether it's a stereotypical "chick buys sportscar because it looks sexy" or a guy that buys a car because he thinks it looks racecar-y and then does a bunch of "I want it to look faster and meaner" mods. I'd love it if Nissan ignored all those people and released a true track-ready car that made no compromises. You could order this dream car for $30K and it would come with proper oil/tranny/diff cooling, a completely stripped and caged interior like the NISMO RC version, no radio, no AC, an ABS OFF switch, no Ice Mode programming, etc.

But it'll never happen. The two nearest approximations they can offer us, given the market, is the consumer 370Z we have today, and the $150K NISMO RC. There's just not a good market for a brand new pure track car where you can sell it on the cheap side at high volume, so car companies compromise. They try to give us something the enthusiasts can still make use of if they put some work into it. The fuel starve thing is a rather unfortunate design problem, but I still think if you've got a reason to really complain about it being a practical problem for you, you're already in the kind of category where you're modding the hell out of the car. Adding a surge tank or whatever isn't that huge a deal.

Most owners, when given the option to vote with their dollars, will pay more for a better factory subwoofer setup than to get a fuel starve fix from Nissan.

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scruffydog

HAHA, true...most people I know don't buy a "Sports Car" to drive it like a Sports car. Every once in a blue moon you'll see them driving it hard in a straight line, but most of the time they just wanna be noticed that they're in a "Sports Car" that can do whatever spec they can remember from the brochure. But they won't ever like to take it to the extreme because they're worried they'll damage their expensive toy.

Which is why Nissan won't acknowledge too much of this, if we start a poll for majority of the Z owners, they probably won't even know this was a problem to begin with. They'll probably complain about how sucky the upgraded Boss stereo being an issue, loud cabin noise, etc. Rather than oil over temp, fuel starvation, or even brake fade issue.