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Steve Millen came to ZCON09 and drove a few cars on the track and one of them being a 370z NISMO. We asked him which of the two NISMO's he

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Old 10-04-2009, 01:02 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Steve Millen came to ZCON09 and drove a few cars on the track and one of them being a 370z NISMO. We asked him which of the two NISMO's he would prefer, a 350z or a 370z. He said the 350z himself as it is more of a hard core handling vehicle while the 370z is 60-70% most of a daily and the 30-40 % left is for performance.



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It's not the tires, and advan sports are in every way better than re050a's in every single review i've read about them. True the nismo blows I'm not disagreeing on that, but it's not the tires fault. The car is more susceptible to oversteer in the nismo iteration: (Taken from Edmund's)

Stiffer and Stuff
Primarily this extra speed comes courtesy of the 2009 Nissan Nismo 370Z's all-new suspension components. Front and rear spring rates are up 15 and 10 percent, respectively. The front antiroll bar is 15 percent stiffer and the rear one is 50 percent stiffer. Front damping is increased 40 percent while rear damping is increased 140 percent. The combination yields a 15 percent increase in overall roll stiffness, the Nissan engineer tells us, making the already flat-cornering Z corner even more, well, flat.

Wider rear tires don't hurt, either. The 245/40ZR19 front and 275/35ZR19 rear Bridgestone Potenza RE050A tires of the standard 370Z with Sport package have been replaced with 245/40ZR19 front and 285/35ZR19 rear Yokohama Advan Sport tires. The stickier rubber is mounted on forged-aluminum Rays wheels (19-by-9.5 inches front and 19-by-10.5 inches rear) with rims that are a half inch wider than the stock Z's wheels.

They screwed up the balance the stock version has by stiffening up the light rear more than the front.
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