First loss... (Knew it but still went ahead)

[TatII]

i'll be staying late at work today at UR. so why don't you come here? its right off DPA

i'll PM the address.

[jcsaleen]

Sounds good to me

[bad360rt]

Originally Posted by jcsaleen

With out a doubt lol we just barely scratched 80. He would have killed me atleast by another bus length or even 2 for that matter.

Originally Posted by jcsaleen

Sheesh for 6500 in a 30k car I'm really dissapointed though.

So from 20-80 he put 8 lengths on you and you admit that if you had kept going he would have continued to walk away from you, but you're not impressed??? Do you have any idea how bad of a beating that is? Normally if I'm pulling on someone that hard, I let off, it's not worth wasting the gas at that point. And please stop saying that his car cost $30K, you realize that when your car was new it was over $30K, right? And that was 13 years ago, so you can factor inflation in there too if you want to compare prices.

Now don't get me wrong, I like both cars, actually, I like the RX-7 better, but give credit where credit is due.

[jcsaleen]

A beating to me is alot more then 6+ Car lengths... That gallardo would have done alot worse to me. (Check other thread)

[HondaChili]

Well all the 350z needs now is to raise the boost and he'll spank that ass. =) Most Supra guys pay around 10k to go single and make aroun 750-800 hp. So i don't consider 6500 a lot for a good kit as long as its done right. The reason these 350Z kits cost so much is probably due to supply and demand. This has two ways of jacking the price up. One is that companies price these kits higher because they are fairly new and need to cover the expenses for research or since only a select few turbo kits are out on the market these companies can price high because there are no cheaper substitutes. I'd say an 8 car length pull sounds quite impressive considering you don't know if that was his full potential. Back to my point if a similar kit is offered to the honda world the price wouldve been much cheaper as the market is less risky.

Lastly, Lastly I find the 350Z to be very beautiful. I admit at first i was taken back and TatII knows my reaction, but ive grown to love the car. The way it sound, the way it feels (we worked valet so have driven plenty of these), and the design. You say you hate the 350z becase it replaced the R34 in the JGTC but correct me if im wrong but wasn't the Motul Z the winner of the 300 class of 04?05? And since the R34's 4wd is deletted for JGTC then wouldn't you say its just a shell we are talking about? IMO Nissan did the right thing to replace the R34 with the 350Z the reason being motor sports is about trying new things. You stick the same method every year things will get boring. How many more years do you want to watch the same cars in JGTC go at it before it gets old.

[jcsaleen]

I never knew they deleted the 4wd out? Hmmm very intresting. I don't know the Z just doesn't do it for me except maybe the topscecret or something. Still change is good in the automotive world. How fast is the Z compared the MkIV?

[TatII]

i think the Z was ahead of hte supras at hte GT500. and yeah ben is right, the GT500 GTR's have been RWD for many many many years. so what Motul and Xanviv did was basically swap bodies of hte R34 with the Z33 since the Z33 is more aerodynamic. underneth both cars, they're identical.