How time flies! I am at 5700 miles since the turbo install. The car is holding up amazing and running very strong. I still daily drive it and daily cruise/abuse it. Its actually my only car at the moment. Weather has just been so great in Chicago the last few weeks, that I cannot stop to take a break from enjoying this car.
I haven't bothered to put it back on the dyno yet. Apparently my work on the tune so far was safe enough. Nothing seems to phase the engine. I have been running the boost to 8.5-9.5 psi occasionally. I have no idea what its making there... if i had to guess maybe 550-570rwhp since the car seems to make about 30hp per psi. But 75% of the time I am at just 8 psi anyway.
My 305 RE11s are about done for. I ran maybe 8000 miles out of them. That was with about 1.5* negative camber in the rear. I havent done any typical burnouts or donuts yet, but the 370 leaves intimidating patches of rubber if I floor it in 2nd or middle of 3rd, and I am guilty of doing it for no good reason other than to just admire it in the rear view mirror often enough.
Many very fast cars around Chicago have been humbled recently. Those that ask are shocked to hear the car is running less than 10psi boost on a stock engine. It seems to impress most enthusiasts, and piss off the rest.
I get into it with a few good cars a week. GT500s, SRT cars, turbo Porsches, C6 Z06s.. all the typical fast cars. Without significant mods, they can forget it. Exception, an '08 997 GT2 with minor mods gave me an even run the other day, but that's no regular turbo Porsche. The twins on the 370z really put the car into an entirely different performance category. Keeping it real, many of the "fast" cars that the twin turbo 370z can now pull on, would kill the Z should they have as significant of an upgrade. But alas, 99% of them do NOT, and good luck finding them out there.
Making a slow car fast while its still a pretty new model really does compound the entertainment value. I experienced the same thing in 2004 with my TT 350z. I can imagine that many of the enthusiasts that wanted to give me a go, probably had not been given a chance to even have at a stock 370z yet. While I do see them on the road, I have yet to find myself next to one let alone one willing to give a run. So I amuse myself thinking of the guys that were possibly excited to have their first 370z roast just to end up getting completely burned. I have a nice cocky "you like this" sticker on my 1/4 window to top off the experience.
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