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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s
Anyone who is doing serious tracking will want a better oil cooling system anyway. That would be like trying to do serious tracking on the stock brake pads.
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That's kinda my point actually. That this oil cooler may just be a mere
PR stunt to appease the magazine critics. The Z really doesn't have an oil temp problem on the road. Just on the track, most of the time at least. So if the oil cooler doesn't solve the overheating during prolonged track driving and the owner still has to get an aftermarket kit anyway, then what's the point of this cooler?
Funny that you mentioned brake pads since they too have a similar problem. Stock pads are more than good enough on the street but caused lots of problems on the track, including car and driver crashing a nismo. So in response nissan developed nismo pads that supposedly were better able to handle heat and brake fade. Only it turned out that these overpriced pads were a marginal improvement over the oem pad at best, and owners still had to get aftermarket pads for the track anyway.
But I agree with red zed however. Lets not put the cart before the horse. Lets wait until someone gets one of these 2012 cars and actually flogs them on a track. Who knows? Maybe that tiny oil to water cooler will actually perform admirably and i'll be forced to eat my words.
