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There are plenty of 370z's here capable of a 10 second pass. 550rwhp is enough to do it.

You will find, that even in the next 5 years, not many guys will actually run a 10. Its because of the type of person that chooses the Z versus other performance cars. While we all want our cars to have that power to be capable of the time slips... Z owners are not typically into drag racing their car at the track. Its been the same way with the 350z/G35 crowd. There are tons of cars making 550-700+ rwhp, but very very few of them bother to take the car to the track... and of those that do, almost none of them set the car up for a clean 1/4 pass.

The real difference is in the wheel, tire, and suspension setup. To get the best times out of a RWD car for 1/4 requires a vastly different configuration of those components versus what handles and performs the best on the street. The Z, when setup to handle and brake like a super-car (which is DOES do), cannot at the same time lay down all the HP. That is the difference between a car originally engineered to be a super car. They use tings like rear mounted transaxles, or mid-engine to be able to better handle the dynamics of all angles of performance with a single configuration. These days, supercars also use very high-tech transmissions... and a transmission setup makes a HUGE difference in 1/4 times... guys that swap to autos in their high power domestics can often drop as much as a second in their 1/4. Didnt someone here drop like .3 or .4 seconds just from a auto trans upgrade in their all motor 370z?

I think that a full street performance built 370z could perform like a 2013 GTR in all dynamics aspects, assuming the GTR is stock. But once you go into a further league, like a highly modified GTR... the GTR is going to be able to take the envelope further from all angles while remaining in a single configuration. The Z will start to require specific setups for the task at hand, such as a different combo of wheels/tires/suspension setup to drag race versus what we would run for optimum all-around performance and appearance.

Next year, you will definitely start seeing some 10 second 370z's. There will be more 370z's with those timeslips than 350z's simply because the engine is more capable/reliable of the required power without a full build.

I predict that there will be more auto's doing it, because an auto is much easier to consistently drag race, and it has more aggresive gearing and faster shifts. But the 6MT guys will do it also.

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