Originally Posted by shadoquad

jazz, the facts of your car are that if you drive it at the bleeding edge, or in excessive heat, the oil will heat to 260 degrees and go into limp mode. MD is not the hottest part of the country. I know, I'm here, too. The oil overheating issue can be fixed with a $500 oil cooler.

And the other fact is that if you heat up your brakes, the stock braking fluid can't handle it and you will experience brake failure. That can be done at the track, but I first experienced it last year at the end of an 11 hour road trip. I pressed the pedal and nothing happened. Had to stop the car using the clutch. This can be fixed with about 60-80 dollars worth of better braking fluid.

Fuel starve is a well known track issue and will probably only occur if one is pushing the car to its handling limits on a sweeping right hand turn. This has not been adequately fixed yet to my knowledge.

All that said, I appreciate the car for what it is. I love it, I've enjoyed every day with it. We have to discuss its faults, so that other owners can know what to expect. You might not want to track the car, so you may never find these faults, but there are plenty of people who want to take the car to a race track, and they deserve to know about its performance limits before they invest money in an HPDE and have it occur at the track.

It's the advantage of having a discussion forum.

Only a blind fanboy would pretend any car has zero issues. Again, I love the Z, but it has faults, just like any other car.