The amount of hype surrounding this car is probably why it's been so popular to mod.. and so quickly. I would even compare it to the 350Z when itr was introduced. It's the new kid in school, full of potential. The BRZ/FRS is an interesting car because it hits the basics of a sports car really well and already addresses the really difficult stuff out of the box. The main one being weight reduction. Getting the Z to the same weight as a BRZ/FRS is next to impossible. Everything outside of the chassis is the "easy" part. It also seemed like the motor had the basis for future forced induction in mind from what I've read. I don't think the VQ37 shared that notion.
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Originally Posted by ImportConvert
I guess the point here is that this car has barely hit the street and the 370Z came out in 2009...derp
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But there wasn't this much buzz around the 370Z in 2008/09. Everyone was kind of holding back because of the economic collapse thing. A lot of shops had to shut their doors around that time. It's only now that we're starting to see more shops open again ...so of course they'll pick the car a lot of people are talking about to bring in business. 4 years also isn't really that long a time span. A lot of tuners also skip the Z altogether and play with it's big brother, the GT-R for pure shock value. Something like a GT-R with an Alpha 12 package, blows away pretty much anything you throw at it. Being overshadowed is primarily why the Z has seen less mega horsepower progress in the mod department than what we would like. THe tuners rationale is, why buy a Nissan that needs a lot of work reaching the low 11's when another member of the family can do that out of the box.