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Originally Posted by bullitt5897
You do understand that /facepalm was toward your comment 
You have never tracked your car therefore you have no room to talk. You do not know what it can handle at its limits in both the wet and dry... I have done both and I have spun the car off the track pushing the car to and beyond its limits in stock form. The Car will do just fine on the track in stock trim with only a few additions such as a oil cooler for the hotter climates and shorter tracks and brake fluid upgrade to dot 4 hi temp and finally steel braided brake lines for safety. The problems people have had with the calipers have been from running racing pads. These types of additions are recommended for any sports car that goes on the track. To say the 370z needs alot of work before it enters the track only goes to show your ignorance! 
Also people like Semtex, RCZ, Mike, others and Myself push this car harder than you would ever get the chance to on the track... so the failures we see are from HARD use and I mean HARD! at Little Tally I dont brake until the #2 cone and I am full throttle to that point... I scare the ever loving $hit out of my passengers because I push the car so dam hard! My saying at the track when people ask me where are your braking points... I look at them and reply braking points? I dont brake until I see God!
Good day to you and please stop with all the FAIL you bring to threads!  |
LOL...where do you go about referencing my track experience/abilities? You do realize that I hold a NASA Competition License and instruct Group 1/2...right?
I have yet to have the Z on the track because frankly, it's my street-car. It's evident from members here with experience that the brakes are certainly a weak-point for the car (as is the case with most production sports-cars), so those need to addressed, along with oil-cooling and diff-cooling and/or the replacement of the factory LSD, for starters. Lately, fuel-starvation has been of concern, another issue one must take into consideration.
To copy/paste one of your own sentences...These types of additions are recommended for any sports car that goes on the track. Even Porsches, Corvettes, and Elises need tweaking in certain areas before they are pushed hard on a track...so I'm in no way talking down on the Z. The 370Z doesn't need
a lot of work, so I don't even know what you are disagreeing with me on.
Adding some form of forced-induction and then tracking the car will open a whole new can of worms and perhaps shine a light on weak-points no one knew existed. Still, in my years of experience, I've seen what pushing such a car hard on a track that came from the factory NA will do, and you're in for nothing but a headache. Production-cars weren't designed to be pushed on a track in the first place, so to add forced-induction onto an engine that was also not designed with it in mind just compounds failure. Take a look under the hood of any track-prepped S2000, Corvette, 350Z, or any NA sports-car. You're not going to find a turbo/supercharger. Perhaps the only exception I can think of a supercharged Miata.
So tell me again...are you arguing with me just for the sake of it?