Originally Posted by SteveVQ

Hate to say it bro. But, you have one of the best platforms for power and speed in your garage already. You already know you would have an absolute monster if you dumped the money into "that" instead.

Still, I totally get wanting to have something very fast that was never intended to be very fast. Plus, like you mentioned months ago, nothing drives like a Z and it's true the Z is one of the best drivers car out there. It's a shame Nissan took a motor out of the parts bin to stuff inside it.

If only Nissan designed an all new VQVHR with a closed deck back in 2009, it would be a different ball game altogether for our platform right now.

Seems like a VR38 is the only way to meet your hp/reliability goals.