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Originally Posted by SkyZ
haha if u want a tuner go for a FF import. like a civic. lots of those running real serious parts and actually doing quite well at the track. i personally wouldnt drop an RB into our Zs. lots more power but LOTS of modification and the weight dist would be off. swapping motors as someone said about isnt that simple as oh choose some engine and throw it into another thing. so yeah. if u wanna tune up ur Z u gotta beef up the internals on the engine and then boost it. i know lots of ppl are running decent hp off 6-8 lbs of boost from the gtm tt kits. might be an option there.
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I'm not necessarily trying to tune my car right now. I'm really just trying to understand why tuners gravitate towards the skyline/silva instead of the fairlady, but the post below makes sense.
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Originally Posted by UNKNOWN_370
Though all the above stated are all 90% true. There's one giant and much simpler answer than all of the above. The favored bodystyle of most modders are GT cars, not Sports cars. Historically GT has been the most popular mod car. Mostly for the reasons mentioned above, but look at the case of the skyline... it has the same engine and compression ratio as the fairlady. But its still much more popular to mod. That's due to the mod culture started with GT. So that's where enthusiasts gravitate.
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That makes sense. I see the appeal of taking a GT car and modding/tuning it to the point where it is more powerful and better handling than a sports car. So do you think the japanese tuner fanboys look at Z's like boring grandpa cars that they could eat for breakfast?, or is it more like 'damn i'd like to have one of those and mod it up'?