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Originally Posted by johnnydrama
Welcome to the forums and glad youre ok! Go with the Nismo. I love both cars and test drove a red 370z touring sport several times but only because my dealer here couldnt get a Nismo in stock but I really had already made my mind up on the Nismo. And I purchased without ever even seeing one in person. People always say buy a sport touring and mod it but it's not the same. It's a good head start in the modding department and I have still modded mine a decent amount. Only performance mods tho. I got sold on the Nismo bc I wanted a factory track car and I believed that every mod makes it more and more ahead of the 370 sport when it comes to performance. I drive the car very aggressively. This car is easy to drift, drag, etc.. And the looks are more exotic than a 370z sport. Park em next to each other and people are gonna look more at the Niz. And I DD my Nismo 2-3 days a week just bc I cant stand to not drive it in a 24 hour time frame. I can qoute alot of people from this forum saying if they could do it again they would get a Nismo.... including the site administrator. But we all want different things from our cars so it really just depends on what you want the car for and whats most important to you
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Sounds good in theory but that's not quite the case. The base Z carries a few advantages over a nismo. A factory mod verses an aftermarket mod 99% of the time will be inferior. The only advantages you really have is that your parts are covered under warranty and the nismo wheels give u a superior wheel set up at a bargain. But the modder will have the advantage based on...
The Z base is nearly 200lbs lighter than the NISMO.
The modder can choose lighter weight mods to keep that weight off.
The aftermarket ECU tunes for the Z are superior to the NISMO.
A stage 2 intake and catpipe alone will bring its crank hp beyond a NISMO AT AROUND $1K.
A tune wouldn't run more than $700 and most aftermarket tunes rev the car farther than 7600rpm.
At the end of the day the superiority factor will be diminished and all that you really end up with is personal preference.
OP, buy what you love!! You just have to decide, are you modding or buying a premade track car? Either way, you can't lose.