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Originally Posted by johnnydrama
Ive upgraded my nismo and you can mod it just like a sport z but its a great head start and I gaurantee if you made the same mods to both a sport and a Niz the Nismo would gain more of an advantage with each mod.
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The Nismo has a tune, Nismo exhaust, upgraded springs and some extra struts/supports...
Mod'ing a sport would quickly put better parts on the car than a Nismo comes with. And if you're mod'ing both cars, you'll essentially have the same car in the end with different bodies. The various sections on this forum would prove that many of the aftermarket parts are more track-capable than the Nismo parts. Why pay $550 for Nismo brake pads if you can have better Carbotechs for $330? The same reasoning holds for coilovers, CBEs, custom tunes...
Sorry, but Nismo is still Cheezmo IMHO, and certainly not the 'bang for the buck' that the sport package gives you. It looks like Nissan made the Nismo with hypothetical improvements on paper with the additions they made without actually track testing and tuning each part to produce real-world gains. IE, they were lazy.