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theDreamer

Yeah I saw that, I just have to get to I-10 and I am in the clear, still took me an hour (normally 20 minutes). So many roads are flooded or they are just shutting them down anyways. Glad to hear the Z was fine through this weather, calms my nerves. How was driving though in the Z, any spinning of the tires or anything?

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wstar

I've found my Z to be a fantastic machine in wet conditions, actually (not just today, but also during earlier, lighter rains). I generally leave VDC on in wet conditions, I think it's a real plus (especially if you have to hit a deep puddle with one side of the car somewhat unexpectedly at a little more speed than you planned ), so keep that in mind.

As far as low-speed driving and cornering go, I'm really quite impressed with the RE050's from the sport package. I expected I'd be ice-skating on them in wet conditions, but they hold up admirably. I drop my speed a little bit to match conditions, but overall I'm still tearing it up on the wet pavement pretty well.

What's really impressive is the highway performance though. I suspect that may be more due to our aerodynamics, downforce, and those little mini-spoilers in front of the front tires (in the sport setup) than the tires themselves. In conditions yesterday where other people were running their wipers full blast and driving 60 in a 70 with white knuckles from gripping the wheel in fear, I was running 90-110-ish in the open stretches with no stability problems (and no wipers thanks to Rain-X. The faster you go, the better it works ).

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wstar

Just an update on Magden's stuff. I'm not planning to order one for another month or so (I've gotta keep my car toy spending *somewhat* within reason here), but I emailed their tech guys about it today just to ask about some basic compatibility stuff. My main question was about ECU compatibility and data update rates, premised on the assumption that our ECU is substantially similar to the 2008 G37 ECU, and this was the response from Magden I wanted to share:

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