Odd that is has cats -- is it street legal then?

The juciest item on that list is the ECU that deletes all the nannying issues that would interfere with a balls to the wall track day...

Is the hood and trunk latchwork hardware removed? Looks like it has outer clasps/pins and that's it.

I can't believe they got it under 3K lbs! That's a nice weight savings.

Power is the same as a regular Nismo (355 ps = 350 hp)... hmm. Surprised they didn't try to bump it up a bit.

Love the front air ducts!

Overall, pretty sweet (but -- wooo -- pricey!).

Something missing from the arguments on this thread is the development costs of building your own race car. Part of the $150K is for the engineering, tuning, and testing Nissan has done on the car already. While the parts to build a similar car can be purchased and installed individually for less than $150k, anyone who did so would still be looking at significant development costs.

Some of these costs would include:
Parts one bought would fail and the resulting damage would have to be repaired
Track time
Tires (race slicks are not cheap)
Custom fabrication
Custom CNC work
Gas for your truck to the track
Trailer upkeep
Hotel rooms(?)
Fluid replacements ($75 a gallon gear oil anyone?)
Dyno time
Sublet labor rates
etc.

So you're getting a lot more than a car with some nice go-fast parts for the $150K, you're getting a tested, balanced and functional race car designed by some of the best motorsports engineers around.

What am I looking at?

I see a dip stick (foreground), and what appears to be a radiator or cooler (in the rear?) for what?

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http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1317743487

That would be a rear tow hook and diff cooler.

diff cooler? And pretty sure that's a tow hook

This car is pretty cool.

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/8057/enginea.png

I like the clean engine bay and slight dress-up.

Nissan had one displayed at Petite Lemans this weekend

And it looked delicious!

A question that hasn't been answered, would the 370z nismo rc be lumped into the same racing class as a 997 gt3rs? If so, why would any rational person buy the more expensive nissan than the porsche? Touching on divzero's post, the gt3rs is also a race car, track tested and tuned from the factory. But it handles better and makes more power and weighs less. So if given the same slick tyres, it'll run circles around the nismo rc. And it also has the advantage of being street legal, so after the race you can put the license plates back on and drive it home, or drive it on the weekend cruise.

The GT3 RS really isn't a race car, it's a track day car that just happens to be street legal.

The actual race variants would be like the Porsche 911 Cup or the GT3 R, and both of those would be at least one class above the NISMO RC.

I would say it probably would be great in the World Challenge series competing in the GTS class, Possibly even the GT class.

Why not? I know it's not a proper race car like a cup or R or even RSR, but it's 99.999% of a race car. Really, only a roll cage, fire suppression, and fuel cell is all that's needed to make it into a race car.

Isn't GT too extreme? It's only a 350hp slightly modified nismo. GT is cars like corvettes and 911 GT3 and Vipers.

It wasn't designed with the idea of wheel-to-wheel competition like the NISMO RC, 911 Cup, etc. It doesn't fit within any classification of racing series like the other purpose built racers do. That's all I'm getting at.

Chances are the NISMO RC will be good-to-go for racing in a series like the Continental Tire series. You couldn't take a GT3 RS and run it in that series without some major overhauling, likely including de-tuning it to fit regulation.

Yes, GT is probably too high for the RC.