03-26-2018, 09:03 PM
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A True Z Fanatic
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Originally Posted by Desert Rat
Go out big with a 560Z on a tweaked current chassis. Blow the doors off the domestics and keep it cheap with off the shelf parts. Even the early truck line of 5.6 motors were easily 500HP capable...they've been detuned for daily driver activities in trucks, but a 500HP 5.6 V8 in something as small as a Z would be a whole lotta fun, especially with a tire smoking manual.
Sadly, it'll never happen. Nissan isn't what it used to be. Selling tons of CVT equipped slugs is about as far away from the performance market as you can get.
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Yeah, good luck fitting the Titan 5.6 into a driveable version of the z chassis. Have you looked at it? I spin tires on my 5,300 lb Titan. The z is no lightweight, but it would stand on its nose, let alone the cooling. Or the clutch - if the z had decent torque and went on a diet, it would be fine as is. But the existing transmissions won’t deal with V8 torque. All for 390hp (tuned to whatever you believe you can get out of it). Then there’s the fuel economy elephant in the room.
In all honesty, you’d need a racing license to handle a 500hp Z without a shipload of other mods anyway. That wouldn’t be cheap.
That’s why you won’t see one. At least not on store shelves. Do what you like with your own, though.
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