it's one of the drawbacks to the 370Z...it's fine if you're just using it to drive around town or even if you drive a little spirited every now and then, but if you go all out like you do on a track the engine oil will overheat on it to a point where it goes into limp mode when the oil temps reach about 280....fortunately for the 2012 model year nissan finally started including a very basic oil cooler thats good for some light auto crossing, but the engine itself still needs a full on 25 or 34 row oil cooler to be able to stand up to track duty which sucks, but i knew before i even got the car that i would need one to be able to go out on the track

 

haha oh damn that sucks well funny enough there was a 370z nismo edition on the track with me and i blew by it every time lol guy also didnt know how to drive very well either lol

 

One of the faster cars of the day before he went off course


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all ss /sc and ss/turbo have an oil cooler. its a water and air heat exchanger sits right beside the inlet manifold over the transmission.

 

didnt happen to be like a darker grey color did it? cause if so i was just reading a post by that guy on the 370 forums and he just got it not to long ago so i wouldnt be surprised if he didnt know how to drive lol

 

nope black with black wheels and yellow krops sticker on back asian guy driving

 

That's cuz he has a "track car" not a nurburgring christened cobalt ss son with our factory equipped oil ice box! Lolol I kid... but seriously the way the Z cars are hyped by magazines and the factory, you would think they could handle themselves better on the track.

 

yeah i didnt really buy into the hype, like i said i went into it knowing full well the flaws that it does have, but typically the guys you see out on the tracks with their Z's have little to no track experience and don't know the limits of the car very well so of course they get full of themselves and just push it to hard. i know myself i wouldnt be able to go 10/10th's of the potential of this car without losing it since i've never been on a track yet, that and it's my first RWD car, but over the last year i've had it i've just learned to listen to the car and let it tell me what it does and does not like