I was cruising home today from a night of partying with some friends, doin about 75, when I look in my mirror and have a 300ZX fly up behind me. He pulls up next to me, him and his buddy are lookin over, they can't see me but I'm checkin their car out. I drop to 4th and hear him drop gears, and we both punch it. We had traffic up ahead, so we just ran til we hit them, from roughly 70-100. Surprisingly I held with him, got a bit of a jump on the start but we were dead even the whole way. He started creeping, and I do mean creeping, towards the end, and I'm sure he would have walked me if we had more room, but whatever. Rolled down the window, smiled, thumbs up, he did the same, then we slowed it down to about 80 and cruised together for about 6 miles, still checkin each others cars out. Loud ass BOV, exhaust, no idea what else. Only know it was twin turbo from the vanity plate he had. He pulled off an exit before me with a wave, I was pleased I hung with him for the little bit of fun we had.

 

If you would have dropped it into 3rd instead of 4th... you probably would have beat him.

 

yea thats deff third gear power band, you would have walked him

 

nice run. i've always been a fan of nissan z series. they can move if modded coreectly and a good driver.

 

I rarely race, so I wasn't real sure where the powerband was.

 

id say around 40 to 60/70 is a good 2nd gear powerband, 60/70 to about 100 is 3rd

 

yo do you know about what year that was, i had an 86 with a turbo and that thing was quick, i junked it though cause the body was rotted to hell,lol.

 

Depends on your mods and tune, but yeah that was stupid of him to put it in 4th

 

Not stupid. Just unexperienced.

 

No idea. I had to get online and search to even find out what it was.


Normally when I race, I do 20ish to 60ish. I'm not a huge fan of running up to 30+ over the limit on public roads. So, what you call stupid, I call smart

 

nice. zx's can be NASTY with the right small mods. I was looking for one for a while but couldn't find one with decent mileage for a good price. Slap the right bolt ons on that care and you have 400whp in a pretty light car with an insanley flat power band. very fun cars. handle great too.

 

wow you beat a twin turbo ZX...thats a nice kill considering your mods, get stage 2 and youd would have whipped him.

 

If not for the fact that I'm studying abroad next spring and need spending money, I'd already have it. Next year, consider it done

 

75 in 4th gear.... do you know how to drive?? should have put it in 3rd

 

i think he gets it...

 

Do you know how to read? In case not, let me re-type everything that was discussed before you came. I don't race often. When I do, I either go from a dig at a light, or from 20ish to 60ish, because I'm 19 and don't like shooting to 30 over the speed limit, I can't afford the ticket. So no, when I'm on the expressway cruising along at 75, I'm in 5th, and the rare times I downshift (to pass, or, for the first time ever, to race) I just go to 4th, because I don't do it very often/ever.

To break it down even farther, I learned to drive a stick when I bought the car a year ago, taught myself basically by driving and reading, and didn't think it was good to drop two gears at once. So no, I don't know how to drive.

 

i just read the first post and posted.

 

i was basing that off of a relatively stock cobalt.

 

my bad, didnt mean to come on so strong

 

Those TT 300zxs were about 300hp crank from the factory, the 90-96 ones. The 84-89 single turbos were no where near as powerful.

The downside to them is that they are heavy, over 3500lbs IIRC. 300hp in that much weight is not quick anymore. They are 14 sec cars stock, autos are even worse.

With mods, they can be quite powerful. I remember seeing HKS bolt-on turbo upgrades that could deliver almost 500whp on a stock block, back in the day. My dad had a shop specializing in strictly Z cars, so I was around them things all the time. Always loved em.

 

Nice hang OP.

I have a 300ZX near me that went ricer... dual fart pipes, underbody neon, erector spoiler, that sorta thing. Back when I still street raced (late last year, just after I got my S2 on) he asked for a roll from 30. He got the jump, 30 in second is a bit tough to go from, but was none too happy when he got pulled by what he thought was a 2.4 SS. It wasn't a slaughter, but I had a bus-ish on him by the time we shut down at the top of third.

Kinda like racing a base model 3000GT, only without the ownage