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Originally Posted by simpleisbest
With OEM 19" the gearing in the 370z is a bit tall. With the available tire sizes and what-not, they should be able to shorten up gearing/increase acceleration, while still have enough top end for most courses. Rivals also have some pretty large sizes in the 18" size vs the Dunlop. They can fit pretty meaty tires on that car and the wheels are wide (9J Front, 10J Rear), so they will be able to better stretch/square big size tires which typically means more grip.
With that be enough to overcome the weight difference? If we had a normal rev limiter, I would say it would be close, but with our fuel cut...its not as easy to man-handle the car at the top of 2nd gear. This is a disadvantage, IMO. We can up tire size to get more gearing, but at the cost of other factors such as turn-in, overall precision, acceleration. The reduction of these 3 alone can be tough for a momentum car like ours.
One of our local hotshoes is building a 370z, so I'll get to see first hand next year.
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The current CS National champion 370Z told me a similar thing. After co-driving a FRS at a Pro Solo, said the lack of power and 2nd gear rev limiter is harsh.
It'll be course dependent for sure. Also with the MSR ZOK out of the way, we'll see the base MX5 and RX8 come out from the woods. Anyways should be interesting to see
