On the way back from Vancouver yesterday with my new SC and I caught my wife sleeping in the passenger seat. Well, this silver 350Z and a 40+yo guy driving it come flying up the scarcily-populated 99S highway and slowed down right next to me. We were cruizing about 65-70mph and I was in 5th gear (letting the car drive for me). We made eye contact and it was on! I slapped the shifter over to SS and tried to downshift twice into 3rd. I should have just left it in full auto and stomped on the gas. Anyway, the car never got down to 3rd...and you know how our 4th gear sux. Surprisingly though, the Z very, very, very slowly started to loose ground on me. We went to about 100mph. Given the right gear and a little more boost (I'm still running the UR underdriving crank pulley) I may have been able to pull a little better. I glanced over a couple of times at the guy and I could tell he was getting pissed. We evertually came up on some traffic and he had to turn off the highway anyway. I was very impressed with my car but even more impressed with the Z. I've spent about $5k on my engine and it was barely pulling on the Z. Oh well, a kill is a kill.

Oh yeah, the wife woke up in the middle of the race and started yelling at me to slow down. Luckily, I was already winning and traffic was approaching.

 

nice run...

 

you beat him in 4th... I'd be pretty happy about that.

 

yea if you beat a Z in 4th u my freind have a fast car, if that shit was in third you woulda burned him

 

Your car was in 4th and you were running lower then normal boost.


Time for a rematch.

 

Ah... first lesson of the day.
1) slap the bitch to left...
3) lift up on the buzzer..
4) slap the bitch 2 times again to wake it up!!
5) stomp your foot in the buzzer....

enjoy!

 

nice, get the right pulley on

thats why i hate ss, how did u not catch 3rd at 70

 

it should be no problem to grab 3rd up to 80mph, w/o even letting off the gas.


next time you will be ready.

 

Good kill and we married the same type of woman

 

Next time just leave the car in auto and smack the passenger and tell her to go back to sleep....

 

You don't want to know how many times this has happened to me! Wife always falls asleep when we drive home from NYC to Boston and complains/yells at me when WOT wakes her up!

 

You should race a s/c or turboed Z. That would be a fair race

 

"run what you brung"

 

Who ever said anything about Fair?

 

nice kill!

 

Well it wasn't fair b/f when I was NA...so why do I have to be fair now?

 

Hey now, that's my WIFE you're talking about - not my girlfriend.

 

I'm really not sure why I didn't get 3rd. I was a little too excited and probably tapped down twice too quickly.

 

how would that be fair?

the z is lighter, RWD, has .3L more displacement and 20 more hp.

the s/c makes it fair.

 

I'm kidding! Most S/C and turbo Z's are putting down around 350hp at the wheels. Being RWD, the power is also useable. The CLS would have to have significant modifications to the motor to put that down.

To the original poster, did you get a tranny upgrade? I'm surprised that the auto can take the horsepower increase.

 

Not really. I was just shy of that, 323 WHP and that was non-intercooled 5.5 PSI. I expect to see considerably more now with 8 PSI intercooled.

The engine is not touched; just expanding on what the Comptech SC kit provided.

 

Thats great. Have you run at the track yet? I bet the torque steer on that thing is insane at full throttle

Lots of Zs are running pretty reliably upt to around 400hp at the wheels. Anything more and the motor is suspect. They go through the manuals like crazy though. Seems the Z/G35 are opposite of the Acura. The Autos are incredibly strong while the manuals are fragile

 

Not yet, but I need to get out to the strip. I'm expecting in the 370 - 380 WHP range and it certainly feel like it. I may be hitting the dyno this Saturday to verify the assumption. Torque steer isn't bad as I am spinning through 1st and 2nd and into 3rd. Had I been able to get traction, who knows.

This is it for power though as any more is a waste on the street. The engine seems to be doing fine as well as the 6-Speed manual. The IC and more boost has only been on for a couple of months now so we shall but everything feels solid.

Below is a video I made this weekend while testing the electric cut-out:

In Car Video



Sorry for the

 

Absolutely

 

I called Comptech yesterday to help me diagnose why my car is having trouble starting and told him about the UR crank pulley. He said he thought I was probably barely getting any boost at all...just turning the SC so that incoming air was near stock levels. I still have alot of future power to look forward to.

BTW, he suggested my car is having trouble turning over due to:
1. Air bubbles in the coolant system-needs to be bled
2. Fuel pressure regulator needs to be turned one rotation
3. Basslink sub is drawing power needed for starting? Not sure about this one since is takes about 10 seconds for the sub to come on anyway
4. ESM needs to be soldered due to a faulty/weak connection

He also said he recommends putting the stock 10lb crank pulley back on the car. He insisted the stock one contains a vibration dampener. I'll risk it anyway.

 

Which CL-S comes with 267hp stock??

 

sorry, i thought the z was 280hp.


thanks for sniffing out that BS.

 

i say the s/c dont make it a fair race..

a fair race would be a stock z vs a cl-s w/ i/h/p/chip

 

I guess I'm not really following everyone's need for a perfectly fair race... If every race were fair wouldn't every race end in a tie?

 

agree...

what is fair?? 350Z vs 350Z.... CLS vs CLS...

 

not realy fair, but more even ya know

 

this thread sucks

 

She yells at me if I'm losing, and gloats when I'm winning...

 

In any race, both parties are putting their pride on the line. If your equipment out-matches your opponent's, then that's his problem. Purists are like Monday quarterbacks... Nice kill Seattle Cl-S!