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US version is 480 at the crank. Folks get confused because the GT-R only has a 10% drivetrain loss. People have been using a 15% loss when converting dyno numbers at the wheels to crank hp which gives a much bigger number than advertised. A common dyno number is around 432 -- divide by .9 = 480 If you use 15%, take 432 / .85 = 508 -> the number a lot of reviewers come up with. The GT-R engines are dynoed at the factory before installation, and they have to fall within a certain hp range or they go to the scrap heap. I hope mine is at the top of the range!

LOL... It was just my first thought having dealt with odd cam behaviors at low rpms on a few cars. Until I did the JWT engine surge mod, the engine in the 350 would stall when slowing down to come to a stop, so it was a bit of a pain in the patoot. The little inexpensive mod cleared it right up.

Try balancing your exhaust manifolds first, and then retune. I think it's the cam effect unbalancing the turbos at low rpms. By balancing or cross-flowing exhaust; it balances exhaust from all 6 cylinders across both turbos. There's another simpler mod to reduce low rpm cam lope, but I think cross-flowing the manifolds is the better fix in your case (a bunch more work though). Here's a link to reduce cam lope and engine surge -- Jim Wolf Technology. http://www.jimwolftechnology.com/wolfpd ... TY_FIX.PDF This fix worked for me in smoothing out idle and preventing engine surge when you come off the throttle fast. Idle cam lope is barely detectable.

And they're calling you an "old geezer"? Ya look pretty young to me! Glad you had another great one!

EXOCET is pretty cool! My oldest son came up with RNG LDR -- of Nurbergring notoriety. DIABLO is cool, but one of the Texas Z Chickz already has that on her red 300ZX TT. GATOR is interesting with every other letter spelling out GTR, and gators definitely are wicked beasts (lethal). All neat ideas! I'll have to check the Texas plate registry to see if any have been taken.

I think the problem is PhotoBucket. For the past month or so links to it from many forums (including Z Chickz) don't work. Recommend finding another photo server.

Well, I'm not in the UK, but I've got an '07 350ZR...

Wild Black Cherry = FLYIN Z tags = Brickyard '03 350Z Moonshine (AKA: White Lightning) = Z FLYBY tags = White '91 300ZX TT Whizzy = WHIZZY tags = San Marino Blue '07 350ZR The Black Obsidian '09 GT-R is yet to be named and tagged (only 6 characters allowed). Suggestions anyone? Something indicative of wicked and fast I think.

Thanks! Being a lover of jet noise, it was all carefully cultivated to get as close as possible to a turbojet sound. It's why I don't turn the sound system on -- too much fun making my own music with the Z.

Honest officer, I wasn't driving fast, I was just flying low... Do ya think the gendarmes will buy that line? LOL... Last time I got stopped, it didn't work. He accused the FLYIN Z of flying at 83 mph. All I could do was laugh and think, dude, you haven't even seen her really fly!

Thanks y'all! It was a track day. We had about 60 cars -- 911s, Boxters, M3s, Zs, Vettes, Miatas, S2000s, a lone Supra, an Exige, and other odds and ends. The white Vette trailing me in the second video made a pretty exciting track departure in that session -- did a couple 360s in the dirt during a really challenging turn series (decreasing radius hard 160 right immediately followed by a quick 90 left). Lol... She does sound like a jet, and certainly quite a bit different than the typical 350Z. Now you know why her plates say FLYIN Z!

And here's what female Z owners do on weekends... http://www.350z-uk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13971

Here's a couple quickie videos of my supercharged '03 350 running the front straight of a 2.9 mile road course at the Texas World Speedway ( http://www.texasworldspeedway.com/index ... n=diagrams ). On the front straight, you hit around 140-150. Probably best to do a right click on the link and Save As to your computer, then play. http://zchickz.com/tere-tws1.mpg http://zchickz.com/tere-tws3.mpg

Radar detector saves my bacon all the time. Over on multiple lane highways until the detector beeps.

whoooooooo my post has to be the best this week!! so do these 350z ladies drive coupes or cabbies? LOL... Both.

Don't tell me you've been visiting the States and saw this old biddy driving one of the Zs? LOL... Ah yeah guys, women do own and drive Z cars (fast--no speed limiter in my '03). And sometime in the not too distant future a GT-R will join the Z go-fasters. How about that for putting a calm in your sails? When it arrives send your husband here to tell us how it compares to HIS other cars Now that's a pretty dangerous presumption. It would presume that I own one of those critters.

Don't tell me you've been visiting the States and saw this old biddy driving one of the Zs? LOL... Ah yeah guys, women do own and drive Z cars (fast--no speed limiter in my '03). And sometime in the not too distant future a GT-R will join the Z go-fasters. How about that for putting a calm in your sails?

Y'all are relentless -- poor Jay gets more poop on here than a public toilet!

Looks very wicked. The red accents set things off well. Most definitely the inimitable Zedrush style!

I believe Z is W and above. W rated is stock since the Z speed limiter is below the tire speed rating. If you have the speed limiter flashed out and want to run the autobahn at 185, then switch to Y rated.

OK, I admit it, I laughed until I cried! But in all fairness, I think we've all seen a few guys pull some car tricks of the same ilk.

Ummmm.... Can a Yank sign the petition? The Arrows are the premier aerial demonstration team in the world. Please don't tell my Bird buddies I said that. It isn't anything about military damn it. It's all about the beauty of flight and what it symbolizes to humankind. You've got to be pretty short-sighted not to understand that. If you've read Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (USAF pilot by the way), then you'll really understand what it is that the Arrows demonstrate like no other. Freakin' no mind, zipper-head, gravel crunching, BB stacking bureaucrats are a bane to the earth.

The services aren't quite free. What is free is checking your GT-R to see if something does need service. Oil changes are a bit more than you may think because of the fairing r&r and such -- not your typical $19.95 quick lube oil change.

Well, we can always hope they have all the wrinkles in the process ironed out by the time the GT-R shows up in the UK. At the moment GT-R sales are down. Due to the huge mark-ups by the dealers, they're not able to sell all of their allocation. I think they're finding that folks who buy $100,000+ cars don't buy Nissans (regardless of how good a car it is). Maybe the dealers will have a mass epiphany and realize they have to keep the price below a Corvette Z-06 if they expect to sell any. The dealer I went through (250 miles away) is one of the very few doing legitimate pre-orders at MSRP. They burned through their first allocation of 6 in less than two weeks. I think they're upwards of 14 on their second allocation. Nissan is accepting/approving every order they send in, so they keep sending them in. Based on pre-order volume, they are now the largest GT-R dealer in the US. I think it's funny. They're going over 20 and the other dealers are having trouble doing 1-2. It pretty much tells you what the "market value" of a GT-R is.

In the US the whole GT-R pre-order thing is a complete mess. The buyers are starting to get really fed up on the complete lack of information they're getting. Nissan isn't releasing much info to the dealers to pass to legitimate buyers, and Nissan isn't releasing any info to legitimate buyers either. Some but not all buyers who pre-ordered in the first two weeks of February when pre-ordering started got build month and delivery month information at the beginning of March, but nothing has come out of Nissan since. The latest rumor is that all June deliveries will be shifted to July, but nothing official yet on that. Nissan's supposed "high level" of treatment for GT-R buyers is definitely lower than 350Z buyer treatment during the pre-order period of the Z. And we've still got the issue of dealers using ficticious pre-orders to stock their showrooms. All GT-R sales at the moment are buyer pre-orders (like the 350Z release) and require the completed pre-order form, signed (both parties) Buyer's Order that discloses full price and fees, and proof of buyer's deposit. When all three documents are submitted to Nissan, then Nissan validates the pre-order and sends the order for production. It's the Nissan part of the process that seems to have completely broken down. The Nissan "order validation" at the moment seems to be a nod, a wink, and a rubber stamp "approved." Like I said, it's a total mess.