Ya know wasnt sure whether he painted it or not. I do know that turbo Z32's came with the whole front bumper painted the color of the car and NA's came with a section of the bumper a greyish color. It also came with a section on the left and right of the front bumper that has these weird little vents on it, and that only came on the turbo model of the car.
There is also a switch on the center section that has an electric window adjustment at the same time on the turbo models had an adjustment for suspension. Atleast as far as I know was only on the twin turbo model.
What im not sure about is 2 things. Whether the 2+2 model came twin turbo or not and whether the US or 2+2 came with white faced gauges. If the 2+2 came non turbo then this was a nonturbo. Also under the RPM gauge there is a boost gauge. It is not shown on this car but at the same time this car has white faced gauges and I beleive that the white only came in JDMland and he swapped his original twin turbo gauge for a set of NA gauges that were white.
The NA is slow as ****
If I am right and the car started as a TT in the first place here is what I noticed.
1. He states he has spent over 12,000 total on the swap and only has 400HP. Same amount of money on the VQ and you would be in the high 100's.
2. It is a significant save on weight but at the same time only a few 100 pounds and when we are talking 12k into an sr swap and 12k into a VQ30dett we are also talking about a huge gap by a few 100 HP. And with that kind of power a few 100 pounds is nothing. The VQ would be faster.
3.You may have a alot more and cheaper parts for the SR but at the same time the VQ responds better to mods than the SR does. So as you m ay save more you dont get the same power. Where as with the VQ you spend more but you get more. You get out what you put in.
4. You are right about the VQ being an enourmously big engine but it is that way for a reason and that is because the car weight a ****load and needs that kind of power to move the car.
Which Z are you talking about? If your talking about Russels it was only 1054HP
Im not bashing the swap at all it sounds like it could be a nice car with some interior and exhaust work. I just dont understand why? If he is trying to lose some of the weight, fine. But why lose some of the weight? To go faster? Why not just put the 12K into the VG and call it a day. In the end you would be faster. Maybe a little heavier but in the end ALOT faster. To make a base line race car? Well why not just throw it in the 240 and spend 12K on it. You would ultimately be faster than this car is and maybe a competitor if he had just spent 12K on the VQ. It just dosent make much sense to me. Thats just me though and im expecting some constructive criticism towards my post of constructive critisism towards yalls so maybe that can give a few ideas towards this guys thinking.
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