Originally Posted by loudzboy

there are also plenty of streetable evo VIII's and VIIII's running around with almost 600hp and many with more than that but that car still only has a 4 cylinder in it. shouldn't a 3.5L V6 be able to put out those kinds of numbers and much more without much trouble????? and i understand that those cars have extensive tuning but they still only have 4 cylinders to work with.

Originally Posted by slinksZ

^ I am with your last comment. So many people get spun up about big numbers and do not purpose build a car. My best advice is decide what you want to do with the car. If you are building a street car to be honest 900whp is insane. When you read those magazines and they say 900whp street car, most people do not realize the owner reduce boost levels on the street and the majority of the time the car is not even their daily driver.

Originally Posted by loudzboy

I just got back from hastings, which has every import tuner magazine you can pretty much buy and in these magazines they had 1200hp supras, a freakin 900hp evo, a 600hp honda s2000, a bunch of 240sx's running over 500hp, but not one single 350z with over 438hp. one of the z's had 399hp. who the hell cares about a bone stock 350z with turbo kit. that was the most hp they could come up with. even still the only 350z's with any real hp don't have vq35's in them, one of them has a damn ls1 in it the other has an sr20 in it. there have to be some 800hp or 900hp 350z's floating around out there some where. Is it just me???? I think that the vq35 has a ton of potential but for some reason no one with the know how seems to be able to get their car into a magazine. hell, try google and type in 1000hp z or any combination above 500 and almost nothing comes up. I have talked to shops that all claim to have built daily driver 800hp 350z's but none of these shops have pictures of them. someone help me out here. lets see some Z's with some real power. i am starting to wander if the vq35 can even handle the power. i figure if it could then there would be lots of them in the magazines. where are they?

Originally Posted by taurran

Check this out, you'll find all the info you need on high hp Z's:

https://my350z.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=182

Originally Posted by loudzboy

. i am starting to wander if the vq35 can even handle the power. i figure if it could then there would be lots of them in the magazines. where are they?

Originally Posted by JETPILOT

Well.... No you can't just buy a FI kit and have 600whp on a Z. The connecting rods in this car are sh*t and you will snap a connecting rod. To go big on a Z you need a forged motor buid up. The EVO and STi's are 4 cylinders.... and who cares. They are turbocharged. I saw a 4 cylinder once making 1800 hp.

If you have the money anything can be fast. It's much cheaper to go fast in an STi or an EVO. That's the bottom line. You can build a Z as big as any EVO or STi. At some point you will also need a build on the Sti and Evo. So past a given HP point it all costs the same. 600 hp an EVo or an STi hands down. 600 and up. Take your pick... it all costs the same after the engine build.

BTW.... just curious but have you ever driven a car with even 450whp?

JET

Originally Posted by davidv

I forgot to say welcome.

The big horsepower 350Zs are in the forced-induction forum. You seem like a nice guy so let me give you the straight skinny. I don't care about what you saw at Hastings, or what you read about in magazines, or the 500 horsepower Evolutions that you see on the street. Its kind of interesting from a WOW perspective, but thats about it. So what does a 1,600 horsepower 350Z in a magizine mean to me? Jack. Money equals horsepower. You can go as fast as you can afford to go.

So lets bring this conversation down to planet earth. If you have the bucks for forced-induction, the read and study the forced-induction forum. If you have the money for 400, 500 or 600 horsepower, then do it.