You are so leet... let us bask in your leetness please?

 

Please ?????

 

I dont keep it off because of the performance. I dont notice the difference.

I do keep it off though cuz I rather have the windows open and fresh air and love the sound of the engine.
I never was a huge fan of AC.

 

I can feel a difference in performance absolutely, but I have the A/C on anytime I don't want to sweat, which is 90% of the time. I mean, why do you have to have 100% of the cars performance at all times and sacrifice comfort. Maybe it's just me, but I don't drive the Z like I'm in the F&F, maybe that's why my tires last 20K+ miles...

If I do run with windows down, I at least have them half way down with a tint.

+1 on there being no difference in gas consumption, it was in Car & Driver two months ago also.

 

Most of the time traffic is too conjested to get any benefit from having the windows down. I use the A/C when I get uncomfortable..

 

summer time in south florida, black leather, A/C on.

 

93 and humid...AC on and (tinted) windows up. I would be soaked if I didn't have the AC on during summer here by the big river. Don't get me wrong, when its nice and cool outside the windows are down on anything but highways, wind noise is killer in the Z at highway speeds.

 

+1

 

Most cars cut off the ac compressor at full throtle, I suspect the 350z is one of them. At high speed you want to close the windows.

 

I didnt mentionthat cuz I figured someone had, but your suspicions are correct, at WOT the comp. kicks out

BTW.... Im an Air Conditioned Gypsy, A/C is on year round. I need to build a Bubble from the house to the car

 

if its hot im going to use the AC .....i rather be cool and comfortable than hot n sweaty when you get out of your z....

 

F*** yEAH!!!!

 

Are you guys fat and stinky? Cause if you are and you smell and sweat all over your leather or sport seats, you are GROSS! Your expensive sports cars stink of fat

 

+1

 

I only have the windows down when its 75 degrees or if im going 10 miles from my house

 

summer=A/C

 

The only reason I don't drive with my windows down is the amount of dust that will get in the car after a while.

 

the more noise created by the wind means more drag...more drag means higher drag coefficient of drag...high coefficient of drag means harder to move thru the wind...harder to move thru the wind means not so much fun....cuz I like my car flowing thru the wind, NOT fighting the wind...

so...if you want to have fun in your car and have tip top performance and handling, drive with windows up, moonroof closed, don't install moonroof deflector or wind deflectors...keep the line of the car, don't break it...

 

My other car is a 66 Mustang GT with 300 HP no power steering- no power breaks- and NO air conditioning. 4 years strong in south Fla now... I never turn it on in the Z unless I'm cruzin' slow to work.