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Old 06-20-2007, 06:35 PM
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Alright guys I might not have a Z but I will someday. Everytime I see one im in awe and stare at it all the time. Well anyway today I was at a gas station filling my gas tank. I was looking down and was about to start putting gas in the car when I heard it. Yup there is no other car out there that sounds like the z. It just sounds so damn mean. I said to myself that is a Z, I look up and there it was a black z going east bound. Beautiful.... Is it me or does anyone else have this sense?
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LOL, that's the one superpower I didn't wish for as a kid. Nismo-Sense!
Old 06-20-2007, 06:46 PM
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Surprisingly, I believe I have experienced this aswell.
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I don't really "sense" them, but the exhaust tone of a VQ35 is quite unique. I can tell by sound when a Z drives by.
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Originally Posted by chopperman
Alright guys I might not have a Z but I will someday. Everytime I see one im in awe and stare at it all the time. Well anyway today I was at a gas station filling my gas tank. I was looking down and was about to start putting gas in the car when I heard it. Yup there is no other car out there that sounds like the z. It just sounds so damn mean. I said to myself that is a Z, I look up and there it was a black z going east bound. Beautiful.... Is it me or does anyone else have this sense?

i don't think i got the ear for the z until i got my own. i do know the feelings you were describing in the beginning though--can definitely relate.
Old 06-20-2007, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by taurran
I don't really "sense" them, but the exhaust tone of a VQ35 is quite unique. I can tell by sound when a Z drives by.
+1 on being able to hear them. You guys with the "sense" though are X-men.
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+1 on being able to hear them. You guys with the "sense" though are X-men.
Lol
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yeah, i get this wiggling in my pants...
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Yeah i can tell when a Z or G is around....and the FX35 too. Although different, definatly similar.
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Originally Posted by chopperman
Alright guys I might not have a Z but I will someday. Everytime I see one im in awe and stare at it all the time. Well anyway today I was at a gas station filling my gas tank. I was looking down and was about to start putting gas in the car when I heard it. Yup there is no other car out there that sounds like the z. It just sounds so damn mean. I said to myself that is a Z, I look up and there it was a black z going east bound. Beautiful.... Is it me or does anyone else have this sense?
the g35 sounds a lot like the z.
Old 06-20-2007, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by chopperman
Alright guys I might not have a Z but I will someday. Everytime I see one im in awe and stare at it all the time. Well anyway today I was at a gas station filling my gas tank. I was looking down and was about to start putting gas in the car when I heard it. Yup there is no other car out there that sounds like the z. It just sounds so damn mean. I said to myself that is a Z, I look up and there it was a black z going east bound. Beautiful.... Is it me or does anyone else have this sense?
Where in LI are you?
Old 06-21-2007, 06:54 AM
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Old 06-21-2007, 07:19 AM
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Spidey senses for Z's huh, glad I don't have that, it'd go off all the time there's Z's EVERYWHERE down here, I see at least 5-10 per day depending on how much I drive.
Old 06-21-2007, 07:29 AM
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Believe me your not the only one i was at a red light last week and was changing the radio station.And all of a sudden i heard this exhaust note roaring down the other side of the road im like thats gotta be a Z from the sound.Sure enough i look up and it was A NICE silverstone Z sounded like nismo catback exhaust but yea i know what your saying i have the sense as well.
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Originally Posted by ZBigDog
Spidey senses for Z's huh, glad I don't have that, it'd go off all the time there's Z's EVERYWHERE down here, I see at least 5-10 per day depending on how much I drive.
I went to bally's yesterday to work out. I parked my Z and as I was walkin into bally's I walked past 3 Z's in the parkin lot.
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i know what you mean about the hearing the tone of the z.

although in my case, i should like a jet engive coming down the street, blower whistling away!!
Old 06-21-2007, 07:46 AM
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There is no cooler sound when starting up the Z. I always notice people get whiplash 'looking' for the source of that sweet tone!
Old 06-21-2007, 07:52 AM
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ahhhhh....the many joys of owning a Z. Always makes me smile!
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i love the exhaust note, nissan made it perfect. thats why i bought the nismo exhaust.. its a deeper roar which maintains the stock note that nissan intended for the Z. no other car other than a G/FX sounds like it
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i had the sense before i got a Z. the exhaust is really distinguishable.


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