How often do you guys push the petal to the metal on your Z?
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Originally posted by MonkeyBoy
I keep trying but the damn carpet keeps getting in the way.
I keep trying but the damn carpet keeps getting in the way.
Everytime I'm in the car I floor it at least once
I'm paying a lot of money for this thing and it won't be driven like a vette.
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Everyday in both the 350 and 03 Max I am a Jack rabbitt accelerator so is my wife (we dont drive really fast constantly we just like to get to 50-60 real quick), that why my cars get such poor mileage. The 3.5 just makes you want to drive fast!
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Pedal to the medal meaning full throttle? I hardly full throttle my Z. But close to it once in awhile. Get it past 6k rpm and it feels so good and sounds awesome! When I have the windows down, I smell the exhaust running rich. I used to have the 3.5 Maxima and never smelled this. I guess its a sports car to be driven hard!
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Honestly, I floor it maybe once every week, or about 10 secs worth of flooring every 400 miles or so. This is a ball park figure. But I do have her over 3500 rpms very often in sixth going 100 mph+ like every other day for 2 - 5 minutes at a time.
I floor it at the very least once every day(pretty much any/all gears xcept 5th and 6th), I almost always shift above 4000rpm and I go on track once every week for 5-6 runs down the strip... Didn't buy this car to take pleasure rides at 1000rpm, I'm going to beat the **** out of it and enjoy every single moment of it 
This is kind of my nissan test. First non german car I own, so If everything works out fine, I'll be a loyal Nissan for a long time and **** the germans... 5000miles and doing great!
This is kind of my nissan test. First non german car I own, so If everything works out fine, I'll be a loyal Nissan for a long time and **** the germans... 5000miles and doing great!
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Yeah I have to punch it at least once a drive, then my wife is like do you have to do that all the time? I just look at her and say yeah and then punch it again. Hell what she talking about she has a GTI she punchs all the time. Come to think about it she punched it in my car.......HOONNNEYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My pedal is on the floor almost every time I shift if Officer Bob isn't in view. Floored it most of the time during the break-in, too...just didn't take the revs too high. I think it's the torque in this thing that makes me crazy. Thank God I don't have headers and a decent exhaust; I'd get a ticket a week.
I don't floor my Miata 'til it's above 4,000; then I floor it up there almost every time, too! (No low-end torque = no fun off the line.)
The Dino gets a break (I only floor her half the time) because she is irritable and ridicuously expensive if I hurt her.
I don't floor my Miata 'til it's above 4,000; then I floor it up there almost every time, too! (No low-end torque = no fun off the line.)
The Dino gets a break (I only floor her half the time) because she is irritable and ridicuously expensive if I hurt her.
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