about to buy a z, tell me what goes wrong
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Just warning to you once you get anywhere near 100k the car falls apart!! transmision goes starts to run rough etc... plus no one will look twice at it unless you mod it extremly well or rediculousely bad and then you'll be getting laughed at. The only 2 things the RSX has better than the z is more seats and great trunk space other wise Z beates it strait up. had the rsx-s for 10 months.
I love my Z
As much as I hate to say it, and as ugly as it is, the Civic Si does a very good job in the speed department. Full bolt-on Civic Si pulls very similarly to an 03-05 Z and can keep up with the HR's. It hurts my f**king head just thinking about it, but it's true.... jeezus I think I just cried a little. 
A bolt on Si is not running low 13s, period. Maybe with John Force at the wheel, a totally stripped out interior, a super aggressive tune.............................and if you count a turbo as a "bolt on".
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Avoid an 06, make sure the transmission shifts smoothly. Make sure the axles aren't clicking and the gas gauge goes all the way up with a full tank. If all of that is fine, chances are the car will be OK.
Raced a friend's non-HR 04 Z. He started to pull on me. He has a technosquare ECU, intake manifold spacer and RS*R exhaust, I had a stock 08 350Z at the time. It might have had to do with his PFRP doors and fenders, though. Now I have a Technosquare F-Tune and would probably pull on him now. His car has like 80,000 miles, he's tracked it a lot and the only things that have crapped out on him are his fuel level sensor and alternator.
The stereo sucks, made worse by loud *** tires. There's no cargo space and freeway gas mileage at 80 mph kinda blows (~23-24 mpg freeway) but the car is fun and totally worth it i f you get a model with cruise control.
Raced a friend's non-HR 04 Z. He started to pull on me. He has a technosquare ECU, intake manifold spacer and RS*R exhaust, I had a stock 08 350Z at the time. It might have had to do with his PFRP doors and fenders, though. Now I have a Technosquare F-Tune and would probably pull on him now. His car has like 80,000 miles, he's tracked it a lot and the only things that have crapped out on him are his fuel level sensor and alternator.
The stereo sucks, made worse by loud *** tires. There's no cargo space and freeway gas mileage at 80 mph kinda blows (~23-24 mpg freeway) but the car is fun and totally worth it i f you get a model with cruise control.
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what he said^, i have had all of those things go wrong and thats been about it (knocking on wood)...Also maybe some uneven tire wear on the older models, but i'm pretty sure that was fixed. Radio does blow
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Kind of funny. The responses sort of separate those who've been around a while from those who are relative (or not-so-relative) newcomers.I think I'll write a sociology paper titled "'The RSX Is Faster': Arrogance versus Sarcasm in the Online Automotive World".
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As much as I hate to say it, and as ugly as it is, the Civic Si does a very good job in the speed department. Full bolt-on Civic Si pulls very similarly to an 03-05 Z and can keep up with the HR's. It hurts my f**king head just thinking about it, but it's true.... jeezus I think I just cried a little.
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As much as I hate to say it, and as ugly as it is, the Civic Si does a very good job in the speed department. Full bolt-on Civic Si pulls very similarly to an 03-05 Z and can keep up with the HR's. It hurts my f**king head just thinking about it, but it's true.... jeezus I think I just cried a little.
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ive been in to vdubs for the past few years and i'm getting tired of pulling out my hair and spending all my money on fixing every damn thing on it. i'm about to go buy a z but i'd like to know a bit more about it before i get one. i'm very mechanical thanks to my vw's problems and can do motor swaps/clutches ect. just about anything. anyway what tends to go bad on z's? my friend told me mostly clutches, fluids, and batteries ha ha. never any crazy electrical problems or the car just not starting one day for no reason? is this an easy car to work on or is the engine bay super cramped? i'm looking at an 07+ z because of the bump in power, but why is there a bump in power? can i add the difference to an 04 Z from an 07 Z and get the same results? i'm really leaning towards an 07+Z as the internals are stronger and it has the dual-path intake system which is probably what gives it power including the bump in compression. so in the long run this would be a better motor to boost with a head spacer(right?). how much boost can stock vq internals take? my vr6 in my jetta could handle 500 whp on its block, hopefully the vq can match it if not better. convince me to buy a z!
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