My friend was filming in his 3000 GT VR4

350z -vs- 1995 3000 GT VR4

 

Nice job! What's the stats on the 95 VR4's? I always thought that car had better #'s than the Z's?

 

Nice run! What's the stats on the 95 VR4's? I always thought that car had better #'s than the Z's?

 

My 92 Stealth TT is 300 HP. I think the 95 is 320. Correct?

AWD too?

 

From a stop, I played catch up but eventually passed him everytime. From a roll, I killed him.

Yes-- he has AWD.

Oh yeah, and that is my exhaust that you hear I love how the stillen Exhaust sounds!

 

To, Oh4aZ


Dude no, offence but are you positive that you were racing a vr-4 and not a 95 /base or SL with 225hp. & i am sure that 3000gt was bone stock.

Because after seeing that video, i hightly doubt that you were racing with a vr-4, But did seems like that was a non turbo normal aspired fwd.

Allthough i do understand that your Z is Not stock, however a 95 3000gt vr-4 regardless it's weight is pushing 320hp with only 6spd manual and offcourse vr-4 as Awd standard.

To be honest with all the mods that you got, a stock vr-4 still either can smoke you, or perhaps atleast hang with you side by side. But, then again as they say, anything is possible @ street racing, or maybe your buddies 3k has a really bad turbo. But, anyways nice run.

99/3000GT SL
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I think a 350Z has a pretty good chance against a VR4, the AWD will help the VR4 out of the hole but kill it on top end, plus the Z has a nice weight advantage compared to the 3000GT. I raced a 3000GT VR4 at the track and had very similar results.

 

LOL no offense man, but this wasn't just someone that I found on the street -- this was one of my friends. I know what he drives. He is stock except he does have a Stage 2 clutch. The video doesn't lie.

 

If it had been a base or SL, the 350Z's lead would have been BUSLENGTHS...not carlenghts...

 

The 0-60 for the VR4 is 5.5s, so it isn't faster than the stock Z:
http://www.edmunds.com/used/1999/mit....6.Mitsubishi*

 

uh-oh.....mag racing...

and it wasnt a 0-60 race where awd has advantage.

 

The 0-60 times (real-world) for the 2nd and 3rd generation VR-4s are around 5 seconds flat on AVERAGE. Quarter mile times are in the mid to high 13s on AVERAGE.

I even acheived a 13.9 in a first generation '92 VR-4 and at 100 mph. A Z might nudge ahead by the end of the quarter mile, but from a stop, the VR-4 would have a serious advantage. This is only against the older first generation VR-4s. The later models had more aggressive gearing and 20 more hp at the crank. Someone who knows how to drive a VR-4 should do very well.

Still, it was very easy to get a bit more power out of that car. I ran into the 12s with hardly any work at all and that would have put some serious hurting on my Z.

 

I've never driven or raced a VR4, so i don't know its performance #s and that's why i searched online and found that site.
In the real world, like everyone likes to say it, the numbers might be a little off, but what i was trying to say is that it looks like they're pretty similar cars in terms of performance (0-60 and 1/4 mile).

 

Even with a great driver, the only cars I know that can pull on a stock VR4 from a roll like that is a Camaro SS, WS6 or a Supra TT. I doubt that your car even with the little mods you have can run with those cars. I may be wrong but the 350Z I drove was nowhere as fast as the VR4 I used to have. What was the run from anyway? 40-100, etc?

 

That looks about right. VR4's are slugs from a roll, at least compared to their 1/4 mile times. The stock turbos run out of breath up top. Pretty much any RWD or FWD car on street tires will be playing catch-up against a properly launched 3S from a dig though.

 

That video looks about right to me, the VR4 I had would pull hard out the hole but sometimes get rilled in at the top of 4.The Vr4 runs good for a 3800lb car,but the power to weight ratio goes to the z

 

Agreed Runn and Stock LT1, the 9B's run out of breath right around 70mph. I have not decided whether I want to modify my G35C but if those few mods increase its' performance that well then I might consider it.

 

We actually raced 6 times. 3 from a stop and 3 from a 10 roll. Every time from a stop, he would get me off the line, then I would pass him about 80. From a 10 roll, I immediately got the jump on him every time and finish by about 2-3 car lengths.

 

Were these runs done at altitude in CO?? If they were then it's even more impressive that you pulled the VR-4.

 

I bet he shifted early. I've owned both cars and I sincerely believe that a stock VR-4 in good shape and with a good driver will still be ahead of a Z even above 100 mph. That's coming from personal experience with both cars...