Originally Posted by Musclefan21
350zs are 13 second cars stock. I have personally seen it. They are quicker than our Xfires and supposedly handles a lot better than our xfires as well but i do not know that.
My car is stock so i will get some stock drag racing times at the end of march or the beggining of april. I am hoping a 14.5 or quicker out of her. We will see.
If they're 13 second cars why are you hoping for a 14.5?
A friend of mine used to have a 350Z and a bunch of his buddies came to the drag strip one weekend to hang out with us (a bunch of modded PT Cruiser turbos). The best any of them ran was 14.7 on what is an admittedly horribly prepared track. Still, I ran 14.4 in my PT that weekend and these guys were really upset.
When you've got a couple of cars that the magazines all show to be within a few tenths of each other, it all comes down to the driver. Spend some time at a "street legal" drags session and you'll be amazed at how poorly many people manage a simple straight line run. No matter how capable the car is, it's only as fast as the nut behind the wheel can make it go. I've seen plenty of "slower" cars beat "faster" cars due to the driver advantage. And you don't get to make excuses at a drag strip. First one through the traps wins, no matter how much faster the losing car is "supposed to be".