Wow, you joined just to bump a 6 year old thread.

 

isnt it encouraged to bump an old thread rather than start a new one?

 

^ yeah but when the thread was made no one knew if 13s were possible now 6 years later everyone here knows that a stock 07+ G35 A/T sedan can easily hit 13.4-13.8sec as seen all over the forums and dragtimes.

 

Lol fair enough

 

Yeah, but then we:

- Wouldn't be able to PW
- See Surf's awesome pic
- Wouldn't hear from you

Besides, i didn't know we could do 13s. I've convinced myself my car can do 8s... figure 'o eights that is.

 

^ hahahah fair enough! looks like you have yet again won this battle sir... lol

 

This is such a loaded topic of conversation. There is a solid second plus of performance difference just from elevation alone...

 

Well I just completed weight reduction stage 1 (debadge and removing cargo net in trunk) and I'm now running 13 flat

 

http://www.zeroto60times.com/

Not exactly comprehensive with every year model. But gives a good idea if we can believe these to be official times

 

I think it's somewhat funny that people are concerned with the 1/4 mile times of these cars anyway. They're great cars to drive, but are more grand touring than extreme performance vehicle. By the time you got the car light enough and with sufficient power to really move out, you'd ruin it as far as comfort goes.

Perhaps I'm just old now, but I have the G35X for a comfortable daily. If I want to go fast, I have a car made to go fast.

 

This my friends is impressive.

2012 Infiniti M35h (hybrid) 0-60 mph 5.2 Quarter Mile 13.4

 

Yeah, but you'll win the war. I'm making the most out of this.

You know, if you placed the badge on your hood it modifies the airflow above the hood and lowers wind resistance. Might squeeze another second off your quarter.

Point taken. But in all seriousness, i think it's all relative. You have the benefit of having a second (faster) vehicle. For a lot of folks, the G would be a step up from their previous vehicles. Or, for some, had faster cars but would like to "downgrade" but still know the car won't be a dog to drive.

I'm from the former camp. The G is a whole second faster than my old car to 60, and over a second faster in the quarter, despite being heavier and having more creature comforts.

More expensive vehicles that weight, cost and run even faster can be had and still be in the "Touring" segment.

 

Sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate I don't care about the performance. My previous car was a BMW 3 Series and the G35X has ~100 horsepower more than that car. I very much appreciate the performance of the car and that power was a large portion of my reason for buying the G35 vs. the Acura TL I was looking at also.

My point was more that nitpicking the 1/4 mile results is silly on a car that is not really intended for that purpose and will never be very effective at that purpose without major work (which will pretty negatively impact the car from a drivability/comfort standpoint).

A lot of my opinion on this is based around a car I used to own, a Grand Prix GTP. It was a nice comfy car to drive, until I did a built engine, built transmission, etc. to make it quicker. Then it sucked to drive (was loud, poor fuel mileage, rough shifts, less comfortable suspension) and it was still a high 11 second 1/4 mile car. I took away the enjoyable to drive "quick" car, and made a car that was less enjoyable to drive and still not particularly fast. I also spent more building it than I did my first V8 RX7, which handed the GTP it's *** very, very badly.

That's all the point I was making. I'm old and jaded, haha.

 

Apologies if my post made you feel that way. I, too, was just giving my counter-points. It's all good and i totally understand your point about how much we tend to modify the car to a point where it loses it's original character.

I told myself to leave the G untouched a few years ago, little good that did me. Now i have nearly sworn to leave the next car alone... let's see how that pans out.