The roads where you guys live must be perfect because your car is sitting perfectly low.

 

Real nice G, love the wheels...19's or 20? Coils??

 

Clean!!!

 

20"s on coils

Im not really that low from the ground because of 20's. It just seems i am low

 

Getting bored with it again, probably won't look like this for too much longer.

 

What's next??

 

I love the meat

 

Time to hit the track

 

OBsessed… love the the look of that tire profile with those te37's!! Ill have to do something like that when i boost.

IZZ…. What are your tire and wheels specs?? Im not feeling the size of my sidewall, much too large

 

Chris I'll sell em to ya They're actually huge in terms of diameter. 285/35 and 255/40 on 19x10.5r / 19x9.5f. I'm probably just a small amount lower than stock at this point but the tires are so damn tall you don't know it until you realize how far off the ground the Kuruma is and how much lower it normally hangs lol. INGS sides, same deal. Usually not nearly that much air below them.

Frankie I'm not sure yet. We just had a kid so whatever I do isn't going to be as financially impressive as I might like. It needs something though... I've still got that other set to Work on and an AP 4/4 13" kit to also refinish and rebuild.... Might need to play around with some aero (why are there never Canards on Gs?) if I can find a good ABS supply for large sheets to make front and side splitters. Also getting kind of tired of the VQ but that's a much more long term complaint.

 

Congrats on the kiddo..

 

I wonder the same thingg

 

I believe the reason their are no canards is because, the G's body is beautifully designed and doesn't require canards. Also, most people will never drive their G in a manner that requires canards plus, their are many cars such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, McClaren, Bugatti, and many other cars that don't require canards to reach top speed. OB, your car looks like a beautiful track ready car (although I'd switch the side skirts to impul) and put the "G" on a diet and increase the VQ's power.

 

Canards aren't used for top speed, they're used for maintaining downforce (particularly when turning, adding downward pressure to carry more speed through a corner). If you were interested in top speed alone you would want less drag and canards would be a terrible choice, as would large wings, etc. (take a look at the size of a Bugatti spoiler compared to a top Time Attack car, entirely different approaches because entirely different purposes). Building for top speed also requires changing gearing in the opposite direction of acceleration and that's no fun. I'm nowhere near Texas and have no interest in the TX2k whatever year top speed mile runs. Would certainly be a fun event to attend some day but not worth building a car around when you live on the other side of the country.

If anyone was wondering the curvature of the front end is different enough that 350Z canards won't work for us, at least on the Kuruma, there's a little more uninterrupted surface area on the stock bumper that you could make it work if you lost the sidemarkers.

Impul sides are nice also but the fiberglass fitment on them isn't as good and poly wouldn't allow for later modifications the way fiberglass does. I chose INGs because they're slightly smoother along the bottom and easier to add a side splitter to later (which can be sourced from ProSplitters for cheap, Chargespeed for very not cheap, or something home brewed which is more likely). They were also cheap enough that if I do mess them up it's really no big loss.

Putting the car on a diet is a very tricky proposition. Every pound you remove will change the balance of the car unless you also take another pound from the other side / end. At best you could remove the interior but the car's already slightly front heavy so you aren't doing yourself any great favors by removing weight behind the mid point of the car. I also still enjoy comfort and am not going to subject a newborn to any less sound deadening than there is already (you'd be amazed how loud the interior is with a single 3" exhaust and no trunk insulation). If it were a dedicated track only car that never saw the street that would be one thing, but it's not. I'd rather add power than reduce any additional weight, and if I do end up swapping engines the front end will likely get heavier as a result so you'll probably see me adding trunk weight to balance it, which may seem counterproductive but I'd rather have a well balanced 3600lb car than a very nose heavy 3200lb car. Maybe that's not the textbook right answer, I don't know, but it's what I'm more comfortable with driving.