Aspiring young driver in need of advice
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Aspiring young driver in need of advice
Hey guys, my name is Shawn and I have a few questions about a g35. First off, I'm 18 years old and I have a g2, I'm looking in to purchasing a g35 and customizing it to fit my wants within my budget which is about 6000 but I can go up to 8000 if I really need to. I want try g35 to be roughly fast with great acceleration and a high as possible top speed but also I am into drifting and I want to tune my g35 to drift when I need it to and be a daily driver as well... yes I know I have big dreams with my budget but I just finished high school and I'm going into university so I don't really have a great budget. Any suggestions and ideas will be greatly appreciated... Thank you in advance 
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This is hard advice to take and not what you were looking for, but what I would have given to the younger me. Spend that money and invest it into learning how to drive, which will follow you the rest of your life. Your cars will come and go but driving skill stays with you.
BY FAR AND AWAY the largest factor in going fast is driver skill. I would HIGHLY recommend checking out your local HPDE groups at your local tracks and going to some events with good driving instruction, such as NASA. Motorsports is super expensive in general, and a short budget won't get you very far. You can try looking for solo2 SCCA autoX events in your area. It is relatively expensive for the short amount of time you get to actually drive and at low speed you don't really learn finesse, though it costs a ton less in tires and brakes than road track days.
You don't need to "tune" your car to drift. You just need a RWD car and know how to drift. I would highly suggest NOT entering the sport of drifting if your budget for even just the car is $8000. Tires are super expensive and there is a reason all the amateur drift cars are missing random body parts. Unless you are willing to daily drive a super beat up car with busted body panels and bumpers, then maybe you should rethink drifting. If you really want to learn still, there are usually drifting groups/events at skidpads and tracks regionally.
Please don't test your car's top speed on public roads. It is a douche move. Mostly because you aren't just putting yourself at risk, you are putting random bystanders at risk. Go to a track with a big front straight if you want to go fast in a straight line.
I don't find going in a straight line all that fun or challenging. If you are more interested in pissing contests in 1/4 mile times that are more about the machine and less about driver skill, the g35 is probably not a good value purchase. It doesn't really have great 1/4 mile times for its price, and there aren't really any cheap power mods. I think for most modern cars there aren't really any cheap power mods. The drive for higher HP numbers has made most manufactures pretty savvy in squeezing out power from their power plants.
Honestly, all cars these days are kind of overpowered anyway. The g35 has plenty of power, well more than the vast majority of people can deal with when the car is near the limits. If you want the g35 to drive well you should focus more on driving feel probably, unless you are competing at events against a clock. I would probably focus on bushings, shocks, brakes, maybe sway-bars.
BY FAR AND AWAY the largest factor in going fast is driver skill. I would HIGHLY recommend checking out your local HPDE groups at your local tracks and going to some events with good driving instruction, such as NASA. Motorsports is super expensive in general, and a short budget won't get you very far. You can try looking for solo2 SCCA autoX events in your area. It is relatively expensive for the short amount of time you get to actually drive and at low speed you don't really learn finesse, though it costs a ton less in tires and brakes than road track days.
You don't need to "tune" your car to drift. You just need a RWD car and know how to drift. I would highly suggest NOT entering the sport of drifting if your budget for even just the car is $8000. Tires are super expensive and there is a reason all the amateur drift cars are missing random body parts. Unless you are willing to daily drive a super beat up car with busted body panels and bumpers, then maybe you should rethink drifting. If you really want to learn still, there are usually drifting groups/events at skidpads and tracks regionally.
Please don't test your car's top speed on public roads. It is a douche move. Mostly because you aren't just putting yourself at risk, you are putting random bystanders at risk. Go to a track with a big front straight if you want to go fast in a straight line.
I don't find going in a straight line all that fun or challenging. If you are more interested in pissing contests in 1/4 mile times that are more about the machine and less about driver skill, the g35 is probably not a good value purchase. It doesn't really have great 1/4 mile times for its price, and there aren't really any cheap power mods. I think for most modern cars there aren't really any cheap power mods. The drive for higher HP numbers has made most manufactures pretty savvy in squeezing out power from their power plants.
Honestly, all cars these days are kind of overpowered anyway. The g35 has plenty of power, well more than the vast majority of people can deal with when the car is near the limits. If you want the g35 to drive well you should focus more on driving feel probably, unless you are competing at events against a clock. I would probably focus on bushings, shocks, brakes, maybe sway-bars.
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