Hey guys,
Before you all shit on me because of the whole J-series and VQ rivalry, I decided to run my best friend's '08 G37S Coupe 6MT. Yes we did some pulls in 2nd gear at 40 km/h (20 mph for the U.S folks as I live in Vancouver, don't ask why I chose 20 roll, I do not know why) to the end of 3rd gear on this slightly sketchy road. First 2 (I am doubting my 2nd run now) I got the lead. 3rd run, he beat me fairly.
Here are my assessments on why I think I "won" the first 2:
- It was pretty cold that night and his tires were almost on the bald-side and he was spinning
- I probably shift faster than him
- I think he miss-shifted in the 2nd pull.
Not trying to start anything here; I was reading the thread where a 6MT owner smoked a G and Z from a dig and I saw the shit-show unfold in there, so I am just respectfully providing my input as to why the "results" were the way they were. I am going to run him again sometime in the future now that he has a magnaflow catback and some exhaust mods (I forgot what exhaust mods he has now tbh). Unfortunately the '05 TL got wrote off a month later after that race, but I am happily back in an '04 6MT with my intake and catback again (I am probably about to get smoked LOL, but my Si friend who doesn't like VQs very much is very convinced that VQs are nothing impressive; I silently disagree with him because I think he is just heavily biased against the VQ platform as a whole... I dig the G37 sedan) :canada:
Feel free to provide your own comments and/or whatever lol. I am still practicing on doing launches because I don't want to embarrass myself too much when I eventually do give the 1/4 mile a try :pofl:
My mods on the '05:
- K&N CAI
- EndlessRPM catback
G37S is bone stock.
Before you all shit on me because of the whole J-series and VQ rivalry, I decided to run my best friend's '08 G37S Coupe 6MT. Yes we did some pulls in 2nd gear at 40 km/h (20 mph for the U.S folks as I live in Vancouver, don't ask why I chose 20 roll, I do not know why) to the end of 3rd gear on this slightly sketchy road. First 2 (I am doubting my 2nd run now) I got the lead. 3rd run, he beat me fairly.
Here are my assessments on why I think I "won" the first 2:
- It was pretty cold that night and his tires were almost on the bald-side and he was spinning
- I probably shift faster than him
- I think he miss-shifted in the 2nd pull.
Not trying to start anything here; I was reading the thread where a 6MT owner smoked a G and Z from a dig and I saw the shit-show unfold in there, so I am just respectfully providing my input as to why the "results" were the way they were. I am going to run him again sometime in the future now that he has a magnaflow catback and some exhaust mods (I forgot what exhaust mods he has now tbh). Unfortunately the '05 TL got wrote off a month later after that race, but I am happily back in an '04 6MT with my intake and catback again (I am probably about to get smoked LOL, but my Si friend who doesn't like VQs very much is very convinced that VQs are nothing impressive; I silently disagree with him because I think he is just heavily biased against the VQ platform as a whole... I dig the G37 sedan) :canada:
Feel free to provide your own comments and/or whatever lol. I am still practicing on doing launches because I don't want to embarrass myself too much when I eventually do give the 1/4 mile a try :pofl:
My mods on the '05:
- K&N CAI
- EndlessRPM catback
G37S is bone stock.