Decided to watch temps today and it is 100 here in Oklahoma and oil temp just driving from on end of our small town to the other and it was getting close to 180, so I will keep track over the days until I install an oil cooler, and then compare before and after
I have only seen one, a black performance, about a month before I got mine. Haven't seen it since, might have been a college kid in town for the semester.
Dunlops SUCK at the dragstrip. Launch control brings us off the line slow, then adds power, but the Dunlops just don't hold grip through the first 200 feet or so and as the temperature started to drop (from 92 to 87) the stuttering of the tires through the first few hundred feet became worse...
I love driving mine, but I can say, I get a little anxiety parking my car anywhere because I don't just anyone in my town to park anywhere near my car, people here don't give a shit about another person's property.
My Dunlops are pretty good in the rain....* Have had similar bodied cars with less horse power be total shite in the rain....I am pleased with my Z. I also LOVE my wipers
I might go with the AMS kit to save myself a little work....but currently have other items on my shopping list, ie. a heat exchanger, an oil cooler upgrade, etcetera