The 3.0 is already a square setup, I wonder if they bored it, stroked it or both to get 3.5L. In either case it’s just a heavier engine without much benefit. The biggest issue with the 3.0 is the headifolds, they’re not that efficient if you keep adding power. You can’t add bigger and bigger...
To clarify I was was talking about how if you put the 9AT in manual mode, the “shifting” is basically like a sequential. You can’t skip gears similar to a sequential and you can use paddles to control shifting. In that sense, they’re pretty much the same thing. Internally one’s a planetary box...
Damnit!! Now I really want Nissan to add a fifth Nismo car with one of these liveries. The blue one is too similar in shade to Kondo Racing, so either yellow or pink.
But Nismo themselves went A2A for their GT4 car. I doubt they would’ve gone through all that effort of changing the entire charge cooling system if they didn’t see any gains that were worth it. Their GT4 car also suffers much more abuse than any street Z out there. Even those high hp roll racers...
Agree 1000% I know they took inspiration from the G nose S30 but the stock bumper still looks better. Even the customized Proto looks better than this bumper. And idk what Nissan was smoking when they made it auto only and 100 lbs heavier on top of the already heavy auto version.
Bridgestone axed their new wet tire because of mixed feedback across all the teams. So Michelin should still have their advantage in the wet. And they're saying it's going to rain all day during qualifying with a high chance of rain on race day.