My Long Term 350Z Review

I decided to do another review on my 350Z. At this point I have owned it for a year and a half and have put 16k miles on her. I have driven it on Utah’s snowy roads to California’s 120 (49 C) degree summers. I have done countless autocross events, some track and now one drift event. This car is my daily driver as well.

I bought her back home in California, this was a one owner car that was serviced at the Nissan dealer only. 116k miles, a little higher than I opted for but hey, I got a good deal. Drove her back to Utah just in time for my next semester.

I bought a sticky set of competition tires and took her to autocross. In stock guise the car is one to fret. I drove for a full season in the stock class. Halfway through the year I bought a set of 18x9.5+15 wheels with some regular street tires to daily on. I also got a catback exhaust for it. Its allowed for the stock class and it really is a shame to keep the exhaust corked on this car.

2017 is my second year with the car. I bought a new set of race wheels and tires that were still legal for the “stock” class. It is only legal because one trim level up had a 9” wide in the front and 10” wide in the rear. I won’t go too far in depth but trust me it is allowed in a stock class.

After a couple events with the new killer C-Street setup (this is the SCCA stock class for this car) I wanted more competition. I also want moar low and less roll. I ordered me some Tein coilovers.

About a week or so after that last picture took place, I went and did some skids with Salt City Drift. I shouldn’t have because it sure as hell is addicting. I think I did damn good for myself.

Most recently of my modifications are my new race wheels for the Street Touring class that I moved up to. I sold the 9”/10” wide combo for a square set of 18x10.5. I am running 275’s all around. I haven’t raced on them yet but I am excited to flip my car over from the shear amount of grip and G-forces my mind has fabled.

Now that we got my journal out of the way, lets talk about how the performance fares over the long haul. Power is still like the day I bought it, buttery smooth torque delivery and sings up to redline. Now after living with this for awhile, you realize the car isn’t slow nor would I call it a powerhouse though.

The chassis is easy to drive, yet it still has really high limits. It is a hard car to get bored of. Everytihng you feel as a driver is great and geared for driving. The car continously begs for more. Give it more speed, more throttle, it can take it. This car will never not start for you, it is always ready to drive somewhere. It is a driving machine.

Reliability is great, its up in the ranks with a Corolla or Civic in my opinion. The only major thing I have had to do is replace the clutch and clutch hydraulics. Otherwise it has been regular fluid maintanence and modifications! Car is decent on fuel for what it is. I get 20 mpg city, and 30 mpg highway, of course I am being nice to the car.

If you are in the market for a sports car that is reliable, comfortable to daily and begs to be driven everyday, this is your car. This car will always start and it is always eager to drive.

This is my long term video review. Feel free to creep through my channel, I have plenty of vlogs that revolve around my 350Z as well. Let me know if any of you guys have questions!