![]() ![]() When you stance your car it’s like being forced to sit on a two-inch barstool with your feet on the desk and hold a laptop between your knees, typing with your knuckles. These parameters are routinely exceeded by excessive negative camber. ![]() Drivetrain wear – CV joints, wheel bearings, bushes and various other components have been designed to run at specific angles, clearances and tolerances.Then Sammy Stance comes along and does the equivalent of improving the Mona Lisa using crayons guided by half-literate forum posts written by people they’ve never met but still refer to as “fam”. Lots of very clever engineers have spent a lot of time working out complicated equations concerning roll centres, coefficients of friction, weight transfer, yaw angular inertia and a zillion other boring but important parameters. Stance-level negative camber is taking things to excess instead of having a latte to perk you up, instead you drip some hot water into a jar of Nescafe, give it a stir and tip it down your throat. Cornering – yes, negative camber helps with cornering grip.You’re not helping your chances of avoiding a puncture either. Motorcycle tyres are designed to run at extreme angles, car tyres are not. Tyre wear – the inside of the tyre will wear out very quickly.Basically, a stanced car has less grip so it takes longer to stop. Braking – the tyre is designed to have its contact patch flat or nearly flat to the ground, not at the sort of angle where half of it is in the air.That’s stance, and this is why it’s a terrible idea: Imagine your perfect pizza with just the right number of toppings, and then add 25 more toppings, one of which is diced kangaroo poo. Stance can be summed up as – in excess, you make a mess. Many of the cosmetic changes people make to their cars do not affect performance and therefore the rule of ‘each to their own’ applies, but your average stanced car is rolling its way to a disaster, similar to a drunk lurching along the side of a rural country road at night in the rain, while wearing black, on a skateboard. ![]() This is where you take a tyre, look up the manufacturer’s maximum permitted wheel width for that tyre, say “yeah, but nah”, and then fit the tyre to a wheel significantly wider than allowed by either the law, intelligence or good taste. The other typical stance modification is a stretched tyre. The objective here is ‘hellaflush’, which doesn’t refer to a toilet and a bucketful of water but means there is no, or only minimal gap between the wheels and wheelarches, or body and ground. Stanced cars are also usually slammed, which does not refer to the contact of palm against forehead but to the excessive lowering of the vehicle so it is nearer the ground. In addition to the Normal and Sport modes, Sport+ essentially takes advantage of the V6’s faster downshift capability with a racetrack-tuned shift program to provide a better circuit driving experience.Stanced cars require wheelarch flares or bodykits so the wheels are at least partially covered by bodywork as required by the law of the land and basic human decency. Paddle shifters come standard with the 9AT across all three grades.Īdded bonus if you’re actually hitting the track: the Z NISMO includes a new Sport+ drive mode you won’t find on the Z Sport nor Z Performance. The NISMO enhanced automatic transmission with a revised engine management software is promising reduced downshift times by almost half, along with revised clutch packs allowing for faster shifting. We’d expect a track-ready sports car like this to keep the stick shift, but this auto tranny has been enhanced for faster and more dynamic shifting performance, with a particular focus on suitability for track use, according to Nissan. Whereas a six-speed, close-ratio manual transmission with Exedy high-performance clutch is standard on the Z Performance and Sport grades (with an automatic optional), the Z NISMO exclusively gets the nine-speed automatic transmission. Sport: 18” Grey Metallic painted aluminum-alloy Performance: 19” RAYS Dark Grey Metallic painted forged aluminum-alloyġ9” RAYS Gloss Black painted forged aluminum-alloy Based on the Z Performance and Sport grades both powered by standard 3.0L V6 twin turbo engine, NISMO managed to squeeze an extra 20 horses from the same mill by tweaking a few things, like an improved cooling system and updated electronic wastegate control.Īll good for 420 horsepower and 384 lb-ft of torque with peak torque around 2,000 through 5,200 rpm compared to the stock 400 horsepower at 6,400 rpm and 350 lb-ft of torque starting from 1,600 to 5,600 rpm.įor a better idea of how the 400 horsepower V6 performs, check out our 2023 Nissan Z first drive review.īelow, some key performance differences between the track-tuned 2024 Z NISMO and its lower grade siblings: ![]()
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