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I heard about this plan by Nissan to shoe-horn an Infiniti 4.5 Ltr V8 into the current 350Z shell, along with AWD and the fabled clase ratio six-speed box..... I haven't heard much in recent months??? Have Nissan still got this on the drawing board?? Willl it happen? It is all talk??? What do you guys think of a 420BHP AWD Z???? Any takers???

All I know it, it will kick Ford and Holen right where it hurts! :P:D

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I heard about this plan by Nissan to shoe-horn an Infiniti 4.5 Ltr V8 into the current 350Z shell, along with AWD and the fabled clase ratio six-speed box..... I haven't heard much in recent months??? Have Nissan still got this on the drawing board?? Willl it happen? It is all talk??? What do you guys think of a 420BHP AWD Z???? Any takers???

All I know it, it will kick Ford and Holen right where it hurts! :P:D

old news look here: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...c=92707&hl=

also here : http://www.leftlanenews.com/?p=337

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Yeah I've known about this for a while, but it has been mostly speculation, just asking about opinions and if anyone has come across any fresh developments on the proposal...

Still, they wouldn't turbo the 4.5 Ltr V8, they'd turbo a GTR anyday, otherwise it just wouldn't be a Skyline now would it....

I'm a bit sad they aren't considering a new inline six motor though.... RB32 anyone???

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I haven't heard anything about a 450Z for a year or two. There were a few artist's impressions on various automotive news sites one month, and then nothing.

I suppose everyone is focused on the GT-R though.

Personally, I don't think they'll do it in the near future. The Nismo 380RS makes 400ps out of its worked VQ38DE, and 20hp is nothing for all the extra engineering required.

The V8 would give them more headroom (people have stroked those VH blocks out to 6.0L and gotten some pretty impressive NA numbers out of it) so maybe down the line.

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and the fabled clase ratio six-speed box....

Which "fabled" close ratio 6 speed box? The 350Z already has a close ratio 6 speeder. 5th gear is 1:1, and up until the current 2007 model, with the 7500RPM redline, the car wouldn't even reach 100km/hr in 2nd.

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Well I remember in 'Motor' magazine, they pitted the then 'new' 350Z and the then also 'new' Holden Monaro, the 350Z pissed all over the Monaro and the boys that drove the cars raved about the Nissan's 6 speed tranny... Being really slick and quick with good ratios.... "Blast Masters" was the article if my memory serves me right.... The article did much to reignite my dad's passion for Nissans (He is the lucky owner of a 260Z 2+2)... :)

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the boys that drove the cars raved about the Nissan's 6 speed tranny... Being really slick and quick with good ratios....

Its not bad. Its a pretty short throw from the factory (not quite MX5 / S2000 short, but still shorter than any other Nissan I've driven) and with well defined gates.

The ratios themselves are near perfect for the Z. You're rarely out of the torque curve in the car in any gear. While you need to make 2 gear changes to hit 100km/hr, killing your 0-100 time, it hits the quarter mile traps at redline in 4th so its geared well for that quarter mile run.

For me and my requirements (touge and track work, but street driven), I'd only make 2 changes to the gearing. I'd run a shorter final drive to give more acceleration in the middle gears, but then run a highly overdriven 6th for economy. I never hit 6th on any Australian track, so I don't need it to be accelerative. As it is the engine does 2800RPM at 120km/hr when there's more than enough torque to pull the car along at highway cruising speeds below 2200RPM. I'd probably want to pull it down to around 2500RPM at that speed, which would allow me to continue using 6th around town.

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The Nissan Fairlady Z (350Z) was released in 2002 and is coming to the end of it's life. If Nissan haven't done anything about this by now (I never really believed any of it) then nothing will happen at all regards the Z33. The new Z34 on the other hand... who knows... but the 350Z is no 4WD.

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