There is a 350z here at Purdue

"YSI-what can brown do for you" (ysi-what-can-brown-do-for-you) 03/11/2014 at 23:02 • Filed to: None

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With these wheels(same color too), this exact paint job, and it's turbocharged. I want to say that this is the car, but it can't be.

Rainbow > YSI-what can brown do for you 03/11/2014 at 23:07

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Glittery orange paint isn't exactly the kind of thing you find on more than one of the same car with the same wheels...

I thought the same thing about the Camaro I saw at Road Atlanta.

Turns out it WAS the same one. I've also seen the guy's old Celica before.

Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him > YSI-what can brown do for you 03/11/2014 at 23:08

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Should've seen it at the beginning of the year, he had the rear wheels set up with a ridiculous amount of negative camber. I wish I had taken a picture, they were just about as severe as this:

Not surprised he changed it, though, I can't imagine the hell stanced and lowered cars go through around here.

YSI-what can brown do for you > Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him 03/11/2014 at 23:11

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I was at Walmart and he started it up with the whistle of the turbo(or turbos) sounded awesome. You would think with more power he would want a bigger contact patch. . .

YSI-what can brown do for you > Rainbow 03/11/2014 at 23:14

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That is true, but I can't believe his car is somewhat internet famous. I googled Advan 350z and this was in like the first 3 or 4 pages.

AthomSfere > YSI-what can brown do for you 03/11/2014 at 23:17

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Its horrible, the car is eating the tops of the wheels!

Textured Soy Protein > Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him 03/11/2014 at 23:18

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I've driven lowered cars here in Madison, WI where we have our fair share of overly steep driveways, and crumbling concrete roads full of pot holes. But our roads aren't quite so beat to shit as West Lafayette (and most of the other parts of Indiana I've driven through).

Stanced/hellaflushed/cambered/dumped like that though? Ughg kill me now. And that car.

YSI-what can brown do for you > AthomSfere 03/11/2014 at 23:18

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I always thought that looked a bit funky too.

Rainbow > YSI-what can brown do for you 03/11/2014 at 23:21

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Yeah, it's really awesome. I remember when the aforementioned Camaro showed up on the Jalopnik front page, and that was when I made the connection and dug up this photo from my Facebook:

I hated the Camaro at the time, since it was parked along a long line of bosozoku-ish Japanese cars and looked like he was trying to mimic the style, but seeing it alone is just... whoa. I wish I had taken a picture of it when I had the chance.

I did get the "MMM VAG" 240, though.

Didn't take long at all to find it online, since of course it would be there.

It's awesome finding the internet in real life.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Textured Soy Protein 03/11/2014 at 23:28

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i know right? I swear Wisconsin is made for trucks. even with my stock Civic I have to angle up and down some parking lot entries. including the biggest gas station in town, and my favorite liquor store. And my old 91 Civic would scrap getting into my ally way, and if I didn't do it right, getting into my own damn garage. I seriously don't know how these static slammed guys do it.

Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him > Textured Soy Protein 03/11/2014 at 23:40

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The Midwest really is terrible for road quality, especially this winter. I dunno about you guys up in WI, but the crappy winter's made it even worse around campus. Funny story about steep driveways though... I deliver pizzas and I actually got the plastic air dam of my front bumper stuck in the joint of someone's driveway while leaving, and had to actually pop it off the car to avoid ripping the bumper itself off. That right there convinced me to never change from factory suspension. These dudes who drive around in dropped Hondas and stuff are a special kind of stupid/masochists.

Textured Soy Protein > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 03/11/2014 at 23:47

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The steep driveways are one of the reasons I love my Grand Cherokee in the winter. It can generally just drive over whatever obstacle might present itself. My 135is the rest of the year, yeah....lots of diagonal driveway action.

The worst was when I drove an NB Miata with the factory front lip spoiler. Even going diagonal that lip got pretty chewed up.

Textured Soy Protein > Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him 03/11/2014 at 23:51

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The closest highway on-ramp to my house is totally chewed up. It's concrete and the edges of the slabs are disintegrating pretty badly. The city came by and tried to fill the canyons with gravel but the gravel's already been knocked away.

I know these concrete roads are supposed to stand up to shitty winter better, but when they do break and form potholes I feel like the potholes are much more dangerous than the way asphalt breaks up.

We've had some concrete roads re-done in concrete recently, but other concrete roads have been converted to asphalt, which I love.

All these steep driveways though...argh I hate them so much.

Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him > Textured Soy Protein 03/11/2014 at 23:59

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I've never understood the argument for concrete, especially considering how well an asphalt road holds up if it's properly built. Concrete's obviously cheaper, but I can't believe that fixing potholes is a better option than asphalt cracks.

Textured Soy Protein > Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him 03/12/2014 at 00:08

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I think aside from cost, the main argument for concrete is the gaps between the slabs allow for some movement when water gets under the road and freezes. Some of our asphalt roads here get pretty bad frost heaving. Combine that with lots of tar strips for other repairs and it can make for quite a buckboard ride. This seems mostly to happen with lower-capacity roads that don't have a deep foundation for the road bed like a highway or main arterial road.

Asphalt can also get potholes, but since asphalt roads are laid down in layers, often a pot hole will only form in the top layer which is less dangerous than the sharp jagged-edged chasms that develop along the edges of concrete road slabs. Asphalt potholes are also easier to smoothly patch up with a little more asphalt. You can fill in the gaps along the edges of concrete slabs with asphalt, but the patch tends to be more fragile.

Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him > Textured Soy Protein 03/12/2014 at 00:14

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TIL. Figured there was some science behind it.

Where have all the lightweights gone? > YSI-what can brown do for you 03/12/2014 at 00:30

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How did it compare sound-wise to that turbo 370Z we saw at Supercar Saturday in September?

YSI-what can brown do for you > Where have all the lightweights gone? 03/12/2014 at 01:16

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From what I have heard, oh yes it does! These V6s sound awesome with turbochargers, which I find strange.

wiffleballtony > YSI-what can brown do for you 03/12/2014 at 02:51

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Horrible and yet unsurprising

CPT Speedbump > YSI-what can brown do for you 03/12/2014 at 05:00

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A single turbo set-up?

YSI-what can brown do for you > CPT Speedbump 03/12/2014 at 09:01

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I think it is twin turbocharged, but I honestly don't know. 95% sure it is.

CPT Speedbump > YSI-what can brown do for you 03/12/2014 at 11:20

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Probably, everyone TT's them, was going to say, a single would be cool, wayyy more original seeing as everyone either Sc's them or TT's.