That’s titanium you’d be needing, not tungsten.

eBay must be mad at you, the interior is mint! Brown over mustard is a great combo on this car.  This one looks really well taken care of, but definitely knowing some history would be good... or being ready to do a full rebuild or engine swap.

Buy this instead:

I’m sure they thought of that haha.  Plenty of novel materials that could conduct heat away from the cells pretty well (like graphene), or they could leave whatever gaps they need - even if they leave 3% free space for cooling they have the potential for 6.5% higher energy density.

You can stack prismatic batteries together better, so more energy/volume. Prismatic just means square in this case. Since cars use hundreds of cells, you end up with a bunch of little cylinders in a box right now. If it was a bunch of little squares you wouldn’t have all the air in between the cylinders. Hexagonal… Read more

That Econoline is pretty sweet, maybe a bit overpriced. Gen 2s don’t get as much love but are definitely cool, and can be had for half the price, and V8!

Was it actually done by Lotus, or done by someone using Lotus SHARK? Haha half the SAE student cars have “handling by Lotus” in that case. Read more

Roadkill got it right when they dropped one from a helicopter.

Datsun raced in the early 70s with a sponsorship from Sears - and so they ran Sears-brand radial tires on their rally cars a few times.

I use a bluetooth cassette tape in a casette-to-8-track adapter in the dealer-optioned 8 track player in the glovebox of my ‘78 280Z. The tape adapter has a little microphone on a cord that I extended and hid behind the dash, so I can even take hands-free calls in my 4-decade old car...

“wind chills of 40, 50, even 60 degrees below zero—and that’s in Fahrenheit” Read more

Different engines have different efficiency curves.

My 1987 Supra had more electronic gadgets than the Z... It’s a 2009, but Nissan spent all the money on the VQ and not on other things like, I don’t know, a dash display that isn’t a 128x128 pixel 1 color LCD. Or a 12V power plug where you can reach it (it’s in the passenger footwell). Or a cupholder. Read more

That’s what I did, but it looks messy which aggregates me since the rest of the dash is relatively uncluttered.

I have a base model 2014 370Z, it has physical switches for everything, no touchscreen or screen of any sort for that matter. It doesn’t even have bluetooth.  I have to use an aux cable like a caveman. Read more

Like this:

Here’s a pic for proof:

Great car. Buy an NA, non-targa car - the turbo ones are way more work to keep running and only slightly less slow. I dailied an 87 for a while until someone ran a stop sign and totaled it.  These really are a GT car more than anything sporty, all about enjoying the drive rather than hitting all the apexes. 

Some cars turned them into exterior features. Nissan used them to put more Z badges on the late 240Z-280Z:

How can I also sell used Altima headlights for $2k a pair? Or used wheels and tires for $1700? This is a bad infographic, as it is comparing used car prices to OEM fantasyland parts prices - the used parts value is probably closer to 1/3 of what is shown here (for many items - full disclaimer, I did not look up… Read more