Not exactly 9k RPM. 6k+, you want the tires to slip. If you dead hook, the diff takes WAY too much abuse. Spin the tires a bit, feather the throttle and hook.
But if you fit in it, grab an s2k, it all depends what your goals are… I would own an s2k if i wasn’t 6’2, not my comfort zone. I like the 350z as well, both sleek cars.
Never considered the 350z. 10k will buy you a clean 00-01 S2000. The car stock is great on the track where you can keep the rpms up. Driving around town it is gutless to the point of being aggravating. You have to drop multiple gears for any sort of acceleration. Imo the car needs boost to be enjoyable. If you aren’t looking to spend much money weight reduction and gears should wake up the car a bit. And you can’t beat a convertible for a summer cruiser.
The cars stock to stock are both capable of high 13’s…the s2k traps at 100, the z traps at 102. So unless the vert weighs in lower then the coupe, you’re not crushing anything.
Either way, who cars? They both are about the same speed…both cool cars. I’ll only speak from experince and say that the stock S2k was awesome at the track. I liked it as a daily, but did miss low end power. Still fun though.
What MPD said. I was in this EXACT dilemma a couple of years ago, bought the Z because 1) I was going to be taking multi-thousand cross country trips and 2) I felt safer in a hard-top after having flipped a 951 a few years back. Both are great cars, the S2k “could” be more capable in the right hands but the Z is far easier to get 90-95% out of.
IMO my Z sounds like fucking sex on wheels. But maybe I’m biased or just deaf from too many track days spent well north of 5500rpm w/ test pipes LOL. S2k sounds like, well, a honda. Not BAD at all but it a tweaky 4cyl - that just doesn’t “do it for me” anymore.
I drove my friends 00 S2k a few times, it takes some getting used to. He had to yell at me to rev it past 7k the first couple of times i got on it, im not used to a 9k redline :lol:. But damn is it fun to drive when you get the hang of it! IMO its the only choice here.