The All Blacks have been in scintillating form of late winning the Rugby Championship and scoring over 100 points against the USA last weekend.
But Pivac is hopeful his Six Nations champions can cause a shock.
“Any game, whatever it is, you need a fast start and that’s what we’ll be trying to do,” said Pivac.
“We are doing everything we can in camp to make sure we start as well as we can.
“The fact there is a crowd in and an awesome atmosphere means I’d like to think we’ll start as well as we can. Preparation has allowed us two weeks and that’s what we’ve worked with.”
Pivac will coach against the country of his birth this weekend and added: “I’m going to feel very Welsh this weekend. I can’t get into New Zealand, I can’t get back into that country.
“As far as I’m concerned, I’ve been here seven years building up to and looking forward to playing New Zealand one day.
“We were due to go there and play them last year.
“So it’s a feeling of excitement because I look at it like our players do. You want to test yourself against the best in the world and I’m no different from the players on that front.”
Pivac has selected a strong squad to take on the All Blacks with Gareth Anscombe making his first Wales appearance for two years while Dragons openside Taine Basham makes his first Test start.
Following the withdrawal of Ken Owens due to injury, Cardiff’s Kirby Myhill is in line to make his Wales debut from the replacements bench while captain Alun Wyn Jones makes his 149th appearance for Wales, taking him past Richie McCaw’s caps record for one country. .
Despite many players being unavailable, Pivac is happy with the quality of player at his disposal.
“When players aren’t available, it makes it easier in some sense as you can’t waste time worrying about it,” he said.
“It’s about what are the combinations to get the job done with the players we have available.
“It’s been a tricky time though. It’s been nine or 10 days together with this group. We’ve pitched it as two weeks focusing on one game of rugby.
“We’ll have reinforcements coming to the squad next week but right now, the 32 players in the squad are all focused on New Zealand. From our point of view, history is history.
“This group is together for the first time.
“For two years, we’ve been down to play New Zealand but haven’t been able to do so. So there’s a feeling of excitement and ‘let us loose’. There will be 75,000 people there, we haven’t done that for a long time.
“So whoever we put on the park, they’re always going to come to the match full of excitement.
“What we have to do is control that and play with discipline over the 80 minutes.”
New Zealand are heavy favourites with the bookmakers but Pivac has warned them not to underestimate his players.
“I could rattle off a few upsets here,” said Pivac. “James ‘Buster’ Douglas and Mike Tyson. Every now and then, you get a massive upset.
“We’re not looking at it like that. We’re focusing on the game we put out there.
“We’re going to enjoy the occasion because it’s every Welsh boy’s dream to play against New Zealand in front of 75,000.
“It’s a great fixture for our guys and everyone is looking forward to it. It’s been a difficult build-up but challenges bring out the best of people and hopefully that will happen on the weekend.”
