Given I’ve had the last two weeks off I figured I’d give everyone an update.
For the most part I’ve been putting my car back together and getting everything prepped for the air cup kit. I finally baked my headlights back together and installed them as well as installed my door handles. I’d take pictures and provide them, but the car is extremely dusty as I’ve been doing some fiberglass work in the garage and the pictures wouldn’t do them justice. So once I have the car out of the garage and cleaned up a bit I’ll post some pictures.
In relation to the headlights I do have one concern that’s annoying me, there seems to be some swirl marks and a little fogging on the casing. At first I thought it was in the inside of the casing so I took the headlight back apart and cleaned it again, and that helped, but they still aren’t perfect. Maybe they were always there and it’s just more noticeable now that the headlights are darker, but it’s really annoying me. I tried polishing the casing and that didn’t help, so I think I’m going to get a headlight restore kit and try that. Did anyone else have this issue?
As for the cup kit I’ve been doing quite a bit. I originally wanted to hide the tank and compressor in the trunk similar to how Liquid_G did his, but the three gallon tank that came with the Phantom cup kit won’t fit. So I decided I wanted to show the tank off and I’ll now be mounting it to a false floor in the trunk. Unfortunately the port layout on the supplied tank isn’t the best for this, so I bought another tank, some aluminum airline and various other fittings from BagRiders to get the look I want. I’m thinking ill paint the tank 40th quartz and the aluminum airline purple. I’ll post pics of the mock up next weekend after I get the new parts and have a chance to work on my Z. I also installed the paddle switches in the center counsel and ran the power wire to the battery. Unfortunately Phantom is still waiting on the swift springs so I don’t have my coils or cups yet.
I also got my GT Spec rear strut bar back from paint… it looks great, I just need to get the air tank mounted and ready and I’ll install everything… btw the purple on the brackets (which I’ll use for the aluminum airline) has a hint of green in it so it looks great with my Brides!
False Floor:
Paddle Switches:
Strut Bar:
