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sig11 · 12-29-2009, 12:00 PM

Lets give this another try. Chrome crashed three times when I tried to post this last night. This time I'm using TextEdit and pasting it in!

This has been cross posted to the 350Z forum that the guys mentioned below are part of.

I cut my Christmas vacation at my parent's short to install my exhaust yesterday. At 9:30 I called Scott to cancel when the snow was coming down pretty heavily. My 07 350Z would not have made it down the road the way the 370 did. I suppose the new tires made the difference. The plan was to install the TDX and a set of Hotchkis sway bars. AJ and Scott were pretty excited when they realized it was an FI exhaust.

After getting it up on the stands I snapped this picture out of the garage:

We expected another 2"+ before the day was through, but it warmed up and main roads were fairly clear by the time we finished.

Unfortunately we spent the bulk of our time trying to remove the right rear side of the stock sway bar. It came from the factory neatly cross threaded and proved impossible to remove. We ended up taking the wheel off in an attempt to remove it. Finally we got it in a vice and were still unable to bust it loose. My friends seem to think that I can talk the dealer into a replacement end link since it is so screwed up.

Once we gave up on the sway bars we decided to fire up the car to see what it sounded like with just the cats: (Video) What an amazing sound. The iphone video does it no justice.

Once we got everything roughed in we realized that the hardware packet had the wrong nuts. We could not match enough bolts with enough nuts and had to make a trip to the hardware store. $10 and 45 minutes later we gave it a quick first start so that AJ could hear it before he headed home for his wife's birthday. First start.

It's true that it sounds so much better in person than any of the videos posted previously show. We got everything tightened down and the cross brace remounted and off I went. (Note that when parking on a slight hill in the snow, the parking brake is not enough to stop the car from sliding. : )

Yeah, the right tip is slightly lower than the left but it doesn't bother me at all and if you're not looking for it you will never notice.

Unfortunately now I will have to disassemble the damn thing to put the sway bar back on when I get a new end link. If you want to see the rest of the pictures click this. I haven't done anything at all to them. The third movie was an attempt at recording the cab sound but the iphone's microphone wasn't sensitive enough to pick anything of value up.

I just can't wait until spring so I can take the car for a real drive. The sway bar prevented us from having time to take the car to an empty parking lot for snow time fun or this would have been a far more interesting post.

12-29-2009, 12:00 PM	#2701 (permalink)
sig11 A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Detroit Posts: 1,294 Drives: 09 370Z Red Sport-MT Rep Power: 18	Lets give this another try. Chrome crashed three times when I tried to post this last night. This time I'm using TextEdit and pasting it in! This has been cross posted to the 350Z forum that the guys mentioned below are part of. I cut my Christmas vacation at my parent's short to install my exhaust yesterday. At 9:30 I called Scott to cancel when the snow was coming down pretty heavily. My 07 350Z would not have made it down the road the way the 370 did. I suppose the new tires made the difference. The plan was to install the TDX and a set of Hotchkis sway bars. AJ and Scott were pretty excited when they realized it was an FI exhaust. After getting it up on the stands I snapped this picture out of the garage: We expected another 2"+ before the day was through, but it warmed up and main roads were fairly clear by the time we finished. Unfortunately we spent the bulk of our time trying to remove the right rear side of the stock sway bar. It came from the factory neatly cross threaded and proved impossible to remove. We ended up taking the wheel off in an attempt to remove it. Finally we got it in a vice and were still unable to bust it loose. My friends seem to think that I can talk the dealer into a replacement end link since it is so screwed up. Once we gave up on the sway bars we decided to fire up the car to see what it sounded like with just the cats: (Video) What an amazing sound. The iphone video does it no justice. Once we got everything roughed in we realized that the hardware packet had the wrong nuts. We could not match enough bolts with enough nuts and had to make a trip to the hardware store. $10 and 45 minutes later we gave it a quick first start so that AJ could hear it before he headed home for his wife's birthday. First start. It's true that it sounds so much better in person than any of the videos posted previously show. We got everything tightened down and the cross brace remounted and off I went. (Note that when parking on a slight hill in the snow, the parking brake is not enough to stop the car from sliding. : ) Yeah, the right tip is slightly lower than the left but it doesn't bother me at all and if you're not looking for it you will never notice. Unfortunately now I will have to disassemble the damn thing to put the sway bar back on when I get a new end link. If you want to see the rest of the pictures click this. I haven't done anything at all to them. The third movie was an attempt at recording the cab sound but the iphone's microphone wasn't sensitive enough to pick anything of value up. I just can't wait until spring so I can take the car for a real drive. The sway bar prevented us from having time to take the car to an empty parking lot for snow time fun or this would have been a far more interesting post.