I thought I would start my own journal for my Z before I get too far into the mods and stuff so here I am about 5 months late. My name is Tim and I have a 2009 Monterey Blue 370Z Base Sport.
I had a 2006 Athens Blue Infiniti G35 Coupe on lease and the lease ended in Dec. I had been eye balling the new 370Z for a while and since blue is my favorite color I wanted it in blue. I have to admit, I was not too crazy about this color blue, and I really liked the Athens Blue but the color has grown on me and I think its fine. It was a hard color to find, especially with the 370. In mid Dec 2009 I was checking out local stock online and I saw one for sale at Larson Nissan at Fife, WA. A 2009 Monterey Blue! It was the base with Sports package, which is what I was looking for as I liked the Rays 19 inch wheels with Akebono brakes! I kept checking the ad and it was there all through the Holidays. After Christmas I thought I should go down and check it out, but decided to wait until January so I can try to get a better deal if I decided to buy! (on a 2009 so I could say its a year old give me a deal!) I knew that I would end up buying the damn thing!! Well early January I stroll in to take a look at her.... Took her for a test drive and knew I wanted one. I had test drove a 7At a week before in white, and while I liked it I wanted a 6MT.
Dealer was not working with me and wanted 2K over invoice so I told him I would think about it and walked. A couple days later they called and said they could do $31K. I said I would have to see if I could get the loan and that $30K was the best I could get right now. About a week later they called and said they could do $500 below invoice and they would handle the financing! I said OK lets do it! And on Jan 25th I got the Z!
Car at the dealership awaiting it's new owner:
Blue Nismo 370Z!
I really wanted to get the Nismo edition 370Z but since I LOVE blue I was torn with what to do. Do I just get a Nismo and paint it? Do I suck it up and just get a Base/Sports and just do mods and call it good? I was really dissapointed that Nissan did not offer blue for the Nismo. Total bummer. Well after some thinking I decided to just get a Base Sports in Monterey Blue with the intention of adding the Nismo body kit to it later on as time and money allowed. The first mod was definately to get the Nismo wheels and it was something I planned on getting when a good priced used set came up. Yes some say it might be better to just sell it and get a Nismo at this point but like I said, I wanted Blue. And I did not want to repaint a brand new car! It usually is not the same as the factory. Besides, I like to slowly mod my car and do one thing at a time! It's funner that way and gives me a sense of pride.
EDIT - Nismo Conversion is done! See here:
I also attached is a Word Doc with the complete list of all the parts that are needed to do a full conversion minus the Wing! You can add the EVO-R if you want to save ~$2,000. 
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Here is an album on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3976048...7626766627166/