still just waiting on my wheels...about 13-14 weeks in at this point. Same ol' wait like last time.

Better be some good wheels Sent from my LG-H918 using Tapatalk

Guess we'll see :) Ill say this much. They are very aggressive and similar to the Work CR2P. Talking -3 camber to get them fitting tight on the car.

Paint matched door handles incoming! Just needs a little buffing and polishing, to get out the imperfections.

https://i.imgur.com/NKZDEYE.jpg

One of my favorite mods. :tup: Going to look great mounted.

super excited...and my Works will be here saturday. Cars going to look all sorts of different by mid next week!


ready to go on the car

https://i.imgur.com/rOfOz33.jpg

Nice result on the door handles. Did you dissemble them to have every little corner painted?

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no, I kept them together. The only part that was a little tough to get applied well was the clear. To find the issues though, you would need to closely inspect the handles.

Wheels came in today! Figured I'd take a picture of them next to the gold Durandals Im still trying to sell. I never thought I would own two sets of Works at once...

Specs on the XSAs

20/10 +10 front(Rdisk) 20/11.5 +15 rear (Wdisk)little over 5" lip in the rear. Super happy with how they look

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Omg those wheels! What’s the barrel color?

I forget what color Work has for it but when I ordered them in Feb I just asked for the "Anodized gloss bronze barrels"

door handles on
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Ill also be talking with Z1 about their front control arms. I bought a set in Feb and installed last month. Every single bump or dip I go over, makes it sounds like rocking chair on a wooden porch or a buick from the 70s with blown shocks...it never stops unless im on a flat road surface.

Z1 has some great stuff but SPL FTW when it comes to suspension!

I know and Im starting to regret my purchase. I just saw $899 then thought to myself, I only daily drive my car. I did get SPL rear hardware though. Its not that much more expensive than spc and the like. You are right though. Theres gotta be a fix for them, there just has to be!

wheels are on!


https://i.imgur.com/juGeIQe.jpg

couple pics I took today. I cant get my pinky between the fender and tire, at the front or rear. The fronts need to be rolled for sure!



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Just got my alignment done. The car feels so much better now. Theres a clear difference in how it was driving. I also rub less in the front, which is nice since I havent rolled the fenders yet.

https://i.imgur.com/QuktApC.jpg


couple shots from last weekends cars and coffee, random people took and posted.
https://i.imgur.com/ViigUJt.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/iVP3gfI.jpg


Got these in last week. Going to get them paint matched then have the "Z" in wrapped or hydro-dipped in CF.
https://i.imgur.com/lhP3D4h.jpg

Looks good!

Makes me want to pick up new Motordyne tips!

they are just so damn expensive

photoshoot time

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OMG I just realized you bought a Z34 :icon17:

I really love the wheels, you never let me down!

What are your aero plans?

where have you been!

Thanks, man....you better!:tup:

Planning on going with Full Zele. Considering the amuse spoiler but Ill need to do a few photochops to see how that will look with zele. RS1 Vented Fenders, and side splitters. Hood, maybe AMS GT Hood.

It will be a good year or maybe more though. Right now Im pretty much done with the car. I literally took all the money from the G and its parts and put it right back into the Z.

Besides small parts that might get Hydro dipped or replaced with CF versions for the interior, Ill be waiting that year. Sh*t, the exterior alone is gonna run another $10-12k after purchase, fitment fixes(if any, hopefully not), and paint.

good hearin' from ya Waiz.

Got my SPL arms in today. Had a set of faulty arms from Z1 and they were happy to take them back. I went ahead and got what I was originally planning on getting. I took it as a sign to just buy them. Get credited for the Z1 arms once they get them back, which makes sense.

https://i.imgur.com/ZLoVkud.jpg

^Those are so pretty!

I have been in the home hunt/purchase process since December so that took all my free time. I finally bought something in April and just moved in a few weeks ago. I still have my Z33 and have no plans of ever buying something else so here I am again to get caught up

Can’t wait to see your progress, glad you are taking your time with the build

Im jealous, I would love to still have my 350z. That makes sense, adult priorities can be a bitch sometimes(Stressful).

This is actually the fastest I have ever moved to get this far into a "build". 6 months of ownership. Yeah though, the rest is slow merely to save up the money.

already put these pics in the media section but they belong here as well!
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Spent a few hours out last week to get a photoshoot done. A friend wanted the challenge of getting pics of a black car at night.

A couple shoots he wasnt sure of due to blown out sun or being too dark but he ended up trying to salvage them.

We also had a renta-cop come bother us so we lost about an hour of sunset shot potential.

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<sigh>

I seriously need to pick up new Motordyne tips.

Car is looking fresh!

Hard to do when they arent cheap. Close to $200 for a pair after shipping

Exactly. That would be 1/5th of the price of the exhaust when I picked it up used! FOR THE TIPS! Just not justifiable (for me) at that price! I am hopeful to save some cash during a Black Friday sale.

Thanks goes to Ravspec for the Work Lugs. This is my second set of door handles being painted. The first set were not OEM and they barely rotate enough to unhinge and open the doors...and the passenger door lock button doesnt work either. Not sure why I didnt buy OEM to begin with...

https://i.imgur.com/AGYZoK9.jpg
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My Shine Auto (amuse rep) kit finally shipped out. I have the utmost confidence in their parts. Reading back almost 10 years on them, when these forums were much more populated.

The kit I really wanted was Zele but I couldnt commit to the price or having pay to make a quad exhaust for the rear bumper.

I also ordered front and side splitters to help with that illusion of looking lower.

https://i.imgur.com/P9PIrqO.jpg

OH and I also got a tune through Z1 about 4 months ago. With my Motordyne exhaust, art pipes, and stillen intakes, they got the are to 321/270 wheel at 5.2k rpm


Might as well share the most recent pics I took, after a wash and wax a month or so ago

https://i.imgur.com/v00lD3Y.jpg
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:yum:

Any updates?

The timing on your comment, Waiz!

Well, I took it to a top shop right near ATL about 3.5 months ago and they wanted to charge me over $18k.............

Incoming bad grammar and typos

They wanted to pull pieces off the stock body, custom fab mounting points where they didnt need to exist, and so many other things. Tthey didnt know WTF they were doing and I have ZERO clue how, having recently installed doluck widebodies on so LC500s right after I dropped off my car. The biggest example is the amuse spoiler. Two weeks of having my car, they didnt know there was a light that custom fit the spoiler. They were trying to charge me thousands to custom fab the stock spoiler light into the amuse spoiler. These guys were idiots. They had my car for two weeks and didnt do anything.

I told them Day 1 to contact me immediately, if they thought there was going to be a fix that cost an extra $500-1000, since I was on a budget. I let them do their thing and never heard from them. I finally called them, 10 days in and nothing was done. In the end I got $1300 of rentals refunded from them, since they knew the issue day one and never called me or attempted to contact me. Along with the manager posing as the owner, never correcting me and he had no understanding of modifying a car. I was dealing with the money guy the entire time, not the actual owner.


Fast forward 2.5 months later, I finally dropped the car off about 25 minutes from my house. A shop, what felt like, in the middle of no where. A couple guys that are body shop guys and own their shops for 20+ years recommended this shop. I got a way better vibe from these two older guys running their shop. They actually came by my house and went over everything



They actually sent me initial fitment pics, today.

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Oh man what a headache! Glad to read you got it figured out and excited to see this come together :tup:

you and me both, brother! Hopefully only a couple weeks. Ordered the VIS Racing CF AMS Hood yesterday. The last piece for the car, before Im done with it.

Aside from maybe the GTR shifter and boot conversion

Did you get heavy duty hatch struts for your wing? Just replaced mine with the Z1 UHP's and they are incredible. I have trouble closing my hatch now even with my heavy V1 wing :icon17:

Yeah, I went with the mega high pressure to play it safe. I think I would have needed 2 sets on each side, for my old 350z. Having had the spoiler molded to the hatch.

Small update

main part of this was taking the stock side skirts clips and putting them on the new ones. That way they sit firm and flush, the way I want them to. Better chance to tear the side splitters off, when I undoubtedly step on them, the first day I get the car back

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Looking like a true pro job!