the hood actually goes with the flow of the car.

It seems that for lighter colored cars? it draws more attention than it would a darker colored car.

Yea you right. How the handles turn out?

Long story short? Good after doing them three times, but I was thinking of down the road if they don't last? to buying some extras, and having your shop paint them.

how did you paintt them>

With my hands?

i meant did you clear coat sand and etc?

:bowrofl: sorry!


I sanded them down, and cleaned them with alcohol painted, and primered and painted them with the wrong paint? since i wanted the same shade. The problem with current dupli color paint I used was its for plastic and worked great not so great for the handles different material. I ended up just using some krylon metal plastic wood paint in flat black. I gave it 2 good coats and sealed it with a flat acrylic sealer. so will see how it last.

that should work. Hope it last...it could also be the paint you used on the door.

Definitely sure it was the wrong type of paint. :shakes head:

im thinking powercoat em.

I heard thats not possible?

hahaa is anything possible? It can be done trust me.

If so? I'd like that approach for a more permanent solution :)

looks good trips

Thanks Boost! :tiphat:
Your Z's looking great also :tup:

Looks good bud...

:icon18: You nut! :roflpuke2:

Great looking hood, too! ;)

Trips, I think my handles were powdercoated by the body shop I have recently started going to. At least that's what I remember them saying they did but I can verify it for you.

damn that looks good trips! :tup:

Thank you! :)
Good to hear its a possibility, and I think the best way to go for a permanent solution. :tup:

The hood looks good and it matches your setup nicely, I'm looking forward to seeing it in person.

Can I buy your stock hood and put it on my car so I can pretend I have a 370z? LOL!!

G, the hood looks great, flowing with the theme. Are you doing the roof next?

You might have to settle for my old 370z hatch emblems I removed :bowrofl:

Not going too much more on the CF look? probably going with a mines rear CF add on spoiler? And call it a day. :tiphat:

I think Lou got 370Z CF roof cap that he is getting rid off.

Yea, Thanks. I'm not going too much on cf just the rear spoiler, and I'm done. :tiphat:

You bet I am! It should be a good time, maybe we can all talk about what to do regarding the Ojai cruise then too.

UpRev tune update

http://www.the370z.com/members/trips...8-dscf0444.jpg
http://www.the370z.com/members/trips...9-dscf0445.jpg
http://www.the370z.com/members/trips...0-dscf0446.jpg
http://www.the370z.com/members/trips...1-dscf0454.jpg
http://www.the370z.com/members/trips...2-dscf0455.jpg

In the first pic, it looks like you have CF muf's

nice gain! :tup:

one mean looking car you got there trips! :D

Dayum, I thought I misread the power at first because those are some of the highest N/A numbers I have seen yet. Congrats on the tune Trips, how does she feel? :)

To be quite honest? Very nice :)

The sharper throttle response, and the pickup in badly needed torque thru out the rpm range? Was a good gain. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. The tuner said I had good gains and he has noticed that some of the 7AT's benefited slightly better from the tune than the Manuals that he has done. I don't have any comparisons from other 7AT's to compare my numbers too? but they seem to be good numbers. :ugh2:

334 to the wheels is amazng. I getting jealous.

^ Seems like someone is willing to trade.

naw ill just take the hood lol

I know I want one too. When I told my wife I wanted a CF hood and she said "do you really want to dumb down your car?". So I took that as a big no from her.

like a slap in the face man. I wouldnt ask ill just say of my buddy gave it to me.

So your giving me a CF hood! Your such a great buddy.

:icon18:

This isn't a no!