No, all black for these

Recent updates to my car
-Powdercoated strut brace
-Powdercoated and installed Stillen G3
-Modshack Oil Cooler
-Stillen PS Cooler
-Powdercoated and installed my widened 350Z Track Rays wheels
-- Wheels are now 18x9.5 + 46 offset and fit both front and rear, although I am using 25mm spacers in the rear.
-Got the front laser shifters installed

Stillen G3 and strut bar, powder coated Smoke Chrome:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4034/74834020.jpg

Front view of Stillen PS Cooler, Modshack Oil Cooler and front laser shifters
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/350/74200282.jpg

Side views of installed wheels:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/7987/49136604.jpg

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/7154/86755931.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6599/26843632.jpg

Front wheel, no spacer
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7120/88425187.jpg

Rear wheel, 25mm spacer
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7336/92673647.jpg

sound clips:
I just installed the new Invidia Prototype exhaust, (Gemini) and I have Berk Test pipes.

With the stock exhauset the berks had some rasp. With the new exhaust, no rasp at all! These are iphone recordings. first from outside at idle and revving to what the car would let us, then a couple accelerating 0-80, windows up and down.

Overall, its an awesome sounding exhaust and not overly loud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfpHakv4B8s

0-80 windows windows down
YouTube - 0-80 berk test pipes and invidia gemini, 370Z
the window down one didnt load, but there is absolutley no drone at all!

Glad you like them mike. I'm really surprised how good it sounds and how not overly loud they are even with test pipes.:tup:

I'm not sure if I have the same definition as rasp because I still hear that hiss at the end of a rev which is what I consider rasp..:confused:

Its got a tiny bit there in the idle clip, but thats with no load on the engine, (especially compared to test pipes only). In the car on the street there is none, and revving at idle is something I only did for the example video, not a regular thing.

Your z is pure sex my man.

That hiss is common once you have any HFC/TEST PIPE, that only occurs on deceleration. So far, all of the HFC and TEST PIPES we've installed has that mysterious HISS

why can't i see the photos????????
i also want to see them????? bad network....:( :(

They are all linked from imageshack, so they should be there. They show up on my screen.

Brembo gt big brakes on order now. Hopefully they fit my 18s. If not , look fir a good deal in the classsifieds aoon

good work you love to powder coat things lol

It promotes the biz and let's
me write off the mods as advertising expenses

Do you have any highway drone around 2.5k-3.5k?

not really. you can hear the exhaust, but you can also still talk on a cell phone comfortably, or listen to music at a reasonable level.

i think that it sounds awesome

Fly by at the racetrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JX05R4IRM

Akebonos don't work on the track, at least not on a short track like Little Talladega. I mentioned before I boiled the fluid and toasted the stock rear pads in one session at the East Coast Z Nationals when running HP+ up front. I then replaced the rears with HP+, so I was running both on the front and back with valvoline synthetic. I did 1 day at Road Atlanta then one more day at Little Talladega at a time attack, where they boiled again, and today when I pulled them this is what I found on every caliper. Fortunately, I have 4 good dust boots out of the 12, and the seals are all still fine. They should get me through this weekend for the rears, although I will have to have a set of rear brake pads overnited tomorrow for a back up, and then a rebuild kit for the rears before Road Atlanta the following weekend.

Anyways, not pictured are the HP+ pads with all of the factory paint burned off of them. This is a picture of one front caliper upon removal today:

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/118/wornakebono.jpg

and this is my solution, the bolt on front Brembo GT Caliper set. Unfortunately, they didn't quite clear my 18" wheels and I had to slightly grind the outer ends of them for clearance, so they are being repowdercoated a satin black tomorrow.

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6019/bremboon.jpg

Hopefully these and some Motul fluid will do the trick. We will know next week.

The funny thing is, I've never been real hard on brakes and never had a problem with my 350Z brembos, Stock Corvette brakes or C6 Z06 corvette brakes on the same track. I guess the akebono's are more show than go.

I'll try to post up some photos of the stereo install I did last week tomorrow also.

Good move, Mike. I'm running a new set of AP Racing brakes as well. You're right, stock doesn't hold up. They need more air too !!!

yea, I'm wondering if I need to upgrade the rears also. I get wholesale with a company that sells brembo, so my cost made it a no brainer versus every other front upgrade out there.

Took a bit of grinding on the edges to get them to fit my 18" 350z wheels, but they do. I've got about 3mm clearance, so little rocks and gravel get caught in between and scratch up my rims and sound terrible when slow, but these brakes are awesome! Braking deep all day with no fade at all.

Here is the refinished caliper, with my 'orange' touch to them, so they match my street wheels, just satin instead of glossy.
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/7...brembocopy.jpg

but the problem on the 370Z stock brakes are the pads right???
or the calipers aren't good too???

for the street, don't need anything different... for track, pads and lack of ventilation are the primary problems, and I think most folks will be fine with the stock SPORT brakes if they fix both of those things... but some people like BBKs :) and you prob do 'need' BBKs if you track the car with long sessions and / or are competitive

What he said! Maybe with some cooling the stock ones would have held up, but I go to some very brake intense courses and need the extra confidence of great brakes.

Lou i installed FI test pipes on my car and i have the FI catback with no resonators. I hear the hiss in the cabbin even at full throttle lol. ive never heard that on any of the cars ive had except when there was an exhaust leak but i dont feel any leaks when i put my hand up to the exhaust.

So as we all I know, I had a mishap at VIR. Thread is here: http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-g...-wall-1-a.html
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/820/crash4.jpg

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/167/crash3.jpg

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/8746/crash2ty.jpg

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I got the undertray off this morning, bumper and fender are next.

I found that one of the lines slipped off of one of the socketless aeroquip connectors, and the other one is back a little bit. I don't understand how that could happen, as when I made the kit, I had cut a hose a little too short, and could not pull the connector out. The only way to get it out was to cut the hose. Anyway, I guess I will be getting some hose clamps today and double sealing them.

I guess I can take some small comfort in the fact that I went off before the engine had a chance to blow, and that it wasn't something stupid like not tightening the oil filter or reconnecting the fittings to the sandwich plate properly last oil change, which is what I feared.

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9647/underside.jpg

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/8...inecloseup.jpg

Ugh, now even the aeroquips are suspect. Has anyone measured oil pressures? Maybe the car is operating at a much higher pressure than anyone expects.

Damage doesn't look too bad, new fender, new bumper and crash bar, your $1000 headlight just barely escaped. Hood might be salvageable if you can find someone that can repair aluminum, door shouldn't be a problem.

The fact that your socketless aeroquip fittings managed to push off is very scary. These connections are supposed to be able to hold some serious pressure. Did you have anything else on the fitting externally such as a hose clamp or Modshack zip tie?

Don't need the crash bar, and hopefully the hood and door can be easily repaired. Probably going with the new Stillen bumper.

Didn't have anything else on the fittings, but I will now!

I was curious about the fittings because there is the slim chance that adding external pressure could somehow compromise the design. Given that wasn't the case I don't know what the heck could of happened. Perhaps spearfish is right, the pump might be putting out more pressure than we think it is supposed to and we are creating a constriction that is increasing pressure further. Did you use AN-10 or AN-12 ?

10, I think.

Kind of makes sense, oil pressure would expand the hose a bit, making it fit more loosely, which in combination with high pressure, would cause it to work itself loose.

I'm surprised no one use a clamp in addition for extra safety...

My other theory is that inadequate hose length and engine vibration/shifting under persistent heavy throttle on/off is causing the hoses to slowly work themselves loose. This is the second case of a hose coming loose in a setup with short hose lengths.

While I think measuring oil pressure at the level of these hoses would be very helpful, I think everyone needs to ensure adequate slack in these hoses (just an extra couple inches). Finally, a true stainless steel hose clamp that can be screwed down may be a good idea rather than zip ties.

really sucks mike, it honestly bummed me out for the rest of the day seeing your car bent up like that. even more so after the "unnamed other black car" went off. track activity dwindled down after that and everyone started heading home. like i said yesterday, if you need any help wrenching on the car, just let me know. i'll be glad to help

I have plenty of slack in my setup.

Patrick, thanks! Did you get pics of me while going off? If so, feel free to email them to me or post them here!

Also, I figured out that I didn't spin because of oil on the rear tires. The way the hose popped off, it shot across the underside and soaked my front left tire. That thing was covered in oil!

So, I hit the brakes and instantly pirouetted off the track.