Mike's Journal

Mike

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:


Front view of Stillen PS Cooler, Modshack Oil Cooler and front laser shifters


Side views of installed wheels:






Front wheel, no spacer


Rear wheel, 25mm spacer

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NISSAN: 75 280Z / 86 300ZX GLL /87 Sentra SE / 03 350Z / 23 Z
Porsche: 93 968 / 23 Macan GTS / 93 968

Mike

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

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NISSAN: 75 280Z / 86 300ZX GLL /87 Sentra SE / 03 350Z / 23 Z
Porsche: 93 968 / 23 Macan GTS / 93 968

Mike

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!

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NISSAN: 75 280Z / 86 300ZX GLL /87 Sentra SE / 03 350Z / 23 Z
Porsche: 93 968 / 23 Macan GTS / 93 968

LOU@AMPLIFIED

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

B1nks

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..

Mike

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.

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NISSAN: 75 280Z / 86 300ZX GLL /87 Sentra SE / 03 350Z / 23 Z
Porsche: 93 968 / 23 Macan GTS / 93 968

LOU@AMPLIFIED

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

second_2_nun

good work you love to powder coat things lol

Daishi

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.

Mike

So as we all I know, I had a mishap at VIR. Thread is here: Me = 0 / vir tire wall = 1

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NISSAN: 75 280Z / 86 300ZX GLL /87 Sentra SE / 03 350Z / 23 Z
Porsche: 93 968 / 23 Macan GTS / 93 968

Mike

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.

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NISSAN: 75 280Z / 86 300ZX GLL /87 Sentra SE / 03 350Z / 23 Z
Porsche: 93 968 / 23 Macan GTS / 93 968