.c2's 2009 Magnetic Black 370z

.c2

Laying down the fatmat sound deadening! About 60% done the trunk, holy crap this stuff is time consuming lol. Helps a looooot with road noise though, with this and another layer of insulation on top the road noise should be down to a minimum

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hyunsoo1803

One winter has given you the sexiest car

On the side note, was that you who wanted to hear art+t1r?

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Thanks! Yes that was me haha. I actually jumped on the ART pipes anyways though, they're just waiting for me to pick them up right now. Hopefully the sound isn't too loud, I really miss the feel of test pipes. After I had my non resonated TP's and switched back to stock cats I've been itching for the power again lol

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hyunsoo1803

You will like them. As per the loudness, it should be quieter than most non resonated test pipes for sure

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EZT

ART pipes are a great pick. None of that raspy crap.

.c2

Thanks I hope so! Hopefully the hours spent on laying down fatmat will help with the noise too haha. Spent another hour and a half or so trimming and putting down some more pieces and barely got anywhere lol, this is going to take a while to finish


Wheels going on tomorrow Just got my fenders rolled and slightly pulled by Gerard@SerialNine. Great guy, amazing work as always. You can kind of tell that it has been pulled because the fender arches outwards now, but it's nothing too extreme so I'm okay with it. Makes my stockies + 20mm spacers look hella sunk when they used to be kiiind of almost flush, lol. My 19x9.5 +2 tomorrow should fit no problem, fingers crossed

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.c2

Boy was I wrong lol.. 19x9.5 +22 and a 20mm spacer, on 255/40/19 tires.




Got it put on today, rubs like crazy. It doesn't rub at all directly above the center of the wheel because my fender was pulled there, so I can turn as fast as I want full lock... but it rubs where the bumper meets the fender. Going down to a 10mm spacer which will make it 19x9.5 +12 instead of +2 and I think my problems will be solved lol. Need to get some new open ended and extended lugs though :/

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.c2

Spacers properly replaced, somewhat. 10mm spacer front and 15mm rear,
front now has 19x9.5 +12 after spacer with 255/40/19 tires
rears 19x11 +8 after spacers with 285/35/19 tires.
Going to up the sizes to 265/40 front and 305/35 rear within the next few months and hopefully the rear won't look as sunk as it does now :/ Also had to switch to open ended lugs for the front's extended studs meh. But wheels are now on with no rubbing at all at any speed, bump, or any kind of cornering

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Gurps

Looks awesome! Any full side profile pics? What spacers were you running on your stock tires after you dropped it?

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Thanks! Didn't get any good full side profile shots yet lol, but going for a shoot tomorrow so hopefully I'll have some to post up here I was running 25mm rear and 20mm front spacers on my stockies after I dropped it, on 285/35 rears and 255/40 fronts.

So this happened on Wednesday..
[Beware] Lotus Autobody (Richmond, BC)


Front lip fell off due to a bad mounting job by Lotus and also bad judgement on my part for actually trusting them when they said that the lip will hold with their install. Lip fell off on the highway while I was going 120km/h and my car actually pushed it on the ground, and it dragged for a while so the concrete sanded a hole in the bottom of the lip.. The crappy shop said it wasn't fixable because it's carbon fiber. So my car looked like this for a few days


I don't have the $550 that I want to spend on another front lip, so with the help of my friend we fixed the lip with fiberglass resin and sanded it back down.


Few days later, I properly mounted the lip back on. Cost of repairing and mounting materials was less than $30, and it's mounted a LOT more securely than when it was done for $100 at Lotus Autobody... You get what you pay for for shops, but you get what you spend time on for DIYs.

Lotus autobody used 2 self tapping screws in total, about 30 cm of 3m tape which barely even covered the corners, and that was it.
I used 3m tape almost all around (ended up running out of tape or else I would have covered the whole thing lol..), silicone all around the edges, 4 bolts w/ washers and locking nuts, and also a bracket + bolt on the bottom of the lip. Install only took a bit over an hour in total with the help of a friend

Having space to work on my car is a huge help. After silicone and 3m tape


The 2 bolts and locking nuts, the top hole was originally drilled by Lotus Autobody. You can see that they ****** up the inside of my bumper with their shitty drilling skills too. Once the lip fell off I actually realized that Andrew @ Lotus Autobody CRACKED my bumper with their shitty drilling skills. The lip just covers it... Well nothing can be done about that now :/


Since the bottom of my lip is lower than the bottom of my bumper, I bought two L brackets at home depot and made a U bracket so I could mount the lip to the bumper. Just a bit more reinforcement



Anddd all done.. properly mounted and slightly cleaned up my engine bay a little. The 350z in the back is owned by my awesome friend who helped me with the repair and install of my lip



Washed as well, even though it's raining tomorrow. So happy to finally have my lip back on

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.c2

Finally finished my sound deadening (only for the trunk) and put my trunk back together today! Took a looong time the first time I started putting this stuff down, but the second layer literally took me less than half the time of the first one. I guess first time always takes the longest

Put 50 sq ft of fatmat in the trunk of my car, tried my best to cover the wheel wells and stuff from the inside. Covered my entire trunk, twice (2 layers of fatmat). Really helped dampen the drone of my exhaust



Put on a bunch of insulation for more dampening since it felt like it worked pretty well on my hybrid



The foam thing for the floor wouldn't fit anymore because of my insulation, so had to trim it a bit but it fit fine afterwards



Put the side trims and foam in



Since I decided to keep my spare tire out, there was no floor so the original trunk carpet sunk down and revealed all my insulation :/ Didn't look so great



So I bought some trunk carpet from Canadian Tire, cut it to fit my trunk and covered the floor of my trunk with it Put the original carpet back overtop. Finally my trunk looks like a trunk again instead of a baking pan!

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Ire

where does your sub go if your spare is gone? doesnt it screw into the middle?

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I have a US imported base model w/ sports package, so it didn't come with the bose speakers or sub Thinking about getting a small sub to stick in the part of the trunk where the foam is, since I want the extra space in the main compartment of the trunk lol

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nismo 1234

man you're fast! only took you like a week to repair and get your lip back on..

.c2

Haha yeah, really couldn't stand the look of my car with the sides, rear, wheels, and no front lip And luckily this was the week that I had a break from my classes, so I fixed everything as soon as I could

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