danegrey's 370Z Journal

danegrey

something pop in my mind, my DD is a Genesis Coupe, never thought it was a sports car, but in some top xxx lists comes out as a sports car.... Hmmm so I own two sports car, but the Z really is a sports car, the Genesis Coupe I would consider a sports coupe....

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danegrey

had a little fun today, took the Z on tail of the dragon, really do not know why I do not know why I don't do it more. Since it is about 35 minutes to the start, in total there and back was about 2 1/2 hours, nice little drive to break up the day....

the only thing odd about doing this today, there were Miata's all over the place.....

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KE_1508

Nice thread Dane! I'm excited to run TOTD next year at Zdayz. The thing I'm most worried about are the cops. I've heard a lot of stories in the past. My Tomei will be doing me no good in the sound department. lol

danegrey

I saw a state trooper, and he was in the process of positioning the car. Besides that didn't see any other, but again, this was Thursday late morning...

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danegrey

life is funny, I was talking to my son and his friend's 240SX had gotten stolen... He said his friend had 5 figures of mods, well that is easily done today. So I got to thinking, maybe I should talk to my insurance company, easily have about 5-8K in new parts. So i called them and they said they would check.

Well the corporate office ask is he racing???? She called back and gave me a heads up, seems like now I will have to talk to corporate... I do not call autocross racing, and I have not tracked the car, and that's not racing either...

So it will be interesting to see what happens, but they are looking at other options just in case.

No common on, been with the insurance company since I was 16, that is now 48 years... Racing, define racing....

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danegrey

LOL, took the Z in for a oil change at the Nissan dealership and saw two 370z while I was out. that is interesting normal do not see anything...

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danegrey

over the past couple of days, been working on removing the headlights to put new ones in. It has been interesting from working on the car, since when it comes to this I am usually all thumbs. But I got the front bumper off, the DIY on headlight removal helped a lot. Did it a bit different, in that I pulled the headlights out to get the electrical connector apart. Then I noticed other things where how thing clipped together, were worn or broken. Hmm, now what to do or how to replace.

Items are like the bottom of the bumper, where everything hooks to the inner fenders, etc...

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ok, next off to Nissan to get some parts, so, I can put the new headlights on and fix a couple of these problems, thou I will have to think about the bumper

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danegrey

Frustrating day, went to the Nissan dealership to order parts and there network connection was down, damn computers so dependent we are on them.

Then came home and went to Nissan parts web site, and the damn drawing are so same, cannot get a good picture of what I need.

Guess call Nissan corporate, maybe they can tell me how to get bigger pictures

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danegrey

Spent the past two weeks in Montana on holiday. the biggest surprise to me was the speed limit... 80 mph for interstate and 70 mph on 2 lanes... I heard about the openness, but never thought about the speed limit... thoughts went to having the Z there to run, for it does like to run...

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danegrey

Went to the dealership again to get the following two pieces..
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Had to laugh they were 57.00 each....really were not repairable, but I will not throw them away, maybe I can figure out some how to use parts of the parts....

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danegrey

finally got the new headlights installed
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now some more minor work to get done...

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Lots of Changes
the Z needs to be driven and driven hard for the car lives for it

danegrey

Happy Anniversary
Anniversary yes, it was 6 years ago, that I bought my Z...
All day affair, should have walked away and then came back
But it was not un-wrapped from shipment
so I was the first customer to drive the car and only customer to drive the car
by the end of the day, had a 2012 Black Cherry Sports Package Z...

it was the damn color I could not walk away from

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the Z needs to be driven and driven hard for the car lives for it

danegrey

well next round of improvements on the Z are done:

mono shift knob

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Battery strap

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hood struts -- Z1

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oil cooler Sebtrab - 34 Row

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with the oil cooler Z is already for Track Days next year..

The only other improvement that is needed, is the driver...
with a car so capable, I need to improve my driving..

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Lots of Changes
the Z needs to be driven and driven hard for the car lives for it

danegrey

Just for grins, made a list of all mods:

Stillen Short Throw Shifter
KW Variant Coilover Kit
370z(Sport) Brake Upgrade Kit
Whitelin/Hopkins Sway Bars
34 Roll Oil cooler Setrab with Theromastic
JDM Fairlady Rear Fog Light
MA Motorsports 370Z Harness Bar
Sparco 4 point Harness (red) (passenger)
Sparco 6 Point Harness (red) (Driver)
In-Mirror Univ Backup Cam - SUCKS - need to find a replacement
2015 Nismo Headlights
Z1 motorsports headers /
Z1 motorsports, 'AAM Competition 2.5" Resonated Test Pipes - 350Z /G35 VQ35DE'
Recaro cross sportster cs
Siebon Carbon Rear Wing
Stillen Gen III cold intake
Door handles painted -- color of car
FI Exhaust with 18" resonators polished Stainless Steel 4.5" tips
Carbon Fiber B-pillars
Sport Ray Rims painter gray
Z1 Battery Tie down
Z1 Hood Struts
mono shift know
Z1 black shank type lug nuts
nismo sway bars -- replace
clear bra -- front bumper / hood / front fenders
replaced the panels underneath the car -- road damage

Tune
HP - 338
Torque: 266


Tires
Michelin Pilot Sport 4S
265/35 front
295/30 rear

In-proces
Carbon Fiber inner door panels / switch covers

Just happy, now I have to live up to my motto and drive it

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husam2012

Do you have the total cost of all these mods? just wondering if you don't mind


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