Wait a second.... am I going to be the only one in Edmonton without custom headlights? :eek:

and BTW, did you swap your shifter before the turbo install?

Nope, but it all has to come out to do the clutch here when the roads clear up, so ill just do it then :) Its not a huge job to remove the turbo and piping, a few bolts and clamps.

I think I am going to plasti dip the fangs in the front and around the rear fog light in the back this week while I wait for more parts to show up. I think that will match the headlights and emblems and blend it all together.

Nice build so far. I had a 40th too (I bought the first one Sherwood Nissan got in), so I'm still partial to it. :tup:

Thanks! I did notice that while looking for my 370Z there was ALOT of 40ths for sale, most of them in Ontario. Leads me to believe there has to be more than 1000, haha.

One day ill move up to the GTR, although I think I am going to like this thing to much to even consider it for some time.

I got the SPC arms in in the front today as well as the camber arms in the back. I didnt have the right tools to bore out that Toe adjuster so I just put the new bolts in and will hope for the best when it comes to alignment. If I cant get within spec then I will worry about either getting a shop to do it or buying the right tools to do it myself. I also got the spacers on and the tires seem to stick out a fair bit. Ill have to see what they look like once I take the car off the jack stands.

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I also got a GTM traction control unit on the way, I am thinking I will wait to tear the dash out until the first few weeks in march after I have everything that needs to go behind it ready to go. I would like to finish up the matting and get the rest of the trunk done and put back together before tearing out the dash. Its alot to remember where stuff goes, haha.

I think this weekend if I get enough time I am going to paint my fangs and around the rear fog light with some plasti dip. I figured it will match the lights and door handles.

The wheels and tires will tuck in once the car is lowered off the stands and it sits on its own suspension.

GTM traction control unit! Cool! I'll have to check it out.

It aint cheap, but from what I could find on it it sounds pretty awesome. They just take a Racelogic brain and build their own harnesses so that it is all plug and play, no cutting of any wires.

One of the only good videos of the Racelogic doing its thing. The in car video starts around 3:00.

I can they the link to work right now (on my ipad) I'll check it out when I get home later.

Getting the bumper ready for a little paint :)

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I like the O in the middle of the grill! Nice touch.

Its to give people "dafaq" reaction. But before they know what the hell is going on they will only see the rear bumper anyways. haha.

Until they're sucked up into the air filter.... :icon14:

Haha. Its going to be a black hole! Hide your kids Hide your Wife! haha

I was looking at other blacked out fang DUI's and found that most people will tape off alot more than I did, as shown here.

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Should I do the same? Or will the plasti dip color match the flat black already there? I was just going to spray it all.

I would mask off everything you don't want sprayed. I can't stand overspray, even if it cleans up relatively easily.

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I was thinking about painting it all, that way everything would be the same shade. What everything between the masking tape I was going to paint till I started looking through threads. You can see the slight difference in shade after the fangs were painted but not the plastic around it. Mind you here it is very minimal, he did not use Plasti Dip.

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Mask it off Zorro...

Roger that rubber ducky! Worst case I paint it later.

Plasti Dip FTW. Havent decided if I am going to do the top part of the front bumper or not. I will have to see how different the colors are once I get the car out in the sun. The flash makes them look quite a bit different, but we'll see. Overall it turned out pretty well.

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Havent finished the back yet, that is the last coat drying.

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Optically speaking, under direct sunlight, hues and tones that are fairly close to each other will blend in. It's when you look under overcast, flourescent or sodium vapour lighting that you can really tell if there is a colour mismatch. Keep this in mind as a tip for doing a final inspection of colour matching if your car ever goes to the body shop for paint work.

Looking good Mitch. :tup:

Thanks Jason. I f'ed up a bit on the rear bumper so im trying to fix it without pulling it all off and having to start over. While pulling the tape off a bit of it tore with the tape :( I smoothed it out the best I could and am in the process of coating just that section again. Fingers crossed.

I spent some time starting to put these gauges in the dash. Overall I am pretty happy with the look. I will post up some pictures of how I will secure them later this week for guys to refer to if any of you plan on doing the same. Overall its pretty straight forward, just got to take your time with the dremel.

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I also installed the fuel gauge overlay, overall pretty happy with it. Didnt line up 100% but I got it very close.

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Looking good! Is this the last of your mods?

I have to install the RJM clutch pedal, should be easy with everything out of the way. Then I am working with a guy (not sure if he is looking to go public yet) to install a racelogic traction control system with the no lift shift and launch control which should be damn near plug and play for us. Just waiting on the parts to arrive.But other than that I should be ready to start piecing it all together here.

I hope to be able to take it out for a spin 3 weekends from now if everything works out, probably without the racelogic but we'll see how that goes. I still have to do the clutch but that wont be something I will be able to do in the garage, ill either have to take it out to my parents farm and tough it out without a lift, or find someone or place that has a lift for me to use. I believe a bunch of us Edmonton guys have a Dyno session with the guys from specialty Z in May, so I would like to have the clutch broken in by then.


Getting closer tho!

That racelogic setup sounds very cool.

I'll be watching to see how your racelogic setup works out. Great company!

Great build

Here is a few pictures of exactly how I went about attaching the gauges to the dash.

I bought these from Canadian tire for something like $1.50 each.
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From there I took a dremel cut off the 2 pieces lengthwise as shown here.
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I used a dab of superglue to hold the nut aligned on the middle hole of the metal piece. Once it was tacked I JB welded it so that I would not have to hold it from spinning when clamping it down on the dash. I then bent both ends of the metal upwards to hook under the dash. I used a 3/16" screw that was 3" long (I wouldn't go any shorter).

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I then drilled a hole in the top of the gauge cover one size bigger than 3/16".
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I then sanded down the top of the head of the bolt to try and get it more flush so that the hat would sit evenly on top of the gauge. In order to sink the bolt head into the cap I ended up going with a 5/8" (or so) drill bit and went down about 1/16 of an inch into the hole I drilled so that it created a dish that the head of the bolt would sit in and bring it more flush with the gauge mount.

I was able to get it pretty close but I also took a flapper wheel to the underside of each hat to get it to fit perfectly, then I just put a tap of silicone under it to hold it. And the finished thing. Minus the crappy iphone pic.

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To wire the gauges I tapped into the power source for the original stock gauges and ran the wires down to the passenger side foot well. I have to figure out where I am going to mount all the control boxes for the gauges. But thats for another day.

Also when I had it all out I wired in Brian's @Thecarkitcompany backup cam and bypass harnesses. Now just to put on the center console.

Those gauges must be fairly thin. I wasn't able to do what you did, and I had to cut most of the plastic away under the top hat.

They are indeed thin.

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I should have known it was PLX. The a-pillar I made with the carbon fibre treatment used a PLX gauge, very easy to work with.

Finished matting both doors (I opted to drill the rivet out instead of removing the glass, much much easier).

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And I also put some oil in her and fired it up!

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I am going to piss some neighbors off, the girlfriend was 2 floors up showering and she heard the car start. Its not even that loud, just very deep. Its deep enough to rattle to lattice above the garage. I let it warm up fully while checking and finding a few oil leaks. Tightened up the fittings and they look to be good, but I would like to rev it to be sure (not something I can do in the garage, haha). I am going to finish wiring in the gauges (just have to wire in the modules, everything else is ran) and hook up the boost controller. Then I would like to take it for a burn before I put everything back on the front to make sure there are no further leaks.

Sooo excited. haha

Niiiiice! :tup:

Spring is getting close :tup: