Surfdog's 09 journal

SurfDog

Long term testing yields THIS astounding datapoint over a 10 mile stretch of flatfish denver highway.

I averaged 29 MPG driving like me (hoonagin-ish) over last year or so.

Apparently tuning intake, exhaust, and ECU For max power also puts you almost into Prius country if you drive like you give a damn.

TAKE THAT NANCY PELOSI!!!

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

Hotrodz

LMAO, my Z at best got 28. Generally averaged 26.

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Rusty

Keeping your foot off of the loud pedal helps a lot,

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SurfDog

Finally got around to putting on my z1 under-tray. It had to be modded slightly to accommodate the drain hole on my baffled oil pan.

Also finally pulled the bumper and installed my sweet blacked out nismo or at least new style headlight buckets.



The old ones were beat.

While I was under there I cleaned out my air filters (gen 2 Stillen cold air intake filters are a PITA to get to as the bumper has to come off which means wheel well skirts too. Ug. I’m considering putting the JWT pop chargers back in. The stillen setup is good for about 10 degrees of intake temp. Maybe I can figure out how to route cooler air up there and keep my filters accessible?

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

Rusty

It only takes about 10 minutes to remove the bumper.

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SurfDog

True enough, but I live in a pretty dusty area so clean the filters a lot. Its no biggie just a PITA compared to those much more accessible pop chargers. I order body clips in bulk because they tent to break when I pull the fender well clips. I have toooooo many car projects going these days to be pulling my bumper all the time lol.



Its funny how your cool pampered car (the Z in this case) sort of goes on the back burner when you building some new ones. Doh!

Edit: my brake cooling ducts complicate the bumper pull process a bit. But I’m considering pulling those buggers out anyway as this Z really doesn’t see much track time anymore and my old hoses are so beat up to be basically useless anyhow.


Thank you Jeff Bezos!!!

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

SurfDog

Bits o steering rack all painted up and scrubbed down ready to rebuild.

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

SurfDog

Done

From this:


To this.

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

SurfDog

Next up.

Half shafts.

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

Rusty

Sometimes, removing the u-joint caps can be a nightmare.

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"The Difficult Anytime, The Impossible By Appointment Only"
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SurfDog

Got em! And yes. A bit fiddley




I’ll sandblast them tomorrow

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

SurfDog

Aaaand I just realized I’ve posted all this on the wrong z forum. Doh!

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

SurfDog

Quick repost

Did all this today.





Sandblasting tomorrow on the stubs.

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

SurfDog

No big mods recently, but...

The 370 has been my Summertime DD for a year or two but is going to get thrown back onto track day service as my NASA instruction car. The factory 5 would be massive overkill on that role. Also she’s getting reconfigured a bit (tires pads and and exhaust) for Zcon in August!

I’ll run her (and the 240 if it’s done, which is iffy) at the HPR Zcon track event.

Fun.

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

SurfDog

Just a test fit for hood gaps.

(Oops I posted this in the wrong forum)

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09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix