Asked my girlfriend if we had any kids and if she would be willing to sell them if it meant I'd have to get rid of my Z. She threw a pillow at me and went back to sleep.

Wow! Really sorry about your Z-:shakes head:
Stoopid deer:ugh2:
Stoopid raccoons:ugh2:

Just extremely grateful neither of us were hurt badly. Oh and my girlfriend is ok too.

New body panels and I'll be up and running again. Attempted to talk my body shop guy into repainting the entire car in black cherry rather than just mb and was met with an eye roll. Already bugging Carbon Fiber Element re some of their advertised replacement interior parts. After that will be HFCs and headers.

Incidentally, anyone have any idea how I can go about swapping out my gray coated nismo calipers for red ones? Red would look so much nicer than gray.

After that, halos in orange or red would be the icing on the cake.

Oh yeah-glad nobody was hurt (but the stoopid deer)-they look pretty big up close and personal like that-had an Accord that looked very similar to your Z after our 'encounter' and it was quite an experience.

Sorry to hear about your troubles man but your both OK and the car is getting fixed. Broad daylight is odd because they typically do this in the early mornings or near sunset. Pictures make me cringe because I'm doing my first road trip through deer, elk, and moose country this weekend.

As for the caliper issue try this. Find a lot with some new '13s. Come back w tools about 2am... :eek:

Seriously though you can powder-coat yours or order some if the parts are compatible.

Well the thing is that the '12 nismo calipers are already powder coated (shiny gray with nissan logos). Thinking it'd be easier to swap them out than to refinish mine.

Did you at least get to take the deer home for some 4th of july grilling?

Ok so 21mm lugs, 22mm for the 2 caliper bolts, 4 cinder blocks...:stirthepot:

Funny you should mention that. Two funny encounters during my wait for the flatbed:
-Redneck in a panel van did a slow pass by the deer and turned around to take another look at it before (I guess) deciding it wasn't worth loading up.

-Kid in a dropped mitsubishi 2000GT (???) swung in behind my car to take pictures of it until I started towards him with a tire iron. Dumb to let him provoke me but I wasn't in the mood.

I'm sure there's a legal/economical way to perform the swap.

We should donate some money to a deer hunters club...

Time to take out these deer , one by one..

Bambi, we are coming for you...

A couple of the sales guys at work have started calling me "The Deer Hunter".

sorry to hear, op. hope you get your car back real quick.

:rofl2:You quote is Very funny Kenchan! Really-no sarcasm-thats funny!:icon18:

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