dougie350

Saw on instagram, looks so sweet.

Wheels are so hard, awesome e30 too

whats your name on instagram... am i following you ?

Saw on instagram, looks so sweet.

Wheels are so hard, awesome e30 too

 

+1 Both awesome machines...325i? Undecided on the over fenders...

cheers man! it was a 318is but now has a m50 2.5 in it! yeh he put the arches on it and decided he hated it haha! so hes taking them off now, but he had to chop the arch so waiting on new arches

gave the car a clean today, must say im loving the new look!

I like that short gun exhaust. Works well with the diffuser. Bet it's loud.

You are really low and I don't see that diffuser lasting mate😳!

cheers mate! it was really loud, but ive put a silencer in now so its alot better! haha yeh luckily its not the lowest part of the car so should be ok..... fingers crossed!

Thanks everyone, yeh it's coming along now, hopefully a few of you will attend the shelsley breakfast club again this year.

Managed to get my rear diffuser on last night. Took a fair bit of chopping but relatively happy with the outcome.

Here it is

Scrapes just love kisses

 

So what's next after the new rear wheels plans wise?

 

haha it doesnt sound like love kisses alot of the time! not too sure man, front of my cage is getting finished in april, i want some skirt diffusers and a rear diffuser and then maybe look into wings....... and eventually some kind of graphics for those japan feels!

Cover it in blackboard paint and doodle, dare you.

All sounds awesome and you need rear wheel pics soon, meant to PM you about the cage actually I sent Huxley a message but didn't get a reply.

i asked hux about your message, he said just message him again

just a little update for you all........

things have been going really well on the car lately managed to get down drift elite to have some more skids, car behaved as per normal, felt amazing to drive! still cant get over how good this lock kit is, its literally the best thing ive ever put on the car!

(heres a tiny video hux took and put on instagram)

*dont forget to give me a follow and follow my stupidity if your on instagram

unfortunately my headlight washer bottle decided to die and now has a massive crack in it, i never use them anyway and think they are pretty pointless without a headlight wiper so i just unplugged the hose to it as it runs from the windscreen washer bottle which is seperate so i couldnt actually fill up my windscreen tank......

this is the first time id actually taken the bumper off, was very straight forward and easy to do. decided to give my front bumper a splitter a quick touch up with trusty halfords gloss black spray can to get ride of some of the abuse the front end has taken! actually came out really well.

generic front end off photo.

managed to get hold of the rear pair of 7 twenty wheels too, they are pretty cool, 10.5 et15 with a 25mm spacer! loads of dish and a really nice finish

and here they are on the car

initially i wasnt a massive fan of them and wondered if i had f*cked up by selling my xxrs, but they have grown on me and the fact i can use my lock kit out weighs anything really! 7 twenty have been in touch with me and want to do a feature on my car too which is awesome! hopefully some time soon.

i wanted to do something with the back end as i thought it was lacking some jazz so i impulse bought a top secret style diffuser on driftworks for quite cheap, its actually made for a r34 skyline apparently, its going to take some chopping to get it to fit but ill find a way.

Went to have a watch at 3 sisters yesterday as they had a bdc vs driftcup demo/practise day on. met up with a few guys who are on this forum too one of them was drifting (if thats what you call it ) so was nice to watch and support (mainly take the p*ss)

heres a few photos that emerged from the day

thats all for now, stay tuned for more

Lol no problem mate

Who's torqen??

Trying to get hold of a set of g35 rear spats, can't seem to find them anywhere new to buy so maybe someone has a set they'd like to get gone

Many thanks. Doug

hi there,

does anyone have a japspeed big gay wing or similar they want to get rid off, i only need the wing not the uprights.

many thanks

Scrapes just love kisses

 

So what's next after the new rear wheels plans wise?

haha it doesnt sound like love kisses alot of the time! not too sure man, front of my cage is getting finished in april, i want some skirt diffusers and a rear diffuser and then maybe look into wings....... and eventually some kind of graphics for those japan feels!

https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-car-parts-accessories/nissan-350z-and-300zx-z32-z33-hsd-dualtech-coilovers-suspension-strust-and-springs-new/1154415913

if these are of any interest to anyone...seems like a good deal to me......

Haha yeh just for test for dude! Cheers man! Yeh 19s would help a lot with running low!

 

Nah 18s FTW

 

When you fit the tie rods did you get a new rubber boot or did the old one refit?

I love 18s but holy @*!# my car scrapes on everything haha! I just re used the old boot dude

Haha yeh just for test for dude! Cheers man! Yeh 19s would help a lot with running low!

Does look good fella, now hurry up and get the rears lol.

cheers man! hopefully this month

cheers everyone! yeh it doesnt look mega! ill see how the tyres last lol

What did you do with the white wheels???

they went a long time ago pal, i sold them and bought the xxrs (on the back) the 12js were too much i would never be able to get them in the arch without loads of camber

had a chance to test out the lock kit last friday at drift elite and oh my god! its amazing feels really smooth and tonnes of lock literally cant fault it, had to roll the arches quite alot as it widens the track alot and i still wanted to run my car low, the adjustments to the rear camber have made alot of difference too, much more grippy on the back, i still want to remove some of the negative camber but die to the rear camber arms being bent we could only go so far, going to speak to driftworks this week and see if they can replace on warranty. im really liking my new 7 twenty wheels, they go with the car really well, just have to wait till i sell my xxrs till i can get the rears to match. going to go for a 10.5 et15 on the back and still run the 25mm spacer.

this is how the car stands now

when you park your car on lock and it looks broken

my brake pads are running fairly low so ive ordered some replacements for those, only standard brembo ones but should do the job, the disks are pretty good but i might be upgrading to some drilled and grooved ones next month.

not quite sure whats next on the agenda, still want to sort the geo out and dial things in a bit more, im also looking at a rear diffuser, side diffusers and a wing of some sort...... will keep you all updated

Right guys I need your help, I was originally after a vertex body kit but I can't get hold of it in this country and shipping would be ridiculous price! I really like the style of skirts on this kit and would like to know if there is anything similar available in this country.

Any input or help is my boy appreciated.

Haha I'm sure it'll be attempted!

Well it's been a busy week for the car, finally got the lock kit on and OMG! It's insane, more lock than I imagined. It all went on pretty well, the old arms were a bit of a pig to get off but it is a 13 year old Nissan so that was expected. Originally I was going to use the tein rods that I had bought but there wasn't going to be enough thread over lap so ended up using s14 rods and trimming them down the right size (my tein rods will be up for sale in the next few days if anyone's interested) so that sorted that problem. Along with the kit going on we replaced the rose joints on the drift works arms too and so far so good the play from the old joints has gone, but I have noticed that the locking collars on the camber arms seems to keep coming loose :-/ which is a bit annoying, so going to have to look into this further. As we went to fit the new toe arms I found out that one of my rear camber arms has bent 😡 so still couldn't get the alignment I wanted. I planned on getting as close to 0 camber as possible but as the rear arm was bent could only shave just over 1 degree off so it sits at about -2.4 now, a little better for grip but still not perfect. Front camber is now at -5 degrees which is a bit more than I wanted but the lock kit widens the track a lot more so needed to tuck the wheels back into the arch, I still need to roll the arches more, but the fitment is spot on. I can't remember the full allignment specs but I'll find out later in the week when I go back to roll the arches and will update. I'm sure your all intreagued to see the results of the kit so here it is

😱😱😱

Unfortunately my xxrs where never going to fit under the arches, being 10.5j and essentially et-5 with the spacer to clear brakes so had to buy new front wheels, they do a 9j on the wheels I have got but they look terrible so I opted for something different.

After a lot of browsing I went for a fairly new brand of wheels, some 7 twenty style 49 in matte bronze, 9.5j et18, but they don't clear the brakes at all, even with the 25mm spacer it still just rubbed so had to add another 5mm slip on, so effectively they are 9.5 et-12.

I'm really liking these wheels, loads of dish for a 9.5 (I think 4.35 inches) and the bronze really goes with the car. I will be ordering a pair of rears too which will be 10.5j et18 and with a 25mm spacer.

I will get some more pics and update later in the week, once it goes back to the unit to get the arches rolled, I'll get some decent photos of the lock kit fitted and pics of the wheels on the car etc.

Let me know what you think everyone 😃

Ive got a 135i thats running about 430hp with M3 footwork, its a weapon but the diff is is terrible, its one of these e-diff things that decides when to lock and unlock all on its own which totally lets it down on track. Ive got an M3 diff to go on and I might do a bit of a slidey slidey day after that, its a bit nice to use regularly though.

 

Fair play on the camber, that explains a lot - if youre only using half the tyre then heroics are probably best left in the locker, I can see once youve got it sorted youll be flying though. Show them what a 350Z can do

ohh now that does sound fun! 430bhp in a little 1 series YES!!! yeh ive heard about those e diffs, will be awesome when you put the m3 diff in though! haha yeh, next event is drift matsuri at rockingham so ill get lots of footage and hopefully lots of speed and angle too

sweeeeet! i do like those grip royals!

I've got a contact but it won't be cheap lol - on average its a $750 - $1000 shipping for just a single bumper from US companies. I can get it a bit cheaper but its still going to be costly

 

Drop me a pm if you want to discuss

blimey! is that just the shipping alone?