jonny mac

14 hours ago, ZMANALEX said:

350Z VQ35DE gearboxes in stock, just drop me a PM if I can help further.

 

Collection or shipping from Perthshire. 

 

Alex.

sent you a pm mate, I'm not far from you being in Aberdeen

thanks, after looking around I am basically willing to take any 350z box now providing it has an external clutch slave cylinder with fork

yeah it's for another project, I need the cd009 box as it has the strongest internals, it'll be going through a 500hp 2jz engine and custom fitting sandwich plates etc used for mounting the box to the engine

hi folks, please let me know if anyone has a cd009 for sale  I'm in Scotland so if one comes up I can collect rather than have it posted from down south

I don't mind either way  

needs to be a mint box with no whines or grinding or notchy gears etc

please drop me a pm if you have one for sale and i'll be happy to deal if the price is right!

hi folks, please let me know if anyone has a cd009 for sale  I'm in Scotland so if one comes up I can collect rather than have it posted from down south

I don't mind either way  

needs to be a mint box with no whines or grinding or notchy gears etc

please drop me a pm if you have one for sale and i'll be happy to deal if the price is right!

hi, specifically looking for a cd009 gearbox, the 2006 last revised model gearbox from a 350z

testing my luck before i go off and hunt one of the mkiv supra 6 speed getrag boxes, the 350z cd009 boxes are supposed to be just as strong and can take 800-1000hp no problem

oem part no: 32010-CD009

i'd like the box to be in as best condition as possible please, no crunching, no whines etc as it's going to be used with a high performance engine

any out there?

i tried to buy brand new from main dealer in japan but they said it's unavailable plus the shipping costs on a 60kg box wouldn't be cheap

contact me on here, or via pm

thanks.

p.s. before anyone says it, i've already asked zmanalex

monday 30th nov 2015 banzai japanese car magazine shoot day!

I arrived nice and early to get everything setup and the car cleaned again

photographs were taken by Steve McCann, nice fella and will be doing my wedding next year too which is cool

I will post his pics when i get permission, from what i've seen already they look next level!

no date when it will be featured in the mag as it's just up to the editors whenever they fancy using it so i'll just be keeping an eye out for it

all i can say is i'm over the moon

number plate ain't real....

shots continued into the evening/sunset

anyway, for now, the car is stored in the garage all nice and warm for winter coming

possibly sold my rear wheels too which will give me some money to get my other work wheels chrome coated and cleaned up so the car will finally have a matching set

got myself a 4.1 ratio diff and had it welded

then painted the casing silver, also put in new oil and sealed on the backplate

also put in some driftworks solid front diff bushes

the next thing i'd wanted to do was black out my headlights like i had done on my first s14a 5 years ago

used a bosch heat gun and made them toasty hot to break the sealant, then pulled them apart which was quite tricky

took out the screws and removed the chrome insets and painted them

did the same to the sidelights, these are a bit harder as they are all plastic as opposed to the headlights, so more chance of bending them out of shape

all i need to do is reheat them back up for refitting and i'll also be adding a bead of tiger seal around them before i push them back together

i've also ordered a pair of +25mm vented front wings from kinzuru kits

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bought red lense tint spray and done the amber corners on the back lights

just need to add a light layer of black over them

bought new gauges from demon tweeks, 2 SPA designs 52mm half and half gauges

one is water temp / battery voltage

other is oil pressure / temprature

all come with new sensors / loom

bought an inline rad hose fitting and put the new water temp sensor in there

changed the water neck on the engine and used the old oem 90 degree bend i had for my other head, (looking for one of these if anyone has one for sale)

also renewed the O rings in the water pump return top pipe and put a new gasket in behind it against the head....£3.19 plus vat per washer :S

then a new supra 2jz top rad hose which had to be cut down to fit

since the tiger seal was out for the headlights i thought now would be a good tinme to do the bung on my rear window

then the black front lights

unforutnately the car sat like this during the wait for my new front wings....

after alot of chasing and so on, turns out they were behind on production, i couldn't wait as i had to get wings on the car for a test fit / drop them off to paint / refit them back onto the car in time for a photographer

one quick call to EP racing, within 24 hours they were here

dropped them off at stevie's on friday night, went to collect them at 8am sunday looking like this.....

can't thank stevie b enough! match is perfect and paint is perfect as usual....so good of him to squeeze them in with such a short notice of time!

rushed home to get them on the car as i only had two hours spare on sunday to get things 100% for monday's photo session

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not yet, still haven't bought a welder unfortunately. money ran low and had other things to pay for

the engine I take out will be sold as it's a good one

bought some ep racing bonnet spacers, seen them on a few comp cars and decided that funciton>form, not a huge fan of how they look but if they work then they are staying

next option is a vented dmax bonnet

repaired my wind deflector which snapped in half at finalboss on track, used tiger seal and found a perfect method of holding it still haha

not sure why or how but the broken off half was found by one of the staff there, many thanks to that dude! can't remember your name sorry

also got round to putting the original Q's badges back on, hopefully they will stay on and won't get slapped off by a tyre haha

new 235/40/17 federal 595 rsr tyres bought from mytyres.com for the front

on and balanced

bought a 350z steering pump

and some cnc made brackets from steven donnelly at diemax, great guy and very helpful! highly recommend him!

these retain the stock location of the power steering pump but using the 350z pump, so i didn't even have to change my aux belt

installed, i just had to change the position of my fuel pipe since the feed pipe is slightly different now and the fuel rail AN fitting i used was originally made around the old pump

rolled her outside and started the car

filled with fresh new steering fluid as i'd drained the system

unfortunately my japspeed radiator had cracked along the bottom tank, it was spraying water onto the aux belt and causing it to squeak

that was the end to my weekend, i had arranged to go drifting on sunday too so the saturday was a massive disapointment for me after doing all that work on the car with the roll bars, new tyres etc then this....

koyo rad ordered through auto extreme, which also means i now have to make a new front pannel as it was made around the s13 japspeed rad which isn't as wide as the koyo one

got my 1jz rocker covers back with 2xan10 breathers welded on, one hole blocked off by the turbo

also a 22mm pipe welded into the alloy sump for the drain

thanks to auto extreme, my koyo rad arrived also ordered a koyo rad cap, unfortuantely doesn't come with a new cap!

fitting was a bit of a nightmare due to the old japspeed rad being smaller, the new front rad pannel had to be redone

chopped off what was there, cut slits into the existing pipe and bent it further forward to gain more angle, then paul it welded back up

then cut out a small piece on each side and welded the gaps, this allowed the rad to come properly forward this time

welded shut the gaps then sprayed to prevent rust

getting there

tacked rad mounts in place before fully welding

top hose done, i have ordered a mkiv supra radiator hose kit to see if that will work better and just have one silicone top pipe rather than a join

was missing the lower part of my mk3 supra fan shroud so paul shaped a piece of aluminium to fit

oil cooler mounts welded back on and it just needs painted now

this time with a fan shroud

unfortunately i had to miss out on the november 1st skid day at driftland as i bought a car the weekend before

so all my spare money/drift fuel money was used on the car and transport tickets to england and fuel all the way back to scotland for my new daily

bought some more parts, can't wait to go drifting again

A31 Cefiro front anti roll bar, ultra racing 27mm

Super pro Front anti roll bar drop links and bushes

ultra racing front 27mm D poly bushes

super pro polybush rear anti roll bar D bushes

super pro rear drop links and poly bushes

also bought a stock rear anti roll bar (18mm) and then had it blasted and powdercoated along with all D bush brackets

conceptua tuning gave me an awesome deal on the roll bar parts and some other engine bits i've ordered for something else

unforutnately i got ripped off £80 just for powdercoating the roll bar, i'm not going back there again!

everything is absoltuely covered in grease and the superpro supplied grease, i'm very much against leaving things dry and prone too failure

plus it means next time you come to work on it, you just wipe the grease off and the threads/bushes are like brand new underneath, for example, my alignment last month!

the a31 rb cefiro anti roll bar clears the 1jz front sump fully, i did have too trim down two brace brackets on the nismo style front bar however it still has the solid bar fitted so no difference there really

also had to reduce my steering lock, thankfully i'd thought about this when making the front end, the lock stops were easy, just undone the two 22mm nuts and unscrewed the lock stops forward so the wheels don't hit the new roll bar

it has been a great weekend, i took the car out for a run afterwards and it's quite different now, it certainly stays more level now

also this week a spare kouki rear bumper turned up which i have planned to get repainted as mine has a few marks

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so i'm starting a new project, a new engine, some fun basically to get going in my spare time.

the plan is to have an engine with some better down low power, spools the turbo quciker and is 100% reliable and fresh

new piston rings, new head gasket, new cams, new gaskets everywhere etc

bought a new block, more info on this later

started stripping my spare 1jz head

took it down to a local head shop

along with some new stem seals, (24 in total)

all valve guides are nice and tight, he said the only bad bit was one valve was showing sign of burning the seat, you can see it in this pic

so 24 valves cleaned, polished, shimmed and reground later, and 24 new stem seals

the head had 7thou remvoed and resurfaced

P.S THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH MY CURRENT ENGINE! this is just a bit of a fun side project

also getting my bumper back

team tekno guys in the 86's were so good to watch, let alone drive with, that's me up front

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my fav pic, so good!

gave my mate fraser a lift home on the sunday, thanks to him and jamie for taking wheels down, bad luck his wheel spacer sheered and gave up down there

since getting home, the car has sat in the garage, been busy with other stuff

got the bottom of the rear 1/4 pulled out,

bought a new pair of spats and they are now off to get painted silver, i only needed one but couldn't buy them seperate

i'll get some of the footage i'd asked photographers to send me uploaded to youtube and on here soon

my changes for the next drift day, i want to put a set of anti roll bars on my car (never ran any), get the alignment done properly, soften the rear damping, run less tyre pressure on the back and run wider rear tyres

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spats arrived

dropped them off at stevie's to get painted

took the car for another alignment, this time at a different place

front caster wasn't too far off for having never been setup since i put the car together, annoyingly nobody could set it/had a machine that could that i knew of until now

all better! just got too try level off my front camber as one side has more, i think it's because recently i had the front hub bolts slack and maybe didn't pull the hub out when tightening them again

had the car into wallace performance for an alignment check, they still couldn't get the castor set as the machine won't pick it up on my car

needing to get it checked somehow soon as it's never been set right!

then loaded the car up and made the trip to driftland for the may weekender

only done the saturday and went home as i ran out of tyres/had stuff to do on the sunday

arrived there after a long drive with the garage hobo lot, unfortunately paul's mk3 supra done the bottom end in on the way down so his weekend was cut short

got my first few laps in....was VERY nervous and shi**ing myself haha, first time drifitng in 10 months (ignore the temp gauges, camera caught them funny)

ran the full outside anti clockwise so loads of speed along the wall then a big throw into the corner

thanks to the photographers who took pics of me skidding, hit them up on facebook and give them a like!

new turbo setup: awesome! i have had to re-learn how to drive the car on the track, it requires a solid commitment to keep it in boost while drifting since it's a big laggy as it'll immediately grip throwing you wherever it wants if you don't keep your foot planted

i'd bought a gopro hero 3 white edition, here's a small clip from one of my track sessions, took a young lad out from the pits who loved it! was his first time in a drift car

i still refuse to skid/manji along the wall after last year's spin haha. MORE SEAT TIME NEEDED!! i was slowly building my confidence by the end of the day,

I CAN'T WAIT TO GET MORE SEAT TIME AND PRACTICE IN!!

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changed to another 4.3 diff

got sick of the gfb controller laying ontop of my dash just flying arond

tiger sealed a bolt onto the back as it doesn't come with a holder, you only get a piece of sticky back tape for mounting it which didn't work well on my dash

used an existing hole for the old fan switch and put it to good use

removed the 70mm greddy gauge and sold it to a mate,

replaced it with a smaller 60mm greddy gauge and a random ebay holder which broke as soon as i tried to push the gauge through

had some spare time at work waiting between jobs, took the backbox off and had some proper buffing pads on the grinder, finally got a good shine back

bought a new wide angle lens attachment on ebay for a tenner so tried it out

chopped up a silencer and made it fit my backbox

car is nearly ready to come home, all that's left is a fan shroud and i've got some 1200 degree capable silicone on the way for sealing the turbo vband better

also got a black turbo blanket on the way so i'll be selling that kevlar one i have on just now

new turbo jacket turned up

thanks to my mate alex, we rolled the front arches as the tyres were constantly catching, wasn't too worried how they would turn out as i want vented wings anyway, plus one wing is slightly bent from my headlight hitting the wall at finalboss last year

one side came out really good

the passenger side, not so well, the arch liner retainer tab caught the inside of the arch and caused a crease so we gave up while we were ahead haha

it'll be sorted one day however i'm really keen on getting some vented +20mm front wings from srb power and a dmax bonnet so i'll see what 2015 brings

tonight i properly done the driver side harness, it's wrapped around the cage and properly adjusted for me now

with all that done i took her out for a run since the roads had sort of dried up

made up the last section to join the backbox on

also got the exhaust sitting at a slight angle which was exactly what i'd wanted

then every join was stainless tig welded

paul had to take the downpipe to his work to use a different tig plant which could pulse and go slightly lower amp's than his own one, this will hopefully stop the downpipe moving with good heat management

took my camera down to the workshop for some better pics,

anti roll bar will be off again, it was only on there to use as a guide for making the exhaust

the front is also support with tie wraps since the downpipe was off

wish i could weld properly, i'll be looking into my own tig plant soon and going to make an attempt at starting to learn, i know a fair bit now through picking up from what paul's told me so it should be good fun

diff will be changed this week because i'm sick of the green backplate now haha!

downpipe back from welding

including the lambda sensor flange i'd made

a tag was welded onto the downpipe and a bracket made up with an A brace to support the downpipe

also the wideband bung was put in further down and a new hanger made for the center pipe off the gearbox mount box section

bought a new pipercross foam filter from demon tweeks, want to keep up the black theme in the engine bay

need a black turbo blanket now!

paul managed to get a spare evening to do some more welding on the exhaust,

it's so time consuming! another 5 hours spent on the car and it literarly looks like it took 10 minutes to do,

the begining of the 3" > oval piece was made after the downpipe

then slowly began to take shape of an exhaust

braced it off the gearbox mount to stop any pulling on the downpipe since it's not welded yet

here's a view from the sill looking at the chassis leg....can barely see the exhaust

we have raised it up along the floor too so it actually sits higher than the backbox now

new slam pannel made up, supports rad, oil cooler, headlights etc

got the front end back together and put in a new set of 6k HID's i bought online weeks ago

i need to allign the lights again with the beam setter

car was then moved onto the spare ramp which is never used and i could begin the next job i've wanted to sort for a while

since going single turbo the exhaust has always pi**ed me off, keeps catching the speed bumps outside my house, without a flexi in the downpipe either i was worried i'd cause some damage above

it had buffed through one of the welded joins on the back too and was leaking out there

also when on the rolling road, i had to remove the wastegate to make an adjustment, done this by removing the lambda sensor from the downpipe and it came out the top

the lambda sensor stud which was a bolt welded onto the back of the flange had snapped the weld and was spinning!! tightened it with vice grips holding the thread and an open end spanner

overtime with the heat etc it must have worked it's self loose as when i tried to tighten it again the stud just fell out in my hands

so as per usual with my car, nothing's done in half measures....:S new exhaust time

the stud left me in a pickle, josh had welded the bolt to the lambda sensor flange, then the flange was welded ontop of the downpipe we made then the hole for the sensor drilled out

so i couldn't get a welding torch inside at the angle to tack a new bolt in place and my exhaust was badly leaking from there since only half the sensor was held on, throwing off my afr gauge which i couldn't risk

new exhaust time then!

took off the downpipe and exhaust, checked the manifold for any leaks incase it wasn't just the downpipe i was hearing, all is good!

bought a few v bands for making a new system, no more gaskets to ever leak!

spare 3" flexi from previous box of spares

and took delivery of some 3" 1.5 meter lengths of pipe

the apex exhaust backbox will possibly be going too as i'm potentially making a staggered shotgun backbox now....NO silencers BLAST PIPES!

my mate paul is chopping up some 3" pipe into loads of little angle pieces to make a 'lobster back' style downpipe, basically loads of pieces put together to form tight angles

the exhaust will be tig stainless welded and the plan now is to make it a full oval system along the floow for maximium ground clearance

the last thing i've done lately is get the reverse lights working

the reverse light switch on the gearbox had basically no loom left as someone cut it super short before i bought the box, managed to get two wires soldered onto what's left and joined them into the oem sr gearbox loom which was still hanging down the back of my dash from the fusebox

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some more work was done last night

v band on apex backbox and on bottom of flexi for new downpipe

paul had managed to use the massive press at his work on some pieces of my pipe for the floor of the car, however when they squash normally the ends pinch and become almost pointed

so a solid bar in the vice and each pipe was hand beaten into a circle at the sides, took me ages haha

while i was doing that, paul started making the new downpipe

the last pipe had to be dented in with a hammer to clear the last cylinder's manifold branch, now, since we have more time/material etc it has correct clearance and much more room to allow for expansion etc (not that it'll be much)

and same again with the steering rack, rather than a mashed in pipe, this time it has max clearance

one 'finished' downpipe, needs welded up which paul's going to make a jig for to stop any flex/movement with heat

the other thing needing added is my lambda sensor stainless fitting which will be made up and a wideband bung which i have

How so? what fails in them? also I'm just up the road from you .... well the other end of the a90 I mean

after doing some research I've seen some mixed reviews, I would like to know, what is the strongest model of 350z gearbox released?

I read somewhere a cd09 from a 2005 model is? would that be correct?

will need to take around 5-600 hp

it was all good till the dash paint...sorry man I just don't like that, looks too bold, what about gunmetal grey or metallic black?

if you wanted to make the inside nicer, what about an r34 or nardi steering wheel? white dials? new head unit?

new fuel pipes made up and filters and stuff

more loom stuff

whif bitz upgraded performance coils

prop seal

getting it all working

mapped by russ at performance HQ

so far 406bhp at wheels

oil cooler stuff ready

new black metalic cam covers and new toyota gaskets

custom made front power brace by paul

chopped up front end and decided to brace it with a sufficent crash bar and also move radiator forward enough to run viscous fan

back out in half an hour though

began to focus on making more power and sorting ecu, car kept hitting fuel cut on factory limit

550cc uk supra injectors

e manage blue, 3 bar map sensor too

6 boost turned up

custom made plug and play emange loom

twins off

engine bay full loom removed

dash back out and loom tucked behind dash from engine bay, extended wires through for lights, alternator, starter and other sensors off the orignal fuse box

downpipe made, new coolant temp sensor for ecu in, rocker covers sanded for paint

everything heat protected, new oil feed for turbo etc

screamer made

sard fpr bought and sandwich plate for temp sensor

ALOT of late nights got me here

mate paul welded up some parts for me

custom oil return

matching seats from some sort of limited edition evo

chopped all this extra rubbish out the engine loom while i was soldering in new resistor pack for new injectors

new toyota inlet mani gaskets and removed the water/oil heat exchanger pipework

new custom fuel rail bored out to 10mm and AN6 fittings on each end, inejctors flow tested and cleaned too

hydraulic shop next door made a new power steering line

back together for now

new power steering pump

outside for first time in ages

more stuff arriving

2jz pvc valve and hose upgrade

matched r33 skyline brake master cylinder

first drive...took it for alignment then home, was unreal!

adjustable lock stops made as steering was binding on full lock

oil cooler for future use

changed a few things, new toyota o2 sensor, went throuh 2 alternators, coil pack clips, another ecu all to get it running smoother

lip on

skid day

running warm so bonnet and bumper are off

then another skid day at driftland

gk tech r33 shaft spacers to prevent cv failure

finalboss 2014

car was on form but again during drifting, serious heat from the engine bay

came over the hill along the wall in 3rd gear flat out and span, managed to save it and with the slowest touch of the wall i broke the intercooler and headlight brackets and headlight mounts....my own fault for going silly and not lifting the throttle trying to link the whole straight section

dash and carpet back in

seats in

new front end parts, tie rods, rod ends, front tension rods, lower arm bushes and stuff

more toyota parts, thermostat, dip stick, various seals etc

lower arms extended 20mm and braced

first time out the garage, yeah.....

exaust for twins made up of soarer jzz30 downpipe mixed in with some 3" stainless pipe

cross over pipe done

full exhaust wrapped

getting there

various pipes and stuff

old stuff

bought new r33 front brakes

soarer badge needs to go on somewhere

subframe and brake pipes done

new wheel and hkb boss from driftworks, also funny auto bacs gear stick from japan

new box oil

also some seat rails for recaro seats

getting there:

made up new fuel pipes and swapped the sides over since the 1j inlet mani is on the opposite side of the engine

mocked up some electric push fans and a fmic with pipework

got it lifted up high enough

off it comes

it's ridiculous how much the subframe locking collars have split the old bushes

got my powdercoated stuff back

magic aero rear spats arrived

horrible job on my back with a grinder, cleaning up the rear end of the shell....

also can i just say....god i love imports soo clean compared to UK cars!!!

all stone chipped and cleaned up, fully protected now

a pic of the sills mid clean up before spraying stonechip on....making all the uk 200sx boys jealous

rear arm bushes

and a jdm turbo non abs rear prop to go with my new diff

driftworks hubs

ball joints into the powedercoated arms

and bushes

i'm one for greasing everything, i hate siezed threads etc so stripped and prepped everything properly with this build

bearings tidied up