Silverthorn

@Andy_Muxlow Cheers mate, appreciate it!

@Humpy Cheers mate! It's finally starting to look how I envisaged it a few years ago. Fingers crossed the wheels will be the final piece to the puzzle.

Needed somewhere to finally mount the switches for the Aircups and YAW Sensor so removed the now redundant heated seat panel and switches and quickly modelled a replacement. Had a friend from work 3D print it for me and installed it just a moment ago. Works a treat and mounts using the original mounting screws so win win! The holes are 16mm diameter so perfect for most cheap 2 way switches and the included switch from the Stanceparts Aircups. If anyone wants the .ipt file so they can print their own then feel free to send me a PM on here and i will ping you an email with the file attached. Oh, I also bought another set of wheels watch this space...

Wheels are looking good mate! What sort of specs are you looking at once the adapters are fitted?

Didn't realise how much of a difference a polarising filter makes on a dslr for car photography. God damn

@Mike k-g Evo-R are the only I can think of that will come within that budget. http://www.evo-r.com/store/product/370z-carbon-fiber-b-pillars

I swear I spend more time taking photos of it than I do driving it

@parello9 Cheers mate, appreciate it If only I had some shows to take it to

@davey_83 Cheers mate! Finally satisfied with the ride height and overall aesthetic of the car now. Time to fill my boots with the more boring stuff. Really want to just replace absolutely every bush, ball joint, brace over the whole car and paint the rear knuckles, arms etc. Even when there's no 'mods' to do I still need something to keep me occupied

Photos, photos & a few more photos... Here's one of the car fully lifted on the aircups in case anyone was considering a set. They definitely make the car look absolutely hideous but they do allow me to park on my own drive

It's a slippery slope that's for sure. After doing this all I can think of doing is taking it all back off and painting the lower control arms, subframe and everything on the rear Im convinced that if I had the space to leave my car in pieces for long periods of time it'd never drive again. I'd just spend my entire time restoring every single bolt on the car

Needed to replace my UCA bushes after all the welding on the arms so figured I'd give the whole front suspension a bit of a refresh. UCAs have been sprayed in a neon pink and 4 new bushes pressed in. The knuckles have been sprayed in a matt black with glitter lacquer over the top. New ABS Sensors as well as all the bracketry being painted has made the whole lot look alot tidier. Swapped from the 50mm spacers down to 40mm so that I could reduce the camber a touch and gain some clearance between the knuckle and my coilover/aircups. Just needs an alignment now and it's good to go

Likewise, I've had this issue with mine from 1st to 2nd. A gearbox fluid change and some molyslip did help the situation quite a bit it still persists when cold. I just tend to baby any 1st to 2nd changes to ensure that it doesn't get any worse. A gearbox rebuild with new syncros can be pretty expensive from what I've seen.

Seriously jealous of those front wings. Look so damn good!

Watched a video of hers from ages ago when she fitted a set of 326Power Coilovers to her FC RX7. Good taste that's for sure

@davey_83 I'm quite suprised as well to be honest I can't say it was as easy getting through the gravel car park to the exit afterwards though

Stupid ride height? Check. Hideously impractical? Check. God-damn awesome? Check.

@davey_83 It's an 'Aircup' system rather than a conventional air ride system so I still drive the car at this height. The cups can only lift the car at speeds below 10mph so is only useful to get over a bump or something like that before returning to its usual height. Function-wise, it shares more similarities with the 'nose lift' on supercars than a conventional air ride system. It's the perfect balance between having a car stupidly low while having a little bit of practicality. Obviously I still have to drive just as careful as I did previously as the second I get to normal road speeds I'm stuck at my ridiculously low ride height it's just helpful getting to car shows and on my drive as even the bridge over the track at Silverstone was pretty awful last year, let alone what it'd be like now! Driftworks made a video about the cups which can be found here. But yes the tyres on the front have been flipped. They lasted a fair while considering the alignment is done by eye. Once the world is back to normal I plan on taking it to get the toe all sorted. Such a shame I've got it all clean now though as I'm desperate to just go somewhere on a drive and take some photos

Aaaand the boot is complete. The car is now ready for the non-existent car show season

With the ol' Corona kicking in over the past few days it was the perfect time to get a few jobs done on the car; first of which was of course installing the Stanceparts Aircups. The install overall wasn't too difficult, just quite time consuming if you want to do a tidy job of running the air lines, wiring etc. Also, due to an interference issue between the rear top mount studs on the chassis and the top of the aircups, you have to drill out the studs on the chassis to thru holes and press studs into the top mounts of your coilovers. This took me probably longer than it should as a lot of the drill bits i owned wouldn't even touch the stud, even the Cobalt ones! In the end i just ground the top of the stud down from inside the boot and then punched the stud out of the chassis. Then a 10mm Cobalt Drill Bit to open up the holes to 10mm for the studs. With regards to the studs i used, they were some M10 x 1.25 Wheel Studs from a Yamaha Banshee ATV that i pulled in using the corresponding nuts and some washers. Worked a treat! No idea why Nissan didn't adopt this method as they're so much easier to work with. Air lines were ran under a cover under the car alongside all of the other lines. Wiring was ran through the interior, behind the passenger seat and then through the centre console back to the boot. Absolutely 0 wires or lines visible from anywhere on the car, no matter how hard you look I originally intended to hide the tank under the boot floor but with the sub in place and a few other bits and pieces i figured it'd probably be a whole lot easier to mount it in view. I also never use the boot so the reduction in space is of no concern to me. I made a boot floor out of some 6mm MDF and traced the original carpet to generate the template. all of the other ancillaries are mounted under the floor out of view to give it a bit of a cleaner look. I'm just waiting on some carpet now to finalise the install. Overall I'm very happy with them just for the fact that i can finally park on my own drive again! Much safer than leaving the car out on the road where it'll no doubt eventually get its wing mirror knocked off by some useless driver. I'll also actually be able to get into most car shows now! It was getting a bit ridiculous owning what is essentially moving towards just being a show car when i can't even get into any shows with a slight bump... I also picked up a set of 9cm pink 326Power Wheel Nuts from a guy on Facebook. Got them for a pretty good deal and look loads better than my old rusty steel 'tuner' nuts. After all this, and to celebrate being able to park in my own drive, i thought I'd bring out my new DAS -6 PRO Plus Machine Polisher to give it a quick go. It's amazing what a difference the upgrade has made. This, partnered with some 'Hex-logic' pads and Menzerna Compounds has done wonders for the paint. A good few hours were spent on the bonnet and wings alone and they came out close to flawless. My old machine polisher was great for making a car shiny but when it came to actually removing some of the deeper scratches it wouldn't cut it (excuse the pun ). After using the DAS and inspecting the paint under a small LED torch the amount of visible scratches have reduced by around 90-95%. Very pleased! ^ I didn't bother polishing the front bumper as it's in a sorry state at the moment and needs to be resprayed, again. But check out that FITMENT!

Nothing hugely interesting but i figure some people may be interested. Just re-insured with Greenlight for £899 (£315 cheaper than Flux), fully declared at only 22yo. I've FINALLY dropped into the sub-£1k bracket! Happy days! I've now went and celebrated by finally purchasing a set of StanceParts Aircups from Driftworks for the front & rear of the car. I might finally be able to get into car shows that aren't as smooth as a bowling green. So you know what this all means; time to go looooower I did also grab this quick shot of the car in Cabot Circus the other evening. Looks pretty sweet if I do say so myself

A 245/40 up front with a 275/35 rear will give equal sized sidewalls so might not be a bad idea imo. I assume, based on the 245/40's, that the fronts are 8.5J?

As per usual, another impractical mod has been made to the car... The 25mm spacer I had on the front had a small crack so wanted to sort a replacement. A friend of mine has a pair of 50mm spacers sat around that I could have so instantly started trying to squeeze them on the front. A week or so later and I've made a jig and chopped 30mm out of the Hardrace UCA's so that I can get enough camber to tuck the tyre inside the arch All welded back up and resprayed in black. Not a single issue so far and it has shifted the range of adjustment to what I'd actually use so win win. No need for me to fork out 1k for some T Demand Arms now I've also chopped up and fitted some sideskirt canards to the rear bumper just to try and continue the line of the aero along the side of the car. It's definitely helped a bit but the rear still needs a bit of work imo. It's just not aggressive enough! In an ideal world I'd get the Fly1 Diffuser but 1k for some fibreglass is outrageous imo so I'll no doubt look to replicate it myself some other way. Popped up to Leicester this weekend just gone to see a few friends through work, one of which is pretty keen on his photography and wanted to take a couple of photos of the car. They came out pretty awesome imo. Loving the look of it now especially in that second shot, damn @: seth_pargeter @: landscrapes_foto