Dipper

Another little upgrade today. The car when I bought it had an aftermarket amazon gearknob black wit red stitching. And although it didn't look too bad. I am always looking for better. I loved the look of the South Bend gear knobs. But they are discontinued. I managed to contact Torqen who managed to find a anodized black one for the 370z still on a dusty shelf in the USA. And I have ordered it. However. While waiting for that one. I found someone on marketplace selling the machined 350z version. I love it as the stem is the right size and works well. So i bought it and its now fitted. Not sure what to do with the black one in the post. Maybe it keep it as a spare?

This is the exact car I had spotted on Facebook that had done the smoothed wheels! ( i had an image of these wheels saved on my phone) I have a similar Plans. Smooth them. Then gloss black. I'm hoping to try and keep the "Rays" and "Forged" embossed text and highlight that writing in like a silver. So it pops compared to the gloss black.

100% they look so strange tucked way in under the arch. I have some plans for the Rays in the new year. I'm hoping to smooth out the Dimples and get them recoated in gloss black.

Another well overdue mod. Was getting some spacers on. Found some 2nd hand 20mm ones from ebay. (Hubcentric) of course. Only got ones for the fronts so far. But make such a difference to the fitment.

Similarly the sun visor bulbs also got led bulbs. And the boot light too.

Continuing the interior lighting upgrades. Some led map light bulbs to replace the old ones. For anyone looking the spec of the bulbs they are 31mm festoon bulbs. (Led)

Been a while. But here is another small interior update. Over the weekend i fitted some of the new opentop.fr footwell lights. I went with orange to match the Interior dial colour. A little bit if figuring out was required as I've the earlier interior model.(much easier on the newer versions) I had to take the centre console off briefly. But results came out great.

Happy days. Congrats on the purchase! The interior looks in real good nick. A good clean outside and she will be looking sweet

Another small tweak. The wheels obviously have been painted black and the crusty Nissan centre caps have been bugging me. Have never been able to find aftermarket ones that work. So I drilled out the plastic rivets that hold on the nissan pieces and stuck on some Rays stickers. Looks cleaner in my opinion.

Just one for the Northern Irish based Zeds and Irish ones on here. Having a meet at the Dundalk Cars and Coffee this weekend the Sunday 2nd July. It starts at 9am and usually runs to 12.30 or so. Venue is DKIT car park beside the crowne plaza hotel. 2 euro donation is usually asked for. A few of from the 350z ireland facebook already planning to be in attendance. But the more the merrier

They are splash guards. More commonly known as mud guards. I just bought some from torqen. Took like 4 months to come from America mind. They come in Matt black as standard. Think I seen versions on amazon too. Here's a pic of what I was supplied.

There's a guy in Tipperary on fb market place who looks to be breaking a few 350z. Looks to have some grey ones too, but as they say....its a long way to Tipperary. I was tempted to do a road trip down from the North to maybe source a leather interior

Thanks very much! Yeah I've definitely learned that matte finishes hide allot of sins. I will def be using wrap again for other things. I figured it would be more durable than paint. Especially since it looks like my interior has been painted before.

Small addition today. The silver lug nuts on the black wheels were a little out of place. So picked up some Rays branded black lug nuts. I like that the Rays nuts are on the Rays wheels. It works.

One thing that I know affects most 350z of a certain age, is the dash cubby door getting scratched up and nasty. My car seems to have had a paint job on the dash before. Unfortunately, it had begun to blister and peel. It's such an eye sore. So anyway took it all apart. Ordered some vynl wrap off amazon. And thought I'd give it a go. Went with a matte. Finish to try and hide my shoddy work. Anyway once I started scraping off the old paint there was no turning back! Wish I had a propper before photo. But anyway it was pretty bad. So figured I couldn't make it much worse. I'm Pretty happy with the end product. In hindsight I'd have sanded it a bit better before wrapping. But yeah happy with the results.