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On 15/07/2019 at 15:16, Silverthorn said:

Nothing hugely exciting but I fitted a rubber skirt/lip to the sideskirts the other day. Suprisingly doesn't look completely awful (imo) considering the price. 

 

Won't be permanent as I still plan on making a proper lip kit for the front, side and rear of the car. But it'll do for now! 

 

Might finally get round to giving the car a good polish over the coming weeks seeing as it won't be going anywhere anytime soon! :lol:

 

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Good thing about this, is that you can't break them so easily on hard things :)

Cars looking great btw :)

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@Andy_Muxlow I'll be sure to get a video of the lights at some point when I travel back home. :thumbs: Currently away with work.

 

@parello9 Cheers mate, appreciate it! It's honestly not as bad as you'd expect it to be considering it's not too far from air ride height (I parked next to an aired out 370 at a show once and it was literally exactly the same height :lol:). I've just got used to the fact that if I want to go somewhere I need to add 20 minutes to the journey to account for taking a longer route to avoid bumps.

 

@Sim Cheers mate! That's part of the reason I bought the lip to be honest. Not a chance I'll be fitting the fibreglass lips before the air cups go on.

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  • 4 weeks later...

Fibreglass lip kit and the fitting of the 326Power wing is currently underway. Aiming to get it all sorted and painted ready for early 2020! 

 

Although I previously said otherwise, I'm probably going to fit the lip kit prior to purchasing the aircups. Fingers crossed I don't break anything after all his work :headhurt::lol:

 

I've also went even bigger on the spacers so I'm now at the following specs:

 

Front

19 x 10.5J et12 w/ 25mm spacer

 

Rear

19 x 10.5J et12 w/ 37.5mm spacer

 

Fitment is pretty perfect if I do say so myself :wub:

 

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11 minutes ago, nissanjuke said:

is that not a bit dodgie I put 25mm all round did not like 25mm at front ,put 20mm on and found that was perfect for me, so i now have a nearly new set of 25 mm spacers for sale.:teeth:

Not a single problem so far. Doesn't rub the arch or anything like that under compression :thumbs:

 

It's the equivalent of running a 62mm spacer on the rear and 79mm spacer on the front with stock wheels so it's fairly wide. It's crazy what you can fit under the stock arches on these cars! 

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Today was another one of those days where a quick 30 minute job turned out to be a 2 hour nightmare... 

 

I received a set of Silver Project Toe Arms from my girlfriend for Christmas so I could finally delete the rear spring bucket. As I'm sure most people are aware, the rear cam bolts for adjusting toe have a tendency to seize inside the bush in the spring bucket. I managed to free off the bolt to get it rotating inside the bush with a heat gun but I couldn't for the life of me get the bolt out the bush. A good 30 minutes of swearing later and I gave up and popped to B&Q to get an angle grinder and some replacement bolts :lol:

 

Needless to say, the issue was soon resolved and the arms installed. Much better :D

 

The quality of the arms seems pretty spot on and well worth the £100 that they cost. No idea how some companies justify charging any more than that for something so basic tbh.

 

For anyone considering replacing your arms on the rear of a 370 and looking at the eccentric bolt delete kit that a few vendors sell for £70 ish, don't bother. A set of M12 x 85mm bolts and some M12 washers with a 35mm outer diameter is all you need :thumbs: It probably cost me the grand total of £10 if that!

 

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Collected my car from Option 1 Sports Cars in Worcestershire today after having the 326Power Wing painted and fitted as well as having the boot lid smoothed and resprayed.

 

Their quality of workmanship is simply unbelievable. I am completely over the moon with the work they have done and will never use any other body shop going forward. The wing has been perfectly formed to mate with the shape of the boot lid and a small rubber gasket was made and sandwiched in between the wing and boot to seal it from water ingress while allowing me to remove the wing without any issues. No silicone here!

 

The paintwork itself is flawless. and a perfect match with the rest of the car. To top it off as well, they even fully valeted the car prior to pick up! :thumbs: All for the more than reasonable price of £500 + VAT. I couldn't be happier with the service and would more than recommend them to anyone who wants to have something painted and/or some composite work done.

 

I've also fitted an Inspired Race Developments Front Splitter and pair of Side Skirt Extensions. The other lip kit i had planned on fitting was simply too low unfortunately just wouldn't work with any form of practicality. No chance I'm raising the car so it had to go...

 

On the plus side though, i much prefer the Inspired stuff anyway so it all worked out in the end. The owner also asked me to become a brand ambassador as well which is pretty awesome so i look forward to doing things together in the future.

 

All in all it's been a pretty awesome month or so since i last updated this project thread! :D

 

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33 minutes ago, LRF4N said:

Preferred the old one, sorry

I am still a big fan of the old ducktail, it was just too small IMO with how aggressive i plan on making the rest of the car look. I knew this wouldn't be to everyone's taste though so that's fair enough. :thumbs:

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Pic heavy post once again. Now the car is clean i quickly popped out for a few more photos of the car, just in time for it to rain as soon as i arrived :dry::lol:

 

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I'm also looking to get some sort of sideskirt canards to be chopped up and placed on the rear bumper so that the side profile of the car is continues lip-kit-wise. Just asking a few companies for dimensions of their products and I'll go from there!

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@Umster Cheers mate, appreciate it! :thumbs:

 

This year I'm going to really try and get to as many shows as possible as I've been slacking this past year or so. Going to submit applications for some of the indoor shows (fitted, gravity, players etc.) as well as attending the usual shows like Japfest Silverstone and Japanese Performance Show. I doubt I'll be attending any shows at Castle Combe (not with my car at least) as they've been a bit of a let down recently.  It seems everything outside of the 350zUK stand is a bit mediocre and I tend to lose interest in the show by about 11am :dry: but that's probably just me being a but snob-ish :lol:

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On 25/01/2020 at 16:45, Silverthorn said:

Collected my car from Option 1 Sports Cars in Worcestershire today after having the 326Power Wing painted and fitted as well as having the boot lid smoothed and resprayed.

 

Their quality of workmanship is simply unbelievable. I am completely over the moon with the work they have done and will never use any other body shop going forward. The wing has been perfectly formed to mate with the shape of the boot lid and a small rubber gasket was made and sandwiched in between the wing and boot to seal it from water ingress while allowing me to remove the wing without any issues. No silicone here!

 

The paintwork itself is flawless. and a perfect match with the rest of the car. To top it off as well, they even fully valeted the car prior to pick up! :thumbs: All for the more than reasonable price of £500 + VAT. I couldn't be happier with the service and would more than recommend them to anyone who wants to have something painted and/or some composite work done.

 

I've also fitted an Inspired Race Developments Front Splitter and pair of Side Skirt Extensions. The other lip kit i had planned on fitting was simply too low unfortunately just wouldn't work with any form of practicality. No chance I'm raising the car so it had to go...

 

On the plus side though, i much prefer the Inspired stuff anyway so it all worked out in the end. The owner also asked me to become a brand ambassador as well which is pretty awesome so i look forward to doing things together in the future.

 

All in all it's been a pretty awesome month or so since i last updated this project thread! :D

 

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Wow, that is epic, love the position and style.

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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 :lol:

 

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 :D

 

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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 :D especially in that second shot, damn :wub:

 

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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! :yahoo: 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. :lol:

 

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 B)

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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 :thumbs:

 

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.

 

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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! :lol: 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 :lol:). 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!

 

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^ I didn't bother polishing the front bumper as it's in a sorry state at the moment and needs to be resprayed, again.

 

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But check out that FITMENT! :D:wub:

 

 

 

 

 

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Knew you'd go air sooner or later as we sadly don't live in Austria. I'd always thought mad camber would result in tyre scrub on the inner edges or have you flip the tyres for prolonged life? 

 

Love that spring time detailing session too!!

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