ZaneDylan Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 On to prettier things, the carbon hatch I had bought had a lot of scratches and defects, I wet sanded and used several grades of polish to bring the carbon back to life and take out the majority of scratches. I then gave it a healthy coat of Bilt Hamber Double Speed wax. I also took to widening some of the clip holes which allowed me to finally put the interior plastics back in - this reduced a lot of rattle and cabin noise and made everything feel a lot more OE and complete. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 Keeping with the theme of improving the interior, I wanted to tie in the head unit with some more modern touches, I know Ambient lighting isn't to everyone's taste and it can easily be overdone. I removed the door cards, separated the suede part from the rest of the door and laid in my LED strips, then I removed the glovebox and used superglue to stick the glovebox section down as 3M tape wasn't strong enough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 This is a job I've been putting off... The intake pipe has been covered in gold heat tape - its peeling and it has been applied terribly, is bunched up in many places. I personally don't believe gold tape makes enough of a difference to intake temps to make it even remotely worth it for how bad it looks. So I first struggled with peeling it off and using a heat gun with plastic razors but that genuinely only made it worse. Then I used a chemical sticky stuff remover (goo gone wasn't strong enough) I then gave it a bath in some washing liquid and water before hitting it with a generous amount of metal polish on a drill attachment, I'm happy with the results 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 As shown in the last update the timing chain cover is also pretty dull, so I gave it two passes with alubright and tried to polish everything I could reach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 Around febuary is when I started to get frustrated with all of the little issues and decided to tackle all of them - first was the intake pipe and polishing in the last two posts. In this post is where I finally attempted to fix my squeaking chair, I removed it from the car, disassembled it and coated everything in spray on silicone. I destroyed the air quality in my house (because UK weather) but I could finally drive my 70 in peace 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 Part 3 of the little things, the side skirt extensions 1) aren't to my taste 2) make it harder to jack up the car 3) were battered and loose in places So with a variety of 10, 8 and 7mm self tappers being removed, I took those extensions off and sold them for dirt cheap on market place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 To show off the 2nd coolest mod on the car (boost), I decided to put my genuine Nismo V2 front bumper under the knife. I cut out the grill section and gave my charge cooler a clean and a coat of VHT silver. I used a multitool and a Dremel to perform the surgery and in all honestly its way cooler to see the cooler. I need to cover up those old license plate holes too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 (edited) I swapped out my spark plugs for some GTR plugs (one step colder) then went off the PetrolHeadism and took plenty of pictures that weekend, had a great time with great people Edited May 28 by ZaneDylan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 The car from the beginning was giving me an intermittent limp mode issue, it wasn't very often in the beginning, but became more and more frequent, all 4 fault codes it was throwing was pointing towards one thing and unfortunately it is a fault with the stillen supercharger kit. Luckily for me Horsham Developments make a replacement loom for the throttle body and they fixed the issue quickly, as well as my exhaust leaks. I do have the say the new loom not only fixed the issue but also looks a lot nicer, so massive shout out to them. While I was there and now the car was running better than ever we decided to do a dyno run to see if the 530hp I was told when I bought the car was a fib like I thought it was... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortPaul Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Great work mate,the car is looking much better now 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballistic Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 (edited) On 28/05/2025 at 12:56, ZaneDylan said: This is a job I've been putting off... The intake pipe has been covered in gold heat tape - its peeling and it has been applied terribly, is bunched up in many places. I personally don't believe gold tape makes enough of a difference to intake temps to make it even remotely worth it for how bad it looks. So I first struggled with peeling it off and using a heat gun with plastic razors but that genuinely only made it worse. Then I used a chemical sticky stuff remover (goo gone wasn't strong enough) I then gave it a bath in some washing liquid and water before hitting it with a generous amount of metal polish on a drill attachment, I'm happy with the results The legendary finger test! Youve done loads of little snagging bits and general tidying. nice work. Edited June 1 by ballistic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted June 3 Author Share Posted June 3 Results - I've included both the power graph and the air/fuel - boost graph too Overall it meets my original expectation from when I first bought the car around mid-4s, still very strong numbers out of this kit 467 isn't bad at all and I will be back to Hdev at some point with goals to climb towards the mid-5s Overall the power looks to be super linear and the torque curve looks nice and flat which is definitely a positive for how I intend to drive the car 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted Wednesday at 15:13 Author Share Posted Wednesday at 15:13 Shortly after my visit to HDev I attended JapFest and had a short blast on track- the car feels great in the straights however a couple issues are still prevelent and I ran into a problem I found out about after being on track - the 370z's fuel surge issue I went out there with just under a half tank - meaning on the RH turns the fuel pump was being starved. Seen the kits go for £800+ so I doubt I'll be fitting one anytime soon and will just top up my tank before going out on track from now on. I also am still experiencing some wheel wobble at speed and harsher wobble under acceleration. I'm plan to lower the front suspension a tad for better fitment and then get an alignment and start looking into swapping out a lot of my brake parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballistic Posted Wednesday at 15:49 Share Posted Wednesday at 15:49 How low do you have to be on fuel for it to be an issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted 4 hours ago Author Share Posted 4 hours ago On 04/06/2025 at 16:49, ballistic said: How low do you have to be on fuel for it to be an issue? So for me it happened at around half a tank so I'd guess around there - on public roads I've never found that limit even on spirited drives. Tracks are much higher Gs I guess, Z1 Motorsports makes a kit which I'll do later down the line, if I'm still committed to tracking the car by the time its in the budget ;( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted 4 hours ago Author Share Posted 4 hours ago Bonnet upgrade, the seibon bonnet on the car being painted really bothered me and since I didn't feel like stripping the paint off and seeing what was underneath I ordered a very aggressive and imo better style of vented bonnet. I picked this one not only because I liked the way it looked but also that the louvers on it and the placement make sense aerodynamically to pull more hot air out of the engine bay and hopefully pull cold air through the rad and coolers. Theoretically (because there's no wind tunnel testing for this bonnet) the louvered design will create a low pressure zone over the vents resulting in the air being pulled out of the engine bay as well as creating a little bit of downforce. What steered me away from the ams and seibon styles was that the vent placement made no sense for cooling. Overall, install was pretty straightforward with the help of Ballistic, fitment was genuinely really good for a carbon part, the only problem was one of the latch threads was damaged when installing but a quick tap and its on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith D Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago I'm close to pushing the button on a carbon bonnet, how do you find the OEM catch? Any issues? Do you think it needs bonnet pins? Interested in your experience Looking good btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted 1 hour ago Author Share Posted 1 hour ago (edited) 16 minutes ago, Keith D said: I'm close to pushing the button on a carbon bonnet, how do you find the OEM catch? Any issues? Do you think it needs bonnet pins? Interested in your experience Looking good btw The bonnets lighter so you need to push it down a little while pulling the catch to open, imo there's 3 points of contact up front so I feel pretty confident in it not lifting, but others probably have different opinions Install is definitely a two person job but its straightforward otherwise something to think about is how you intend on doing the window washers as I don't have any atm Edited 1 hour ago by ZaneDylan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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