Raja93

Happy Birthday Andrew 🥳🙂. Hope you are keeping well.

Nice and clean engine bay 🙂, loving the shiny hardware throughout. I need to paint the coil pack brackets and few other bits to tidy it up like yours. Never seen that Nismo gear knob before - super cool that.

Yeah as above, if you’ve got good weather then go for it! We all would be driving all year round if we could. Keep it well maintained and you can put on as many miles as you want.

Don’t be silly, blue power FTW!

Keep us updated and good luck sorting this. If this is the inside of the rear arches, I had rust on the drivers side which came as a surprise.

Happy Birthday mate, have a good one 🥳😀

I see a chassis restoration service in the making! The amount of labour it would take without the laser, to get the chassis to bare metal like that, would be insane.

PM sent 👍🏽. Yes you’re right about the Kuruma Z rear quarter trims - I bought a set but my bodyshop said my original ones would be fine after getting some loving, so I ended up selling them. I don’t think you can just remove the OEM end caps. If you manage to make these, that would make the Kuruma set the perfect replacement, so well worth doing. On another note, I always wanted a red steering wheel emblem but when I went to buy one, they were discontinued. Would be great if you could start making them too!

Had a quick look through the videos and that’s some pretty impressive stuff! Guess you could use it to strip off old underseal and refinish the chassis completely. No idea how much these cost but must be a fortune!

I’m interested in this for sure. Will PM you later 👍🏽. Great to see a club member making bits like this.

Happy Birthday Jim! 😀.

Nice to see a proper bare metal job. Going to look fantastic once finished ?.

Sorry to hijack Vig's thread but I thought it was a 320si with those wheels. Nice clean car that ?.

BEAST! ?

Yep pretty much a half job, all rushed. It is plenty of power for me though. Thanks for the feedback - I do remember reading your posts now. He said that gray's car TC set up worked great on the ABS sensors but he was worried about the interference. By new sensors I mean OEM wheel speed sensors. Whoever ends up finishing off the tuning on mine, I will likely end up using the ABS sensors and will use your filter method - thanks for the reminder.

Sounds like a good solid list - can't go wrong with Jim's recommendations to be honest. Clutch looks decent and reviews are good. When I did mine, I just went and sat with him for a couple of hours, going through all the options. So much easier than when you're looking yourself, not knowing what's what! Not having to pull apart the engine to fix leaks or niggles on a regular is something to really look forward to and will make you enjoy the Z so much more ?.

Great news, glad you've gone with the 98 box, its a great way to improve reliability and future proof the Z. You will absolutely love how solid the shifter feel is, compared to an old box with worn out shifter bushings etc. What clutch have you gone with? or are you reusing existing clutch flywheel?

Will keep you all updated. He left the boost control with the old Greddy EBC, whereas it should have been programmed to be controlled via the Link G4X ECU - a switch for the different boost levels was supposed to be put into the interior to control. Traction Control not set up yet as he wanted to try a newer method by making up a bracket, purchasing some new OEM wheel speed sensors and using them, as he's worried about interference with the ABS system, when using the ABS sensors. Although the 580bhp is more than enough for me at the moment, Jim's confident it should be pumping out quite a bit more, so I feel its worth to get it up to its safe potential. Lastly it developed a strange idle issue soon after getting it back when cold or first started, but goes away after 30 seconds - we narrowed it down to a tuning issue so want to sort that too.

No longer recommend unfortunately. I used them in 2021 and they were fantastic, great communication, took care of the car, great quality of work. Previous owner used them in 2018 and had same experience. It seems as though, over the last year, with my car, Grahams and some others I believe, that the communication has gone downhill, as has the taking care of the car aspect. Jim had been relying on him (as agreed) to do some remote basic tuning so we could get the car running, get it MOT'd and fill up fuel, but he just ignored Jim. Too many negative points to ignore so will no longer use him.

Thanks ?. Yeah strange about the indicators. I saw the car when the bodywork was done and they were perfect - took tonnes of photos too. This was before the heat wave though, end of May. I assumed they were overtightened but the bodyshop if you know who they are, are obsessive with the details so wouldn't have thought they'd do this. Anyway problem all solved. Interesting, maybe when they were removing the taillights, that involved lots of yanking to get them out, which didn't show any hazing initially, but the heat probably finished them off.

That's exactly what he was doing when he was leaning on your car ? Absolutely shocking! I remember know when Jim mentioned this about your wings. The clamps on my intakes and intercoolers were flying off with the boost, so he had to replace them which involved jacking the car up. About a month later when I was down at Jim's, we both found he tried jacking it on the pinch welds, bent the passenger side, then thought it would be a good idea to jack up the drivers side. After that, a light bulb moment must have happened because he then decided to jack it on the radiator support. His tuning work is fantastic but my god the lack of communication and destroying the bodywork has got me searching for a new tuner now, to do some finishing off works. Looking at either Horsham Developments or Redline Tuning. Redline did Dream Body Works (Anil's) R32 GTR to around 650-700bhp - he's been ragging the hell out of it and its still solid. Horsham are long term experienced in 200sx's and 350/370z's. Not so much the Z32 which makes me a bit nervous. Anyway yeah, think he pissed us both off, as well as Jim. Getting Anil to sort the bodywork in a couple months time so all will be well.

So glad you've managed to turn things around. They've done a good job there ?. Looking forward to the updates.

Voted a few days ago. Fine for 30th and onwards dates.

Now that I've found a good local powder coater, the next item on the to do list is to get some engine bay metal ware refinished. Going for either gloss or satin black. Currently got in mind the cruise control motor bracket, fuel filter bracket and possibly balance bar. I'm sure I'll find some other bits when I take a proper look. Quite a few of the other key areas were already painted kindly by Jim. Update to follow when all done and dusted.

Old cracked reg plate at the bottom vs nice shiny new one at the top ?. Drilled out the new holes today so ready to go back on. A random thing I noticed when I detailed the engine bay in the past - the red V6 3000 emblem on the throttle cover was discoloured. Ordered a replacement made my Dewla Design from CZP, about 12 months ago! Old vs New shown to highlight the colour difference - nice and fresh now. Didn't manage to stick down today as the old emblems adhesive residue would have taken an absolute age to scrape off - need to get a residue remover spray like Goo Gone to clean surface, then will stick down.