Their problem is not enough people have heard about them - you can see in the pix the shop is a little empty. It's a great concept and I really hope they make it. In this economy you would think people are hanging on to their cars longer and doing more maintenance, I just don't think enough people know about the place. They've been doing more advertising lately so hopefully things pick up, easy access to a lift for $15/hr. sure is convenient.

$15/hr. for the lift, $10/hr. more for unlimited access to their tools (basic tools included for free). $119 for the day which is what I did since I was doing a few things at once it took a few hours and I didn't have enough room in the Z to bring everything I needed (creeper, floor jack, air tools, etc. - all included).

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Hotchkis front sway is non-adjustable.

Stopped at Jimmy Johns for lunch today, another Z had the same idea...

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How many silver cars can you find in the pic? :icon18:

^ looking good my dude! i really like your color combination and the tail lights.

Thanks fairlady!

I switched to my new summer wheels today, SSR Type F 18's in matte black. It's supposed to rain/snow tomorrow, if it doesn't I'll get some pics. I'm really happy with these wheels along with the drop.

Along with the wheel swap today I cleaned up some previous work (greased the sway bar mounts, re-torqued the front and rear suspension bolts - some bushings were squeaking most likely from overtightening). My wife and I had the day off together and she got a little camera happy so I thought I would share.

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Halfway through the wheel swap. Which ones do you think look better?

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When the wife does well at work she is sometimes rewarded with the company seats at the Jazz game. 12th row. I am constantly encouraging my wife to do well at work:rofl2:

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Jazz win

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Another Saturday of working on the Z and basketball... :D:D:D

Sounds like a great day to me :tup:

Just got back from a trip to San Diego. Drove the Z. My brother and his wife have a six week old baby girl that we went to visit. From there we took a flight to Tucson for a family reunion on my wife's side. I left the Z with Marco and Ryan at MR Works so they could work their magic. I couldn't be happier with the results. The pictures speak for themselves.

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I went with flat black everything, landing strip, parking light led conversion (from amber to white), smoked reflector (tinted with spray tint) and a switch to turn the landing strip on/off. Let me tell you, these guys are great! Marco and Ryan were very helpful when I was deciding what I wanted and anwered all my questions. They always got back to me quickly and made me feel like me and my car were in good hands. I left my car with them for 3 days while I flew out of town and didn't think twice about it. They were even willing to give me a ride to the airport if I needed it! Two thumbs up! :tup: :tup: Thanks again Marco and Ryan - it was great meeting you guys!

I also worked with BAT to get my fangs and rear valance done in flat black. Click here for pics. Andy (BAT) was also great to work with, and Sean (one of his installers) went above and beyond including working Easter Sunday to get my car done. Thanks guys!

Here's Andy and his sick GT-R
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Ryan from MR Works and Sean working on my car
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I grew up in SD and I miss living there. The weather was great, especially considering I came back to snow here in Utah (BOO!). A couple hours before we left SD the earthquake made my brother's family and my wife and I head for their backyard. The water in the pool sloshed around quite a bit and we had a tense few minutes. While there my brother gave me a ride in his Cayman S and as much as I like my Z it would be real tempting to get one if I had the cash - sick car! We had a great time getting to know my new niece, had a ton of fun with her 2 year old brother, my brother and his wife. Then got to drive home in the Z with some cool mods. Thanks guys!

It was a pleasure meeting you, your wife, as well as your brother!! Let us know if you need anything or if your visit SD again! We will gather the cars, grab some drinks, and do a shoot :)

^definitely! And you may hear from my brother about doing some led's on his Porsche. He thought they were sick on my car!

Glad you liked how the car turned out. If you plan on making it out this side again, make sure you let us know. Your brother litterally lives at the end of my street too, so if he needs any overlays done on his car, Its a quick trip for me to go there and do the install for him. Good meeting you!

Nice, schrute! :tup: That goes for the journal, the Z, and those basketball seats! ;)

Looking good Schrute!

looking good bro :D

^Cool pic Sean! (Or is it Shawn?) Thanks for posting it.

Thanks guys!

Spent the day with my Dad out at Miller Motorsports Park outside Salt Lake City at the Ferrari Challenge. My Dad was invited by an artist friend of his who was showing some of his work (anyone here familiar with Stan Wanlass?). We saw some beautiful cars, amazing sculptures, and had a good time together. Dad's recovering from a recent knee replacement so I took it easy on him and pushed him around. I also drove the wife's car so he wouldn't have a hard time getting in and out of the Z :(

Lots of pics... (forgot my camera so took these with my phone)
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James Dean and "Little Bastard"
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I really liked this copper car
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My dad liked these two (he said he learned to drive in a car like the one on the left)
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It was a Ferrari event but I still prefer Porsche :D
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Took some pics after washing the Z today...

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the pics of your z... look fuckin sweet man... so clean and sleek... :D

Simota, :D Thanks bro :D

BADASS Z...love it...

looks great without spoiler

damnnn jeff beautiful shots!!! you mind if we put some in our member gallery that we are going to create?

The Ferrari challenge was awesome.. Me and my buddies drove out to Tooele to ride at the motocross track but the wind was so bad that we ended up going to Miller Motorsports Park and checking out the cars and racing action. It was really cool. Glad to see you made it out there too man!

Thanks man!

Of course man, that's definitely cool! I'll add a few more to the album tonight.

It was way windy out there! It was cool to see all those cars, I wonder how many millions of dollars in cars were there that day. Crazy!

^I couldn't believe the kind of money those teams must have. What gets me even more is that they are dealers that sponsor the teams. I don't care how many of those cars you sell I just can't see sponsoring that type of a race team being a good investment.

One other thing that really really got me going, as I was leaving there was a NEW california sitting by the end of the padock that we were looking at, Some dude walks up and starts touching it and rubbing his hands all over it. I was so pissed, me and all of my friends just looked at him shook our heads and said "if we owned this car you would be knocked out right now" the dude didn't even get what we were mad about. :facepalm:

What a DB! That guy will get knocked out someday if he keeps that up.

That's true about the sponsorships, how can that make money with everything they have to spend? Maybe it's all about tax deductions.

^I was thinking tax deductions, or that Ferrari takes its top 20 or whatever dealers and gives them a race team. Because as far as I could tell all the 430's were prepped identically.

The guy was a DB for sure and the guy that was with him was all telling him to lean on it and take his pic. I had to walk away before I started dropping people.

Its shawn. But doesnt matter to me how you spell it. I know who you are talking to. car looks great, and the Ferrari event looks like something you would see here in SoCal. Nice turnout

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When I bought this car I told my wife it didn't need anything. Uh... yeah.

Current Mod List

Wheels/Suspension
SSR Type F, flat black (18x9.5+22 front, 18x10.5+15 rear)
255/40 front, 295/35 rear
Muteki black open-end lugs
Eibach springs
SPC rear camber arms/toe bolts
Hotchkis sway bars

Intake/Exhaust
F.I. CBE, 18" resonators, stainless
JWT Pop Chargers

Exterior
MR Works headlights (flat black, landing strip, smoked reflectors, amber to white parking light LED conversion)
Ventureshield (half hood, bumpers, headlights, mirrors, rocker panels, rear fender arches)
Bluebatmobile overlays (fangs and rear valance, flat black)
Tint (18% rear, 25% sides, 70% front)
Tinted tails
LED reverse bulbs
LED license plate bulbs
Stealth rear turn signal bulbs
Debadged '370', relocated 'Z'
Stant InStant Fill gas cap

Interior
Illuminated door sills (custom white LEDs)
Hardwired detector with mirror mount
Nismo titanium shift knob
Scangauge II
Garmin GPS

Next up
Install the sport package Akebonos. Just need to source some rear calipers.
Trying to decide whether to paint the door handles PG or flat black, or leave them alone.
Also trying to decide whether to leave emblems alone, paint them flat black or get the black chrome ones.
Thinking about an overlay on the roof (flat black of course).
Can't decide if I should paint the center caps flat black.
Also thinking about a flat black overlay on the mirrors.
Need to get some 6k HID bulbs to match the LEDs.
Tow hook?

Opinions welcome!

I think the roof in flat black would complete the car... and the overlay could always be removed

Cars sick btw , I love the wheels

Blacking out the front fangs looks hella nice....Kinda makes the Z look like a baby GTR...What type of paint did you use to your fangs and grill?

schrute didnt paint his fangs... he had bat do a fang overlay outa vinyl.... if you wanna paint urs... here is my DIY...

http://www.the370z.com/diy-section-d...out-fangs.html :tup:

Thanks man! Yeah, I need to find someone to do the roof. Like you say, if I don't like it, it comes right off. But I think I'll like it.

I love how the blacked out fangs kind of mimic the GTR. I have to give credit to the many before me that did this mod - I think I decided the day I joined this forum to do it, just took me a while to get to it. Thanks for the comments!

Thanks for the assist Simota. +1 Rep.

no problem man....

Jeff, i forgot to mention to you. have your exhaust checked. The pipe on the driver's side i don't think is lined up correctly. its closer to the body than the passenger side. if you measure the distance between the tips to the bumper you will notice its almost touching compared to the other side

Thanks for the heads up Shawn, I'll have a look at it.

Got some Toyo T1-R rear tires on today in 295/35-18 at 15,200 miles. Hopefully these last longer than the Yoko's they are replacing (they only lasted about 8k, the other 7k miles on the car were on winter tires). I've had T1-R's on the front for the last month or so, it's nice to be back to a matched set (just doesn't feel right to mix tires on the Z, does it?)

I also got another alignment, the springs settled some more and the alignment was off.

I started my sound deadening project with Second Skin products today. After running around all day getting some other stuff taken care of including tires and an aligment I finally made it to Radio Shack to pick up a decibel meter. I measured the interior noise level in the car, cruising at 70 mph with the windows up, a/c and stereo off, level asphalt road @93 db.

When I finish installing all the product ANT sent me I'll take another measurement on the same road with the same conditions.

My buddy Tyler came over to hang out and work on the car, he also brought his little friend...

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We got a good start but this is going to take more time than I could give tonight. I'll work on it some more this weekend and will update the results. I got a few cuts on my hands working with the tiles until I smartened up and put some gloves on. Also, don't even try this without a roller - more on that later.

Awesome, glad you picked up a decibel meter so we can get actual numbers on the improvement.

Great pics! I'm also working with MR Works to get some modified headlights for my MB Z. Also getting tailights tinted and rims powdercoated black so it should come out looking pretty sweet. Your Z looks fantastic!