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well its been an interesting few months. things have been a bit crazy so itll take some time to update the thread, Firstly I crashed the z... its wasnt bad but nearly $9k in damage from a tiny fender bender... that being said the body shop I took it too is being really slow and really **** (its the one we send all of our mecedes stuff too so I figured that it would have been good enough) but I had the car back for an hour and it went back with a list of **** for them to fix.

Since the last time not much has gotten done either sadly, actually nothing has gotten done at all... its killing me... the car is plasti purple for right now and im now in need of a clutch as well as a list of things to do over winter....

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thats the only one I have for recent, a friend took it hiding in another car... i was too pissed to think of taking pictures

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My newly revised lsit of parts after talking to venders and a few builders

Surge tank is a must now
track wheels
new clutch
new radiator
brake cooling
lighter exhaust
diffusers and splitter
relocate start button and remove nav
detachable wheel
ditch touring seats
gut srs sytem (after the tiny wrech setting off the bags im done with that crap)
exhuast cams
headers
intake plenum
vented hood ( having serious heat problems)
nismo rear bumper
and the nonce Im cought up itll get a cage!
:happydance::ughdance::happydance:
ohh there are sooooo many reasons im broke lol

well things have been interesting here lately.... I put the car back to stock for a while and now have a miata as well that im working on, I was basically at the point of giving up on the z after the wreck but slowly im warming back up to it. its slow going now as I have so many things that need to get done and no time and money to do them. so for now im working on getting my miata up and going first and then parking the z till i can buy a new clutch set up

Any tips on how to get the gauges out, preferably without breaking them. I've read the guides online but i still can't get them out

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Originally Posted by Davectr (Post 3598334)

Any tips on how to get the gauges out, preferably without breaking them. I've read the guides online but i still can't get them out

well if you have the dash out its easy lol without it out youd fight like hell. once its out you just have to be gental with prying back the tabs

Saw this car at the ICC Cruise (or the cruise the day before) and was going to ask about the plastidip, makes sense now tho :) I was the kid in the black cherry 370z with the tirerack sticker.

Interested to see this build continue, also make sure to post up here if you decide to get rid of those touring seats! I'm looking at either getting seat covers or reupholstering the base model ones and stock ones would be another idea solution!

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Originally Posted by kbc749 (Post 3598765)

i will be getting rid of the touring seats and everything for them once I can get the new seats so sometime this year ill have lots to sell

and ya the dip was super entertaining it really irratated people

blah wiring has been a real pain.. zero progress

Nice, is that the PACO Motorsport lift on your NA?

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Originally Posted by ihiryu (Post 3673263)

Nice, is that the PACO Motorsport lift on your NA?

yep paco brackets