Mr. G. Brettin's Slow Motion Leg Hump

gbrettin

I was completely wrong stating grade 7. It was actually 8.8.

jchammond

Awesome Build; can’t wait to start mine...not going turbo,but possibly a SC

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gbrettin

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Wrapped up the installation for the diff brace. Thought I'd be proactive and look at a problem area for Z cars for rust. Guess what I found on the passenger side! Yup.... I ground as much as I could back and then used a rust stopper and epoxy primer. I'll come back and spray it black and then put 3M rubber coating on. The driver's side was perfect. I sealed it off anyway. ��*♂*

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My wife asked me why I was making all these posts. She was trying to connect the dots as to how this ties into profits, she works in sales. My response was simple, "I like to share." Now, to someone that is goal oriented towards money that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Next question from her: "how many people are following your build?". ... I laughed (on the inside). To which I respond with " about 5 people that I know of on the forum and I get about 25 likes typically on IG."

I was talking to a person and they were showing me their nitrous installation on Facebook Messenger. I exchanged a photo of my Nitrous installation and he started laughing. The guy said he used my build as a baseline for his car.

So yeah... I don't post this stuff for Internet fame/cloute or intentions of making money. It's really about information sharing or inspiring someone to do something with their 370z.

And for the 5 people that consistently have been watching my misguided shenaniganss= for the last 1.5year. - Thanks!

I also post all this stuff so I can eventually see the unique Tags:
jar beats off while crying,
jar loves mangled extremeties,
jar's 5$ hardkok grinder fest,
jar's mouth jbwelded to kok
jlarson premium grinder member
redondo longshafts


Anti-Seize, when you feel like being nice to your self or the next guy down the road.


There was all sort of debris hanging out in this pocket. Perfect for rust to start.





The bond is so strong between the can and lid I had to leave it on. I just poured it on and used a brush to get into all the spots.




Driver's side appears to be good. I cleaned it up and sealed it anyway.




It was kind of a PITA to get the subframe connectors on by myself.




There is an order to put stuff back on. This isnt it.


Diff-brace clearance



General View

Zezus

I hop on here exclusively to check the classified section, and to see how this build is progressing.

I love watching a good build come together.

gbrettin

Getting the hang of video editing. I have a good video of the diff brace install and subframe collar install. Hopefully I will get that posted sometime soon. I'll continue to do both pictures and also include video at some point.

Here's a short unboxing of the v-bands:

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Touched off a bit of spray paint and then hit the areas with 3M rubber liner. Came out great!

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I checked on the epoxy primer and it came out great. That's pretty easy when it doesn't need to turn out nice. A quick coat of black was applied and then about 10min later I blasted it with 3M wheel liner and attempted to blend it a bit.

gbrettin

From last weekend. Well, it's definitely a video. I'm looking forward to doing future videos better.

madwi

Big thanks for opening the shop up for our class trip. Seeing it in person was really awesome.

gbrettin

Man, it was great seeing everyone and I was happy to do the show and tell. What's even better is that I was able to get in-person feedback. From what I can tell it was all positive. However, if anyone has anything they didn't like... I'm all ears!

One thing I really liked was seeing Rusty's Finite Element fender vents. They look overwhelming in pictures but they look great in person, basically justified my purchase.

Madwi, thanks for the quick rip in the turbo Z! I loved it (excitement over flowed with me screaming out the window.)

madwi

I agree about the finite vents. I hated them while holding them up to my car. They are so much nicer in person.

gbrettin

Small update/fail. I ordered some K&N filters for my turbos and they were too large, only by an inch. I ended up sending back the K&N RU-2510 and picked up two RX-4130-1. Height is 2.125" vs 3.5".

Also, picked up a new transmission pan, Hughes Performance. In the video I posted I mentioned I was going to pick up a new pan. If you guys haven't seen it, all good because it is a long video and I'm still figuring out how to make compelling video. Near the end of the video I couldn't think of the pan name because my brain goes 50 different places trying to think while on video for some reason. lol

And of course... the package was inspected.

Final thought, I didn't get any pictures of me cutting the Fast Intentions exhaust down but I will show that completely in my next video.

madwi

That plastic is a threat and needed a talking to! -Cat

gbrettin

New YouTube video. I received some feedback that the videos are too long. I'm going to produce shorter videos in the future. I welcome all feedback if you have any, I'm new to this shiz.


Speaking of new... My new valley pan came in from Tick Performance. It's pretty much the cats meow and will look amazing under the duel plenum. The reason I changed out to this was because I wanted the stock location of the oil pressure sensor. ICT has an option to drill out the valley pan, but I wanted it all one piece so there's less to go wrong. It's small but if I do that thought pattern with every part (best I can anyway) the sum of the whole will be better off.

gbrettin

Installed the Hughes Performance Shallow pan. VERY happy I went with the product. It has more capacity and extra cooling with out compromising space.

In preparation of receiving the up pipes I opened up, welded and grinded a bit of extra clearance on the frame. I feel like the welds were good enough to where Rusty can say, "not bad", obviously not great. I had to stop welding because I jammed the MIG welder.....

Earlier today I picked up the up pipes from Any Weld and Cutting located in Portage, MI on my lunch. They did a hell of a job considering how many damn pies there are. Down the road I plan on having the piping ceramic coated. I wonder if they can do color requests... Hmmm. Anyway, I can start on the down pipes! YAY!

I hope how you see how all the other items are all leading to a cross roads from the previous posts.

Here's a WAY shorter video. Shorten the darn video was the #1 suggestion by far.

Ghostvette

Looks like polishing time on those pipes...

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