Barn Find 370z Build Journal

Jrah2987

Nov 3rd, 2022

After a lot of misfortune, I finally got the Akebono calipers, Z1 2 piece rotors, and stainless lines installed. Quick tip - if you decide to get refurbished calipers, make sure the bleeder valves seal and work properly before fully committing. I ended up leaking my master cylinder dry and it took A LOT of bleeding (lines, MC, etc) to get the air out. Anyway, here's how the car is sitting currently:







In the past couple months, I decided that I won't be keeping this car for very long. The new Supra is just too tempting, and I won't be selling the Evo to make room, so this will have to go. I just haven't decided if I should buy one now, or wait to see if there's a final edition at some point. So, with that in mind, I'll be leaving the engine stock on this car and hopefully getting a couple track days in before selling.

Next up is suspension. Looking at Fortune Auto coils with SPL front upper control arms to get me started.

Jrah2987

Dec 28th 2022

The battery that came with the car died, so I swapped the lightweight Odyssey battery in my Evo into the Z. Turned out pretty nice, and can back to OEM if needed later on.





Jan 3rd 2023

Made some good progress on the car finally. I got a set of FA 500s for Black Friday, along with SPL's FUCA, rear toe arm, and rear camber arm all installed. Everything went surprisingly smooth.










I'm getting the car aligned and wheel balanced soon. I tried my best to keep the OEM arm lengths, but the car is way off and probably too low.

Not sure what I'm going to do next yet, but I'm excited to get this thing on the track.

I also went ahead and ordered the Greddy single exhaust to shed some more weight. I like the HKS, but it's just too heavy for what I want out of this car. It'll be for sale soon, if anyone is interested. I may have 1k miles on it.

ZontheRocks

Good ol' build threads....

Brings back OG forum days.

Keep it up!

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Averying

The red paint, nismo bumpers, track spec wheels/tires/fitment… this thing looks too clean!! Love it


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2009 Sport Touring | Platinum Graphite | GTM Stage 1 Supercharger | BC BR Coilovers | Hotchkis Swaybar | Z1 FUCAs | AME TM-02 Wheels | Z1 2-piece Front Rotors | Z1 Clutch & Flywheel | Invidia Gemini Catback | GTM Resonated Test Pipes

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Jrah2987

Ha, thanks. It's nice to be able to look back and see exactly when I did stuff and how it went.

Thank you, it's slowly starting to come together. Hopefully getting it on a track this spring.