Sorry I didnt get to meet you at the woodlands c&c. I usually never go because of church and they go on cruises afterwards which is too much time to be away from the family responsibilities in a 2 seater. Headlights look great btw, post some closeups!

Now it looks complete :)

those turned out great bro!! wow

No worries, we decided to head home after the cruise, it was a long drive and we knew if we left after the Super Bowl BBQ we wouldn't get home till the morning hours, and we were all pretty tired. We'll meet at another event I'm sure.

Thanks Jacob, really appreciate all your advice and info on the process, as well as VDC's input and many others, can't thank you guys enough!

I'm just glad they're finally done, and that I did them myself as well..... this is an extremely rewarding modification, as you guys already know, night and day difference!

I'll take it out for photos soon now that they're done and get them posted here

Thanks Blake, can't wait to see how yours turn out! That automotive Touchup paint is spot on, you won't be disappointed.

PICTURE UPDATE!!!


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The lights turned out awesome! I should have the last video of my DIY up today as well in the DIY section on how to take them apart and the baking process as well for the guys who haven't done this yet and are skeptical about doing it themselves.

The next few things I plan on doing are repainting my front emblem because its starting to get chipped up after a year-year & 1/2, and I would still like to get my wheels repainted gloss black with a paint matched pinstripe around the edge.

I'd also like to get a mines wing add on or replica to add a little on the backside.

as for performance, Iv'e still only got fast intentions exhaust with 18" resonators and don't plan on doing anything else unless I boost it which would be another year from now most likely after buying the Subaru. We also just spent some money on the Camaro, getting a brembo brake upgrade for it and having the calipers paint matched to the Synergy Green Metallic color, can't wait for that to be on the car.

BEFORE & AFTER COMPARISON


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That's super nice

Thanks

Close ups as requested


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I wish I would have matched the shrouds now. I might pull them apart and redo them and add a set of halos

That would be awesome, I still have enough paint for another set of shrouds if you wanna do them, and the clear coat etc needed, not sure how to do the halos but my buddy is about to do his over the weekend with halos so I could ask.

Looks great.car is realy looking good.wheels painted will finish it.

So sexy man!

Thanks Ken, can't wait till next months cars and coffee, can't believe I missed this months. Hopefully I get those wheels done soon, Iv'e contacted a few places to get them powdercoated gloss black but then I'd have to take it to another shop for the pinstripe to get painted on so I'm still hunting for the best place to get them done that could just do everything at once.

HDR TIME!!!


OK so I haven't made an HDR (High Dynamic Range) in a while, and I figured since I bracketed the exposure on these shots of the Z that I'd go ahead and open up Photomatix and give one a go..... Turned out pretty good!


Lately I'll just edit the RAW photo in aperture or if I want to play a little more with layers I'd just export a few bracketed shots from Aperture and put them into Pixelmator (similar to photoshop) and edit them there.


So here it is.

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Really could have used some tire shine!

Thanks Jae

Your Z looks great as is. I wouldn't touch a thing. Except maybe get the Mine's spoiler add on as the finishing touch. :tup:

You have it in your mind in how you want it to be so go with it. But I would be hesitant to add the pinstripe to the wheels since the spokes reach all the way to the tip of the tiny lip. I am just not sure how it will look once finished with the pinstripe going over a raised area all the way around the wheel. It may come out looking great. In for pics.

Thanks speed freak, I may just take your advice. I got pricing on the Mines replica shipped and it's not bad at all. there is also a true mines wing for sale that I just PM'd the guy although it will need to be re-cleared, which shouldn't be an issue because I see some people getting their's cleared after purchasing anyways just for longevity.

The wheels I will probably just go ahead and get powder-coated gloss black, then worry about the pinstripe afterwards if I feel the need.

that would be awesome, thanks. i was thinking about color matching my door handles. do you think that this paint will work for the doors?

It would definitely work, I painted mine black already so I know the process on those as well. Might not have enough paint for those though

Did you take the handles off and then paint or did you paint them on the door

Car looks great Dallaz!

Took them off, you'll want magnetic tools when taking them off or the screws can fall inside the door real easy

Thank you

Haven't posted anything in a bit. Nothing new on the car but here's a recent iPhone pic

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Going through some old pics on my iphone


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Before wheels, drop, black plate, diffuser, vinyl wrapped mirrors, and maybe a few more things.
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Looks really good :tup:

Vossen's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Looks so good :tup: I'm glad you got a good deal on them

Nice concave. :)

Might take it out for shots with the camera tomorrow. iPhone pics for now.


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Ballin.

Thanks for the comments guys. Got some quality pics for you now couldn't wait to take it out for photos with the new wheels.

Shot with Nikon D700, 70-200mm f2.8 VR1 lens with polarizer filter and editing done in Aperture and Pixelmator.


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Pictures really do not show how badass these wheels look compared to the Niche's I had for a while, but in person... WOW!!

Looks crazy, fitment is a lot better than with the Niche's although they really weren't bad. Had I kept them I was planning on getting them done Gloss black and adding spacers however a friend was selling his CV3's for a steal of a price so I jumped on em.

Same wheels we've had on the Camaro for a while, gotta get these 2 in a photoshoot together,

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just a hassle loading up all the gear to take shots of your own cars lol.

The next few things I've got to do now are roll up on some wood blocks and cut out some square shaped spaces on the bottom of my side skirts so I can jack it up easier, it runs all the way down the side basically over your "jack area" whatever its called. These skirts extend way under the car and there's hardly room to get a jack positioned correctly to get the car up without putting stress on the skirts and almost cracking them. The steps we had to take to swap the wheels were #1 roll up on 2x4's #2 use spare tire jack positioned ever so perfectly to raise it up just enough & not put too much stress on the skirts #3 place floor jack that we can finally position correctly to do final adjustment.

The front tires on these wheels are shot, gotta get new ones like TODAY, so I gotta get to the skirt modification, and I have my redline oil and purolator filter for my second oil change (since my ownership), as well as K&N drop ins cause my stock filters are lookin pretty dirty.

The Vossen's are 20x9 and 20x10.5 gotta hunt for the offsets but they're almost perfect fitment.

need to change my profile pic and sig

OK looking at the offset options for the wheels, I'm pretty sure they're the

20x9 +20 Front
20x10.5 +15 Rear

The current tires in the front are 245/30/20's and I need advice on the new tire size as these ones are trashed and stretched as they were on an even lower Z before mine and needed to be stretched to fit, however I'm a tad bit higher and am thinking 255/35/20's might be a better option to really flush the wheels up, not to mention no one will install 245's on a 9" wheel, I'm starting to think 255's could flush it up I'm just worried about the sidewalls lookin all fat, I like the look of the tires now... What do I do?

not worried about uneven tire wear, I'd just really like to hear that the 255's will look good and close the tiny tiny gap I've still got

New Pictures


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:yum: Very Nice!