pretty nice. should get them powdercoated like that.

Woahhhhhh looks great Shahid. I wish I had four hands... :tup:

Thanks guys! These will probably become my winter wheels at some point so I'm not gonna spend money to powdercoat them. It will cost like $20-30 and a couple hours of work to redo them completely so it's not worth getting them powdercoated.

Yeah, but when you get your next set, this isn't a bad color option :tup:

This is the exact color I wanted for my next set anyway, so I will probably have those powdercoated this color.

Looks goooood B1ades:tup: nice job.

Thanks Ryan! I love how the color goes perfectly with the blacked out fangs. I didn't plan for it like that, but it worked out really well.

I'm thinking about maybe doing the door handles as well. It would look good, but I don't think I would like feeling the rough texture of plasti dip when I open my doors. I like it to feel smooth so I will probably leave them. Might do the emblems though in the same gunmetal color.

I think doin the emblems would look good. Door handles too but I hear what you are saying about the texture. Just looked at your pics again inside, was in the sun before and had mega glare. Rims look damn good +1. Blank rep from my Droid.

I'm thinking about putting a regular clear coat on top of the plasti dip on the wheels to give it a smooth texture. It will be more difficult to remove, but I don't plan on removing it anytime soon. It will also be easier to clean with a smooth surface.

Shahid, you've been making some great cost efficient mods that are turning out great. Congrats!

Plastidipped the wheels.....ahhhhhh. ok. cool.

Thanks Jon! Being an engineering student short on cash really helps you come up with some of these great ideas. My car is proof that you don't need to spend thousands of dollars on a full body kit and aftermarket wheels to set your car's looks apart from others. My car looks super modified with just a few subtle changes, which is what I love about it.

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Great job on the wheels ! Looks killer. Did you do them on the car, or take them off ? I am guessing off since it looks like you got all of the inside wheel parts done as well ...

Yeah I took them off the car. I thought about doing it with the wheels on the car, but it would have been much more of a PITA to mask off the brakes/rotors with the wheels still on.

wheels look dope!! :tup:

Thanks! They actually look way better in person than in the pics. :tup:

All it took was like $50 bucks (can probably be done with $30-40) and a couple hours of time.

Looks good man! This is next on my list of things to do, I'm trying to get all the cheap stuff out of the way so I feel like I've accomplished something :)

That's exactly what I did......only because I don't have the money for the expensive stuff yet :roflpuke2:

After hearing your car in person with the HFC's paired with CBE I think I may go this route as well.

I do drive the Altima all week to work now and the Z has been turned into a weekend car so I can live with the extra noise in exchange for more POWAH!!!

Gonna have to budget 300 for the HFC and another 600 for the tune afterwards now. :(

:icon18: I knew you wouldn't be able to resist. Might have to budget more for the HFC if you aren't planning on installing them yourself. If you are planning on installing them yourself, good luck and have fun :tup:

I thought you were gonna install them for me... :(

I didn't even install my own :bowrofl:

looks surprisingly good

I know right? You should see it in person.

Got a busy modding weekend ahead of me. This Saturday Rob is going to help me install some Carbotech XP8 brake pads, Motul RBF600 brake fluid, paint my brake calipers red, and change my oil.

For painting the brakes I'm using VHT caliper paint which should stand up to temps of 900 degrees. Need to clean the calipers diet with the caliper cleaner, then sand them down, clean them again with mineral spirits, and then finally paint. Also bought some painter's tape and a plastic drop cloth to help mask off the car. The total cost for this mod including the prep supplies is $35. Very cost effective and hopefully it turns out good. Here's a pic of everything needed to paint the calipers

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...s/IMAG1290.jpg

And here's everything ready for this Saturday. I thought i should change the oil while the calipers are drying to save some time.

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...s/IMAG1291.jpg

Can't wait to see the end results at the Gordon Biersch meet afterwards.

...looking forward to seeing how the calipers turn out.

I should also mention that I'm doing this in preparation for my firat hyperdrive at Summit Point Raceway on June 16th :tup:

I'll be sure to post pics after we're done :tup:

After a long azz day at Bobo's garage yesterday (13 hrs working on my car) we have the brakes mostly done. Ran into a little issue after we finished up and it looks like we didn't bleed one of the calipers properly so we will take care of that later tonight. We did get the XP8's on with the Motul fluid and we got the calipers painted (which took up most of the 13 hrs). Here are some pics:

Rear caliper on the rotor:

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1297.jpg

All calipers and brackets taken off:

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1301.jpg

Brackets after the first coat of paint:

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1303.jpg

Calipers painted:

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1304.jpg

Here's a before and after pic of the front calipers:

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1296.jpg

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1305.jpg



Tried to get some finished pics of the car this morning, but the sun was too bright and this is the best I could get. I'll take better pics later and post them up.

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1310.jpg

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1311.jpg

looks good :tup:

Thanks Al. Hope your dinner survived in the car yesterday :tup:

May I make a suggestion. Cut the white piece of the tinted tail light. It'll give it a better look and you will be able to see the white light when backing up better. I do have a question. When lowering did you do simply springs, and if so do the tires wear on the inside/outside in even?

Well the tail lights are painted so I can't really cut anything out. I thought about doing it like that at first, but I like this look better. The led lights in the tail lights are bright enough that there is absolutely no problem seeing them through the paint. They are actually brighter with the paint than most other cars that don't have led tail lights.

For lowering, I just did the Swift springs. Haven't really checked the tire wear in a while, but that should depend on the camber settings for your alignment. With negative camber, I think the inside of the tires should wear faster than the outside, but how much different they are depends how far out your camber is. Some one please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

These pics didn't come out that good. I'll try to get some better ones at some point. Also I updated my first post and added the brake mods to the list.

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1312.jpg

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1313.jpg

Nice job Shahid!

Calipers look great man ! I bought the stuff to do mine, when you coming over ? :tup:

Thanks guys!

Just a heads up Craig, you'll need 2 cans each of the paint and the brake cleaner. Have fun :tup:

The red brakes really stand out from far away, especially with the dark colored wheels.

I'm never one to mess with superior experience and technical skills. I figured you might be cool doing mine. I could watch and learn. :tup:

You might want to talk to Rob about that. I did essentially the same thing. He taught me how to take off one caliper then I took off the rest myself. If I ran into any issues I just asked him for help. I want to learn how to do all of this work on my car on my own and both Rob and Kirk have been amazingly helpful with that. Thanks a lot guys :tiphat: