Well that's me too. I have never taken a caliper off a car in my life, much less paint it. First time for everything I guess ... really looks good dude. Kudo's to those guys for helping out and teaching you stuff. :tup:

Here are some better pics, but I still can't seem to get good lighting for a decent side shot.

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Finally got my brakes working properly. The new brake setup has WAY more stopping power than before. My car's stopping power is now limited by my tires and not my brakes. Any hard braking and the ABS kicks in. They are louder and a lot more dusty, but I can teal with that even as my DD. HIGHLY recommend this to everyone with the stock pads. A great way to upgrade your braking power without having to pay $1k-2k for a sport package upgrade.

Also if you want to consider it a "mod", I pulled the steering lock fuse from my car today. No more worrying about the steering lock failing :woot:

Nice work, Shahid. Car is looking good:tup: Id really love to get my calipers powdercoated. Your paint job came out looking pretty nice though. I actually did the same thing to the calipers on my 1990 300zx. Also, congrats on the improved stopping power!

Thanks! I thought about getting them powdercoated, but didn't want to spend all that money. It was like 1/10th the cost to paint them myself vs getting them powdercoated.

Had my first track experience today at Summit Point Raceway for Hyperfest. Here's the video of my session. More details of my experience in the thread below:

http://www.the370z.com/track-autocro...xperience.html

Muahahaa now you're one of US :rock: yeah you braked early but it's a good survival mechanism to have with all season tires and slip n slide grassy runoffs.

IDK if anyone has told you but CAI+HFC+CBE- T.U.N.E =OVERLEAN = :mad: VQ37 because of detonation. Runs hot too. I know its $$$ but you get way more power, higher redline, and you wisely saved $$ when you kept your stock 18's (which allows you to spend less on Hankook RS3's next time you buy tires). Save those all seasons for another season and get those Summer tires on asap.

Get rear add on spoiler, tune, and more track time before you worry bout early braking.

Oh-video had great sound! What setup and settings?

Sharp video man, weather was perfect, sky looked great, car sounded good, only missing thing was the batman's theme :tup:

Does feel good to join the track club. Yeah I know about the tune and I am planning on getting one........eventually :p

I was going to get one, but ended up spending that money on track stuff like the brake pads/fluid, track time itself, and I just bought a set of used summer tires to use for a few months. I may need some time to recover from all this spending before I even think about getting more mods :icon17:

As far as the video goes, it was just an old non-HD gopro camera that I borrowed from Rob (MightyBobo). I placed it at the end of the hood right above the Nissan hamburger on the front. Ended up being the perfect spot to hear the sound coming from the intakes and HFCs. I eventually want to get one of the HD gopro cameras and get an external mic to use with it for even better sound.

Thanks man! I'll try to remember to put that in next time. :tup:

Do the rear add on spoilers really add any useful amount of downforce? When you say add on spoiler, do you mean like the hardcore track wings or something like the CarbonSignal type N spoiler?

Got my latest mod installed tonight with a lot of help from Rob. He found me a 34 row Z1 oil cooler kit that had never been used before on Craigslist for only $250. I picked it up from the guy ASAP and just got it installed. It working REALLY well so far. On the 20 min drive from his house back to mine, my oil temps stayed at a steady 170 degrees with a little bit harder than normal driving. Definitely need a block of plate soon so I can at least get my oil to optimal operating temps. Saw temps over 260 at my hyperdrive and this should definitely help out with that.

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Also bought a set of used RE050A's to use for the summer. Summer tires are definitely way better than all seasons. :tup:

Unfortunately the installing of my new tires ruined the plasti dip on my wheels. Trying to decide whether I should just leave them as is for now or just peel off all the plasti dip. I'll post pictures in the morning so you guys can help me decide. I'm probably going to spray them with plasti dip again, but not sure when. If it's going to get messed up every time I get my tires changed then it's not even worth doing again, at least not for a while.

Rob's a good guy :tup:

Definitely :tup:

So here is the aftermath of the tire change. Not sure whether to leave it like this for now or just take it all off. The rear wheels aren't too bad, but the fronts are.

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Take it off, looks ugly now...

Great find on the oil cooler though :)

Gotta go back to stock look now :(

Spend the 275 bucks and get them powdercoated....done deal.

Nice video buddy!!

Thanks! Kind of broke from all the spending recently and trying to save money for track time. I'll probably just peel it off and leave it stock for a while.

So this is the look I'm currently rocking on the Z :l

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Do take the plastidip off; that shot doesn't do justice to your sick ride ;)

I will finish taking it off eventually. Just got tired of doing it in my parking lot while it was 95* outside. I do love the look of the wheels with the gunmetal plasti dip, but if it's going to get ruined everytime I get my tires changed them it's not worth it to respray them.

The car looks better overall with silver wheels imo. Adds contrast to match the silver door handles / z emblem / headlights.

Pfftt, that's what I left the center caps and lug nuts silver for :roflpuke2:

How's the oil cooler in the recent 100 degree weather?

I like the wheels silver too

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I can't get it to 180 with normal driving, have to drive a bit more aggressively :roflpuke2:

Wheels will most likely end up staying silver for now.....unless I find a way to keep the plasti dip from getting ruined with every tire change. Maybe I should just paint them instead. Want to do something to hide the scrapes.

Hahaha it was a 34r right?

Right now with no cooler I'll hit 225 in stop and go traffic with A/C on full blast.
Been debating on picking up a small 25r cooler.

Yeah. You should only really get it if you're gonna do hard spirited driving when it's really hot outside or if you plan on tracking it. Otherwise I've been fine without one for over a year now. Come on the cruise this Saturday and monitor your temps. Should help you decide if you need one or not.

I've been thinking about painting my wheels, but Dan says that the paint will get scraped up too. What if I go to a place that has a touchless tire mounting machine? I want to do paint because it's more permanent than plasti dip and much easier to clean. Duplicolor has a gunmetal wheel paint that I was thinking about trying. Here's a wheel that was done in that color

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You could powdercoat them. That will last and look great.

Only problem with powdercoating is the cost. I'd rather spend that same amount of money on an HPDE. Then you also have to pay to dismount and then mount the tires.

Didn't truly realize how dusty my new brakes were till this past weekend. With the lighter silver color of my wheels it's WAY easier to notice all the dust and literally impossible to keep them clean. Washed them on Saturday after the cruise and they were pretty dirty again after just a 20-30 min drive. Right now they are slowly turning back into that same dark gray color that they were before :icon17:

Who needs painting/powdercoating when your brake dust color matches with your car? Notice how the front wheels are darker than the rears :roflpuke2:

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We call that "naturally smoked"

:bowrofl:

So Rob and I painted my wheels yesterday. Wasn't the best job, but we did pretty good for a first time DIY. Mother nature gave us a lot of trouble with the high temps, humidity, and wind. Everything was going perfect till we started spraying the paint. It wouldn't go on smoothly and kept bubbling due to temps and humidity. They look good from far away, but not so much from up close. Probably gonna wet sand and refinish them at some point. I kind of wanted a bit darker color for them, which I might try for the refinish. Another thought I had was to try painting the lugs red to match the brakes. What do you guys think?

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Bring on the pics! What paint did you use btw?

Edited my last post with the pics. Those are just a couple quick ones I took coming into work. Ill take some more later.

I used VHT wheel paint, but I think you could probably use any kind of paint really.