Thinking about plastidipping my wheels in a glossy gunmetal... what do you guys think? I can't decide if it's worth the $50 to do this or not. On another note, my silver wheels makes the brake dust really stand out. And there's a LOT of brake dust :/ maybe the gunmetal will hide the brake dust a bit better too?
Photoshop;
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Looks great so far!

Loooks sooooo good!

Nice progress!

nice nice! my Z is a similar build to your's :P minus the KW suspension. Do tell me, HOW do you get around places in vancouver?? I already scrape at stock height in some town house complexes. I live in Richmond, you should come out to some meets in the spring. (Z housed until march for the winter)

gunmetal should look great

Oops forgot to check this thread for a while, Z has been garaged since late November :( Picked up this GSR for $2250 and have been working on it since.
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Hoping to bring the Z out by the end of this Feb or early March, with a lot of new goodies on it hopefully :)
Haha, I get around by angling a lot and watching out for potholes xD I scrape everytime I try to go into a complex, but it's minimized if I just go really slow and practically go parallel to the bumps lool. It's actually not too bad. I'll definitely come out to the meets more during spring as well, my Z is also stored for winter
Thanks guys :tiphat:
Thank you for the opinion :) Actually didn't get a chance to do this to my stockies before I stored the car for winter. Now I've ordered a set of these and am just waiting for them to come in :happydance:
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Finally started to work on my Z again

Ripping out the interior and prepping for fatmat application, with insulation on top. Going to cut out a carpet to line the floor of the trunk afterwards since I'm not planning on putting the spare tire back in
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In order to fit my jack underneath.. I need to go up 2 pieces of 2x4s. And my jack still barely clears :/ Need to buy a low profile jack lol
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Nice and stock, not for long though!
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Strut bar, engine cover, and headlights are off for paint! :) Bumper's off for intake install
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AEM ETI (cai). Lots of acronyms lol, in a nice gunmetal color :)
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And they're on!
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Didn't get a good picture of the flakes in the gunmetal paint, but will later when I can bring it out in the sun :) Not liking the placement of the filter much, perfer the Stillen gen 3 placement... But wanted to try out the ETI thing
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Gonna sit like this for the next few weeks since it's off insurance anyways, wheels are coming shortly :) Possibly ART pipes as well
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nice GSR!

^Thank you haha, it's quite a fun little car :)


Baking begins!
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Damp cardboard on the bottom and damp cloths on top of the lens just in case..
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Stupid 370z headlight didn't fit in my oven all the way so I couldn't close it.. because of this we had to rebake it multiple times before we could get all the sealant off. Unlike the 350z headlight we did afterwards where it actually fit in the oven and only took one quick bake + pry and it was off
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After 4 hours, baking, prying, baking again, prying the other side, etcetc.. it's finally off!
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Swapped the OEM lens with an 3" clear STI-r lens from theretrofitsource. Great for just $50 :) Top is the OEM lens, bottom is the STI-r lens. Same bulb, only a few feet away from the wall so the cutoff looks a bit narrow
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Pieces ready to paint
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Made a insanely ghetto painting hut in the shop LOL, to capture a lot of the overspray and so dust doesn't get on the part while drying
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Before and after, I originally wanted a slightly darker shade of gunmetal but I was limited to only a few choices of high temp paint. My friend used normal acrylic paint on his 350z headlight and it ended up bubbling form the heat, so we picked high temp paint to do mine and redo his. I didn't want to paint it black or too dark of a gunmetal because I personally do not really like black headlights on a black car. Paint's still drying right now so I'll have to wait and see how it looks like on the actual car. The chrome is gone, replaced with a matte gunmetal color with slight flakes in the paint :)
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Last picture with flash so it looks a lot more blue than it really is, but matte :)
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Wow nice update looks great buddy! Let me know anything you need and I can get you awesome pricing!

Thanks man, will do :)

Housing is almost back together! Just doing a few LED mods since I have the headlight apart..
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I believe it's called devil eye? :) LED strip facing the lens to make the projector glow red when you look at it head on, but not affecting the color output of the lowbeam at all so the floor still lights up white. In the process of wiring this to a switch so most likely it'll either light up when I unlock the car with the dome lights, or just light up for shows/meets or whatever. Haven't decided yet but definitely will not be on while driving lol
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Headlights finally sealed today, can't wait to see them turn on.
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Aaand picked up my wheels the other day :D
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wow! very nice build!!

Thanks! No where near as nice as yours though haha :)