Nismolucinos 40th

nismolucino

I haven't updated this in a while. so the car put down 317 whp and 269 ftlbs on r/ts dyno after the mods listed in my previous post. Since then Ive done some mods in the past year.

Towards the end of the summer I installed spl rear traction arms. Install was straight forward and being a tech I had access to a alignment rack right after. I think Ive aligned this car at least 5 times in the past year.



Then later in the fall I picked up some fortune auto 500 series coilovers 12k front and 10k rear spring rates with swift springs. I previously had just swift springs on oem shocks and I always felt that the shocks were too soft. The fortunes are a great upgrade. I still have not had a track day with them but I plan to take the car this summer to at least one.


I also took apart my headlights and painted them myself. I went with a satin black housing, including the boomerangs. I painted the shrouds to match the kav color. I also upgraded to morimoto clear projector lenses. The light output is a night and day difference.


While I had the bumper off for the lights I ordered z1's new pop charger filter upgrade for the stillen g3's. It was due for a cleaning anyway so I figured why not upgrade them. The oem crash beam had to be modified to fit the filters, I cut it and had my friend weld it.






I also got rid of my underdrive pulley kit, installed the oem alternator pulley and upgraded to an ati super damper. My impressions of the pulley are that the engine is alot smoother especially in the higher revs.


The final thing I changed was minor. I felt like the interior needed something, so I ordered a red stitch e brake boot and center arm rest leather. The e brake boot slips right on and the center console had to be taken apart and I replaced the oem leather on the arm rest with the new one.



Heres the car as it sits now


I have some mods I hope to get this year still. Hopefully z1 headers, maybe change the exhaust out for a tomei. Then I want to get a retune and see what it puts down pretty much full bolt on. Ive also considered changing out the side mirrors for the evo r mirrors, I never did like how bulky the oem mirrors are. Ive also had my eye on the zoom engineering interior mirrors for a while too so maybe that who knows.