where did u get ur overlay for the fang and the valance?

^^It's paint vinyl

Update, sorta...

As some of you saw, new Amuse exhaust is now installed. No videos yet, gotta find myself some cash to get a GoPro HD cam, or link up with some members here and borrow one. Enjoying the exhaust quite a bit. As someone who came from a Fast Intentions system, it's definitely...different. Much quieter in the cabin, but still howls like a demon with the taps open. I love it; the pipes are starting to burn in a little too, so that's some extra amusement for me :tup: I'll take shots the next time the car's up (probably to install the midpipe heading this way).

For those of you who have been hiding under a damn rock, here's the link, with pictures and dyno vids / results: http://www.the370z.com/intake-exhaus...vids-dyno.html

Next exhaust upgrade: R1 Titan Midpipe. Yep, full amuse from the cat-back, go figure. SACLAM might make a better midpipe, but I'm sticking to my guns here. And Amuse isn't complaining either, judging from the hole they're ripping in my wallet.

Still nothing compared to what Tony's spent ;) I'll refrain from obvious jokes :tup:

Yesterday was a BIG day though, because Mike@370ztune reported that the Vestito kit is in! Thanks to Ai and Mike for setting up a near immediate pickup, and Winnie out at the warehouse for helping me out with everything.

Now Mike took some good shots of the kit in its raw form: http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-g...stito-raw.html

Now I don't exactly have a big *** warehouse at home...so I had to be more creative in storage until this weekend :icon14: Sorry, camera phone pics only, but meh they're not final shots anyway

Yippee!
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/6...100408112r.jpg

Holy sh*t it filled up my Suburban! The boxes were massive, couldn't take them home :(
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5...100408106n.jpg

Strewn about my garage...
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2623/20100408108.jpg
http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/7695/20100408107.jpg
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/166/20100408111.jpg


So the schedule for the next month or so:
-Get car stuck in body shop to install kit
-Get Lou to provide me a certain missing part :tup:
-Get Marco / Ryan to work on my headlights while car is stuck in body shop

Not gonna have the car to play with for a while, it seems.

One question for everybody. I don't have a lick of 'brilliant silver' anywhere on the car except for the handles. What should I do with them? Color match? Matte black? Bit of both!?

A bit of both colors on the handles....hmmmm....that could be interesting! And the headlights....I bet they are gonna look sweet! :tup:

Tiger Stripes! RAWR!

:bowrofl::roflpuke2:

thats gonna look like absolute sex man!!! i wish i had the money for an amusekit like that.... :tup: btw... yah bro tiger stripes FTW LOL

Short update. So the kit and car is in the shop...sigh :( I miss waking up the neighborhood with a nice V6 howl...

Anyway, the kit looked great on initial impression, but right now the body shop thinks otherwise. Slightly perturbed by that, as Baker-Jackson Nissan got Mothra together with a near 'perfect' fit. Wonder what makes this one off? Or is it really off...? :confused:

I'm having the shop do a complete test fit before they really go "yeah...it doesn't fit well at all" and charge for my kidney to continue forward. Hopefully it all works out and work starts this weekend...somewhere lol.

When the car is down, though, off go the headlights for a bit of modding :tup:

Still waiting on new parts from a vendor here and there. *cough cough* lol

I'm thinking right now I'm gonna color-match the handle. Yes / no?

On red, not 100% sure, do not think anyone has done it yet.
Of course if you had PG or white or black it would be an easy yes, but you had to pick red. :p

I'd say give them your defective lung. Don't give them a perfectly fuctional kidney! :inoutroflpuke:

very good work man...subscribing for amuse :D

Put that kit on already....geezzz

:iagree:

Hurry up!! The Natives are getting restless....lol

Don't think a bleeding lung is an excuse

how bout those picts?

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3559/20100430116.jpg
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/8691/20100430115.jpg

So either Baker-Jackson got really lucky with their kit, or I got the short end of the stick...anyway, there's been a lot of work by the body shop to get the kit on nicely. This is the rear, and they say it was all wavy and crap when I brought it in.

Okay...it wasn't THAT wavy to me, but they're the experts not me.

The front bumper was more of the same I guess. Anyhow progress continues..should have everything but the wing on by this week.

MRWorks has delivered my headlights back too, I need to get some pictures of those up soon...if I get some in my e-mail soon... *cough*Marco*cough* lol

Or else they're gonna have to deal with crappy camera phone pics from me!

Wait, I thought you had a red car? :p

For all that money I thought a coat of paint and shes done, would have been it.....

you're not the only one sir. but it is what it is...i've come this far, so time to get it done right lol

nope, i camo'd my car :tup:

Maybe during the shipping it caused some issues?

i've thought about that too. i did pay the cheap route and had it sent on a ship. but the boxes were immaculate so i assume they didn't get whacked during transit.

WITH THAT SAID, i was not impressed with Amuse when i opened up the boxes. there was nothing in there that would break any falls or whatnot. No bubble wrap, no paper, nothing! that completely took me off guard. so while the boxes were okay, maybe they got beat up when the boxes were moved around...and flipped...or what not.

wow that sucks phelan.. i hope it all comes out alright

We will send the pics ASAP lol

teaser pic. well, not really, it's actually not a bad pic, but eh:

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9756/20100502118.jpg

Nice! Pillow Boy...lol

Wow nice work, you shaved the landing strip indents! looks really nice phelan. when thats on your car with the kit and everything is all painted i bet it's going to look really great. are you going to be keeping your hood and hatch exposed CF or painting that too?

Headlights, pillars back at the bodyshop. I need to go to the Z store tomorrow evening and grab a rear fog light as well.

I'm kind of depressed over how long this is taking, but I'm not about to start rushing things. I want the kit to come out the best it possibly can. At the same time though...I dropped the car 4/10, it's now 5/4. Bah.

This does mean there is a very good chance the Z will not see the STILLEN open house this weekend, and that bums me out big time. Even if the body shop does call me and says it's done, they will have put it back together per my instructions - don't touch the hatch, do not install the wing until I get the stock piece back. I don't want the CF look on the pillars or hatch; it'll stay restricted to the hood (and even that I eventually plan to paint over a majority of it).

So the car is going to look really weird for a while. :facepalm:

dont worry man :tup: our cars have to look ugly at one point in time to turn out looking badass in the end :D

^^^agreed

Don't worry phelan, the line between genius and madness is measured by the number of people you have to kill to succeed. :tup:

On another note, the more and more pics I see of MRWork's... Work lol The more I like. I can't wait to be able to ship a set to them and get my headlights modded as well. :tup:

Fresh like uhhhh

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9573/20100507122.jpg

oh so close :excited:

but no, it will not be available this week. major :( as i will not be attending the stillen open house.

Nice!!! I Like what I see.

nice. just vinyled my rear valence, roof, and painted the fangs.

btw did you get your head lights done at 180? or you did it yourself?

coming along nicely

that paint is kind of bland... :stirthepot:

my hot pink paint had to start somewhere :rofl2:

still dirty, but eh i couldn't resist:

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2071/20100518124.jpg

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/963/20100518123.jpg

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3503/20100518125.jpg

just realized they forgot about color matching my handles :facepalm:

Looks good, do you have a side shot farther away? Almost wonder if it "works" without the wing maybe (giving myself ideas...must stop before I spend more money).

that looks raw! even without the spoiler