ChuckD05's PW 370z 6M

[chuckd05]

Never made a page for my Z... 2009 PW 370Z Base Model - 6 Speed Manual

First Week of ownership springs and rear spacers:




After a few months i added OEM Rays, Rear Spoiler, Tint, and Painted Rear Valence... :



and newer shot from June 2011





Modifications Done to Date:

Performance:

Stillen G3 Cold Air Intakes
PPE Long Tube Headers
Stillen Exhaust
UpRev Custom Dyno Tune
4.08 Final Drive in a VLSD Differential (My Z is a base non sport)
Fidanza Flywheel
Stillen Crank Pulley
Nismo Finned Diff Cover
Custom Setrab 24 Row Oil Cooler

Dynoed and Tuned @ Performance MotorSports in Smithtown, NY

Best 1/4 Mile Run to date = 12.92@109.987


Suspension/Brakes/Wheels:

Volk GTS Wheels 19x9.5 +17 19x10.5 +18 (+8 with spacer)
255/35/19 & 305/30/19 Hankook Ventus Evo v12 Tires
H&R 10 MM Stud Replacement Spacers On Rear
Eibach Springs
Ichiba Rear Camber Arms
OEM Akebono Brake Kit
Hawk Brake Pads F&R


Looks:

20% Tint
GTR Start Button
OEM Chin Spoiler
Blacked Out Rear Valence ( trim black )
Blacked Out Fangs in Gloss Black
De-Badged rear 370z Emblem
OEM Rear Spoiler
6000k HID Bulbs
V-LEDS LED Bulbs Through out
Evo-R Smoked Rear Foglight

Stereo:

Pioneer AVIC-X920BT Head Unit
Rear View Camera
Polk Audio db6501 Component Speakers


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12.94 Pass at Englishtown:






I will update some more recent pictures and other goodies along the way.

[chuckd05]

Shots After A Recent Detail taken with iPhone4:







Still Stock Bulbs in this picture:

[travisjb]

good progress, looks great

[One_Quick_Z]

Looking good!


I hate City stickers in the window ugh



DAN

[chuckd05]

I have gotten used to the stickers. One for inspection, one for registration. NY is fairly strict with no front plate too but I have not given in on that yet....

On another note, My 4.08 parts are in at Nissan ... Going there to pick them up tomorrow , Install is set for Tuesday the 23rd.

Can't wait for them to be installed... Should be interesting to see how much traction I DON'T get in first when it's done, especially in this cold NY weather...

Thanks to Jnaut for his help with part numbers and such....

[Jamaica]

how do you like your berk test pipes?

[chuckd05]

I don't not like them, but I sometimes wonder if I would be happier with resonated test pipes.. I always run test pipes or resonated test pipes on all my cars.

The car doesn't smell bad like some people complain or talk of, but there is some rasp. Its more pronounced when the car is still cold for the first 5 minutes or so but obviously there is more rasp than with car's I have heard with high flow cats. Overall my exhaust sounds excellent though.

BUT if a set of resonated test pipes pops up for cheap I will probably pick them up and swap them to see if I like them better.

[Jamaica]

do you feel a difference in power with the test price.

[chuckd05]

No idea if you could feel 2-3-5 hp... Im not sure of how much they actualy help ya know ? Im sure there is some increase in power though.

I have seen my chart plotted on top of other Zs from the same dyno with various mods and mine seems to be one of the better setups.

[Jamaica]

I wonder if it cause of the exhaust

[chuckd05]

I have a dyno chart of my car and another 370 with LTH FI exhaust and not sure what intake, both after an up-rev tune and my car's power and TQ and entire band is significantly better.. Kind of awkward... Its actually the carbon fibered guy's Z ( the red one )...

Meanwhile a stock nismo with just test pipes put down 335 on that same dyno yesterday, so who knows?!? I'll scan and post that chart one of these days.. Yes, the dyno reads high but its consistent and a bunch of Zs are on it, so if you throw the highness of the number out of the window you still can see gains and comparisons just fine.

I had Tony's long tube headers in my house two weeks ago but was convinced to do gears first , so I sold them off and got the gears.. I am a 1/4 mile track junky mostly but I have serious interest in getting into road coursing next summer so the gears would probably help the most out of my mods left...

But the gears are being installed TOMORROW, I can't wait

[chuckd05]

Had the 4.08 final drive installed, took a before and after video of where my RPMS were at, and are now at after final drive install... I will post that soon...

At 80 MPH I am at 3400 RPM'S before the gears I would be at 3000 RPM'S.. Gas Mileage in the little bit I have driven seems to have went down .4 around town , have not done any highway driving..

I can live with all these things just fine, maybe not for everybody but to me this was one of the better mods I have done.

As far as increased in performance it is substantial ... The car accelerates like a beast, My tires spin 2x more than they did but it is still controllable, but If i fully throttle it in first at 4k they will break lose right away, I can no longer just mash the pedal down and go... Its cooler here now so thats hurting traction too but traction is def more of an issue than it was, but like I said its still controllable.

I think this was prob the most dramatic mod I have done since I first installed test pipes and the intake in the begining... It's without a doubt faster than it was and not just by a small amount.

I can not wait to get back to the strip with some good tires... the fact it puts my car in the power band in 4th going through the 1/4 instead of just getting into 4th and the actual increase in acceleration I have now I have no doubts that this will shave .2-.3 tenths off my 1/4 mile time.


Now the question is , what is next ? Flywheel ? Try M370 out ? Go Long Tubes over my test pipes ?

I am not sure, But I am sure that I am extremely happy with the outcome of this final drive.

[tranceformer]

Just when I thought I was catching up to your 12.9 you add another mod to go faster!

[chuckd05]

Yea but your stock! And not too far behind.

But I'm thinking your track prep is above avg and prob just a quick track In general.

Here in NY tracks are closed for the season ... You have 3-4 months still! Next season I'm going to go to Atco instead of e-town as I've heard it's a quicker track.

I love friendly competition though. I'd love to just match ur boy jnauts 12.5. The 12.3 is just sick and i don't think it
Will be touched NA

[tranceformer]

Friendly competition is always good.

I'm shooting for 12.9x with the hfc's I just bought.