Yet Another New Member and Owner of a 370Z from Ohio
 

Greetings!

I'm a new member and a new owner of an '11 370Z from Columbus OH. I bought the car about couple weeks ago. It's a Touring in Magnetic Black with a 6-sp manual and 28k miles. So far it has had paint correction, glass coating, and clear bra custom installed (no pre-cut kit, everything is cut free-hand with folded edges where applicable) by Julius Poa.

This Z34 is meant to replace the '8 Z33 Enthusiast that has been serving as my wife's daily driver/winter beater for the last 2-3 years and I'm kinda having trouble selling it. I looked at some mods and came up with mostly suspension. AutoAnything has Koni suspension kit (springs and dampers) on sale and it's pretty tempting. I've also considered Eibach for anti-sway bars but after driving it spiritedly, I found the car may not need any help in suspension department, at least not yet. I have not decided on exhaust and wheels; I'm going to have to come up with an exhaust quickly as my wife usually complains about the quietness of stock systems in her cars; the Z33 has Nismo S-type.

So, before this intro becoming too long, I'm glad I've been approved to participate in this forum.

Congratulations and welcome! :tiphat:

Good choice on MB with Touring!

Thank you. The Magnetic Black may become the turning point of converting my stable into all black.

Beautiful color when clean, but sure hard to keep it that way. Worth it though.

Welcome to the 370Z forum

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-Clifford :welcome: :tup:

Congratz on the purchase of the Z!
Happy Modding and Welcome to the forum!

I agree. My two other vehicles are black and one has the same glass coating (22PLE) as the Z34; the coating makes it bearable keeping the paint in reasonably presentable condition.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Hi!

fellow Columbus OH black Z owner checking in!

Hello :)

Excellent! I figured there must be Z34 owners in Columbus in this forum. Are you a member of any of the local clubs?

I am not. My Z still has temp tags !

Equally newbie :)

Will you be getting personalized tags? What will your first mods be?

All of my vehicles have a personalized license plate; this time around, the Z34 will eventually inherit the one currently on the Z33; a mundane, regular sequential plate for now.

Well, first wave of mods are done; they are clear bra, paint correction, glass coating, window tint, debadge, engine cover removal, and steering column lock disable (fuse pulled). Wheels & tires, anti-sway bars, exhaust, and maybe springs/dampers.

How about yours?

Wow you've done a lot in a short amount of time! I would love to do paint correction on mine but don't want to fork up the money for the porter cable etc right now. Looking at $350-400 in the end. Would rather do a gear swap and add VLSD! I have an exhaust in the mail, stillen cbe. I'll install that and my next mod will be 4.08 gears and the additional of a VLSD. Open carrier right now :(

I have new black Z emblems to replace the silver Nissan ones and black 370z badge. Just got the windows tinted on sat. 35% on the sides and 5% in the back.

Well, I meant to say that the suspension and the wheels and tires are next. I have not decided on them.

Personally, I try to avoid cutting the paint; I'm not one to do that. If you're like me and you wanted someone to do it, let me know. The guy is mobile and he installs clear bra, does paint correction, and installs glass coating.

I didn't know that a 370Z could come with an open diff. Is yours base? If you're going to tear into the differential, might as well install something worthy and not VLSD. Look into clutch-type or, at least, torque-sensing gear unit.

My window tint is 15% all around and 5% windshield strip.

Yeah, shoot me a pm with some details if you don't mind. Price, contact info, etc.

I have the a 2010 touring; not sure if thats considered the base model or not. But no VLSD in it- that only comes with the sports package I believe. I talked to a guy who has a nismo and he put a carbotech(??) differential in his - its a high quality aftermarket diff and he said he can't tell the difference between that and his VLSD that was in it other than when hes tracking it; which I dont think I'll do. Keep in mind hes also trying to sell me the VLSD. Plus I'm on a budget so at the moment it sounds like a good choice. I was going to go quafie diff ($1k) but after speaking with the guy I couldn't justify an extra $650. If you have any input please share!

Touring is not base; so yours doesn't have the fixed calipers? I thought Touring package included Sport package. I guess at that price, it's not bad. It's just VLSD in 350Z pisses me off maybe because I'm used to clutch-type and automatic locker in my other vehicles.

Honestly, I don't know if I have fixed or floating calipers. Why does the VLSD in the 350z piss you off? What is the biggest difference you notice between VLSD and LSD ? I don't know anything about clutch type differential.

Fixed calipers come with the Sport package, they have "NISSAN" emblazoned across the outboard surface.

VLSD needs a certain difference in speed and the limiting feature doesn't start until there is a large difference, meaning, during heavy cornering, the inside tire has to slip at a high speed before the outside tire getting any torque. However, once the outside tire has been engaged and its speed becoming closer to the inside, the VLSD turns to "a relaxed state" and the limiting property drops sharply allowing the inside tire to gain speed again. Repeat that about 6-7x during a long sweeper at an autox. It's frustrating.

Clutch-type LSD has a couple clutch packs which are already locked at zero speed difference. It still allows some slip, but it's already loaded from the getgo.

Well I do have Nissan embroidered across the surface so that makes me think I have fixed calipers. And I see. Now youre making me second guess my decision. I'll have to do some more research.

So, your car has a sport package which means it has VLSD.

What would a SPEC stage 3 clutch be rated as: VLSD or LSD?

Just want to know whether or not when I upgrade the clutch again if I should change to an LSD if I am already not

Umm, what?

No vsld. Its not sports package. Ive lit the tires up, only one rubber path laid. So that means that the Nissan embroidery doesn't necessarily mean its a sport package unless the person before me had the brakes upgraded.

That's the problem with viscous LSD, its capability of "limiting slip" is very poor.

Nissan embroidery?

Hmm. You think its worth another $650 even though I don't plan on tracking it? And by embroidery I mean the "Nissan" on the outside of the calipers. Stamped, pressed, embroidered, etc lol

Personally, I'm not planning for an aftermarket LSD for mine. If you're planning to get on the serious side of autox or drifting, then an aftermarket LSD is justifiable, otherwise, the stock one is enough.