So... how do we jack the front of this car up?
 

I have a low profile jack, but it still hits before getting to the front jack point in the front of the car.

How do you guys jack up the front of the car? Wanted to install my test pipes this weekend...

I have no problems getting to the rear differential to jack up the rear though

What I do is drive up onto some boards I made into a small ramp. That gives me enough clearance to get my low profile jack up underneath to the brace under the engine. I jack up the front enough to put my real ramps under the wheels. Then I jack up the rear using the pumpkin as a jack point

^^^that will work.

basically........ its a bitch!!! ;)

I'll try driving up on 2x4's. Don't really need both ends jacked up to do the test pipes as far as I know.

I'm not looking forward to the demon bolts though.

Good luck. We broke one extenion and had few bloody knuckles trying to get those MFers out

If you don't have any boards laying around. You can use your scissors jack to raise the Z up enough to slide your other jack in to raise it the rest the way up. ;)

Oh yea... forgot I have a jack in the trunk lol.

Also, I have craftsmen tools, so if this breaks it will be the first time I've ever broken one. I've broken plenty of other brands, and maybe craftsmen is the same, IDK but I have yet to break a craftsmen tool and I've put a beating on them.

guage go from the engine bay! remove the intakes to reach those bolts, and use 1/2" drive extentions.

I thought you get only the one bolt from each side from the engine bay. Can you get all the bolts from the engine bay? The ones from the manifold to the cats anyways?

no only one bolt both sides. you "might" be able to get the other ones but i did it two years ago and cant remember.


i actually had to put my factory cats back on since my POS CNT res TPS broke......

Place the scissors under the side skirt to lift it high enough to slide a floor jack in its place to finish the job. Then rest the car on a jack stand. Repeat for the other side.

i think frame rail would be a better use of words.

You don't want to trust that scissors jack for that. I know my scissors jack will not go up high enough for a jack stand. ;)

I wouldn't trust them for that either. Just switch it over to a regular jack after the scissors raise it a an inch or so. :tup:

Since crapsman is made in China now so I stopped buying them. It was a craftsman we broke and those bolts live up to their name. I felt like screaming... "WHY NISSAN WHY?!!"

When I lift my NISMO, I use a 2.5 ton low profile jack on either side, raise it to the height I want, and then place one or more jack-stands on the frame rail near the jack point. I then go to the other side and repeat the process.

I have also used the ramp method, but that was @ Mike's in GA.

I believe my lip sticks out just a tad further than the Nismo lip and also a tad lower... When we were working on mine we had to drive up on boards under both front wheels to even think of getting a jack underneath, it's even easier though than using your scissor jack to get it started unless you don't have any wood lying around, but trust me, when its time to lower it, your not gonna want to worry about lowering your main jack just enough to get your scissor jack under the side skirt to hold it, then remove the main jack, then finish lowering it with the scissor jack..... PITA

Just lower it on to your wood blocks and be done with it. Also you won't need to jack up the back, we did a buddy's HFC and only jacked up the front, the demon bolt you will want to go from the top after removing your air boxes with extensions on your ratchet, lots of extensions lol or you won't reach and have enough leverage.

Ok, I know where to jack up the rear of the Nismo to get both tires off the ground (in the middle of the diff housing) but where do you place the jack to get both front tires off the ground at the same time???? I have looked but nothing looks stable enough. Pictures anyone????

The search function would have lead you to the posts eventually but I knew right where they were since I just had to figure out how to lift my Nismo.

Try these threads:
http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-g...ar-370z-2.html

http://www.the370z.com/exterior-inte...act-point.html

The first thread has a crappy illustration from the manual. The second thread has a photo of the underside. If you scroll down the page or possibly to the next page the jacking points are circled in red.

Hope this helps,
Mick

Confirmed that you hav to go to page 2 of the second thread for the red circled pictures.

Regards,
Mick