Drove in and had my dad in the car... tried to be easy on the throttle which only made my shifts jerkier. Lol gonna send it on our way home after we finish dinner with some relatives

Exhaust is supposed to land at the shop tmr. If all goes to plan i should have it installed on Wednesday!

Are they flying it in via bush plane?

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Yeet it over the boarder

Taking her to work today. Gonna be a fun drive to and from work.

New brake pads and nismo shocks with swift springs:driving:

New shoes for the old girl

Oil change today with Mobil 1 5w-30

Installed Remark axel-back exhaust.:tup:

The Z's been quarantined in the garage for about 2 weeks due to an overdue oil change. I guess Ill get off my lazy butt and do the oil change this morning.

Clutch and flywheel arrived. Just waiting on the CMAK.


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Picked up the noise makers today! Oil change and noise maker install this wed!

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Currently in the middle of an ART pipe install. Driver side demon bolt giving a little fit and is currently soaking in some lubricant. I did have to loosen the steering column to be able to navigate to that one.

Would be moving swiftly and smoothly if not for that compounded “issue”.

I am looking forward to the sounds of the ART pipes with the Motordyne CBE.

Dropped the trans, installed a Southbend clutch, the 19lb billet steel flywheel and the CMAK from zspeed, put the trans back in and now all thats left is the coolerworx shifter and finishing bolting things back up tomorrow, super excited to drive it.

Put on my black ZSpeed undershroud. No more crappy flappy dragging plastic crap

LOL, what took you so long!

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With respect, yeah lol. I bought mine 2 years before I bought my 370.

Update on the ART pipe install:

It seems that my decision to reuse and combine the stock metal o-ring gasket from the ‘top’ of the catalytic converters with Z Speed’s copper gasket has left me with leaks at both header connections.

I’ll need to uninstall the metal o-rings and reinstall without, but the second time around should be much quicker.

I'm appreciating that positive, can-do attitude!

Hush hotrodz and Betty, go buy Elmo’s block or something constructive! :bowrofl:

Seriously though... idk I kept buying go fast parts :yum:

That is the update as written this morning after sleep and dreaming of a corrective install plan.

If it were written last night, HA!! - would be filled with plenty of 'motherfuckin' goddammit!'s

Me when i was doing the gen3 install and the clamps were top tight/hard to open so said FUGGIT im reusing the oem ones. Lol

I screamed into one of the mufflers pretending to be a noise maker. Well it was muffled. Can confirm it works.

You having oral sex.

Hey he's gotta pay the pied piper for those pipes.

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I went from Bahhhhhhhhhh

To
Gnagnagnagnagnagggggg

That's... not what the exhaust note should sound like. Methinks you still have some maple syrup-stained $100s in your cans.

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ART pipe install complete. Pretty funny how tame the sound is while cruising under 3.5k rpm. Once the accelerator is mashed this bitch gets loud. I can dig it.

Even better? The main squeeze approves of the sound. In her words “I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s louder, but it sounds different. It seems more smooth.”

Great job to Motordyne for putting together a banger of an exhaust system!

Did you remember to cut off the floor pan bolt on the drivers side?

Please elaborate.

I watched so many damn installs and not until now did I catch an ART youtube video that only mentioned trimming the stud. I picked the TPs up used and didn’t have any official instructions. :icon14:

Do you know if there is room to get to it with the dremel while the pipes are installed?

I seriously don’t remember reading this step on the O.G. ART pipe thread....

There's a bolt on the drivers side floor pan that sticks down about an inch. The Art pipe almost rests right up against it and it will hit it and make a bad rattling sound. Motordyne addresses it in their instructions. It just needs to be cut flush with the floor pan. Only takes a couple of minutes.

Off Motordyne's website:
On the driver side floor panel heat shield there is a M6 stud that protrudes down about 1”. This stud will create an interference fit. Trim the stud flush down to the panel to allow for ART pipe clearance. Install all the bolts for the ART pipes only finger tight, then adjust rotation/alignments as needed, then tighten all the bolts working from front to back starting at the inlet to the brace to the outlet

Welp! That’s on me for not going to the main source for the facts. Glad that the fix is simple enough.

Thanks for the heads up!

I found out the hard way too. :tiphat:

Got everything buttoned back up yesterday, loving the Coolerworx shifter a lot so far. Getting used to the flywheel chatter, it can get pretty loud lol. Also put on some SS braided brake lines.
Now just breaking in the new clutch!

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New clutch already??? :s

I love the coolerworx shifter more every time I drive the Z. :tup::driving:

Gonna have to handle next years added HP!