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Originally Posted by OptionZero I'll start with the bad news: If you bought this car for the entertainment options, i'm sorry, you bought the wrong car. It's an 11 year

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Old 06-28-2020, 06:41 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I'll start with the bad news:

If you bought this car for the entertainment options, i'm sorry, you bought the wrong car.
It's an 11 year old sports car that has had minimal upgrades during its life span.

Ditto with road noise. It's a dated sports car, if you want a quiet ride . . . you want a different car. Just facts here.

The good news:

It's an 11 year old platform so there's known solutions to nearly everything. The solutions might not be easy or cheap or particularly palatable . . . but they're out there.

Parts are still being made for the car. Not to Subaru/GTR/Mustang/BMW levels . . . but you can find basically anything. Again, the price point might not be fun, but stuff is there. Mostly.

You have one of the last RWD, manual transmission sports cars out there, so congratulations! It doesn't need a transmission swap or an engine swap or hacking off (or welding on) a roof to be fun


Here's your to-do list:
- Read this forum
- When you have questions, search, and read more!
- Look at pictures
- Find stuff you like
- Copy how that person did it (by reading, asking questions, and then breaking out your credit card)

stuff you must do before anything else:
- Buy a Zspeed heavy duty slave cylinder plus a lightweight flywheel/clutch combo and install it before your OEM one shatters and leaves you stranded
- stillen Gen 3's
- 34 row oil cooler from Z1/Fast Intentions

And then decide how far you want to go after that

Very Well Said!!
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Default Thanks for these great ideas

and for the warm welcome. I appreciate the ideas about how to listen to music and ways to upgrade the car. I certainly didn't get it because I love the entertainment system, although I do love to listen to loud tunes while I drive too fast. I got it because I'm a Z guy, after all this is my third one!

Regarding the flac issue, it hadn't occurred to me that this was a non-issue because a moving vehicle with road noise isn't really a place where you need the best quality. It's obvious once you guys pointed that out, but it was a revelation to me. I think I will convert my flac files to 256 kbps mp3s and not worry about it any more, and also stream from my phone.

Love the upgrade suggestions, I'll research them. It's going to be fun, I really do love this car.
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I gave up on the radio. Between FI LTH's, tires, everything SPL, and hearing aids. I can't hear chit.
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