hello, mr.onzedge! have you been a good mr. onzedge today? :icon17:

took my kid to school in my Z this am, dropped him off. from there enjoyed a nice 1.3hrs of motoring. :p on the way home filler her up, sweeped her room (had leaves on the garage floor under her) and quick QD on the front surfaces.

...and now doing chores and prepping for supper. will pickup my kid later this pm in my G.

Did a full waterless car wash today. We're still under water restrictions here.

Honestly, once you get comfortable doing it and understand where to start and when to change towels it's not bad at all. I always follow-up with a good shot of spray-on wax. I'll probably hit it again with another coat of Griot's Best of Show wax tomorrow.

Got my EVO-R foglight mounted this morning. Lucked out on the two bolts everyone dreads as mine came right off with a socket wrench. Still need to wire it, but I'm waiting for some interior trim tools to come in from Harbor Freight.

Tried my hand with Di-Noc for the first time. You definitely need to practice with it, but it's got serious potential. I did the center HVAC/Radio panel. Came out okay, but needs to be redone. I just don't have the patience for it today.

May dye my interior stitching tomorrow. Depends on how hot/muggy it is tomorrow.

I'm totally whipped from an all day house project yesterday, so my car projects are probably done for the day.

Enjoy your weekend all.

Mike

I received a lot of compliments on my Z yesterday. From flag guys on the side of the road giving me thumbs up to little kids screaming "nice car!!!" Its funny, I commented in a post a week or so ago stating that nobody has ever refered to my car as "cute". Well I drove my Z to a hot tub delivery yesterday cause the customers were super close to my house so I was gonna go straight home from the job. The woman came out and said "oh my what a cute little car what is it?" I said a Nissan Z, a 370. She asked if it was older, I laughed. How could you confuse it for an old car?? It looks so "new". Then her little kid got off the bus and freaked out over it, lol I think he thought his folks had just purchased it. Lots of attention yesterday, made me proud to be a Z owner(not that Im ever not proud).

Besides that Im still looking at my Stillen sways and pushing off the install since its such a PITA to jack it up. Car finally goes into the body shop next week to fix the damage from the deer I hit back in August. New hood and front bumper. Itll be nice to have all fresh paint on the nose since my current paint is beyond chipped up.

Picked this up today. Carbotech XP 8's, ARP studs for the front (already had them on the rear), and Redline MT85 transmission fluid. Can't wait to get it on Monday.

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Nice stuff, Spohn.

Gurney- glad to hear you're comfy using the no rinse.

Finally got to a dyno.

8psi 474 whp 396 tq

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Still some cool cars to go. Click on the live stream

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holy crap! :eek: :D

Thanks Ken. Right now, I really don't have a choice.

I did notice that the spray is, for lack of a better description, oilier and more viscous than a detailer. You can see how it's made to suspend the dirt off the surface of the car.

Waterless is actually faster than soap and water when you factor in dragging out the hose, filling the soap bucket, drying the car. and then picking everything up.

I can see it as a great way to go up north at winter time. I actually did the car in the garage today.

I guess I'm old school, because I miss the "old way". Maybe I'm just old!

I have used Optimum No Rinse on my cars for the past 3 years. I have yet to use a hose with the Z, if you work in small sections and make sure your wash media is good, you will not have to worry about marring the paint and it is much much faster and easier.

I personally am not sure why many people are so worried about no rinse wash solutions. When used appropriately, they are just as effective and safe as a hose and regular car wash solution.


On another note, I washed the Z today like usual. I took a girl out last night to dinner through the canyons, but on the way back I was going 60 through one turn and there was a stream of water running across the road and once I hit it, the back end immediately stepped out. The back got so far out I had to turn the wheel a full rotation just to correct. Drifting on a two lane road with the cliff or the wall next to you was not the best feeling haha, but she loved it for whatever reason. :)

Z sat today while i was at the Amigo Airsho, check out the pics over in the photo section :)

awesome!!

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Drove it three blocks to the theatre, will be seeing The Three Musketeers.

You park your Z at a theater? Very brave. I drove to Fry's off Northgate yesterday and knowing my Z was in that parking lot with its narrow spaces made for a distracted shopping experience.

The parking spaces are pretty large at my theatre and I find an end spot or park in the next lot. Yeh.... the Fry's on Norhtgate is scarry just parking in that neck of the hood. Zville Fry's is alot safer and spaces are large...dunno Fry's in Natomas is set up wierd not to mention it's too close to the freeway onramp, makes for thieves on a car shopping spree.

took a 5 huor road scouting run - all around... and made 33 vid clips ... now to process them all.

Yep, it is kinda oily but its like a protective coating over my polymer so I think its good. I too use it all the time on my Z when I go over puddles. I think starting next month I'm going to use my SprayOn CarWash full time on my G. I will run the car through undercarriage wash when I can but between washes the no rinse should do very well.

Motored my Z this am and had a good time opening her up. :D. QD'ed afterwards. I luvs this car! :D

Hahaha. I hate being rushed to shop but then I don't buy unnecessary things so this is good. :icon17: happy sunday, mr.onzedge. :D

Christian- that girl of urs is a keeper. :D

Replaced my cabin air filter today. Must say it was pretty straightforward after reading the DIY.

Painted more trim pieces. Check it out in my journal.

Warsh and QD. Had to be quick with the QD because it was high noon and the sun was beating down! Found that the Mothers product worked better than my Meguiar's stand by.

I let the wife take it to a family function somewhere while I shuttled a model and my make-up artist around to some shoot locations in her car.

Put my SS braided brake lines on now I have a great firm pedal.

This is the kind of talk I love to hear!!! I feel the same way Ken. Every. Single. Day.

This is something I plan on doing sometime between now and the spring, before ZDAYZ. What lines did you go with?? Pads and fluid????

the lines are from Z1 and the fluid is Valvoline synthetic Dot 3 or Dot 4.
I haven't done rotors and pads yet but the SS lines and fluid change "WOW" what a difference in feel.

:tup: I plan on going w Z1 when I finally pull the trigger.

My first post as a "PREMIUM MEMBER"!! My days of freeloading are over:tup:

Yeah +1 on SS lines.

I'm running StopTech lines, pads, rotors and Motul fluid and it made a big difference when I upgrades to the Brembos

:icon18: lol :tup: i contribute as much as i can by ways of information and humor. long time ago (when internet was still kinda fresh :icon17: ) an online buddy of mine helped me out quite a bit how to mod a car. i just want to return the favor to the community. :p



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happy monday...:ugh2:

Happy Monday Mr. Kenchan. :tup:

:tup: hello mr.onzedge. so did you ever find your monopod made for giraffs? :icon17: ;)

Welcome to the club! Now, time to get your bunny slippers on. :rofl2:

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Bunny slippers?? You premium guys have too many inside jokes:icon17:

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First attempt at HDR images...
 

I washed my car this weekend, and decided I wanted to try my hand at HDR imaging. I have exactly zero experience with photography. My camera is nothing spectacular. I don't have it handy to tell you the exact model number, but it is just a Canon ELPH point and shoot digital camera that is like 5 years old. I used a tripod that I picked up at the local Goodwill store for like $6, and I took this picture at a public park parking lot on the bay a short 2 minute drive from my house. I took about 16 shots at varying degrees of exposure from -2 to +2, and I used the photomatix software to process the images. The following are several of the results from default presets in the software. I may make this a little hobby and try to get better at it. Please forgive the file size. I hope you enjoy...

^^ i like the b/w (2nd one). :tup: