Swift Springs Installation
 

Stock rear height:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...cture-rear.jpg

Before:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...re-picture.jpg

Before (rear side view:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...re-picture.jpg

In progress:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...ft-install.jpg

The wall mounted spring compressor is a big reason to not do it at home. It helps having a master tech for a son too,

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...ft-install.jpg

Nice

It was a 335i. He was running low to mid 14s where i was around mid 15s

Great video Skeeterbop! Thanks for posting. :tup:

Looking good mr.onzedge. I envy the wall mount spring compressor and master tech hook up. :D I only have a regular spring compressor.

I drove over to Forged Performance for their open house and BBQ watched some dyno pulls and the new Lexus LFA on the dyno was very cool but had to leave early b/c they don't have a big parking lot and people were getting blocked in so I left.

:tup:

More Swift Installation Shots
 

Rear ride height before:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...cture-rear.jpg

Rear ride height after:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...ft-install.jpg

Bridjit curb ramps:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...curb-ramps.jpg

Rear side view before installation:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...re-picture.jpg

Rear side view after installation:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...er-install.jpg

Mr. onzedge, Jr.:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...0949-colin.jpg

Colin test-driving:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...ft-springs.jpg

mr.onzedge- congrats! :tup: looks good. :D are you running spacers now too? :)


i swapped out my G's SSR's to factory wheels with snow tires (LM60's). went from flush to wow, where the hell did the wheels go? look. :D hahaha. but with only 225/245 i dont want to use spacers as it will look rediculous from the back. i can't believe how sunken in the factory wheels were on the G... :icon17: last time i used these was a very long time ago so forgot how the car looked.

washed the SSR's, polymer sealed them, stacked them up. :p

:tup: thought you were going to rotate like a plane. :icon17:

What exactly does rotate like a plane mean? Never heard that one before.

I run 15 mm Ichiba in the rear and am installing 15 mm H&R in the front tomorrow morning. To me -- they are perfect fits

Great shots Mr. Onzedge! Yer Z is looking fantastic! How do you like the ride so far?

pull stick back and take off. aka Vr. :)

sounds good. :tup: i too am currently running very similar setup ET33/ET15 (19x9/19x10.5).

No large meet-n-greets in my area like Plana, TX. Occasionally we have EuroSunday with about 50 cars (exoctics). Most around here cannot even get up that early, dunno must be all the pollen in our Central Valley that keeps them sleeping at that hour of the morning. Myself I am up and on the road by 6:30 am.

Looking forward to your photos from the DSLR.

Nice photo. Need to be measuring from the ground up. Btw: the rear passenger side looks higher. It's normal until the springs settle. I can ride co pilot for about 500 miles and with my big phat arse sitting in the passenger seat it will drop soon enough. :tiphat:

That driveway looks steep, hope you made it out un scathed.

Yes, it's nice to have two master mechanic sons under the same roof. I would have thrown in pizza and beer. :tup:

So how did your alignment numbers come out?

TT next.....

h&r ftw

Changed transmission oil with Red Line MT-85 at 10k miles. What a BIG difference! The Z feels much lighter. Definitely recommended to those who cares.

:tup:

Looking at buying a lip kit. Tired of looking at the stock lines. Especially the lower half. I feel it needs to be squared off

Nah, turbos are fun but I want to have this car stay all motor. One day I would love to buy a short block and do a full build and see just how much power I can get out of it.

As promised, pics from the Dallas (actually in plano) cars and coffee on 11/5/11. It's hosted by Classic BMW the first saturday of every month. I worked a double on friday that ended at 2:30am, went to sleep around 3-3:30, woke up at 6am, met with a local Nismo 370 at starbucks at 6:45, left for the show and got there at 7:20 (like 30 minutes before sunrise) and there were already tons of cars. After the show I managed to get an hour of sleep before my 4:30pm-2:30am shift, and now here I am finishing this up so I can finally catch some ZZZZZZ's.

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I figured there was no way this guy would let me up here to take photos on this lookout deck but I got lucky. First off I would just like to say that there is major distortion in these photos, some to the point were the horizon is curved pretty bad, because I was using my fisheye lens since I broke my wide angle recently. Here is the first angle showing the North East corner of the lot
http://images.us.viewbook.com/4130f5...85b7_large.jpg


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North West corner
http://images.us.viewbook.com/daccef...7f4c_large.jpg


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South East corner. Had to shoot into the sun on this one.
http://images.us.viewbook.com/0e6886...f366_large.jpg


#4
And finally the South West corner.
http://images.us.viewbook.com/e33683...881b_large.jpg


#5
And these last 2 photos are of the Z getting some attention after people started clearing out
http://images.us.viewbook.com/8d7fe8...3b52_large.jpg


#6
http://images.us.viewbook.com/306e62...63e1_large.jpg

Enjoy guys!

Nice picts :tup:

Nice pics Dallaz, looks like a great turn out. I actually had a VW dune buggy exactally like the one in the bottom right corner of the first pic. It wasnt nearly as nice though. Wish I still had it now that I have a bit more $$$. I owned it when I was younger. Would have loved to restore it.

:tup: :iagree:

Gutted the rear.

http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...1/IMG_2519.jpg

http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...1/IMG_2520.jpg

Pressure vents in the rear.

http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...1/IMG_2522.jpg

Same here but waited until 25k, The mfg recommends a swap at like 35k. Shifts are much smoother with RL.

Looking for a good gear oil to change out the diff. Heard a lot good things about Motul.

Red Line FTW!!!

I washed my Z yesterday and now it's raining :(

Normally after I wash it I let the wheels dry and I leave my cover half on :icon17:

http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u...photo-1873.jpg

^ what canards are those?

Waizz - that doesn't fly off with the wind? :icon17:

Motored my Z this am and QD'ed afterwards. Was a great am. :p
also fixed 2 switch guts going to my garage/utility room. On the garage side I bought a illuminated switch so that I can tell after I lock the door from the garage side if I turned the light off in the utility room or not. :D. With short memory these days I tend to have to unlock the door to visually check. Now I don't have to.

:icon17: it never really gets that windy here

They came with the bumper, they are Carbon Fiber NISMO Version 2-style.

VW had brought out one of the new bugs to the show, it looks a lot better than the last generation. The last 2 months I've been there Lamborghini of Dallas had brought one of their 2 Reventons to the show.... So sick! That would have been cool to restore the dune buggy

Interesting as Lamborghini of Houston has had an Aventador at our Cars and Coffee the past few months, and someone had a new Volkswagen Scirocco - very sweet car!

We had about 12 Z's, a 1600 Roadster, and a 2000 Roadster in the "Z area" yesterday. Tons of interest in the two Roadsters.

If you have a chance to get out to a local Cars and Coffee, I'd highly recommend it. I just wish Dallas and Houston picked different weekends. I'd love to ride up to Plano and see the cars there.

I don't see a manual release for the trunk, can you confirm that the 370z has one?

We were discussing this yesterday at our meet.

There were more Z's yesterday than I've seen yet at one of our shows here. for some reason not many Z's attend compared to the vette's, mustangs, challengers, camaro's, porsche's, etc, etc. we had at least one 280, I saw 2 300zx's, about 7 350's, and 4 370's, one of which was mine. Then there was the Nismo that rode in with me to the show, then a PW sports with nismo wheels and painted rear valence and headlights, but the 4th guy I met had the Stillen SC kit on a MBlack one with painted headlights. that was pretty sick as we've only got one or 2 other FI Z's in our area that I know of. I think he said around 430whp. The only other I know of is a White sports with Greddy TT's pushing 490whp I believe.

Isn't it behind the passenger seat in a place you would never use it unless your fob was toast? IDK but I'm also curious, do any of Y'alls (Texas accent lol) trunks catch when you press the release once and you have to press it again for it to open. sometimes I will press it and pull up and the hatch goes up about one inch and catches on something so I have to press it a second time, but it doesn't always do it

Do you guys try to park together?

BTW - thank you for posting the pictures. Usually someone from or group posts pictures on the Club's Facebook page a few days after the event. When they come up, I'll post the link.

Here's a link to some pictures from our October car show:

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...KS1U5ZUwC2x3Iw