hey there, mr.alcheng! :tup: my Z's my weekend fun car and i still dont feel necessary to change the suspension. it's one thing to tighten it up to your liking, but another to just drop and stiffen it up for cosmetics. if it's a dressup car, then by all means do wat you want to make the car look nice. or if it's a pos car that needs improvement.

most often, such cars go slower due to skipping tires, discomfort, slower engine rev-up due to larger vibrations, and abs noise during hard braking. will also throw off your yaw control which you can't turn off during throttle up. the Z's stock suspension is more than capable for street and the stance is fine so not worth compromising or spending my time on it.

what really cracks me up are folks that say these things yet they drive around with inferior/junk tires with wrong offset wheels while racing their dropped z aka 'race car' in their heads. lol :rofl2:

not at all, you are in a good operating range.. I sit around 190 when not boosting, and around 200-210 when in boost a lot

omg.. did you contact the city? that kind of stuff should be paid for by the city... I know when I was in Tucson, a few of my airmen had some issues with crappy city roads and the city paid for their repairs...

but I know what you mean.. I have to drive really slow, and at a rediculous angle to get in my drive way

Just dropped my 08 270 6mt/sport off with rob at Z-car garage in San Jose. Installing JWT clutch, dual pop chargers and full Berk HFC and exhaust with an uprev tune over the next few days!!! Parts have been on back order a few weeks and I am dying to feel and hear my new mods.

thanks, mr. gale! :tup:

ordered up a windcutter today for my tascam. :p the factory windscreen that the recorder came with failed my wind test over the weekend. got saturation at 45mph with driver side window rolled (the recorder placed on center console just behind the cubby lid). :) i drive with the window down in the cooler months so i need it to withstand at least 55mph.

sounds like fun, surf! :tup: ..but, uh.... why pop chargers? :ugh2:

Hey Mr.GaleForce dude... how are you??? :yawn: as usual??? LOL


You mean something like this Whatever-Car Lambo-Edition in Sh!tation-Red: :shakes head: :bowrofl:

http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/atta...-doors-022.jpg

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mr.alcheng- lol, "shitation" :icon17:

woot, gotz tracking number for the new spacers for my G. :p

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mr.gale- :tup: yah, having cameras inside the house makes you feel closer to home. :p

this new camera has audio in/out so i am planning to hook up a small but adequate computer speaker to it so that i can yell at people if they walk inside my garage uninvitedly while im taking a dump on my neighbor's driveway. :icon17:

:tup: but this means i will need to do the brake fluid change later this week when it arrives... :ugh2: been putting it off since May. :icon17: i hate doing maintenance work on my cars.

but i hate going to the dealer even moar.

that poor poor eclipse.. :shakes head:

how much is an uprev tune there? ive been tinkering with the idea..but not entirely sure how it works. do you have to buy the 500 dollar module from uprev and then pay someone 500 to tune it?!

So it's the Swifts?
All this time I thought that skipping, yawing, ABS action I felt on Friday night was due to a late braking maneuver in the wet while transitioning from asphalt to concrete rumble strips at the entrance to an offramp. :icon23:

Oops typo. 09 370. (no kidding right???)

I think I'm paying 600 bucks. Call rob at Z car garage for info. He is a pretty good guy, gets great reviews on this site and seems waaaay knowledgable.

plus you suck at driving, i guess. :rofl2:

I know the stockers are pretty good, but I like being able to clean my own filters when I do oil changes. Also I don't want to have to pull off my bumper to get to them. It's half (almost negligible) performance gain, and half ease of maintenance I guess.

Well, I AM Asian, after all. :bowrofl:

p.s. (I know this is goofy, but...) I kinda like being able to see my intakes. It just sort of says "bitchin" to me looking at dual intakes.

I know, its gooify, but I'm not really a hard corps racer. This is my DD. My other non performance mods are things like Dynamat, quieter tyres (planned) and mirror stickies. Also I have no track brakes or cooler. Like I say, it's not really a tracker.

i speak from experience running that intake long time ago, but that kit runs pretty hot vs the stock system or similar systems such as R2C. the heatsheilds are not very effective, dont fit right in the 370Z unless forced, as they were made for the G37's.

you see, this is why i dont like to be classified with other asians. :tup:

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:tup: What did you get?? 15mm??


I can't even name it, can only call it a 'thing' :shakes head:


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Get the K&N Typhoon, I like mine very much so far, the gain on performance is decent... :tup:

Hey LunaZ dude, you feel better from the stomach flu?? :tiphat:

hey dude... he has an iggy list too, you know that.. right?? :ugh2:

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Thanks Kenchan! I'll look into it.

i got a 10mm. my kics 10mm would not sit correctly on the disc so i decided to try another brand from japan. :p my G's front wheel is slightly sticking out from the front bumper so i want to tuck that in for cleaness and improve mpg.

oh yah. hahaha. :icon17:

np, if you can still change it, i recommend R2C (had good experience) or the typhoon intake mr.alcheng uses, or keep it stock and get post MAF tubes and K&N drop-ins (what i currently run). works great. :tup:

My UpRev was $550 and the only thing I needed to bring was my Z. You don't have to buy anything else. They use a laptop and upload stuff into your ecu and you use your cruise control buttons to flip thru the various maps that the tuner sets up for you.

Here I sit at MSP airport -- far too early for my flight. I saw this on the drive down today and I am not quite sure what to think of it.

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Hey Kenchan, Do you think if I later swap out my pop charger to k/n or some other, I'll have to retune??

Perhaps that area is there to help you mass the time before your flight???

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Typo:
*pass* the time.

probably not. when they tune usually the hood is open and blow air via large fan to keep things cool. which means your IAT will be cooler than wat the popcharger would do in real world with hood closed. :)

Awesome.

I'll run these for awhile due to my car is in shop and I'm leaving to Denver on plane. Perhaps I'll swap them later if I fond like the performance. Thanks for the input. This forum is always a huge help!!!

np and have a safe flight! :tup:

oh thats sweet! thank you much. was always confused as to whether or not i had to buy something first

Thanks for asking! Feeling better, just not 100% yet. I'm just re-introducing my body to solid food today.
That bug was brutal! :barf:

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i start with non-toasted white bread when re-introducing solids after illness. seems to work well. :)