Nismo Badging on a Nismo Conversion?

scruffydog

Buddy calm down, i appreciate your feedback you're among friends. I'm not directing any of my frustration on you and only you. Can we not have a healthy debate on a forum? I only recently decided on what I'm going to do, and it also created an interesting topic for me to discuss.

Furthermore I had 2 hrs to kill at the airport so if my lengthy post seemed like I was just ranting without merits I apologize. But those are my thoughts.

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DEpointfive0

I agree, DM, I'm not being hostile towards you about being a Nismo owner who is butthurt about a "non-Nismo" having "Nismo" badging, just trying to have a conversation, and I KNOW a few people who are those Nismo owners who will/do get butthurt, lol

And hey, who gave you the lead on the guy who would mod your illuminated kick plates? LOL

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dmhenderson

I think that's a pretty bold assumption. How the heck are nismo owners any different than the other 1231823123 people who post here? Are we going to single nismo owners out and shame them? Cool I'll go first I guess. Where is this coming from?

Bottom line is that you can build a car that outperforms a nismo and maybe even looks just like one, but you can't "convert" a car to a nismo.

To answer your last question, my red LED kick plates shipped and I installed them last week and they look pretty great. I feel bad for the dude who did them. I can't imagine the headache.

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forza370z

Well said!

Serious guys, I am a Nismo owner and I never hated or looked down non-nismo owners. Nor I see most Nismo owners here started to offend non-nismo owners. I don't give a $$$ about putting a nismo badge on or what. Matter of fact, I am happy there are people like Nismo model and want to promote it.

But what I am not cool about is the non-nismo owners being so sensitive and talk $$$ about the Nismo everywhere. It's like you spend money on swift springs and FI CBE and I tell you you just wasting your money and not being any faster then my stock Z. What's up with that.

MJB

Get used to it bro. It was the same way over in My350z forum with the 350 Nismo. I don't really understand all the hater comments myself... its not like you see Nismo owners making comments claiming that our trim level is superior over others... all I see is non nismo owners saying we wasted 10k dollars... blah blah.

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dmhenderson

Please don't tell me to calm down because I'm not upset. I don't even understand why you're "frustrated". There's nothing to be frustrated about. I went through this same internal debate re: my '09. You asked for people's opinions and got them. I don't understand why this keeps taking a weird hostile turn.

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Sway

NO! It's not a nismo and never will be!! Stop trying!!

Pffft.... I don't care, it's just a badge. I just like the nismo because of the bodykit to be perfectly honest =P Do whatever makes you happy bro. Someone's always gonna be butthurt. Just tell them to stop taking it up the ***.

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dmhenderson

This is 100% accurate.

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Sway

Thankyou.

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asdfsammich

This thread has 0% chance of being 100% accurate.

It's a conversion thread. Pretty much starts off fuzzy. Bypasses the factory definition of nismo.

Factory nismo, nismo conversion, both are choices folks are free to make.

If either get grief for it, well, it kinda sucks but, whatever, be happy with what you like!


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Cmike2780

lol, 11 pages all about a piece of plastic lettering. I guess Nissan's brainwashing does work if you are honestly offended. It's all a marketing gimmick. If you've ever been a part of any type of business, you'd be familiar with this tactic. It's nothing but pomp and circumstance. If Nissan had named this the "Nismo Package" instead of calling the car the "Nismo," I don't think this would even be an arguement. At the end of the day, this is something someone in Japan just came up with out of thin air. Nothing stoping you from doing the same.

....same with the 40th. In Europe it was called the Black edition for the exact same car (mostly).

OP, put the badges on if you want. If anyone ask, say it's a Nismo replica, lol....and if that still bothers you, drop some turbos and say it's what the Nismo should have been.

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scruffydog

12 now....I want to thank you all for participating in this conversation. I am sorry if it offended some along the way. You guys are a good crowd. In the end we all are just part of community with the same general interest - cars.

As for my car, I've decided to go without the Nismo emblem. While it was entertaining to keep this thread going, there'll always be my fiancee who supported me financially thru this conversion project that will call me out on me being a poseur. lol I've been pretty passionate about the Nismo since day 1 but she'll never understand why I didn't just get one in the first place.

Funny thing is, I would be in the same boat - of wanting all the features my current car has which the Nismo lacked.

I do respect her taste though, I'm not going to go with shaved emblems nor blacked out emblems. While it also looks nice, I personally like a little bit of contrast on my Magnetic black Z and don't want with the murdered out batmobile look. My car is black enough with the tint and dark gunmetal powdercoated wheels.

I'm just going to have the silver Nissan logo in front and back without the 370z emblem or the Nismo emblem. Who knows, maybe someday I'll slap on the emblem to make it look good =) Hopefully I'm getting my Z back next week and I'll post some pictures in my journal.

Anyone know how I can close this thread?

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JARblue

Go Premium and you can close your own threads






or you can PM Frost or Triple's and ask them to close it

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frost

to the first part

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