Its ok.. sears gave me free replacements. :icon17:

Fell in love with my car again.

It's been a crazy month in the life of my Z. It finally feels like the car is sorted, safe, and fun to drive.

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Test drove it for the first time after installing the quaife diff. Let me just say wow!!!

And my exhaust rattle is gone too... Bonus!

Mog Story: Trailered to its new home, and mocked up the new (Honda Civic) radiator. On Saturday is autocross in the Z , then pulling the engine on Sunday to have rebuilt. Going with 87mm piston liners that will bump displacement from 2.0L to 2.2L. All new rotating assembly, regrind the cam, new cam retainers/springs, new pushrods, and unleaded-gasoline valves and valve seats. Can't wait.

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British cars aren't known for reliability, so I'm guessing the rad will be the last part to give up the ghost

Tuned finally @ Specialty Z
 

This was today after work.
Baseline HP/TQ was 283.56 / 235.97
First run 305.56 / 248.38
Second run 308.18 / 247.75
Final run 312.03 / 272.23
5 Maps

Saw two other Z34's in the shop. Both FI and from out of State. One's from AZ and forgot where the other one was from. Both forum members but don't know who.

Those are some great gains with bolt ons. 94 octane map?

Agreed. 91 octane map. I was told he does not see this often. He also explained the car was running slightly rich. I said I understand and that's why I'm here but will be leaving your shop slightly poor.

Yeah I chimped out on mine, I threw down the strap wrench and grabbed a REAL Pipe wrench, that muther fargin bastige came off then!
Unfortunately the tender little skin on the OE shift knob came off with pipe wrench treatment.

Put in my new seat! Hopefully the back pain stops! :D

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Here's to your back pain stopping. Nice seat. How was the install?

because of these posts i started looking at how to store my Z for the winter.... :koolaidwall:

oh well atleast another week until we get snow up here in Kanadia! (okay really i hope for no snow until November...):shakes head:

My rear tires went bald. So I swapped them out for a different set. They were the O.E yokohama. I'm running a temp set of rears from my gf's Z. I noticed an increase in mpg though!

search hibernation and there are many tips ive posted on this site.


you on 18's or 19's? i tossed out my advans with about 3-4/32 left and went RE11's. :p such great tires. whole different level vs advans.

18's for now. Still looking for wheels. Trying to grab a set that I haven't seen on a Z yet.

The advans are really expensive lol. I didn't realize how heavy they were too. The tires of I have on the rears are 5lbs lighter on each side

yah, those advans are kinda dated performance too... the 19's are fairly light vs the bridgestones.

if you want light, go with continental DW. those things grip fairly well and very light weight. like 5-6lbs lighter than the RE050/S04 in 19's. :D i run DW on my weds. :tup:

I said the same thing when I picked up my z at the stealership.

"what the...advans? what is this fast and the furious circa 2001?"

I like your weds a lot. They look great on the z. ah decisions decisions

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Enjoyed my hour long commute (one way) in Harry today after not driving at all for 10 days.
I love Harry. :icon17:

:tup:

today was leg day.

i hate leg day.

drove home almost exclusively in 2nd gear.

i hate leg day... but not as much as my neighbors do.

Thanks! And pretty good, the bracket fit perfect, the seat is a bit big up top so the seat belt sits in a weird spot, but it's manageable.

Ha, I did legs the same day. I don't want to move after leg day.

yep saw some good stuff here... too bad i don't wanna put it away :wtf2:

haha I did a sprint/tempo workout on my road warrior yesterday too! Now sitting feels great :ughdance:

Washed it. Got home and reminded myself yet again that I should not have bought a black car.

with LM60's you might be able to wing toronto winters, but i always
thought my car was a sitting duck in the ice/snow when i ran my G in the
winter with LM60's. my car was fine, but could not help but feel i will
get hit by other cars. never doing that again. :ugh:

Topped off my brake fluid reservoir. I had to open one of my bottles of motul to do it, so I guess I better go ahead and install those new SS brake lines that have been sitting in my garage for several months now. I don't like to keep brake fluid in plastic bottles around for very long as they have been known to allow moisture inside once opened.

I got this picture from the painter. The shaved emblem turned out NICE! :happydance:

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Watched my gas gauge drop from 1/2 to less than three dots with a 57 miles range warning...although I only drove 40 miles today. This was my first fill up after break in and my trip meter says I've only gone 275 miles. Will be filling up in the morning with fingers crossed this is an anomaly, cause that would be awful gas mileage for a mostly highway driven DD, usually with cruise on. No, I don't worry about gas mileage, but this really poor rate (based on my driving habits) could indicate potential fuel line issues somewhere, since it is on a car with only 1700 miles on it and not tracked or even hot rodded...Shell premium, so not the gas...

Last weekend mine went from 4 lights to 0 lights to 2 lights to 0 lights to 4 lights over the course of 10 straight-ish miles.


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I rode all the way out to the Dragon and back on Sunday.

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for me..dressed like 1" of tread that was dirty... :ugh:

I have that knob in Black. Nice! Scared to get a Tommy K due to theft. My black knob they won't even notice walking by.

Dang that's a nice day trip, we went to looking glass falls Sunday and then took a 30-40 mile detour on the blue ridge Parkway. First time my oil temps got over 220.. lol

I'm scared to get a Tommy K simply because they cost so much :tup:. I haven't had a chance to drive mine with the FatBoy yet, I hope it's as good as everyone says it is

People steal shift knobs?

Edit: Beltronics RX65, Blend Mount, and Mirror tap installed. Finally get to put my wife's radar detector to good use.

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0% chance for rain = Harry in the parking lot at work :woot: :woot:

Washed the windshield when I got here. :icon17: not crazy about the RainX wipes i have tho.

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Drove the Z to work for a change. DD was out of gas and I didn't feel like stopping. :icon17:

Filled up on way to work this morning and car only took 14.12 gallons (and was showing quarter tank on gauge again). Quick math tells me made 19.62 miles per gallon. Last full fill up was 10 Jul and showed 20.01, but I was in break in period and trying to not exceed 4k rpm. So all appears okay, just wish gauge wasn't so flaky with 5 gallons left in tank...another 100 miles is 2-3 extra days I could go between fill-ups! Maybe as I own the car longer and learn it's nuances better, I'll feel more confident relying on on odometer/distance driven...or I'll just resign myself to filling up at 1/4 tank remaining.

Dang dude, I got 23.18 and 25.60 MPG on my last two break in tanks :tup: