What did you do with your Z today VI (ON TOPIC DISCUSSION ONLY)

P's_Z

Pressure washed the Z to get rid of minor dirt and dust, and cleaned the interior

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FairladyZ10PG

...took a total of 4.5hrs but it's done!

stillen g3 intake...

The end result is a very positive one & I must admit that I'm very proud of myself right now

Throttle seems more responsive and the dyno approves! It also seems to have made my car louder by some measure

After I took this pic I noticed one side seemed to stick out more than the other so I pushed the other one in to make it more even

*Next up is Pioneer NEX4100 & Uprev tune!

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P's_Z

Congrats my friend! Good to hear youre liking it!

Btw, saw the pioneer HU and it looks amazing

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onzedge

Good job.

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Zerocool

nice work, but why did it take you so long? few beer breaks in between?

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mishuko

amended my maintanence to include swapping the brake/clutch fluids to RBF 600 before my road trip... 2.5 more weeks!:excited :


not bad! did you do it yoruself? Took me just under 4 hours to do with a friend... mind you taking the front facia off was the hardest part!

JARblue

I'm still not understanding how it took some people so long. And the front fascia being the hardest part? The front bumper shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to remove lol

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Z_ealot

Pretty sure someone mentioned an amuse front fascia being involved

FairladyZ10PG

Yes! all by myself If I had to install these again, I'm sure I can do it much faster!

Try having your car as low as mine and not have access to a low profile jack. The regular jacks just don't fit under my car with the amuse (rep) side skirt, thus I had to remove the side skirt first before I can actually jack up the car to start removing the front bumper. It doesn't help that these side skirts have like 10 bolts and screws that needs to be undone so its very time consuming.
Plus I didn't have the correct rotary tool for this job so making the vents larger to fit the pipes took longer than it should have.
Instead of cutting I had to grind the air vents, which led to friction that caused heat that melted the plastic. I had to remove the plastic residue off the rotary tool every 30 seconds
The stock bumper at stock ride height I'm sure I can take it off in 10 mins

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mishuko

trying to bend the liners without breaking them / not knowing how flexible they were plus little mechanical experience was my biggest road block

and then the couplings that came with the g3's were a bit tight and difficult so i decided to use the OEM ones with no problem

4 hours is probably a bit generous. more like 3... started after 9 and was done by 12 when i did it lol

JARblue

Oh yeah my bad ... I should have clarified I was really referring to Mishuko because I think he has OEM

Sounds like you need to invest in a low profile jack

Do you really have to lift the car to do the install? I know you can remove the OEM front bumper without lifting the car.

You have OEM front bumper I thought ... so no excuses lol

Yeah I'm always wasting time somehow or another. 30 min jobs turn into an hour easy

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P's_Z

Walked by her a few times today.the day was really cloudy so i didnt take her out, used my gf's car. Irony of it all, it never rained

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need4speed255

Performed first oil change at 1,153 miles. It did take a while to figure out how to jack up the front end. I know I saw somewhere in the manual where to jack up the car other than the side locations but after searching through the manual multiple times I never could find it. I ended up driving the front wheels onto some 2 x 12 and 1 x 6 to raise the front end enough in order to fit the floor jack under the car. I ended up using the aluminum cross member behind the engine for a lift point.

Installed a larger than OE Bosch oil filter that happens to be used on my '99 Eclipse and the GTR. Win, win with one filter for both cars. Started investigating other brands of filters at some autoparts stores and found that the Bosch inlet holes are smaller than the OE filter. Same amount of holes but smaller. The outlet holes in the filter don't have as many as I would like to see either. The Mobil 1 and K&N filters looked very good. May switch up on the next change.

OE oil was still fairly clean looking in color.

need4speed255

Went for a nice drive while trying to avoid some drizzle. Not so lucky on the drizzle part. It's funny how some days are just ordinary and others people are breaking their necks to get a glimpse of the car. Today was a neck snapping day. Had one young guy taking pictures of my cars ***. Went to the gas station and had a guy loving on my car. Talked to him for a bit. While leaving the gas station a young hottie was snapping pics of the car as I was driving out. Some days it's like I am driving a GTR.

A couple of days ago I had a service guy at the house and while I was walking him through the garage he caught a glimpse of the Z and said "I like that Skyline." To which I replied "it's not a Skyline." He quickly corrected himself by saying "Oh GTR". I smiled and said "nope, not that either, just a Nismo Z".

jpkirk

Purolater PureONE PL14610 filter seems to be the filter of choice for many. That is what I have been using.

differnt pureone oil filter models

did I really just do this?

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