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Old 08-13-2020, 01:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
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In pic 2, he is going to need to shave the frame some so it won't hit your oil pan where the undertray bolts to the subframe.

The one bolt hole. I cut that tab off for clearance.
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The one bolt hole. I cut that tab off for clearance.
I did the same. Both of mine are gone since the TT install with the Greedy oil pan.
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Kevin mentioned that the solid motor mounts will minimize the engine movement. But we went ahead and cut off the tab anyway just to be safe
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Old 08-13-2020, 05:38 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 08-13-2020, 06:36 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I can confirm, solid motor mounts = no engine movement haha.

I still have some poly mounts i want to put in mine lol.
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Well most of you probably already saw this in the other threads, but I had an incident with some debris on the highway on Friday (day after I picked up the car)

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Yesterday I took the Z out on the highway and within a mile I had an incident with a truck that had some debris fly out of their bed. I managed to avoid the box, but I got caught by a large plastic bag with some wet plaster or something in it. The bag grabbed my RH front fender liner and ripped it off along with my undershroud. When I pulled over on the highway, I found the fender liner was wrapped up in the plastic and stuck under the car. The undershroud and RH splash guard ripped off completely and were left back on the road somewhere (I called 311 to notify them). The LH front fender liner was left hanging and just rubbed against the tire while I tried to limp to the next exit

Considering I was expecting a flat tire and the bumper to be ripped up pretty good when I pulled over, I'll take these circumstances.
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Thankfully it was one of my extra plastic undershrouds that got ripped off. I have a ZSpeed one I will put on. Picked up some new fender liners from the dealer on Sat. Will have to drag the floor jack and some jack stands to my parents' house (where I managed to limp the Z after the incident) so that I can install the new fender liners and undershroud and drive it home.

Also, I found the ambient temperature sensor in my house not where it was supposed to be. Thank goodness because it's the last thing I need to get the AC working in the Z again
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Hydraulics went out on the Z - I'm guessing it was the Z1 slave cylinder. Barely able to get it into gear, so I drove to the shop in 2nd (thankfully just through the neighborhood and not far).

Dropped it off with a ZSpeed Stage 3 Super Street clutch package with lightweight flywheel and CMAK setup to get installed. Test pipes and solid transmission mount are going on at the same time. Hoping he'll get to it next week.
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The CMAK is good. If that slave cylinder goes out, it's a $40 part and you dont need to take out the transmission.

Also, this is probably why Kevin was like "idk i won't be able to get to your car until next week" lmao
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The CMAK is good. If that slave cylinder goes out, it's a $40 part and you dont need to take out the transmission.

Also, this is probably why Kevin was like "idk i won't be able to get to your car until next week" lmao
If it is indeed the Z1 cylinder, that would be the 4th one that has failed - I was an early adopter back in 2013 and have 50K miles on the kit. Every single cylinder has been slightly different. After the first replacement on the house less than a year after install Z1 made me pay for them - $59 apiece plus shipping, which usually needed to be rushed and cost as much as the damn part.

He's already lined up this week with work which is really the only hold up. We've talked at length about the work so he knows what needs to be done. I just showed up with it at the shop randomly this week. I'm in no rush. The car has been sitting so long I can't justify trying to rush anything lol.

One of the issues he's run into is the trans bell housing cover has been revised several times over the years and you can no longer get oldest version, which is what I have. The Z1 kit has a different cover and people don't typically keep the old cover. He's done a couple of conversions from the Z1 kit to the CMAK and had to make it work with the Z1 cover, but it is ideal to have the original cover. I'm a hoarder so that was never in question that we would use my original cover
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Yeah, im thinking about throwing my hood louvers in and just leaving my car over there as well. I'm sure it's my fuel damper that's gone bad, and i was gonna have him swap those solid mounts for the urethane ones. tired of them rattling sh-t loose.
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Minor updates...

Fixed a heater hose coupler that was leaking/broken a couple months ago. Got a $30 billet coupler with bleeder valve from CZP to replace the stock plastic coupler.

Then a couple of weeks ago, I was waiting at a stop light. Big Tundra in front of me starts backing up unnecessarily aggressively. I laid on the horn with my left hand and then missed the gate trying to shift into reverse with my right hand. He slowed down but still got me good. Going to use the opportunity to have the body shop install a vented hood that's been sitting in my garage for several years now
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Currently there are over 100K miles on the original stock plugs and injectors. I am wondering if there is a strong argument for either leaving them in or replacing them. New plugs are cheap; new injectors not so much. Once I'm in there I will do both at the same time.

Is it worth the preventative maintenance to do them now or should I just leave well enough alone?
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Currently there are over 100K miles on the original stock plugs and injectors. I am wondering if there is a strong argument for either leaving them in or replacing them. New plugs are cheap; new injectors not so much. Once I'm in there I will do both at the same time.

Is it worth the preventative maintenance to do them now or should I just leave well enough alone?
I think I have the injectors out of my car with ~20k miles on them. If I have them laying around, I'll send them out to you.
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Replace the plugs and leave the injectors alone.
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I have cleaned injectors with more miles lol. I can sell them for a low price.
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