I work at a very sophisticated place with mainly older individuals. They all love my new car but I want to do some exterior mods to it. I dont want them looking down on me for making my beautiful car look like an immature 15 year olds. What do you think looks the best without screaming look at me im 15 ! I was wanting to get the Evo-R Type S spoiler and paint it silverstone to match my car along with the greddy sides and keep the stock rims that come on the 06's for now. I already have a short (4 inch) antenna and tinted windows. That wouldnt look to kiddish and would keep the sophisticated and classy/expensive look to it wouldn't it??


Thanks for the help guys and gals I really appreciate it!!

 

I'm basically doing the same, so far the only thing other than tinting the windows is a front lip; nothing too protruding. I'm not in a hurry and have yet to actually take time to look for one.

 

Why do you care what they think?

Stick with Nismo stuff if you're overly concerned.

 

Bro, im going to be working with these people for a long time. And with most of them and the people in my department being 20 years older then me, I really really need to do all I can to earn their respect and for them to trust me. I dont need them thinking im just a kid off the street ya know.

 

Is anyone has a objective definition of sophisticated and classy/expensive please mail it to me. Appreciated.

 

Welcome to corporate life.

I'm in the same boat you are. However I went and bought a different car first, then upgraded to this one. Luckily one of the older guys I work with (project managers) owns a hyabusa - which he's done a lot of work to. So there are some who I work with that relate to what I'm planning.

But I'm not doing any body work. Just a little suspension, light engine / exhaust, and then some electronics - that's about it.

 

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if youre looking for nice but a lowprofile kinda look, i'd say any of these

Greddy kit
stillen spoiler
nismo kit (without the spoiler)

http://www.350zonline.com/gallery/

thats a good website to browse, they have pictures of pretty much everything

hope that helps

 

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Vertex body kit (maybe also tk, central 20, kenstyle, something that doesn't have too many lines and/or vents)
Clean Silver Rims, such as Nismo or Volk GT-V
A very mild drop (Like someone said...can't go wrong with Nismo )
No Spoiler or one that is not too aggressive like the Blitz

 

If it is important to keep appearances (and I can understand at some workplaces how it would be), you should take a cue from others that you work with (with sports cars), especially those in positions you are trying to aspire to. If they have nice rims, go for those. If they have body kits, then I would say go for it. From my experience senior management with sports cars (corvettes, porsches, ferrarris) usually keep them appearing clean and stock.

might i suggest keeping the exterior alone and keeping your mods under the hood and stealth. I've also found upper managment (especially male baby boomers) were real gearheads in their youth and can appreciate horsepower and superior handling.

just my $0.02

 

+1

 

 

Get some nice wheels, like Nismo or something with 5 spoke or a nice mesh. Avoid blingy wheel.

If you dont have a spoiler, the OEM one is very subtle and nice....even the Nismo one doesnt look TOO ricey.

Avoid the coffee can exhausts and go with one that looks like stock like Stillen, Borla, Nismo, etc.

Add an S2000 antenna.

Nice window tint (duh!)

It's up to you but its nice to see people coming in here wanting to know how to do a Z classy!

 

IMO...The nicest sportscars out there have a clean and simple, straightforward look to them! I say forget adding an EVO spoiler...you'll immediately lose cool points with the corporate crowd (they'll go outside and laugh at your car on lunch breaks..IMO..LOL).

Add the OEM low profile spoiler (if you dont already have it), keep the rims simple (no bizarro ricer boy rims).

Mod the engine, IMO...no one can see under the hood, right??

 

Nice parking job.

 

haha.....I just went to lunch with my boss last week. I drove, and on the way back he said: " i feel like Im on a skateboard. I can feel every bump of the road , and were so low."

keep in mind he drives a Volvo.

 

If you really want it clean, leave it stock.

A subtle change would be the Nismo kit or V1 lip, Greddy/Nismo sides, Nismo rears?

 

IMHO anything to make it look more like a race car is going to tend toward rice, unless, of course, you are a race car driver

You'll be better off making it act more like a race car.

 

why not leave it stock? you have to mod it to get their 'respect'?