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Thanks but I hate the way it turned out (after looking at it for a few days.) Heh heh. The fix I like, the color's ever so slight mismatch appeals to the OCD in me. Going a different route with the rest of the wheels now. (Now a "summer project".)
Had my car plastidipped. I know vinyl wrap is the best way to go, but at the moment its just not in my budget to do so especially because i still havent gotten the rims I want to yet.
But just sharing how it came out, its only the first day but i love how it came out. I paid 500 from an authorized dyc installer.
I was going to get mine dipped when it gets out the body shop, but the only shop I know that does it here wanted $900 and 2 days???
I believe the actual color for the rims is Liquid Silver Metallic, which uses lead, so they painted the wheels in Thailand (don't ask me how I know - long story). My paint guy told me this is what he uses when he fixes road rash on Z wheels. He's done two of mine - stock 2008 Touring and the color is pretty much dead-on. You can try spraying a piece of card stock, letting it dry and matching it up to the wheel to see if it gives you a better match.
I believe the actual color for the rims is Liquid Silver Metallic, which uses lead, so they painted the wheels in Thailand (don't ask me how I know - long story). My paint guy told me this is what he uses when he fixes road rash on Z wheels. He's done two of mine - stock 2008 Touring and the color is pretty much dead-on. You can try spraying a piece of card stock, letting it dry and matching it up to the wheel to see if it gives you a better match.
Anyway, just FYI.
That is tremendously great info, Zak, THANKS!!!
Dunno if you saw my later response that while the repair job came out as I liked it, my OCDness has me kicking myself for not doing up the correct color. Soooooo..... I have a few choices...
- Just leave 'em alone and live with the rash (can do that for a month or two before I start gnashing my teeth) OR put my Volks or my Track-1s back on.
- Go with the color you so graciously pointed out to me.
- Or, go with the graphite color of my Nismo wheels... which kind of appeals to me because all of my wheels for my '03 are silver/polished. A dark shade might be a nice distraction for a few months between mood swings. Heh heh.
In any event, going to do full wheel next time instead of trying to just "spotting" the repaired lips. (Just did one of my Volvo Pegasus wheels and I like how it turned out,)
Before:
After: The red stuff on the tahr is just leftover sanding schmutz from the filler. Please disregard.
Mic - Graphite actually sounds pretty good. My paint guy told me when they were still selling 350Zs, he used to get a couple cases of road rash a week from pissed-off new car owners. He said the wheel design essentially begs for them to get marred. My old car had OZ Ultraleggeras and there was enough rubber bow-out from the tire to keep them from ever contacting any curbs. The streets here in Seattle are narrow, so you have to get pretty close to the curb if you don't want to get bumped. It sucks to be us, I guess.
Last edited by zakmartin; Jun 3, 2015 at 03:48 PM.
Installed hub rings. Cleaned brembos and inner barrels whilst wheels were off. Oh and found rattle beside trunk latch my fuel pump cover was vibrating.
Uhhhh, more "WHAT I'M ATTEMPTING TO DO TO MY CAR".
So, been reading about all these fancy exhaust systems on 350Zs and decided I'd take a stab at it.
Lots of people say, "dual exhaust" is good and makes lots of power. "If one is good then TWO, well, that's the shiznit!!", right? Right??? By that logic, "Double muffs means double power", yes? ( #BecauseRacecar ) (Something I don't really understand either because my car already has two exhaust pipes in back resembling coffee cans but whatever, must be good cuz everyone sez so, right?)
Ended up sourcing two muffs and associated pipes. Something like S-Tuna(??) or something like that.
But now, I'm trying to figure out how to hook it all up. Got these funny looking "Y-pipes" and I think each one connects to the front pipes... up there by what someone on ZRicer.joke called "***** pipes" (cat-something?).
But where do the muffS go? Looks like I can put ONE in the back like the one already there... but the other one....? Where do it go? Maybe I'm supposed to attach the two new muffs to the sides of the car under the doors and make it a side exhaust system ( #BecauseOldSkoolCorvette ) with two pipes exiting on each side????
Like this!!!!
Which actually is pretty cool! They'd be like step rails like fur-buh-furs have to aid in climbing into the vehicle. (Although I'm a little worried about catching the wife's dresses on fahr but I guess we can learn to live with singed hems.)
But a question... if that's so, then why did I need the long exhaust pipes with the chrome coffee can thing on it?
And I'm still not sure about them "Y-pipe" things I mentioned... If I hook up one leg of the Y to the ***** pipe (see above) and the other end aimed at the side mounted muff, where does the other leg of the "Y" go to? Or do I need to cap that off with an electric opener-closer thing so I can bypass the muff and run uncorked because I want more noise on Friday nights at the drive-in???
And what do I do with the muffler already on the car if I do the side-pipe option? Leave it on?
Oh wait, SIX exhaust pipes!!! 6x the power!!!!! Oh yeah, can't touch this!!
You help would be greatly appreciated!!
Oh lawdy, please tell me you didn't REALLY try to answer that. C'mon.... it's Phriday!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Finally finished building it and out of the garage for her first drive in 2.5 years. I was one of the many suckers who got swindled by Anthony Giambri. Bought this car from him and the motor blew 9 days later while I was on cruise control at 55mph. Anyway IPP stage one long block, twin turbo, yada yada. Still needs a tune but she drives again.
Congrats, John!! That's some serious rubbuh you gots goin' on there!! And I like the 760s - had a set on my Z32 and they were comfortable and handled decently - for the cost/performance ratio.
But yeah, like Trav say.... "+38??" It'll work fine but standard offset is 30. It's OK, you still gain about 1/2" outboard and an inch of wheel inside, that's cool. A little bit of scrub radius added but should be fine with wider tire patch to compensate.
