Hi, all.

My fiance is the one with the 350Z, not me.

This year for our anniversary instead of jewelry she wants some upgrades for her car.

My budget is $1,500.00.

What are necessary starter upgrades within that budget?

I was thinking CAI, exhaust, and maybe a tuner? Any specifics on each of those?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
- Frank

 

I see a popular tuner is the UTEC tuner?

Is this plug and play with tunes already programmed to simply upload to the car? Or does this need to be taken to a professional to tune?

-Frank

 

Doing some more reading on the forum and the way I understand it is the Nismo CAI is overpriced, the JWT PopCharger is good and produces a nice sound and in terms of performance is similar to the Nismo but the K&N CAI produced the best results on the dyno?

http://www.jimwolftechnology.com/cus...asp?PartID=350

http://www.knfilters.com/search/prod...x?Prod=57-6013

 

Damn, that's the first time I've ever heard of a girlfriend who DIDN'T want jewelery from her boyfriend! A girl who wants mods over diamonds .. that's sexy

 

Well after 5-years I guess she has enough jewelry.

Most of my buddy’s wives/girlfriends stay home when we go out to play. Mine - well she's right behind us ready to line up.

I just found this thread, and now I'm even more confused. So many different opinions!

 

was thinkin the same thing...u got yourself a keeper..! mines cool too she wants to learn how to drift after seein fnf3...

anyways..go with the pop charger, motordyne 5/16 plenum spacer and you could get a nice exhaust and have money left over for some test pipes or hfc's...good luck choosing.....

 

Any recommendations on exhaust?

How about reliable vendors? Any recommendations? I don't mind paying a little more with a vendor that actually ships, etc., compared to a vendor with a cheap price tag that will take 2-weeks to ship.

Thanks for the reply,
-Frank

 

seeing that u have a charger u probably like the throatier exhausts...id say go with the borla (which is what i have and it sounds great)..its a little stronger at idle but u can still recognize the z exhaust note, but when you open her up it SCREAMS...as for where to get it just look at all the sponsor sites...

 

You got that right!

I checked out the Borla pictures & sound clips. Only thing that bothers me are the tips. They look to be around 5"?

Also I didn't read great reviews about Borla on this forum.

Will read up on it some more.

Thanks,
-Frank

 

I didn't think the Borla tips were much larger, if any, than stock.

 

As for exhaust, I'd recommend either GReddy EVOII or Fujitsubo with JIC Y-pipe.

 

what year Z does your wife have? a plenum spacer is a great cheap go faster mod, other than that i would look into either the popcharger or just the simple k&n drop in filter, and an exhaust.

 

She's got an 05, the anniversary edition. The yellow one. She calls it the "Little Bee".

 

http://motordyneengineering.com/350Z.asp

Is that make good for the plenum spacers?

 

motordyne is the spacer your going to want to go with for a spacer. I second getting the Jim Wolf Popcharger. I absolutely love mine.

BTW nice car, I drove an SRT8 for a weekend when the dealership was trying to get me into one. I just couldn't pull the trigger on getting a car that big. It definately had some pep to it though.