I feel the big issue here is you have champagne taste on a beer budget.

 

Biggest issue is the car should have never been purchased.

 

So much to unpack here...

Why are you rolling the fenders? Are you getting some wheels with with extremely low offsets?

Cutting them? Whyyyyyyy...... I thought you were trying to get away from the redneck modifications.

800hp huh? Pics or it didn't happen.

Rotas are hardly rare. lolololol.

Wheels: proper term for the metal circular objects found on the four corners of vehicles wrapped in rubber referred to as "tires"

Rims: the outer part of the wheel or the term that people use when they want to sound cooooool (or uneducated to car people)

Short shifter is unnecessary.

Stiff suspension doesn't mean it's good. If you wanted a stiff suspension, you should have just cut your springs.

There's no hate on coilovers - they're just unnecessary for your means unless you're on the track. Driving a racecar doesn't make you a racecar driver. The truth is that most of us on here (including me) are never going to fully utilize the potential of the Z33 without going to Mic's driving school. If you're still getting body roll, you can always upgrade your sway bars. I recommend Hotchkis. Go ahead and buy some more parts since it's only money. You're not going to be able to achieve a firmer ride and still keep it as comfortable. You've got to make some concessions.

 

But it's the champagne of beers!

 

o damn! Thats pretty bad. Apparentally its been garaged except for last year, during that time. I definitely wanted to wait on tires and they are going good. Im starting to get scared though now!

Okay good to know about sway bars. I will have to see how it feels. I mean i definitely want this car to live, and feel like i will utilize all its potential. Especially in the handling department. I havent done anything in it yet. When younger i would slide around every corner i could going as fast as possible, going down mountainy backroads. I know its in me.

Okay guys, well on a positive note i am not changing b12 kit anytime soon. I will probably have racing seats before that.. It does feel good on bumpy roads too, and i worry about the rest of car being shaken to death not my back. So, I guess its good in some ways. I also havent even drove super spirited yet, so maybe it will surprise me. Body roll is kinda bad still so i will def get some sway bars!

Yeah ive always had champagne taste on a beer budget. im that way w everything. I dont own my own business or house, or anything and could prob benefit from saving money. But i eat expensive food and have supreme sweatpants from a long time ago i paid 400 bucks for i liked so much. I can tell i love this z though because i completely changed my eating habits to dump money in it. I lost my other two fast cars due to legal issues and realized jail food sucked so bad, i just wanna live it up. I also dont do anything illegal anymore unless im getting lit on rare occassion, or driving fast maybe. So i feel kind of chilled out, and like this is the perfect point in my life for the Z ive always wanted. plus i feel like it will be harder to find a good 350z. I turn 32 this fall and love this car

 

No, i dont know the answer to this either lol. I just didnt know if it could fit a bigger profile tire under there and it would increase performance. lol. I guess no need to roll fenders, it looks close but is fine now. I didnt know what was less redneck and mor professional either. I thought maybe cutting them and putting a carbon fiber or plastic piece over was a good way.

I cant afford everything at once but i think over time this will be a nice car. Car place recommended changing shifter boot and sent that photo i posted. I want the best so was going short shifter
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Agreed. I built one for a customer that made 660whp, and it was BUILT. Big turbos, solid bottom end, the works. 800 is quite the feat.

Looks like there's already a B&M, based on the anodized blue aluminum.

 

friend of mine has over 1k on his. It’s not impossible

 

Oh, it's not impossible. But after 650, you start getting into, "I could've bought a Ferrari" money.

 

ohh hell i didnt even know lol. If they ever made one, it could be megan racing or some bs too. It seems like they buy weird brands w their weapon-r intake, megan rear midlink or whatever, and the rev9 coilovers that came with it.

 

Rev9 coilovers is actually not bad, not JDM, but quality is decent and made in Taiwan. I have Rev9 C/O on one of my cars, great for daily driving, its the sister company to GSP. There are so many car part manufacturers, lots of garbage from China, that some of the other companies based in Taiwan, which does produce quality parts (examples: BCRacing, Fortune Auto) get overlooked or grouped with low quality parts. Most of the advanced semiconductor chips found in nearly all cell phones and new vehicles are made by TSMC in Taiwan. Weapon R has been around since 2004, not high end but is an established company that started in the US.

The line is much more blurred today than it was in the past since even JDM companies are outsourcing. Not well known, YHI Intl produces wheels for Enkei, OZ, Sparco, Konig and even supplies Yokohama Tires (yes, company that owns Advan Racing) with plants in Taiwan, China, and Malaysia. You're not always getting what you think you are based on name.

 

interesting. yokohoma used to always be my fav brand of tires ever since i had some stock on my evo x, then tried some others. what do you think the highest quality standard tire manufacturer is these days?


edit: hey micvelo, i think it was you that asked have i baseline serviced it yet. timing and drive belts.

I just looked it up and a timing belt is a big expensive job and engine needs to be disassembled. I mean hell at that point why dont you just do an engine build or blueprint your engine? I understand this is careless if theres only so many other engines out there. But it makes more sense to me to buy stupid stuff like headers, bigger throttle body, gruppe m intake, tune. Then if your engine blows just get a lower mile used one and build it. If the baseline service was 500 bucks or something, and helped my engine it would be understandable. It seems very expensive though

i also kind of want to do that 245 275 tire recommendation on the modding sticky. Idk if its best for road racing, but may buy some ten in wide rims for rear w +-15 offset in future. or would you reccommend +-22 offset? Would i have to roll my fenders then and is the 245 in front 275 rear the best combo for road racing

 

Michelin Pilot Super Sports are basically the gold standard as far as tires go.

The timing chain should last the life of the engine as long as it was well-maintained, but there's no telling with your Z.

As far as wheels, I know you said you want 10" in the rear and you have VDC. Are you going with 18"s or 19"s?

 

I was going to stick with 18's and 40 on the profile

I also noticed recently, its hard to hear over exhaust, but if you let the rpms dip too low around 2k, and take your foot off accelerator, it sounds like a loose metal ringing noise from engine. That goes away or you cant hear, with higher rpms.

 

Noises are hard to diagnose over the interwebz, but maybe a lightweight flywheel was installed in the past?

 

As far as wheels go, I think you'd be all right with an 18x10 +15mm running 273/35 without any rubbing or need for fender rolling. It's a fairly common setup.

 

Yeah its all good im sure someone will figure it out for me. I plan on taking it to two diff shops, over the next few months. I just hope the engine will last long enough for me to get alot of cool parts in this thing, one more vehicle, and save for an engine build next time. Im also about to replace the entire trans, with a clutch an aluminum flywheel as well anyways. Ive never had an aluminum flywheel in any car before.

So, if i turn off vdc on my touring, is there any other traction control that will interfere w driving, if youre drifting around? I guess just vdc and abs right?

These leather seats were so well taken care of compared to rest of car. They look immaculate, but i do want racing seats someday. Its going to be sad, i will probably do that last.

edit: thanks for the wheel recommendation, offset was the hardest part to figure out even though i read alot

 

I am willing to bet that all of your original shifting issues stem from that aftermarket short shifter that is installed. I bet putting an oem shifter and doing the proper shifter alignment procedure would completely fix the shifting issues.

 

i did notice there is a sticker that shows my gears and says nismo. So maybe its a nismo short shifter? I definitely dont want any problems. Thats a bummer if im replacing trans so soon,and its just the shifter lol. Idk if im going to try to find my way to a road racing event two years from now or go ham like the old days. I want this to be like a race car eventually though. I mean most of those guys road racing and stuff probably use short shifters. Im not saying i cant shift w oem, but the strikefast gk tech one looks sooo nice.. it says no drilling required direct oem replacement. I dont want to get it though if its going to cause problems. 5th and 6th gear are annoying rn. Sometimes im cruising in neutral trying to get it in gear.

I pretty much never go oem though on a car like this.. Theres usually better performing items, for similar prices. Im sure they can cause some problems, but i hope to avoid problems.

 

Slapping on the Nismo shift pattern sticker doesn't mean there's a Nismo short shifter on it. lol.

Do the shifter realignment and see if that solves your shifting problems. https://my350z.com/forum/engine-driv...alignment.html

If so, return transmission. It might fit in a USPS flat rate box.