Muddy

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I’ve been secretly building a show car for this years show season over here in the UK.
It may not be to everyone’s taste, but I’m sure a couple of you may like it.

I was a former Subaru Impreza owner for 9 years, of which I was a committee member of the SIDC for 4 years. In this time I had two Subaru’s (Both red) both of which were show cars.
The last one being one of the most successful Japanese winning show cars in the UK.

Anyway that was sold in September ’08 and so the hunt was on for a 350Z. Red is my trade mark colour so for obvious reasons I needed a red ‘Z’. These are like rocking horse poo here in the UK, but I eventually got my hands on a UK model year 2004 in October.

Within a few days I began stripping it out, starting with the boot area, and commencing stripping the plastics and building a false floor for the new ICE.

Over the coming months of hardship, worry, stress and good ole’ graft, the car was finally finished in the first week in April ready for it's first showing at the International Styling and Tuning Show - Donington Park where the car was entered into Autoglym's Best in Britain competition.

As you can see from the spec list almost everything has been changed.

As it’s a show car I’ve created a theme – project350z.

You can see the day by day blog here as well as pictures.

http://www.project350z.co.uk


So here’s the spec ----------If you like carbon then you might like this……..

Engine:
K&N Typhoon Air Induction Polished with Carbon cover
Asi-performance aluminium radiator
Motordyne 5/16th plenum Spacer
Invidia G200 True Dual Exhaust- Titanium tipped.
Polished Aluminium Power steering tank
Polished Aluminium Coolant overflow tank
Polished Washer Cap
Samco Red Coolant and Ancillary hoses
HKS Radiator Cap
HKS Oil Filler Cap
Carbon Battery and Fluid Covers
Carbon Slam Panel Cover
Carbon Engine Cover
Stillen Engine damper
Red Grounding kit.

Suspension:
KW Variant 2 Coilovers
Lowered 40mm Front and Rear
Jic Magic Carbon Front Strut Brace
Eibach adj Front Anti roll bar
Eibach adj Rear Anti roll bar
Ischiba Front Camber arms
Ischiba Rear Camber arms
Whiteline Front drop links
Whiteline rear drop links
Revolution race geometry set-up

Brakes:
K-sport Black 8 pot front Caliper with 356mm rotors on bells
K-sport Sport Pads
Stainless Steel Brake lines
K-sport Black 6 pot Rear Caliper with 330mm rotors on bells
K-sport sport pads
Stainless Steel Brake lines

Wheels:
Racing Hart RS521 19"x9" front +28
Racing Hart RS521 19"x10" rear +28
235/35/19 front Tyres
265/30/19 rear Tyres
Kei Black wheel Nuts

Exterior:
Chargespeed Gekisoku Type-1 Front bumper
Chargespeed Gekisoku rear bumper
Chargespeed Gekisoku side skirts
Chargespeed Gekisoku Carbon Rear Diffuser
Chargespeed Gekisoku carbon Lower front canard
Chargespeed Gekisoku carbon upper front canard
Motorgrade carbon roof overlay
Motorgrade carbon a pillar replacements
Varis Carbon Bonnet
Varis Carbon B pillars
Seibon Carbon Hatch
Craftsquare style carbon TC/N-1 Racing Mirrors
Custom made carbon fibre fuel cap
Custom black handles
Smoothed rear quarter (Aerial removed)
Depo rear crystal indicators/reverse/fog lights
Custom Graphics

Interior:
Custom flocked black interior
Bride Ergo II red Bucket seats with Bride logograph (c/w bride seat rails)
OMP Suede Steering wheel
Sparco Black 4 point harnesses
Sparco Foot Pedals
Nismo black aluminium shift ****
Black Colour Coded Trim
RSW Carbon Centre Console
RSW Carbon Gear surround
RSW Carbon Door switches
RSW Carbon Door Inserts
RSW Carbon vent Covers
Carbon Instrument Cluster
Carbon Sill plates
Custom red leather gear gaiter
Custom black strut cover with red z badge


CAR-PC & ICE:
JVC AVX-810 7" Touchscreen Dvd Receiver
Hertz EP200 8" Subwoofer x2
Hertz HKS165 High Energy Component Speakers c/w HS25 tweeters
Hertz HCX165 High Energy Coaxial Speakers
Hertx HP5 High Power AB Class 980watt 5-channel Amplifier
Source Custom door builds - flocked
Custom Subwoofer enclosures - flocked
15" TFT screen
7" TFT screen x2
7" TFT touchScreen in centre console (CarPC ready)
Audison Competition cables.


And the pictures taken at the show:













































































Hope you like...

I'm really please with the car, quite a bit is influenced by you guys over here in America, I can remember Mike Lee's car a year or two ago which set me on the road to my 350Z. So thanks guys

A big thanks to Adam too at z1auto for his help and suppling the invidia and Brides

Craig (Quite pleased it's now all finished)

aloh

iTrader: (26)

wow pretty nice! Put some spacers on the wheels to make them a bit more flush! I would also lower it a bit more too.

eminence978

iTrader: (2)

Good job, spacers and lower it a bit and your all set...damn i got a long a ways to go seeing yours.

TRYNALIVEPRO

iTrader: (12)

very nice setup, me likes

Voboy

iTrader: (58)

very nice! you practically built your own chargespeed demo z hehe
http://www.mynismo.com/images_products/6043.jpg

RoTors350Z

iTrader: (20)

Nize!

10b4FouR

iTrader: (5)

i think it would look 1000 time better with a wing IMO

Muddy

iTrader: (1)

Thanks for the comments guys, glad you like.

The ride height is as low as I'd dare take it, the chargespeed kit sits pretty low to the ground anyway. Our roads in the UK are very unforgiving and are often laiden with many speed humps, of which I'd never get over.

I'd love to have it slammed, the KW variants would allow it too, but it just would not be practical.

Im do agree with the spacers though, been toying with the idea for a few weeks now, not sure what size to go with yet, 10mm or 20mm maybe?

TreeFiddyZee

iTrader: (19)

Very nice. Only had one tiny nit-picky suggestion. You might think about painting the old gas pedal flat black. That way all you see is the Sparco pedal. I just put Autovation pedals on mine and the black completely hides the old pedal.
I really like the rear diffuser.

yusoslo

iTrader: (4)

love it.

Spacers and Air Ride.

Ruthless18x

iTrader: (59)

Sparco harnesses on Bride seats look a little odd, but maybe it's just me.

lgear080

iTrader: (21)

overall great... You need to update the heads and tails. The sparco parts can be reMoved Imo. A full wire tuck might be very Interessting. Was worried when you said showcar, but
You did just fine.

MDHRZ

iTrader: (14)

Stretched tires FTW

GT47R

iTrader: (14)

Well done, I really like the Charge Speed kit, very nice engine bay!

350zDex

iTrader: (12)

Nice show car!!

asianracerchick

iTrader: (6)

looks good

JDSMotoring

iTrader: (15)

very nicely done

Waiz

iTrader: (57)

Nice execution, just not feeling your wheels or gas door cover.

Would also sugest LED taillights.....

Great job otherwise.

stein350z

iTrader: (1)

i think the same...u neek takata

SlideFox

I will say... this is the nicest Z I have seen from across the pond!! I started wondering a few months back why I didn't see any serious Z's from the UK!