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Old May 29, 2012 | 08:16 AM
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Car looks awesome. What rear diffuser is that?
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Old May 29, 2012 | 08:18 AM
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Glad it is diagnosed, hopefully splicing will resolve it.
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Old May 29, 2012 | 08:34 AM
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God job not killing yourself or another Z on the Dragon Glad you've got the issue identified. Good luck; let us know the results.
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Old May 29, 2012 | 08:35 AM
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Bobby at CIN Motorsports gets all off the credit for the troubleshooting. I can't imagine how long out should have taken me to find that on my own.
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Old May 29, 2012 | 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Rocknthehawk
Car looks awesome. What rear diffuser is that?
First Molding Rear Diffuser, Carbon

You can pick it up from Bulletproof (Great Guys A+++):
http://www.bulletproofautomotive.com...il.php?ID=6331
Direct import from Japan, Special order only.

New carbon rear diffuser by First Molding, an instant classic! Fits stock exhaust and after market exhausts. First Molding produces all part in Japan and they are a true in house manufacturer, producing parts for many of the top Japanese tuning brands, as well as their own original First Molding brand parts like this diffuser.
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Old May 29, 2012 | 01:35 PM
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Nice new ride, funny seeing that someone pulled a prank on you and installed eyelids.
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Old May 29, 2012 | 02:15 PM
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Car looks good mayne. Love the diffuser.
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Old May 29, 2012 | 03:01 PM
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Nice new ride, funny seeing that someone pulled a prank on you and installed eyelids.
I'll actually be trimming them. That wasn't the style that I originally wanted for the vinyl on the lights, but I figured I would give it a few days… then the car was down.

I want to keep the body line flowing like I did at the windshield/a-pillar and the windshield/roof, so I'm pretty sure that I'll trim it from point to point like I had my trial run in this pic:

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Old May 29, 2012 | 03:14 PM
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the new ride looks awesome sparkle. lookin forward to seeing your future mods.
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Old May 29, 2012 | 04:09 PM
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Thanks, guys. It's really rewarding for a car to really feel like it's "mine" again. I was genuinely worried when I lost the roadster and bought the coupe that it would always feel like it was Erk's old car and not "my car". But these few months with her have really been great.

I also have to thank the guys at CIN Motorsports, ErktheJerk, Justin@Redline, Bulletproof, LightningGuy, Vikram, Taywan, TimShady, the admin/mod team, and a ton of other folks on here for helping me out with the transition. I couldn't have done all of this without a great team of friends behind me.

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Old May 29, 2012 | 06:42 PM
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She's looking great !!!
Bring that thing out and play when u get free one evening. Cux and all of us. That'll b fun.
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Old May 29, 2012 | 07:28 PM
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Chris came over to the house and we raised his idle the other night. One of these days I'm going to have a garage where we can all tinker with our cars and hang out. Right now, CIN Motorsports is my hang out in Charlotte - but I can't make it up there every weekend.

If all is well, I'll head to Charlotte on Saturday to pick her up. Then it's on like donkey kong.

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Old May 29, 2012 | 08:02 PM
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My car lives on the back of a trailer....
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Old May 30, 2012 | 06:29 PM
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Oh freaking YES!!!

Bobby at CIN Motorsports called, and SHE's ALIVE!!!!

They had to track down some things that it had popped when the harness was cut and it shorted against the engine, so I'm super glad that I had the pros on my side for this issue. I'm so excited.

BIG, BIG, BIG shout out to all of the guys at CIN!!!
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Old May 30, 2012 | 06:30 PM
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Congrats!!!!
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Old May 30, 2012 | 06:59 PM
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Do you happen to run any earthing cables?

Also, you ordered that Motordyne system yet, wait, was it you asking about that?
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Old May 30, 2012 | 07:11 PM
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Nope, not me.
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Old Jun 1, 2012 | 10:52 AM
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Glad you are ok.

Would you recommend Kinetix products or get something else?
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Old Jun 1, 2012 | 11:43 AM
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May sound silly but loose terminals? Happened to me once and i just stuck a nail in it to get home.
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