Bmurray's 2008 350z Progress Thread
 

For a while I've been thinking about making one of these threads, and today i finally did.. Here I will share everything that i have and am doing to my 350z. Well to start I purchased her on August 12th 2012! Base model that had 40k miles. 6mt, Clean title, etc.. Very nice, still smelled new on the inside.


first few pics i took right when i pulled in the driveway from the 10hour round trip to get her:

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I had already purchased a few things before i even bought the car.. lol.

Stillen Gen2 Intakes

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Nismo Chrome Shift Knob

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Buddy of mine sold me his used Stillen y pipe and megan single exhaust:

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Oil change day with a friend

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Got some stealth turn signal bulbs from thezstore

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Then the beginning of October i had her tuned with the following mods:
-Stillen Gen2 Intakes
-Stillen Y Pipe
-Megan Single Exhaust

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Final #s were 289/255 on a mustang dyno

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I then took her to the local 1/8 track a week or two later for the first time.

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It was my first time ever drag racing a manual transmission car and i only managed to get a 8.9 with a terrible 60' :( .. the open diff was doing nothing for me


I then found a good deal on a nismo v2 front bumper/side skirts on craigslist so i went and picked that up

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Test fitting

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Got some used Tanabe Gf210 springs and some 20/25mm spacers (no pic)

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Then ordered some Berk technology test pipes, had a oem limited slip installed, and had it re-tuned!

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Final Numbers were 292/264 in some hot/humid weather

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then of course, after the re-tune, i win some facebook contest that National Speed had and won a free momentum performance single exhaust.. lol

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Installed it and did a bumper tuck

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Next day took her back to the local 1/8 track

Best run was an 8.6 @ 84mph.. so we are seeing improvement lol.

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Finally got some wheels and tires!

Miro 398 w/ Falken 245/40/18 & 275/40/18

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Ordered some SPC rear camber arms and toe bolts

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Got rid of the chrome nismo knob and got a black one lol

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My friend Will Page did a photoshoot for me (just sharing a few of the pics..)

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Got some carbon fiber battery and brake fluid covers for free for helping a friend out. lol.

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Some drilled/slotted rotors from BrakeMotive (hopefully temporary)

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Took her to a streetwise event/car show:

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Got a differential brace from Seymore04

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Did the rear wiper delete mod

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bought some hotchkis sway bars from tehkmob

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Got a pioneer avh3400bh touchscreen head unit

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Then just last week I had my roof wrapped in 3m gloss black by a friend

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And this is pretty much how she sits right now

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Will keep updating!


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won a free exhaust nice lol

looking good!

very nice..

thanks guys.. next few things that are being done:

-Headlights painted black by a friend (same guy who wrapped my roof)
-d2 coilovers within a week or two
-sbc stage 2 clutch and flywheel (within the next month or two)
-zspeed heavy duty csc


edit- thought i might add she is now creeping on 54k miles. yes i drive the piss out of this thing. need to get a dd soon.

national speed is in NC pretty sure.

Something about that rear shot with the hatch up looks odd. Maybe the angle.

Car looks good! love the house. Would hate to work on that garage floor....its too nice and clean! cant be having that!

you're right! NC not SC. my fault. and yeah, it's my step father house. he has all the tools you'll need for working on a car including a lift now :thumbup: so we always go over there for installs and stuff.

good progress along the way man, any plans for coils in the future?

Nice progress so far! You may not want to hear this, but I think it looked better with the OEM 5-spokes on there. IMO those stock wheels look great with the V2 kit.

Nice progression... very clean car that's tastefully done.

yep couple posts up i mentioned theres a guy an hour away from me selling some d2 coilovers that i will hopefully be picking up!

yeah you're the 2nd person who has told me that! i agree i love how the stock wheels looked, but i think it was more the color. in a couple other threads ive tried to get opinions on how they think the silver te37 reps would look vs the black. some said keep the black then some said go silver. so i dont know!. another thing is i don't really like running large spacers.. anyways, thanks though!

appreciate it!

Get some 20s

Great job so far!

nice progress bmurray. the black roof really set you car off. could i suggest some 370 nismo wheels?

free exhaust ftw!

Very nice. Clean...

looking good

thanks yall. and kno, im not a huge fan of the 370 nismo wheels on 350s

Very clean mods so far. Keep it up!!

Clean, tasteful mods. Great work OP.