Figured I'd do one of these since I've completely done the opposite of my original plan of keeping it a stock daily.

Day one in its terrible offset 20s, limo tint, and Nisbay seats. Luckily it came with factory wheels and 43,000 miles at a pretty fair price.




Day 2 on the factory 17's that luckily came with it and a full detail.


Day 33: During a trip to Pittsburgh I stumbled across someone selling some heated leather seats. So I brought those home with me and wired everything up.



Day 51: Daily driver, not afraid. People who live closer with 4x4s didn't even show up to work when it snowed

Day 114: Installed my grandma's warning that's been with my since my first car.

Day 114 continued: Finally had a warm day to remove tint and replace the pedal covers that were coming apart.






Day 115: Finally went full Ted Nugent

Day 119: The factory Halogen lights were downright scary at night and I finally found some OEM Hids for sale.

depinning the new headlights for that 6 pin goodness



Day 378: After being screwed around for half a year by a certain former vendor, I finally received a refund and bought a Nismo diff off a forum member and picked up some solid diff and subframe mounts.





Day 379: ready to go back together


Day 386: solid bushings may have been a bad idea, swapped in some whiteline poly subframe bushings. Later figured out I woulda been fine with solids, I had a near catastrophic diff issue.


Day 515: Took a liking to Autocross


Day 656: Picked two 18x10.5 rpf1s off a forum member and purchased two more new. Ran square 265s for a while, then finally moved up to 275 square


Day 685: Still like autocross


Day 852: Finally decided diff noise was not normal and tore it down. carrier bearings and pinion bearing were pretty chewed up. I decided I would never boost the car and tossed in some 4.08s with the fresh bearings to complement the Nismo diff and factory 6600 red line. They were honestly awesome on my car for a year.


Day 963: snapped my pivot ball on day 921 and decided to go all out, because I wasn't just replacing a pivot ball if I pulled the trans. Installed a jwt clutch and flywheel too.

all that money because of this



Day 1005: USPS fine job as usual


Day 1054: Installed che
back up camera, just because.


Day 1087: Birthday gift


Day 1111: FML and the jacke up truck that needed my lane too around a blind corner


Day 1114: Finally removed aftermarket alarm. Luckily no soldering or heat shrink was used by the installer



Day 1213: Lowered on Skunk2 springs



Day 1256: Alcohol was involved. I waited until sober the next day, and it was already on jacks before inebriation.


Day 1447: The paint was a 20 footer and my friend wanted wrap a car.




Day 1501: Still didn't have tires for the factory 18s I bought. Still had the oem tires.

Didn't make it far


Day 1550: Back to stock gearing for future upgrade


Day 1555: added touring wheel and cluster along with two switches on the pedals. Don't mind the prototype cubby panel


Day 1600: uh oh






Day 1800: Already had test pipes and found a deal on a fast intentions exhaust


It fits better, Things were loose in that picture.

Day 1810: Got pulled over right outside of H20i. Cop saw the bottle. oops

Find it now

Also added a digtal pressure gauge


Day 1840: Jumped on that dash cam wagon after months of dealing with bad drivers near my new job.


Day 1866: Right before winter wheels



Thanks for looking, hopefully this makes sense

 

Brief and to the point LOL! Sweet job with the DIY jobs. Thanks for sharing.

 

Awesome thread, definitely worth the time to read.

I think its funny though, my gf's grandma also gave us that same guardian Angel thing that slips over the visor! And we've had it since our first car too! Lmao!

Also love the "find it now" with the bottle. Honestly can't believe they seen it in the first place lol.

 

I enjoyed this! Keep it up bud

 

can someone explain to me the alcohol + exhaust part of this?

 

wow. clean work.

 

I haven't died yet, so I guess that angels doing it's job, haha.

I did a test hit before leaving town and forgot to zip the bag back up. Was pulled over for another reason and the cop saw it. Luckily he didn't push the issue too much.

As for cutouts and alcohol. Earlier that week I got bored and unbolted the muffler. Later, at a friends house fixing a few things we decided it was in our best interest to weld in a cut out that was laying around unused. It actually didn't sound half bad when open.

In a couple weeks the cars getting tuned, so I'll update this then.

 

I like how everything was short and to the point. The fact that you knew how long into the ownership you did each mod was cool, too. It's great to see you still enjoying your Z after all these years as well!

 

Love the way you did this thread. awsome pics

 

Nice and simple! Subbed