scotts300

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Man, I need that in the track car in a bad way, Gabe.

Legr19

wow that does sound sexy

Reality350

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Fawk me!
-That sounds amazing, OP!!!

SexyRob

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wow sounds so beastly! :jealous:

kgkeen101

Man it sounds amazing. Love the tone.

03threefiftyz

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I'll take one too.......

Band-Aid

Wow. Can you say v8 killer. Nice, truely nice. I'd love to see th 1/4 mi times once you get the tune happy. Gj and gl.

gabe3d

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Thanks everyone for the nice compliments!

Taking small steps, but everything is moving forward and nothing to complain about.

-Car still burns oil but Zcar has an idea on how to fix this.
-Dipstick's seal was busted on Friday and spat out 3/4qt all over the place. Got a replacement one and everything is fine now. Probably related to the constant oil checking.
-Most likely will replace the cranshaft pulley with something else.
-Looks like I've been having too much fun and my rear tires are completely gone. Slick as a baby's butt. Contemplating switching out to 18" or getting new tires for the 20"...
-New clutch will be going in on Wednesday. Thinking about switching my aluminum Unorthodox FW to a steel Southbend one for better drivability/launch...but that's another $500
-New bearings for the differential going in on Thursday to fix that old problem I had before this build when I got the LSD/FD installed.

Hopefully break-in everything just in time for the drag on June 2nd!

kacz07

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Do you anticipate the car making more power once it is fully broken in?

03threefiftyz

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I'll give it 14.3@97.................................

scotts300

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Now that's just mean!
I say 13.4 @ 112mph on street tires given that Gabe has only made 1 (or 2?) passes down the quarter mile.

03threefiftyz

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I thought he was on drag radials these days? Fly me out and I will put a 12.2-12.3 down.....I promise .

gabe3d

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Haha you guys are too nice. I was thinking something closer to my last run of 19.2s@58mph and that was on DRs too. In all seriousness though, I am going out there again with Scott and the Zcar crew on 6/2. Should have a better ET... I hope

SexyRob

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your car should drive it self for everything you've done to it haha... I'm sure you will get a better ET this time.

gabe3d

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There is no cruise control so it can't drive itself!!! Yeah, I'm sure I will get a better ET next time, with those previous time even a stock VQ can do better. There was some driver error and clutch issues, but now half of that is permanently fixed....need to work on the other one though. Doing 5.5k rpm drop for the first time at the drag was definitely not the smartest/funnest thing to do especially since the highest I've ever tried prior to that was 3.5k, but got some practice in and should be better prepared. We shall see next week

Got the DXD-B installed last night with my old Unorthodox Flywheel and by far the best clutch I've ever tried.

+ Daily drivability is just as good as OEM and better way better than the OFE stage3. This was a big concern of mine going to a 6 pucks design since I still drive my car on the road.

+ I haven't pushed it (500 miles breakin) yet but it is noticeably different, in a positive way,when grabbing.

+ Shifting is much more predictable and consistent.

kacz07

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Good news!

gabe3d

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Forgot to mention that I got some tires as well this morning. Went with some Hankook V12s 285/30/20. These tires grips much better than the FK452, but they run really really wide, gotta roll my fenders now.

gabe3d

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Another update to complete this week, which was kinda interesting for the car.

- Driving on the highway the other day my under shroud got semi ripped off and dragged for a good 10minutes. Thought I blew out my tires.

- Filling the car up on the same day I noticed that my front passenger wheel was heavily cambered. Took a look at the camber arm and a bolt on my SPL A-arm was missing and all of the adjusting shims were gone and the wheel wobbles like mad. Hopefully I can get those parts from SPL.

- Zcar did some modifications to the crankcase ventilation system in hopes to fix the oil consumption issue. We'll see next week if it helps.

- My diff was opened up to fix the howling sound coming from it and the new bearings were worn and really heated so new ones will go in but the job wasn't completed because the correct shims were not readily available. Luckily the ring and pinion were not damaged at all.

All in all kind of a bummy week for the car other than the new clutch performing well, but sadly I won't be able to make it out to the drag next week. Anyways, that didn't stop me from buying the remaining parts to slowly complete the car.

- Aluminum shroud to replace the damaged one.
https://my350z.com/forum/body-exteri...available.html


- Wedsports SA-55M in MGM color 18"x9"(+20) and 18"x10"(+18). Still debating on what size tires to get though (245-40-18 & 295-35-18) or (245-40-18 & 275-40-18) on Nitto NT05s.
http://www.weds.co.jp/products/wedssport/sa55m.html

gabe3d

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Shims that popped out of the control arm.


Heated and worn bearing (left one). You can see the discoloration from heat. I didn't take a picture of the bearings but they were in bad shape with excessive wear.


Differential getting shimmed.

scotts300

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I like the new wheels! But sorry to hear about the other issues you had.
If you are set on the NT05s, I think you could run the 265/35 in the front coupled with the 285 or 295/35 rear. There are other extreme summer performance tires that you could consider, but I don't see any in the right sizes. You could, however, consider the Toyo series of tires, like the R888 which gives awesome grip and comes in good sizes.