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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 07:40 AM
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I wish i had seen that before Travis lol

ezpotato - I drove a speed 3 a few weekends ago - had some torque steer with all the aids turned off - pretty quick lil' car - this is my family car as i had to make that sacrifice as well lol also picwhoreoftheday its my wifes car it has 2 recaro kids seats in it


Stu - did you put that box that we cut, back on or say f' it?

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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 07:48 AM
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Eric good seeing you the other day. Thanks for letting me use your clutch so we can draw up a clutch for the 350z community.

Love having my car but not the 15MPG haha.
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 08:18 AM
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Total D, any plans on making one of those clutch kits for the HR's?
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 08:28 AM
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Total D what is the clutch kit like? I'm going to be shopping soon - I only have stock power though - but one can always hope
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 08:31 AM
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Mike, you are all stock under the hood???
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by AcidJake75
We did the throwout bearing - swapped that bad boy out cause it was EASY on anything BEFORE 07..

I need to see whats all involved to do the 07 clutch - Im not familiar with the hydraulic throwout..
i was thinking his was HR because he had the newer headlights.....
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 08:49 AM
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yeah - mostly - intake and a spacer - catback... i have a lot of non power adders though
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 08:56 AM
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get ya some cats or test pipes, and then a tune........
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by travlee9374
Total D, any plans on making one of those clutch kits for the HR's?
Yes, we will be making the HR as well. I have both the 350Z and 370Z stock clutch setups here to draw up.

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Total D what is the clutch kit like? I'm going to be shopping soon - I only have stock power though - but one can always hope
We will have a few variations to offer for all different power levels. The thing is you don't want to over clutch your car. We are taking the stock 350z clutch, so we can get all the measurements and send to machining to have the flywheels made. All of the setups come with a flywheel, so it's a complete kit.

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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by mikes10
I wish i had seen that before Travis lol

ezpotato - I drove a speed 3 a few weekends ago - had some torque steer with all the aids turned off - pretty quick lil' car - this is my family car as i had to make that sacrifice as well lol also picwhoreoftheday its my wifes car it has 2 recaro kids seats in it

Stu - did you put that box that we cut, back on or say f' it?

nice! I wanted to keep the g but i just couldnt bear the headaches anymore. Theres no one here with local knowledge. I needed Jake and stuff... but had to cut it loose. Subaru was on the top of my list, but i wanted something 09+ and hatchback, and those were not dropping under 30k (low miles, sti) so had to go with something a lot more reasonable with the wife's future car in mind. replacing 2 of the motor mounts help really eliminate some tq steer and wheel hop... so that helps
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 09:20 AM
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Jeremiah, let me know when yall are done, very interested
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 09:48 AM
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Travis - I think my cats are making noises - rattling - or its my throwout bearing - but it seems to wait till its warm so i'm thinking cat.. or one of the 2 billion heat sheilds, so test pipes and an Osiris tune might be my next purchaseseses - i reaaaally like how my exhaust sounds lol so i'm going to be sad to add test pipes and lose that or change it much - hopefully it won't -

Thanks Total D - good to know - i'll be on the lookout - i don't mind trying new stuffs -

ezpotato - we've had our kid mobile for nearly 7 years but back in the day we were test driving new STI's haha - i was looking at them pretty seriously (as well as an 04) before i bought my Z too -

My wife seemed to really like Stu's FX sittin' on GTR wheels a lot though - so who knows our next "family" ride might be a porsche killer like Stu's - because we really don't have a family car - just a his n' hers at the moment - but as the kiddo's get bigger we might outgrow the lil scooby doo as a daily -
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 09:55 AM
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yeah my passenger one is rattling bad, it has lifetime warranty on it but it is a pain since they wont send me the replacement til they get the old one
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by ezpotato
nice! I wanted to keep the g but i just couldnt bear the headaches anymore. Theres no one here with local knowledge. I needed Jake and stuff... but had to cut it loose. Subaru was on the top of my list, but i wanted something 09+ and hatchback, and those were not dropping under 30k (low miles, sti) so had to go with something a lot more reasonable with the wife's future car in mind. replacing 2 of the motor mounts help really eliminate some tq steer and wheel hop... so that helps
Why not the non-STi wrx hatch? They fit your needs, price and are pretty quick, turbo, easy make some power.
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 11:59 AM
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any help on locating a how to article on the APR rear spoiler installation?
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 12:44 PM
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any help on locating a how to article on the APR rear spoiler installation?
I saw in your last Z pic that is wasn't on there? Why is it off and why can't you put it back on?
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 01:09 PM
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I was going to buy another one double stack them.....

JK - i just wanted to see an article on the "correct" way - i was searching but didn't find anything - thought I'd reach out a minute - I took it off to clean the deck lid up and replace some cosmetic stuffs - thought I'd snap a pic because I'm putting it back on tonight -

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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by quakerroatmeal
Why not the non-STi wrx hatch? They fit your needs, price and are pretty quick, turbo, easy make some power.
actually after the STi plans fell through, cause of their insane retention of value at $30k, i started looking at WRX HB's, cause they are pretty close to STi world now.. but when i found this Mazdaspeed at the price i got it at, it was about 6k less... and came with more items standard (Bluetooth was a big deal to me).
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 02:38 PM
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Alright beeches i figured I'd go ahead and tell you now since everything has been approved and I'm just finishing the paperwork; the z is gone. I traded it today for a Genesis coupe 2.0t track model! I'm ready to receive my bashing now lol
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 02:46 PM
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FKR! you traded the car in with my COILOVER!!! a$$hole!!
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