350z gets a makeover

[dono56]

How did you get the fenders looking smooth and grinded out before you added the bondo?

[BrandonMcKiernan]

It is probably at my favorite stage right now. Those blitz wheel do something to me. Good job dude.

[loekaaz]

Such confuse
So Z,
much amaze
wow

[Chris05ppwz]

After school today i decided to get some stuff done.. well not really: Since i had everything besides the dual caliper bracket for my hydro assembly i decided to mock it up. Just to make sure everything was fuctioning as it should. Bought some neccesary stuff at the auto parts store:

Took apart the calipers:

Put everything together, and bled the system. Everything is working like it should:

Used a coat hanger to get all of the necessary bends correctly:

Somewhat bent the hardline accordingly haha:

Decided to paint the calipers and make them look decent :

I miss driving this thing

And done re-painting and building the calipers:

Now i just need to order the rear caliper bracket, thanks for reading

[Chris05ppwz]

I love this thing. I kinda love you tbh

Thank you<3

Ya this is awesome, and I love watching all the cool transformations. Keep at it Chris

Appreciate it, thanks man!

I've followed this car from beginning to now, and I've loved every stage. I haven't kilt the game in any stretch of the imagination, but I'm going to be putting more time into sliding my G, so this is right up my alley. Hats off Chris. (And Blake has made many of us wanna slide more).

Thanks for the support man, and do it! Literally so much fun i haven't looked back. Ill be updating this thread once i pay my outstanding ticket from California

[driftsucky]

I've followed this car from beginning to now, and I've loved every stage. I haven't kilt the game in any stretch of the imagination, but I'm going to be putting more time into sliding my G, so this is right up my alley. Hats off Chris. (And Blake has made many of us wanna slide more).

[ChincyWagon]

Ya this is awesome, and I love watching all the cool transformations. Keep at it Chris

[aLaFleur]

I love this thing. I kinda love you tbh

[Chris05ppwz]

Chris' car fucking rules. Chris fucking rules. He will help you work on your car in the middle of a street when it breaks at H20.

Can't wait to see it painted man, I love your how swiftly you seem to progress with your Z.

Thanks Ryan i could say the same about you<3 It was awesome hanging out finally.

You know, i love that you sticking with it. the same car i mean, the car is changing and growing as your taste changes. I remember back in the day when ppl would keep the same car for 10 years and just simply repaint it if they wanted a different look. Hats off to you man! making me feel old today

I really appreciate that. I don't think i could ever get rid of my car, 4 years strong now I need to buy a daily at some point in the near future.

[e34///M]

You know, i love that you sticking with it. the same car i mean, the car is changing and growing as your taste changes. I remember back in the day when ppl would keep the same car for 10 years and just simply repaint it if they wanted a different look. Hats off to you man! making me feel old today

[Strawhat]

Chris' car fucking rules. Chris fucking rules. He will help you work on your car in the middle of a street when it breaks at H20.

Can't wait to see it painted man, I love your how swiftly you seem to progress with your Z.

[Chris05ppwz]

Well I absolutely have no clue as to why I'm updating this almost a year later but the car has gone through a couple of changes since my last post. I guess id like to keep some documentation of this car before i either break or crash it haha. Anyways lets start off as my car finally got painted.


After buckling some fenders, and repainting bumpers i was getting over it being so low. I took a step back from the scene and realized how much of a competition it was (maybe it just felt like that in California) and i also wanted to have some fun with my car that "stance" was now lacking to me. I've always enjoyed drifting, watching ebisu videos and being like, "damn that shit looks so cool". I'll openly admit that Blake Olsen probably motivated me to start drifting as his car looked so cool while sliding. Anyways i set my car up ;welded the diff, -2 camber rear, new inner tie rods with rack spacers and so on. I started doing drift events at Willow Springs Raceway. Probably the best time of my life at the moment. Shit was awesome. My car looked like this at the time:


Proceeded to break some shit, snapped a camber arm at Adams motorsports park…

At this point it was starting to look like a shitty drift car, i knew i wanted to set the car up decently well so i wouldn't be changing crap every month. I then bought the powered by max coils, super angle kit, hydro, picked up a fake vertex kit, blitz 03's, and did some routine maintenance so i could go out and slide trouble-free. Some stuff happened at my dads job in California and the family and i moved to Nashville, Tn. Anyways the car was finally looking okay again:


I got over how the rear quarters were so flared, and didn't retain the oem body line. I decided to go to a salvage yard and use an oem 350z quarter and bow it out and rivet it on. Kinda like an over fender. It sucks they don't make any cool overs for the 350z. The initial piece i got from the junkyard:

Mock up:

And how it sits as of today:


I still need to do a few things; Get new tires for the front as they are leaking, paint the kit, plumb my hydro and purchase the dual caliper bracket, and a few other things. Then i can finally go out and have fun! Thank you for reading

[3ur0tr4sh]

Omg. Im like YEAH here it comes... its gonna be white... here....... DAMMIT ! lollll :wave: "profitable" from IG.

[Chris05ppwz]

Godddamn, I can't wait!

but you just killed the game!

Looking good Chris

thanks man@

Yeah Chris, this is looking dope!! long ways from where this use to be a lil over a yr ago

glad some people are still following it, i really apreciate it and the kia came out nicely!

Hands down best Z ever!!!

just trying to keep up!

this shit is bananas, and i mean it in a good way.

thanks man!

really love everything about this Z, i hope my 11/12 will look this good when everything is said and one, good job man look forward to more updates.

appreciate it, im sure it will looking at your car. Hopefully ill update it later.

Good job at doing good things.

appreciate it!!!

[montgomery]

Good job at doing good things.