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Generally Bitter
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Vehicle: Yes
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My not so stock, bland car. (First post in members rides :fawk:)
Now that we have a member rides forum, I will post in here.
Well, the first pics are gone, but hell, this thread is four years old . Anyway, I replaced the front bumper with a NISMO V2 version, new wheels, a slew of suspension parts and a whole lot of electronic crap.Current: ![]() ![]() Here are some pictures of CINCity's work with my headlights, they were painted satin black, had the STi lens swap, and the side of the headlights were sanded out so you can see the light pierce through the projectors. All in all, great work on his part. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the STi lens swap that CINcity did for me. The bulb temp is OEM 4300k, nothing higher is needed, the cutoff with the new lens is ridiculous, very clean and crisp. That color blue/purple you see is the flicker that you see on BMWs and Porsches, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The below pictures of the gutted interior are from three years ago, anyway, I also have 200 square feet of Fat Mat inside the car. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sound deadening like whoa. Some type of adhesive backed aluminum faced sound deadener, eDead, Dynamat, B-quiet, Raamat, etc. I've got almost 200 square feet of the stuff. ![]() The above is the base layer of sound deadening for reducing road noise. Felt tape, you can buy rolls of it at Woodworker supply. I've got about 40' of the stuff (1/4" wide) lining interior panels, friction spots, this is what is going to end panel rattles and squeaks. A liquid barrier, something like eDead V3, it is a paint on sound deadener that is best when applied over body parts/panels that have already been treated with something like Dynmat. I used one gallon on my car. ![]() ![]() Jute, it is that cloth material that you will see attached from the factory, usually it is gray. I used 11 yards to do my interior. This stuff is the end all of eliminating noise, it goes on the floors, can be adhered to interior panels, basically everywhere you have covered with the other materials I have mentioned. It is the final layer of sound proofing your car before the panels go back on. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you follow all of this correctly, convertible or not, your car will be quiet, with no rattles, no buzzing, and if you had heat coming into the cabin from your exhaust/headers that will be gone too. OK, a couple of pictures of the stuff I added/changed on the inside. I went with the Garmin GVN53 for a navigation system, a Farenheit T7000MHR LCD a Alpine DIN size center channel speaker for the navigation voice, a Pioneer 9800BT Head Unit, running to a pair of JL Audio Amplifiers, one being the JL Audio 1000/1V2 sub amp, and the other is a JL Audio 450/4v2. The 1000/1V2 is running a single JL Audio 13W7 in a custom box. The 450/4 is running two component sets of JL AUDIO ZR 650-CSi with all the tweeters mounted up front in custom kick panels. ![]() And this was from a while ago, but I figured I would keep all of this in one thread. I got a Bel Pro RX65 and a member on one of the Z forums makes a really cool radar detector mount that attaches under your rear view mirror. Here are pictures of the mount and the detector. ![]() Outside, my dirty ass window. ![]() Inside. ![]() From the side. ![]() I added on a rear view camera and a Farenheit AVIR3 input switcher to run to the monitor since I have multiple video signals going into the monitor. ![]()
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Never say never!
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Location: Midland MI
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Looks nice Sam.
You know that this is the first time that I have ever seen pics of your Z. Oh no that cant be your Z. You drive an eclipse.
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N my Flippy Floppies
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Mentor, OH
Vehicle: 2001 Eclipse GT PP
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Very clean front bumper. I prefer the stock one, but to each there own.
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Generally Bitter
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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Thanks everyone. I've got a bunch of electronic crap I have added inside, and I am waiting on a Tokico/Tein suspension to come in this week, so I will have some updated pictures soon.
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Generally Bitter
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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OK, a couple of pictures of the stuff I added/changed on the inside.
I went with the Garmin GVN53 for a navigation system, a Farenheit T7000MHR LCD a Alpine DIN size center channel speaker for the navigation voice, a Kicker ZX350.4, running a Bazooka 6 1/2 in the trunk and my MB Quart QSF 216 in the doors and Alpine SPR components in the rear. And yes, the Bazooka is plenty of bass for me, my component speakers are practically woofers as is, so I don't have need for bulky drivers in the trunk, with the Bazooka, all I have to do to when I go to the track is unstrap it, and it's out. ![]() And this was from a while ago, but I figured I would keep all of this in one thread. I got a Bel Pro RX65 and a member on one of the Z forums makes a really cool radar detector mount that attaches under your rear view mirror. Here are pictures of the mount and the detector. ![]() Outside, my dirty ass window. ![]() Inside. ![]() From the side.
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Two Rotors FTL.
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Carrollton, TX
Vehicle: 2004 Mazda RX-8
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Heh, well I'd be damned. Judging from where you usually post, I'd never take you for a car electronics guy; I was expecting most of your investment to fall under the hood. That's a nice, clean "Mythical" Z you got there.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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It is pretty tough to drive a mythical car, but I manage to do it OK.
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I have a question... how do you like that radar detector? I need one and will be getting one soon but I really don't want to pay 300 bucks for one.
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SCC-PHOTOGRAPHY.com
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Location: Fairfax, VA
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I personally.. just obey the law. That saves me the cost of a radar detector and the cost of a potential ticket, which here in VA, is anywhere between 1k-5k now because of the new laws. |
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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The detectors nowadays are pretty smart, the Bel works on the premise that if one (radar gun) is pulling any power, it alerts you, that feature pretty much consistently defeats the instant on, or POP, or whichever name that auto on is called nowadays police have been using the past few years. This is what is commonly used in the state of Florida, so it works very well for me in this state. I've driven through VA and this went into VG Stealth mode which made it undetectable to radar detector, detectors, and it helped point out all the police hiding out and zapping folks. Again, I normally don't speed but this detector has traffic alerts, and all kinds of other things that go beyond picking out radar that it makes it a nice tool to have when driving, I use it in conjunction with my Garmin GPS that highlights traffic signals that have cameras attached, the Garmin also has real time traffic and weather updates so all of these things combined really help when driving.
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I graduated from FSU in '00, it is a great school, and I had an excellent time there. As an aside, opusx and I installed a Tein and Tokico spring/shock combo over the weekend, I will have pictures up of that soon.
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e-thug hating.
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Indiana
Vehicle: 03 Eclipse GT
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your car looks good!!
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Tango Sucka!
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Wow Sam your car is still looking great
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Two Rotors FTL.
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Carrollton, TX
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Congratulations Sam, you're April 2008 COTM!
...Happy Birthday also, and April's Fool for all! Let's see how many people are going to flip out this year. NOTE: If you are too stupid to realize this is an April's Fool and proceed to bitch and moan about it, you will be subjected to public ridicule, wth cocknozzling and/or comedy ban proceeding afterwards.
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Tango Sucka!
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Congratz on COTM and Happy Birthday dude!!!
"Tree-fiddy"
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Sehnsucht
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Location: Clarksville, TN
Vehicle: 2004 350Z
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still looking nice. been debating on that front bumper myself but might just settle with a front lip instead
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NOICE! My wife's cuz has a Z. I like the subtle front end. He keeps telling me I got the wrong Z.
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I r bad spellr, stfu
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Location: Selling the futures of our kids!
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I want to see a show down of the COTM - April cars.
Bitters Pimped out Geo would win for sure, 350z's are teh slow
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n00b hater
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Sam! Again, nice ass Z!
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3g -> LGT
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I thought TE37's had six spokes?
Anyways, sexy Z, congrats on COTM
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Tango Sucka!
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Why you want to come over to steal 'em?
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makin territories
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: hill afb, ut
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im so glad that i wasnt the only one that noticed that. they look more like a set of gram lights or works. definately note the venerable TE's
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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They are SSRs, I don't know how the TE's got thrown in the discussion.
![]() Anyway, my car is quite possibly the most quiet 350Z in Florida, I can clearly listen to my radio with the volume on "3" driving at 65MPH (my radio volume goes to 60). On top of the Fat Mat I already had, I recently added an additional 40' of B-Quiet Ultimate, 11 yards of jute, and one gallon of E.Dead V3 in electric Smurf Blue. Every single plastic panel has backing of either B-quiet or jute. Saying all that, it added maybe an additional 25- 30 lbs of weight to the car. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Two Rotors FTL.
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Vehicle: 2004 Mazda RX-8
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Goes to show how much I keep up with wheels.
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