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nice Z!, I had my G murdered out but i'm really loving the satin dark gray against the gloss black accents, it completely changed the look of the car, it's been turning necks everywhere lol
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usually the cracks on the dash are thin and you don't feel a ridge when you pass your finger through it, if that's the case a vinyl or leather material will be think enough to make it look new again, my dash isn't cracked but next year I wanna customize it by getting it wrapped with black vinyl (looks just like leather) with red stitching on the edge
Indeed. I may do it myself or take it to a few shops in the area for pricing.
nice Z!, I had my G murdered out but i'm really loving the satin dark gray against the gloss black accents, it completely changed the look of the car, it's been turning necks everywhere lol
. Here's a couple new pics
looks good. I had the Z that color a few years back. It's blue now
Slipped in the spacer at long last. Very easy. My garage queen buy clearly wasn't driven with any real gusto; there was absolutely no oil in the plenum. Bought at 26,500, sitting at 29,200 right now. Haven't fired it up yet; have the grounding kit to install tomorrow morning. Hopefully no vacuum leaks, but it's so straightforward, I will be surprised if there are. Then it will be time to get Seymour4 to work on the tune.
Ok I guess I misunderstood the context. 3M has Satin Dark Gray vinyl wrap in their 1089 scotchbright and when he said he wrapped his car in 3M I figured he was talking about their Vinyl. Down South when we say wrap, it's means vinyl.
I'm from the South lol. The wrap (vinyl) is 3m 1080 Satin Dark Grey S261. I wrapped the door handles (both of them), window controls, speaker rings, center console, shifter bezel, and the controls on the steering wheel. Basically everything in the interior that was grey beforehand is now the satin grey wrap. The only 2 things I painted was the shifter boot ring and the actual buttons on the steering wheel. I didn't have any satin black for those 2 things so I resulted in painting. Wanted to change the look of the interior without going overboard on colors.
Spacer installed yesterday; today the grounding kit installed, Z-tube installed, Ionic satin black (Mt. Fuji delete) front grille installed (great, great fitment, thanks Jose), reset the ECU, started right up. Raced around a little bit to get the ECU started on relearning, but still a few miles to go on that. Idling a little fast at 750-800, so will do a little research on whether an idle volume relearn is what I need to do or if the retune will take care of that.
Very happy with the change in tone from the Z-tube when you goose the hamsters. That's about as much noise as I want. When the OEM exhaust rusts/cats go, then I'll think about an exhaust and finding one that breathes better but stays about OEM quiet.
I polished up the fast intentions exhaust mufflers and tips. Were looking pretty black and grimey after the winter. Playing around with cam phase tuning in Uprev. Info online is fairly limited, so going off theory and trial n error for now.
Also found out I have a bunch of gear head neighbors. Set up a back-roads drive this morning and had a blast with an S4, RS4, and a GTI.
Next step is either body shop for blacked out grill, diffuser, new drivers mirror and new window weatherstripping OR Fortune Auto coilovers and related suspension work......
Tough decision. I kind of want to get all the simple body work out of the way to then focus on the more technical stuff, but I also can't wait to get the coilovers on.
Decisions!
Get on that window weatherstripping, I've been trying to order the parts for the passenger side and they stopped making it..
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