so much white...............you racist?

 

Yup! You totally got to, it's not all that hard. Though you will have to drill two holes, one on the pass-side for the pos+ battery cable, and one on the driver-side for the headlight harness.

If you were on the ball, and got 1 or 2 other people to help, you could do both sides in a day.

Nnnaaaaa dog, 'sall guud. I thow sum blak up in thur fo mah home boyz.
Got tha blak&white side-by-side like ebony&ivory yo, nah wah I sayyyin?


Just so long as there's no Asians... I hate Asians

 

I see

So no JDM stickers for you!

 

Lmao^^

 

I havent followed this much lately... car's looking real good Ashly! I like the color combo

It might have been mentioned elsewhere - but have you thought about painting the lettering on the engine cover; black or maybe red (I think black would look real good)...

 

^Thanks Mike.
Actually, that hasn't been mentioned, but I might end up swapping engine covers entirely.

Haven't decided yet (I have both of these)





If I did the B&W one, I might consider doing the letters in red. But the solid IP one should have either black letters, or just the way they are IMO.

 

^^ looks really nice!!

 

FWIW, I kinda like the black/white one... but if it were me, I might be inclined to paint the letters white on that one... the all white one just needs some black accents somewhere - letters are the obvious location, but maybe the sides too?... overall, the car has really turned out nice

BTW, paint the TB black for sure.

 

^Yeah. TB paint is next on my list for sure. I just have to make time to do it.

What's really messed up is that I've had a plenum spacer sitting in the garage for a couple months and haven't got around to installing it
At first I was waiting because I had to paint it to match the plenum.
I'll probably do the TB at the same time as I do the spacer.

In regards to painting the letters white on the B&W engine cover, I've been avoiding painting anything white myself, everything else that's "white" has been painted by a shop and is actually IP. Doesn't always show up in the pics, but if it were regular white, it would make the IP look even more yellow than it already does

A friend of mine does pinstriping though, he might be able to come up with a fair approximation of IP.

I wonder... what if I just did a thin pinstripe and outlined the letters? or if I did black letters on the white, give them a red pinstripe outline...

I'm also undecided on whether I want to go with red hoses or black ones :/

 

what intake is that?

 

It's just some random no-name intake from eBay.

My cousin got it along with his 350Z, but the guy hadn't installed it yet, and my cousin wanted an InJen so he gave it to me.
I tried it out, it sounded reallllly nice so I had my painter shoot it with a coat of IP while he was doing some other work on the car.

I know it doesn't gain any power, wouldn't be surprised if it loses some (especially when heat-soaked) but it sounds nice, so I don't care.
Besides, I'm not building power. I'm past that point in my life, and if I was going to pick a platform to build power, I wouldn't pick the VQ... to expensive.

 

so you didnt see any gains? -__- i feel like getting one for the *** of it lol

 

^No gains.
Also, if you're running full length CAI, it does add a very small, but noticeable lag when you go WOT.
A short-ram has nice throttle response, and I've ran mine as a short-ram before, but the heat-soak issue is even worse because of getting hot-air from the engine bay, and the sound just doesn't compare.

 

yeah i have noticed some lag on cai's i had a injen cai but sold it and now i have a ztube, but want a cai again

 

I'll never go back to an intake that long, night and day difference once i ditched the nismo for the pop charger combo