Sargara

or over £2000 new!!

Not sure where these prices are being obtained from, you can pick them up for £800 each from Nissan:

http://www.ebay.co.u...D-/291829834825

Or less from a parts supplier if you shop around.

I'm with Hodaka on this one, I dont know enough about the process of Halogen > HID sorry to answer your question Ashenfox.

Worst case scenario I suspect you would need to purchase the 8pin loom (car side) but how you go about swapping/fitting that to your car I dont know. I suspect you either remove the individual 6 wires from your plug, and use the 8pin plug purchased to line the correct wires in the correct places, or figure out which colour wire does what in your 6pin loom and then cut/solder the appropriate wire to the new 8pin loom?

Best case scenario its all plug and play?

Mmmmm... Depo headlights

"Soon" (weekend hopefully).

If I get a ballasts, igniters and wiring from an 06, then d2s bulbs and the headlights linked above, I'm good for a full HID 06+ setup, right?

The ballasts and igniters are the same on all models, you don't need face-lift specifically..

Its a lot more complex fitting to halogens, you have a 6pin wiring loom on your car compared to an 8pin plug in HID headlights. Have a read of:

http://my350z.com/forum/body-interior-exterior-and-lighting-diy/543300-diy-350z-06-headlight-upgrade-walkthrough-5.html#post10579372

He details which wire needs to go where if you want to do the conversion.

Being offered facelift headlights for £800 is that good or does anyone no of someone who can supply them cheaper??

They are between £700 and £800 each new depending where you shop.

Always an option tho...... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302090514994

Nothing to add other than reading though this thread now from the start, Ekona nailed it. Every post

Great choice, I'm there this Saturday getting the Depo headlights fitted *fingers crossed it goes to plan*

I'm glad I'm not the only person who doesnt "get" this.

I appreciate it for being a Nismo, but having not seen an S-Tune like this before I thought someone had fitted a Barryboys body kit to it at first glance. It hasnt aged well at all, very Max Power.

Does the Velocity plenum chamber design in the Ultimate package sacrifice the strut bar out of interest?

Beautiful, also its grey not silver 286bhp prior to remap, wow these engine do respond decent to breather mods!!

 

Any more plans?

David

Its registered with the DVLA as Silver, that's good enough for me

The headlights posted above are the current plans, then maybe a Tarmac lip if I need more black to balance them out. In an ideal world, I'd like a set of 18 Varrstoen ES222 but I cant justify the price with perfectly good rubber still on the Rays currently.

Popped out on my lunch break to try and get some worth while photos as a stop-gap until I can arrange a session with my mates SLR:

Hi Si8pny, yes its already in progress actually which is sort of the motivation for creating this topic.

I'll post full details up soon when they are fitted. And getting some decent pictures of the car is also on the to-do list!

I decided it's probably about time to make my own topic now, after all I've owned the car for almost 2yrs now but never really felt I'd done enough to justify it or quick enough for that matter! So what follows will be abit of a re-cap of the past year+ to get up to speed with things

I bought the car from Junction17 (... I know!) and it was a completely standard GT with 32k on the clock. The first thing I did was eBay a set of Ray alloys as it needed new rubber all around so it was the perfect time for man maths!

Rays on with new rubber:

The standard aerial above didn't last long either. That was next on the hit-list:

All fitted:

Next up was cleaning up the appearance. A clean set of (dealer unbranded) number plates and some Plasti-dip for the bumper: (excuse the flash)

It was my first attempt at Plasti-Dip and I'm happy with the result:

The next cosmetic mod to be done was to address the wheels so some spacers were ordered and fitted during a brake refresh:

And fitting shortly after some (slightly rusty....) BlackDiamonds discs:

That was it for cosmetics and my attention then shifted to the performance side of things and my most expensive mod to date was ordered:

This was fitted to compliment a plenum spacer, velocity stack airbox mod and panel filter. My friend who also has a 350z had booked us both in for a remap at Horsham and I wanted to make sure everything was in place ready.

On the day:

My mates:

And the result from all that? Pretty chuffed!

With that out of the way I decided to tidy up the interior, an aftermarket gearknob and a Royal Steering retrim were fitted.

Before:

After:

Which almost brings me up-to-date with where my car is currently, the last area of attention which has been the lights. I sourced a (2nd hand via the forums) pair of rear LEDs fairly easily which were probably the easiest modification to fit:

And fitted along with a fog-light clear out:

So that brings me up to where the car is currently essentially. This is just the bits I grabbed pics of along the way and doesnt cover the boring/routine stuff like:

- Banana Arms

- Oil sump leak (twice)

- P1 Service + all fluids + sparks

- Window Motor

etc that have all eaten into my zeditus budget along the way

So many good games at the moment, struggling to prioritise what to get.

I've bough Gears of War 4, but i also want Forza Horizon, Battlefield and the new TitanFall. I also want the new Final Fantasy thats out next month

Nice work as always. I respect the car for what it is but it does absolutely nothing for me considering how much they cost

Playing the new Gears of War 4 its great, if you buy a digital copy you get it on Win10 too and the games multiplayer supports cross-platform so you can still play with your console friends if you wish.

Loving the horde mode with my mates, its proper tough when you want it to be.

The missus being in the car wont count, the witness has to be impartial to count so its still your word against his at the end of the day. Maybe now you'll become a dashcam convert with the rest of us, shame its too late to help in this situation through

Quick delivery too, I only ordered on Saturday. It's beaten my self-adhesive aluminum tape that was from a UK seller

Edit: I wont derail this topic any further now, I'll make a separate one when I get the chance to have a play with these. This concludes my buying/eBay part of things

Lovely car, I think I've just found inspiration for how I'd like mine to end up looking. If you decide to sell the wheels let me know

To expand on Payco's advice, ditch the supplied nuts and bolts altogether provided by Ark to attach the tips to the system. They are too big and mine started to rust within weeks.

H1979 a member on here told me to get some "Marine stainless steel button bolts" from eBay:

Bolt - 181754222286 - m6, 12mm long 5 pack

Nut - 181741944218 m6 (obviously), 10 pack

Washer - 181752147248 m6, 10 pack.

Don't regret listening to his advice and considering how cheap they are from eBay its a no brainer.

i'd say it's a very good price for what you're getting.

My thoughts too, whoever traded that in part-ex must have been robbed if they are able to sell it on at that price and presumably make a profit!

The throw shouldnt be an issue as facelift headlights have a greater output alegedly compared to my 04 units already. They have the same adjustment cogs/wheels as OEM so side to side will have some play just like up/down will. Cheers for the bulb heads-up, I got that from BulletMagnets guide posted on here already.

haha I can clearly tell Hodaka has been giving these headlights some thought/research.

For info I'm not planning on baking them open to access the shield, I'm going to try using self-adhesive aluminium tape through the bulb opening to see if I can apply the tape to the shield that way first. No harm in trying. I just want to make the shield cutoff as flat as possible (if it isnt already) rather than potentially kicking up to the right for LHD cars.

Like i said in my post its abit of a punt but if you can point me out where I can source a pair of new, facelift headlights for <£400 I will gladly not waste my time on LHD Depo units

Spotted this today:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302090514994

First time I've seen them for sale outside of America (other than Torqen). I've taken a punt and will try to convert the shield cutoff to RHD before fitting.

FYI I made an offer of €385, he countered with €410 so essentially free shipping.

Could be an air-leak or an issue with the throttle body. Id remove the TB first, give it a clean, and make sure you refit everything tightly and see how you get on.