jimmy.farrow7 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Right after 18 months of owning my Zed thought I would start a build thread on my pride and joy. It all started on May 15th 2014 I purchased a standard 2005 JDM Zed in sunset orange, 46k miles on the clock with a set of 18" Rota GTR's, imported to the UK in 2007. First things i done to her were, -Straight in for a full service. -New rear brake discs and pads. At 21 I came from owning a 1.2 2008 punto to a 3.5 v6 MONSTER so obviously was very cautious to start with. I have never modified any of my previous cars but I got Z and got hooked straight away. First thing to change was the disgusting silver aerial that the previous owner had on the car so i swapped to a stubby like most of us have done.I changed my single Din head unit to a double din Sony one which is awesome. My interior plastics were quite scratched to i decided to have my engine bay plastics and interior platics hydrodipped in gold carbon however i wasn't happy with the centre console in the picture below as the weave was wavey and also in the right hand corner of the headunit it started bubbling so it has been redone in silver carbon now. Soooo role on about 2 days without touching the car I decided I didn't like the standard silver badges on the car and choose to swap them over with black badges which I purchased from the forum. I believe a few days later a large box turned up from team tarmac with my JDM diffuser so i got down to fitting that. I purchased a conduit set from ebay so cover the hoses in the engine bay and also a black slam panel so over a weekend I painted the cover surrounds and filler caps and started styling up the engine bay and it turned out like this. After being completly lazy and taking my car to a hand car wash they thought it would be funny to completely strip the paint off my bumper with a wash down gun so i brought a new bumper with a carbon air intake. Few pics of the clean car Now we roll on a few months and I decide I want to change my exhaust so a K1 japspeed popped up on the forum so i brought it and it was on the car the same day it turned up. I had my first meet and greet around october 2014 and met TimC and Gumpy along with alex who no longer owns his Zed and it was awesome meeting people who shared the same passion of there car as me. So over the new year into 2015 my car was under 53000 so i had the major service done with all belts changed, oil drained, plugs, gearbox oil changed, spark plugs and all other items included in the major service. Along with this i had a rear passenger caliper and discs changed. Once the weather picked up time to start modding again I got a summit strut brace and fitted a JWT pop charger onto the Zed. Time to get a new knob as mine had lots of miles and seen some better times so i invested in a genuine nismo duracon knob. Sorry about the grubby picture the lense on my camera was all scratched. Its now summer 2015 and I had met some new people and we all met up and took a drive down to an old airbase in norfolk for a car show on a beautiful sunny august sunday. September 2015 i travelled down to Kent to see my old dear via a quick detour to go and meet Dunks and his BEAUTIFUL sunset Zed that was Un-supercharged at the time, we had a chat and I left with another new bumper including a lip and carbon duct. Soo we are now onto the last couple of mods for 2015 i brought a set of black mirrors and had a spare set of door handles painted in gloss black. XMAS 2015 Well thats me and my lovely lady so far, no doubt i have missed loads out which i will keep on adding. I have a Torqen undertray left to fit and I am picking up a set of Rays Refurbed in anthracite tomorrow so watch this space . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumpy000 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Nice build so far mate. Keep going. Haha. Oh and I love this part..... "Time to get a new knob as mine had lots of miles and seen some better times so" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy.farrow7 Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Haha that wasn't meant to sound dirty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMballistic Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Nice build so far mate. Keep going. Haha. Oh and I love this part..... "Time to get a new knob as mine had lots of miles and seen some better times so" Well that's just showing off. Great stuff Jimmy & love all the pics. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy.farrow7 Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 I managed to remember 18 months worth of modifications but forgot the SAMCO intake hose i installed TODAY!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy.farrow7 Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Cheers guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy.farrow7 Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 Fitted my Rays i got from James today look good i think . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Very nice looking zed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoundDog Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 It's coming on nicely now matey. Those darker wheels make it look cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mopedmark Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) needs a bit of bling under that bay Edited February 6, 2016 by Mopedmark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy.farrow7 Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 Core strut brace is needed mark tjat is on the list mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy.farrow7 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 Had the black part of the bumper wrapped last week due to stones chipping the black paint and its was flaking looked awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Bradders- Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 What did you do with the rotas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) Looking good mate, think it looks better on the darker Rays. You will have to repaint the wheels on the model car to match now Edited February 11, 2016 by TimC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy.farrow7 Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 I haven't even started the model yet mate been too busy. I do prefer the Rays to the Rota's now wasn't too sure which ones i was going to prefer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy.farrow7 Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 (edited) I still have the Rotas Brad, was going to get 2 refurbed and keep the Rays as winter wheels but i prefer the Rays now. Edited February 12, 2016 by jimmy.farrow7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy.farrow7 Posted April 12, 2016 Author Share Posted April 12, 2016 I just brought a polished plenum from mark and I am very pleased with it, watch this space for pictures 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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