dave_7 Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 congrats pal... well deserved!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey_S Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Spotted you earlier by the bag of nails by the lights. Car looks awesome in person. Envious of those rims!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 @Mikey_S Ah, no way! Cheers mate, I absolutely love them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 (edited) It's been a while since I last updated this thread so figured I'd pop an update on here quickly. I've made a few changes to the car since December, most of which in an attempt to get the car ready for the upcoming show season. I recently sent the front bumper off to Option 1 Sportcars (the place that painted the 326 wing and smoothed my bootlid) along with my new 3 piece front lip from Piotr Grzelak. I had the front badge removed and all of the previous work of 'smoothing' the front bumper redone as the paint was begining the flake off in very small areas around where the headlight washer jets would've been. I also added a universal fibreglass front splitter from Grams Styling to make the front end that little bit more aggresive while also acting as a sacrificial part to hopefully stop me damaging my lip from Piotr. While the bumper was away, I also spent a good time undertaking a two stage machine polish of the car with Menzerna Medium Cut and Super Finish before toping it off with two coats of Carpro Cquartz Ceramic Coating. I'm pretty pleased with the outcome and the car certainly is the glossiest it's ever been All perfectly in time for Tucked Meet & Eat next weekend. Happy days! Edited April 19, 2021 by Silverthorn 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 (edited) ** Duplicate post ** Edited April 26, 2021 by Silverthorn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 Once again, another purchase from Yahoo Auctions! You do find some absolute bargains on there so I would ecourage anyone who is in the market for car parts to take a look! This time, in an attempt to remove some rear camber I purchased and fitted some Rear Upper Control Arms. Due to the fact that i built the wheels around the camber I had a few months ago, I couldn't remove the camber with the lower arms as that would cause the top of the wheel to poke out from the arch. Therefore I needed a combination of Upper and Lower Camber Arms to bring the camber back to a more reasonable standard while maintaining that glorious fitment! I managed to find these arms on Yahoo Auctions through a website called Buyee. Even after the purchase price, shipping to the Buyee Warehouse, Buyee fees, postage to the UK & Import duty, they were less than half the price of PartsShopMax & Hardrace equivalents! Quality-wise, they're brilliant. I'd say they're just as good, if not better than all the other arms I have on the car Fitting them howevever was a bit of a nightmare! Seeing as the nut that holds the balljoint in to the rear knuckle has a small split pin securing it in place which is very awkward to get to as well as the fact the nut itself is almost guaranteed to be seized, you need to remove the entire rear knuckle to swap the arms. Removing the majority of the arms wasn't a big deal and within a few minutes I had the fasteners for the lower coilover mounts, camber, toe and traction arms removed. Removing the driveshafts was also a simple job thanks to a big ol' 32mm socket and my Ryobi Impact Driver. However, removing the bolts that hold the UCA's to the subframe was a bit of a pain, especially on the drivers side as you cannot remove the bolt from the hole as when it is backing out it hits the fuel line from the filler neck to the tank. I assume Nissan recommends dropping the subframe to change these arms as you certainly can't get that bolt out as you would initially hope. Not a chance I was dropping the subframe though so I managed to, while still on the car, shorten the bolt by about 10mm with an angle grinder and remove it. I have no idea why Nissan did it this way as if they simply put the bolt in from the other side with the nut on the side of the fuel line, there are no problems whatsoever Putting the new arms on and re-assembly was thankfully a doddle (with the bolt inserted from the other side this time!), and the whole job was completed moments later. I had a full alignment on the car this morning and it's fair to say I should get a bit more life out of my rear tyres now! No pictures of the car with it's new alignment but I'm sure I will upload some after the Tucked Meet & Eat this weekend. Another job ticked off the list! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 Tucked Meet & Eat Pt3 completed. An awesome show at an awesome venue, I'd highly recommend it to all! Here's a few photos of the car at the event, all captured by @24sevenphotography on Instagram: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valy Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 25 minutes ago, Silverthorn said: Tucked Meet & Eat Pt3 completed. An awesome show at an awesome venue, I'd highly recommend it to all! Here's a few photos of the car at the event, all captured by @24sevenphotography on Instagram: damn that is low haha,well done on the prize well deserved also cool shots ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 @valy Cheers mate! I was quite suprised about the award considering level of cars at the event. I won a free framed print of the car, a few bits of merchandise and other bits and pieces so it was pretty awesome! The photographer did an great job. I absolutely love that 3rd photo of my entering the event, just a shame I had the front plate fitted at the time 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted May 15, 2021 Author Share Posted May 15, 2021 Photo dump. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEADPHONES Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Those overhead photos are awesome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umster Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 (edited) Need to black out them taillights - maybe a rose tint? Maybe a smoke tint? As usual what a gorgeous car and amazing photos! Edited May 15, 2021 by Umster 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted May 16, 2021 Author Share Posted May 16, 2021 @HEADPHONES @Umster Cheers gents! Tinted taillights aren't my thing personally. I like to keep both the headlights and taillights as OEM as possible, with the exception of painting the headlight internals of course! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umster Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Can't lie, I feel like such a mug trying to tell you what to do 😅 your taste is epic, hell I know it's better than mine. Can't wait to see it in the flesh! Amazing car. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 @Silverthorn well deserved prize This just gets better every time you alter it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 @Sim Cheers mate, appreciate it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) A few changes have been made since the last time I wrote an update on this thread so here it goes. Towards the end of May I had my exhaust remade by a small fabrication shop relatively local to me called Angry Parrot Fabrications as my HKS SSM Exhaust had seen better days and one of the flexi's had broken off from the cat. I had the y-pipe and centre section leading back to the short tails made remade and tucked up as high as possible under the car. I also removed one of the subframe braces to allow the exhaust to pass through the gap left near the diff. Since some diff braces require the removal of the brace I removed, I did not anticipate any adverse effects when removing this and I am happy to say it has had a negligible effect on the overall feel of the car. I have already purchased Whiteline Diff Bushings and will soon be purchasing solid subframe bushings ready for an entire rear-end overhaul over the winter anyway which will more than correct any additional play introduced by this. The quality of workmanship by APF was second to none and he even dropped the price upon collection as "the job wasn't as difficult as he imagined"! He could've very easily pocketed the extra £100 and said nothing, so I massively appreciate his honesty and would recommend him to anyone in the South West that wants any fabrication work undertaking! A few weeks later I then had some Japspeed Resonated Decats fitted by Horsham Developments. I planned on fitting them myself but seeing how cheap they offer their fitting service, it made no sense to endure the pain of trying to fit them myself! However, I didn’t quite anticipate how much louder these would make the car! The car sounded pretty great in my opinion beforehand but after fitting it was so loud on cold start and at 3k rpm that I stopped driving the car entirely for a few weeks until I could get the car booked back in at APF to have a pair of Profusion 4” x 9” Silencer / Resonators fitted to short tails. Again, APF did an awesome job with this and thankfully this addition has made the exhaust quiet enough that I’m not embarrassed to start the car anymore! Fast forward a few weeks and I popped out in to the centre of Bristol for a photoshoot, organised by Lowco Automotive. Both @Connorphotouk and @Maxmilliship did an awesome job at capturing the car and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome! I have only received a small batch of the photos taken throughout the day, the rest are being processed as we speak. The photos I have received so far are below. @Connorphotouk @Connorphotouk @Connorphotouk @Connorphotouk @Connorphotouk @Connorphotouk @Connorphotouk @Maxmilliship Oh, I also purchased another set of wheels! This time, brand new multi-piece Works through Driftworks. They're being manufactured as we speak and should be with me some time in October. I'll be keeping the OZ's too. Edited August 9, 2021 by Silverthorn 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortPaul Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 Great pics buddy 👌not another set of rims🤣the rims you have at the mo look spot on to me😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 36 minutes ago, ShortPaul said: Great pics buddy 👌not another set of rims🤣the rims you have at the mo look spot on to me😁 Cheers mate! Both Connor and Max did an awesome job that's for sure. Yeah, I still really like the OZ's, i just fancy having a spare set of wheels for the car so I can bounce between the two whenever I get bored. The ability to put an equally nice set of wheels on the car while the others are having tyres changed or lips polished should be really handy. I still keep toying with the idea of taking the car to a small drift event so the spare set of 4 wheels will also be super handy for that! I've always been obsessed with drifting, hence the OTT styling off the car as it is, so it seems ridiculous that I've never gave it a proper go on a track. We'll see how the rest of this year pans out but I'm hoping that'll be on the cards for next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverthorn Posted September 5, 2022 Author Share Posted September 5, 2022 (edited) As some of you may have spotted on Facebook or Instagram recently, the car is now sold pending collection. It's been an absolutely brilliant car to own over the last 4 and a half years and it'll be a genuine shame to see it go however I just don't use it that much anymore. I recently replaced my daily driver, a diesel E Class Estate, with a B8.5 Audi RS4 so the 370 doesn't really serve any purpose for me anymore as a fun, comfortable weekend car. I had planned on just selling the 370, keeping the cash and then buying a replacement weekend car in the future however the opportunitity arose to purchase a Nissan S15 which is something I didn't really think would be feasible given the huge price increase recently! The deal hasn't been done just yet, but if all things fall into place as agreed I should have the new car towards the end of the week 😁With low 400's for power it should be a hell of a lot faster than the 370 and with it having a partially stripped interior and roll cage it should be a lot more raw to drive too. Anyway, enough about the replacement car. Here's a few photos of the 370 that I took a few weeks ago in preperation for writing the advert. Changes since the last time I updated this project thread include swaping the Bride x Vertex Seats for Recaro Pole Positions, new Work CR2P Wheels (purchased brand new from Driftworks. 19x11J et-25 all round) & a genuine MK2 Nismo Rear Wing. I also reduced some of the rear camber and raised the car by about 10mm or so for the new owner. I'll no doubt still linger on the forum once in a while to catch up with some of the other build threads that I've followed over the years but I figured I'd just close this thread out by saying thanks to all those over the years for their assistance and kind words, it really made owning this car that much better! Cheers, Tom Edited September 5, 2022 by Silverthorn 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortPaul Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Make sure you stick around, your zed looks sooo nice hope the new owners take good care of it 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 Holy @*!#, I can't believe you sold the Z. The future project S 15 sounds fun though : ) Have fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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