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Adam's 350z, Just built for a laugh!!


Adamski

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Hi everyone!!

 

Just want to introduce myself and start my thread, I had a range of front wheel drive cars which were great but always wanted to go rear wheel drive...as I work for BMW you would think this would have been done earlier in my life..haha

 

Anyway had a introduction drift day and found myself selling my 2009 Focus RS and getting a Nissan 350Z

 

So here is what I found and then parted with my cash..

 

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Loved the sound, the driving feel , and it didn't look that dated like lots of cars these days.

 

Well there is going to be a few missing pictures so I do apologise for this..I ended up on driftworks webite which can be a dangerous thing when owning a credit card.

Bought myself some Rota Grids in matt black

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And some new coilovers HSD Monopro

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Haha I took these pictures from the internet sorry for the random image size..

 

So then the car looked a bit like this

 

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Its a really bad picture.

 

So at this point ended up enjoying my car and loved the way it drove and the noise was cool found out the prvious owner had removed the centre silencer so my exhaust was loud ...

 

Problem is I get board of car quickly so had a few phones call and after letting Aaron have a go in mine so now my mate had one thought i wanted something different and just always want to build a car...

 

SO this happened and I know this is going to be a bit love or hate but anyway its happening now and there is no turning back...haha

 

stripping of the VQ35

 

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front end off , coolant out , air con evacuated..

 

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Exhaust removed

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Wiring loom disconnected from ecu.

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And out she starts to come just a few hours later..

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And that was that fun afternoon ...haha

ended up with my car looking like this

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I searched the internet swaps to do and ended up falling in love with a skyline that was being built on the driftworks fourm a NISSOTA and nissan/toyota what a great plan (at the time haha) So ended up buying a 1JZ-GTE off ebay

 

And picked it up from a japanese dude called dave...I know what your all thinking... I didn't think that was his real name . haha

 

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Did some research I know its not a 2JZ but they are quite hard to get hold of but these were developed by yamaha and have a very short con rod and stroke and due to the cast iron block pretty strong.

 

Started to strip it down

 

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Stared to clean it up and it look a bit newer

 

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this will be interesting when done i look forward to seeing this finished and hearing what it sounds like

 

I recently sold my toyota supra twin turbo MK4 that had the 2JZ engine in it and that sounded amazing so this will be interesting B)

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Continued to strip the engine

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european water pump fitted

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Removed the air con

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Fitted shorter belt

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I had the original clutch and flywheel but they were in such bad condition I decided to replace them.

Used Competition Clutches light weight flywheel and stage 4 padle clutch.

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Removed the old spigot/pilot bearing

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Fitted new bearing

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New flywheel fitted

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New clutch fitted

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