I am throwing a tech session at my house Saturday November 12. Here is what I want to do to my car...

- Remove roll bar for powdercoating
- Remove 70% interior plastic
- Remove all speakers
- Remove carpet
- Remove sound deadener

This will be step #1 in my Z's transformation to a track car. This should only take a few hours so if you have some stuff you want done to your Z we can do that.

The details are marked on the calender.

Mike

 

Ooo, sounds nifty! That'll shave maybe a good 80 pounds or more.

 

I just remembered that this will conflict with Brian's turbo install party. Sorry Brian. I will move my Stripping Party to Saturday November 19.

 

At least you're considerate. Good job Mikey!

 

How many strippers are going to show?

 

That's what I'm talkin' about.

 

Hopefull at least a few.

Speaking of stripping, ALL of my lug nuts stripped and now I can't even get my front wheels off. None of them were cross threaded when they went on and all were torqued to 85 ft. lbs. Everything was fine until after this last track weekend. All of the rears came off with a fight and stripped the lugs and studs. All of the fronts just spin freely without coming off. The studs on the rear are already temporarily replaced while I wait for Nismo long studs to arrive. Any ideas on how to get the front wheels off?

 

crack em off??? Uh... Liquid Nitrogen??

 

oooh, that sucks, have fun man

 

Got them off with a lot of wiggling and an impact wrench. Car is fully operational now!

 

You'll probably have to apply pressure (a hammer) to the base of the studs and hope that they'll stick enough to be able to unscrew them. Otherwise you may have to take a crowbar and get it between the rim and rotor and apply enough pressure to let you unscrew them. Either way it'll suck.

I'll be around tomorrow if you need help.

 

FOR THE GUYS WHO ARE PLANNING ON GOING...

Can you make it on Sunday the 13th instead?

If everybody can still make it on Sunday then I am going to go quadding on Saturday.

 

Have fun quadding.... Actually, Id prefer sunday.. I have a game on saturday.

 

Only as long as the strippers know to be there sunday, too.

 

Sorry no can do! I have to work on Sunday from 7:30am till 7:30pm unless by some chance of fate that I can get the day off early. But I'm not holding my breath.

 

Sunday is fine for me. You need to PM me your address. What time? Do you want me to bring any tools?

 

Did you ever order those headers Mikey?

 

Yes I did and they have been sitting in my garage for about a month.

 

I started working on the car a little bit today. I got the Kinetix HF Cats off and the driver's side exhaust manifold is one bolt away from coming off. I also changed out the front wheel studs to some Nismo 60mm ones.

I got a good tip for removing the sound deadener that includes dry ice and a hammer so that shouldn't take very long. If we get done early with the interior gutting, all of you are more than welcome to stay and help with the headers.

 

I am working on buying a set of JIC FLTA-2 Coilovers to replace my Tiens so that might be added to the list too. Anybody want to buy my Tien Flex Coilovers w/EDFC???

 

^^^ About a month too late.

 

I might be interested, can we do a layaway? I've got a new exhaust first on my list ($1k).

 

I MAY not show, since I have decided to do my own landscaping in the backyard. Yes, Now Im a laborer. I think Im going to start digging for the sprinklers tomorrow. We'll see though.

 

How much are we talking for the TEINs?

 

What time were we talking about? I may go and check out the air show for a little this morning.