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A few things going on. Replaced headlights. And removed OEM sport wing. This left me with holes. I plugged and painted but looked tacky. I want to keep the car OG if sell so I bought a trunk lid I can paint match at some point and store the oe wing and trunk.
A few things going on. Replaced headlights. And removed OEM sport wing. This left me with holes. I plugged and painted but looked tacky. I want to keep the car OG if sell so I bought a trunk lid I can paint match at some point and store the oe wing and trunk.
Curious - have you tried photoshopping the roof and hood to see what it would look like it if you wrapped them (and mirrors) in black vinyl? Might not be attractive - just a thought.
Curious - have you tried photoshopping the roof and hood to see what it would look like it if you wrapped them (and mirrors) in black vinyl? Might not be attractive - just a thought.
-Eric
I thought about the roof as mine is fading in spots. As for the hood I'd go carbon fiber before black. Im leaning toward wrapping the car at some point.
Heavy, round, perforated leather and white stitching. What's not to love?
I fingertip shift so round is perfect for me, if you grip the shifter like a bat you would want a longer shifter like the OEM.
I need to compound my trunklid so I can apply skyline and 370z logos. Too much of a shadow still there from the Infiniti, fuji, and G37s lettering.
I'm also contemplating wrapping my trucklid spoiler in black vinyl, but I'd like to get a bigger version without going full ebay spoiler. Like the new corvette gurney flap that's about 14" wide - that looks about right for a car with rounded edges like ours. Any ideas?
Heavy, round, perforated leather and white stitching. What's not to love?
I fingertip shift so round is perfect for me, if you grip the shifter like a bat you would want a longer shifter like the OEM.
OMG that leather ball is ugly. Seriously ugly and cheap-looking.
My winter and summer ***** share an identical size and tear-drop design, just made of different materials... coprolite and titanium, respectively. The winter **** looks odd in black against my Stone Leather interior, it really looks out of place. But it's a winter compromise.
The tear-drop design means you grip the shifter in the palm of your hand, not quite like a bat, and certainly not with your fingertips. (That's weird.). The best way I can explain it is to think of a ball & socket design, where instead of moving the ball around inside the socket, you're rolling the socket (your hand) around on the ball.
Last edited by Rochester; Nov 4, 2019 at 10:20 AM.
Are you sure about the coprolite? That's fossilized dung.
It's probably not fossilized dung. Hang on...
Had to look it up. The manufacturer calls the material "Copolymer". It's a strange thing, niether cold to the touch when freezing, nor warm to touch when hot.
Coprolite usually means fossilized dinosaur dung. Not what I'd want for a shifter, but probably on par cost-wise with exotic metals. LOL, not quite as expensive as ambergris. Maybe if I was a professional paleontologist...
That **** is much less cheap-looking in person. In fact, you don't really notice it - which is the point, it blends into the car. Fingertip shift is like palm-of-hand on top of the shifter, but lighter touch. It reinforces the idea that you need to shift at right angles where so many folks press diagonally until the shift forks move. Racing instructor I had a lot in the 90s was big on that, and after learning it as a habit because the spec fords and formula Vee cars aren't as shift-friendly as, say, a Miata.
Copolymer according to Wikipedia is just a mix of monomers - so plastic. ABS is a copolymer, as are various kinds of nylon and epoxy resin.
^^So not only do you swap to winter tires, but winter shifter too.... What else gets changed for winter?
Just wheels and the shift ****. Oh, and 15mm wheel spacer adapters go on every winter with the duckfeet, then off again in the spring with the Vossens.
Winter sucks.
And you're right, Mike, Copolymer is a composite. Whatever it is... it's some kind of magic.
No regrets there at all.
Wow.
