I took a gamble on a new front sway bar I haven't seen reviews for yet here or on the370z, and I received my Z1 35mm front sway bar in the mail yesterday and have to say I'm really impressed so far. It looks really nice in person, and so do the HD brackets they include. According to a body scale weight, it's only 13.6 pounds so it's definitely on the lighter side for how beefy it is at 35mm. I went with the Z1 front bar because according to stiffness comparisons, it's stiffness % sits in between the eibach's stiffest setting and the only Hotchkis front setting. Spending hours reading here and on the370z, it sounds like the Hotchkis was too much bar on the street for some with stiffer coilovers like myself, and the Eibach wasn't enough bar up front on the track. I'm hoping the Z1 front bar will be a perfect middle ground for the street with some track use but we shall see! I'll put it on the stiffest setting first and probably leave it there - I'm also installing SPL front and rear end links at the same time so I'll post a review up after it's all installed.

I also got my Z1 baffled oil pan in the mail yesterday. It looks really well made, and past a couple "blemishes" (wouldn't even call them that, I'm just OCD) it looks like a quality piece. I'll post pictures shortly, and will definitely post a separate review for the baffled pan also as soon as I can. I went with the Z1 pan over the CJM pan mainly due to the extra oil capacity- price wasn't a deciding factor. I also like that I can still use my Nismo magnetic drain plug, as trivial as that can be, and if I happen to strip the threads one day I can more easily pop off the pan and put a new one on thanks to the pre-threaded bolt hole they attached. The pan is getting installed with the sway bars and my other parts pile sitting in my garage, so in a month or two I should have a bunch of reviews up in addition to these 2x.

Cheers - goldbug

 

I also bought the z1 oil pan and just this week, someone on facebook messaged me, suggesting me to look over the pan with a fine tooth comb. He installed his and one of the walls was cracked, causing a slow leak.

 

Appreciate you passing the word along, that's not good to hear...Some of the stuff Z1 makes is solid but some things I get mixed feelings about. I have their finned diff cover I'm waiting to install with my wavetrac, but sounds like the diff cover has been proven. Any details on where the crack was in the pan? I'll definitely to the same with mine and run a fine tooth comb over it.

Wondering now if I should go ahead and order the CJM pan and return this one and call it a day before installing the Z1 pan.

 

I didn't even know this was a thing. What's the motivation for this pan, goldbug? I'm guessing cooling and capacity.

You know, you're a monster when it comes to bolt-on modifications. I wish you had a Build Thread.

 

You got it, extra capacity to help keep the oil a little cooler, and the Viton baffles are designed to prevent oil starvation from oil sloshing in the pan and not getting into the pickup tube during high G turns. Definitely something I'd like to avoid when pushing it on the track- I'm specifically doing this as track "prep" for the car, I just want to bullet-proof it as much as possible. On the baffled note, several of my friends have lucked out with their cars and are finding baffled gas tanks now also...wishing someone will make one for the G37 eventually. I'd rather not run a surge tank, and CJM can't make a road race pump for the G37 due to the gas tank dimensions. I don't think they sell the road race pump for the 370z anymore either for that matter (not on their website).

I had a build thread a few years ago when I first got my G37, but was way too busy with work to keep up with hardly anything the past few years, and ended up deleting the thread. Now that I'm in a different position and have the luxury of WFH, I think I have enough free time to spin up another build thread, so keep your eyes out. I just love how easy (...not cheap...) it is to modify this car however you'd like, and having so many available bolt-ons is heaven. Might take me a good while to get everything in the thread now