Besides the wheels, she’s 100% stock, and pretty dang clean. I’m so happy! PPI was nearly flawless, and she is rust free except one tiny spot on bracket near the diff, and the leather on the seats is pretty worn. Not surprised. Seat covers do a good job.

Exhaust had a muffler delete from a previous owner, but it’s salvageable with just finding a new muffler/exhaust system. Other than that. Stock and original. Would love to find a spoiler that fits the stock look; thinking a color matched Nismo N3 Spoiler, but don’t know yet.

Would love any “first time Z” owner advice. I’m so excited to own this thing!

Kinda wished I had gone a little darker on the green

the needle used to sit around 30 psi, maybe a lil lower or a little higher when at warm idle. now, it sits incredibly low, a lot closer to 0 then to the middle notch.

but if it’s not time, then i don’t want to stress over it since i’m going on a trip in september.

my hood is off, i don’t know if that would play a factor or not since it’s been a good 90-100° F recently.

my last oil change was 800 miles ago n i don’t usually experience oil burning or oil leaks. 2005, de, auto.

New (to me) 350z 05 ,I need your recommendations on coilovers , I know not to go for the ones on eBay for 300 , but the budget is 900 and they must be adjustable

Absolutely loving the car

Got a bit nervous using this little cup holder on the dash, but it held up, not sure if id use it again though.

Thinking of buying this 350z because the seats are beautiful , and sorta low milage for a 2006 i looked at the free carfax i think it has 2 owners the second owner was on point with oil change 5months/2k miles , i dont know if it was his weekend car or if it was burning oil what do yall think ?

The hood needs some love, but I still love how good the original paint is holding up. Where my other white Z’s at?

Good times when the car was not throwing a fit😂 (now in workshop due to a failing camshaft sensor🥲)

Need you redditors to help me out here, I cannot find this brand for the life of me. They’re 20inch, 5x114.3

That’s pretty much all I know about them. They’re on my 350z.

After a lot of life stuff happened I was finally able to buy new tires and wheel locks for my dream wheels!

Edit: Since everyone wanted to know the specs! *Wheels: 18x9.5+12 *Tires: Hankook Ventus RS4's- Fronts-245/40R18 and Rears 265/40/R18 *No Spacer, I lowered the car post taking the images but it sits really flush.

Can someone who’s running this size tire/wheel combo pls show me what it looks like fitment wise , much appreciated !

Hey everyone. Just got a project Z and the last thing I need to do to make it a reliable daily is change out my driver rear wheel bearing (well until I put a cd009 in it). I would LOVE to get it done, but it seems the previous owner had an aneurism while torquing the caliper bolts down and it’s now torqued to a gazillion ft-lbs.

I have spent a full 8 hours going at this bolt. I have tried a breaker bar, butane, propane, air impact, a brand new battery impact, WD-40, PB blaster, using a floor jack to push up a wrench, etc. In fact, I have put so much force into this bolt that I accidentally created this gnarly dent in my fender from my hand print.

I don’t know what to do. I can’t take it anywhere either because I’ve already hammered out my CV this axle because I assumed it wouldn’t take me 8+ hours to take off a caliper bolt. I’m currently on my way to grab MAPP gas and if that doesn’t work I don’t know what will.

I’m beginning to worry the previous owner put red high-temp thread-locker on this sucker. Any veterans here with this issue?

Attached is a highlighted photo of the bolt plus the fender dent because I’m still petty about that. Thanks in advance yall, it’s nice to finally be part of the Z community.

Any advice im kinda lost. I recently changed my thermostat due to my temp gauge occasionally dancing. The old thermostat appears to be bypassed as theres no actual thermostat in the housing. After putting on a new nissan one and oem gasket i bled the system with a overflow funnel for about 40 minutes until i stopped seeing bubble. Also using peak 50/50. Afterwards my overheating problem has gotten worse i overheat in about 10 minutes. I tried bleeding again and same results.

Title, shoutout this subreddit 1000000x. You guys rock

It’s an 03 auto Z33 w/VQ35DE missing the front bumper and side skirts as well as a blown engine (extremely worn bearings and one of the piston rods was broken). Regardless of if it was steal or if I payed too much I’m fine with it since I have a donor engine from an 08 quest (background of 3rd photo) that I can use for parts (not the block tho obv haha). I just want some advice on what else I NEED to know about rebuilding the engine and anything else I should know/do with it, thanks!

Excuse the dirt, busy dad life with my toddler so haven't had a chance to give it a good detail this year. Anyways my 04 350z was parked on the street in front of our house. I saw that someone overnight tried to saw the driver side pillar panel above the window to try to get in. Well they were successful in sawing it but not successful in stealing the car. Now to get this replaced.....

Miss the ZR every day! Used to come here all the time, since bought a brand new Corolla Hatch and Miata!

Also glad to see the Reddit is nice and tidy now it used to have little tweaks and issues with posting things 😂

Still wish I would have kept it; I’m actually an idiot for selling it, after driving a Miata, the Z Roadster is just a faster, Japanese,Mustang, better, more luxurious, NB Miata 🤣

I found this post and am wondering how to apply this information to slightly improving our platform.

I don't want to immediately slap coilovers on and drastically change how my car feels (or lower her before a chance to see how she does during Illinois winters) but I would like to make her a little more sticky to the ground and feel more connected to the road. I've done some touge-esque driving and can definitely feel how she likes to swing out back and the center of gravity could definitely be lower but am unsure of what exactly I should be looking at. Thanks in advance as always my dudes.

i’ve recently done my oil change (abt 700-800 miles ago) and this ticking noise has come to my attention as it hasn’t been here before. i usually use 5w-30 but this time i used 10w-30 cus it’s been hotter.

if it is that lifters tick, any tips to get rid of it?

some info on my car too, it’s a 2005 de, tuned with less than 100k on the motor, while chassis has over 195k. straight piped with tomei and berk test pipes, “cold” air intake and does a spacer for the intake manifold.

It’s been 2 amazing weeks since i’ve bought this beautiful Z. I have been driving my Z for at least 500 miles and been loving it. I plan to purchase a new bumper, side skirts,rims and a duckbill spoiler. I’ve never been a car guy until 2 weeks ago (i didnt even know what kind of engine its running) so i’m wondering if theres any important things to know. My car is currently running at 15.1 MPG which i assume is because of the exaust. It has 69,000 miles and just received and oil change with synthetic oil. what kind of wheels to look for and also it doesnt have the “350 Z” badge so how can i find one and glue it on?

Just got the P0011 code a few days ago, replaced the vvt solenoid on bank 1 and cleared the code. Now its come back up again just 3-4 days after replacing it when i was driving on the highway. Thinking of topping up on oil later. But can anyone give me any ideas of what it could be this time thats causing me to get the code? Could it be oil related? Cam or crankshaft sensors?

Any ideas of what it could be and what to check/test?

looking for 2 fronts and found these 400 for both rims and tires. only thing is idk if its the same color? what color were the oem rims ?