interior parts an such nonsence

[z.Leinbach]

Well guys since I've last posted I've had some "vandalism" happen, door dings and scratches. My poor Z was almost totalled out with the lil dings and scratches, and this just adds rob the lothe of little uncontrollable and inconsiderate brats that my neighbors call their kids.. Anyway.

Does anyone out there have a mint drivers side door with the grey looking cloth at the bottom with electric windows an locks?? Hopefully a decent price all I find on eBay is the pass side.

Also what is a good brand for single out let muffls that really make our ladies sing??

Also should the car feel loppey at idle ?? Cause mine bounces alil like its got some fat cams in her and are our ecu's tubeable?

[DCaff300ZX]

Best bet for used parts would be Z site classifieds and craigslist, myself I'd never consider ebay for anything over 25 bucks and definitely not for used parts unless no other option existed.
Single outlet mufflers are more restrictive and will not aid in making the car sound better, only way they can help is increasing the inlet and outlet sizes and adding larger inlet tips. And then if you go too big the NA will lose torque in the low and mid range and sound raspy so a little trial and error is part of the deal to get the sound you like. Magnaflow has worked well for my NA when it ran for a mellower, deeper idle sound and a little better sound overall and with no rasp and less drone.

[z.Leinbach]

What pipe size are you running on your NA? mines pretty much stock aside from NGK iridiums, pod filter (cold air pipes made the painful mpgs worse so back to stock) and non stock mufflers. Size unknown, but they need rehung they pretty much dangle to low and wobble super bad.

Also do the newer Z32 seats bolt up to the older z32 bracket?? Thinking about a newer seat. Wanna do that sleep street rod look and make some decent power while I'm at it

[DCaff300ZX]

I had 2 1/2" exhaust from exh. manifolds back, hi flow cats and resonators and Magnaflow 2 1/2" inlet (Big Dog? IIRC, was 7 years ago...) single exit mufflers with larger dual tips.
However, pipe diameter size really doesn't mean much unless you're running big HP, as it's about flow modulation...my 400HP+/- TT has stock exhaust to the back except for upgraded DP's for the 530bb turbos, and my "custom" HKS 2 1/2" catback with 3" single exit mufflers with custom SS dual tips. The TT has had some exhaust manifold porting done similar to MSP manifolds to increase flow to the turbos and out, while the better flowing mufflers and tips then reduce back pressure for max spool up and exh. gas exit, so anything more isn't really needed as the stock system flows well enough for 500HP according to my Z guy and I agree as mine sounds awesome and works great while not being TOO much of an attention-getter, but still sounds obviously modified.
Focus on making things as straight as possible and making any bends as round as possible, and open up the back end for the best results. I also had a true dual setup (no crossover/x-pipe) which I felt worked well for my NA and I've seen that others have done as well...just a thought, not any real "better" solution other than that I feel it's best to have separate sides for the exhaust since the whole intake scenario crosses over side to side and is kept separate. I never had any imbalance issues which is the main benefit a crossover system has.

As for the seats and brackets I don't know about that as I've not done more than swap in better seats to the NA. I will say that replacing them with any quality seat that is comfortable for you would be a benefit, as the stockers are very heavy and replacing them is free weight reduction performance.

[z.Leinbach]

Oh ok. Sounds legit man, I'm just trying to feel out options for her y'know? I mean she sounds healthy as 138200ish on these engines can sound. I get this wonderful smell of sulfer from the car when it's at idle or after I've driven after warm up so I'm guessing the cats are on the way out, and here in Kennewick the cops tend to look at imports with modified exhausts, so far I've managed to Brap right past the local, state, and counties without a second look, mind you mines not quiet at all, i guess i could say i want to find the right tune to make this lady sing and still be "acceptable" if you get my drift..

Also any experience, with the lopey idle feeling?? I haven't found any miss fires erratic idle or detonation signs. Just find it little odd, the jaguar I had before this Z felt lopey as it had a very mild build and was carbed so yaa, just curious is all

Anyone have any idea how to fix the blasted oil pressure gauge??? Replaced the stupid senor and didn't help with a reading, installed the old one and still is inconsistent but actually reads.... From time to time.

[MrFeesLaw]

Dcaff, I don't suppose you have any videos or recordings of your Z that you could post? I have magnaflow mufflers that came with my car, but I haven't gotten a chance to hear them run yet. They are welded up to some really s*** pipes, so I am going to have to do some fabbing of pipes and cut and weld my mufflers onto my new custom pipes. I think I am just going to do test pipes. I already have aftermarket headers (thanks to the previous owner), but the downpipes and cats are destroyed (also thanks to the previous owner). I don't want to spend a lot of money on new cats for my performance applications... I don't think I want to go all the way up to 3" Pipes though... if I had a Hi-Flo Cat and resonators I would go with 3" for the performance, but I'm thinking I might go with 2-1/2" or 2-3/4" to keep some of the backpressure.

Thoughts?

[z.Leinbach]

If you look me up on facebook. Zach quintaine-carlon I have a video of mine I believe them to be magnaflows

[DCaff300ZX]

^^^^That should give a good idea, and sorry but no- no sound video of the car and exhaust.
I can definitely say it was on the mild end of the spectrum in all ways except idle which sounded deeper. It was maybe 25% louder at it's loudest, and maybe 10% louder than stock at idle and cruise. The stock performance exhaust on my '06 G35 is louder than the NA was with the magnaflows easily, if that helps.

[MrFeesLaw]

^^^^^That helps a lot actually! I want it to be louder than stock, but not so much that I can't take it on a road trip.

My daily driver was a dodge pickup where the previous owner hollowed out the cat and removed the mufflers and resonators, so it was just a big 3 inch straight pipe. Didn't bother me too much in town. Was definitely fun to rev back when the Hondas thought they were cool. But anytime you spend more than 5 minutes at one speed (such as during interstate travel) you would get the worst headache. Even if you had music going louder than your exhaust, you would still just feel the pressure of the sound in your head and it would make you sick. Took the truck about 100 miles away with a trailer at night to go pick up my 300zx. 100 miles in the dark with no traffic. Nothing to do, but sit and focus on not throwing up from the noise lol.

So... I've lived that "obnoxiously loud life". And it's not me. Maybe on a track car, but not on a car I actually will have to drive. So I want it to be slightly louder than stock, and have a good note to it, but not to be so loud as to attract tons of attention and make driving uncomfortable.

[z.Leinbach]

On mine it I have a pod filter (courtesy of ebays 55$ waste of silicon, and aluminum cold air intake, s*** that 2 weeks after I got it due to a horrid drop in mpgs left the filter on cause. I destroyed the stock one.. Lol, but also has a decent set of magnas on and it sounds wonderfully when its at wot and anywhere between