Shortly after finishing up my wheels I came across a great deal for a set of powertrix (kaminari style) side skirts with the door fillers, they were used and had a few cracks that needed repaired but nothing major.
Here it was just placed on the car to see how it would look (no screws holding it)
I didn't have money to paint them right away so i let them sit off the car for awhile. Part of the reason for no money was this purchase that I did pretty much all at once.
Selin setup before going in the car.
This pic looks bad, but having to work under a car on gravel I hardly trust jack stands. So i made something that had a much wider base with the core piece being a 4x4 that the car sits on.
Bumper was pulled to install the powertrix cf fog light ducts, also made installing the selin kit a lot easier.
The car all back together and on the ground.
Then shortly after all that the Japan quake happened and there was a local car show put together to raise money to help. I decided to mount the side skirts just because for it.
Another random shot before heading to the car show with my brother's Z and our friends celica all-trac
That summer I bought some faux suede and started to do the interior with it.
After all that the car stayed that way for awhile. Funds for the Z had transitioned to getting a new dd as my corrado wasn't something I trusted commuting 400+ miles a week in.
May 2011 I purchased a 01 toyota mr2 as it fit everything i had wanted in a new dd. Something small and fun with good gas mileage and reliability.
Back to the Z however, I also made a pretty big purchase for the car.
TT engine came out of a US car that got rear ended with only 80k on the clock supposedly. Timing belt sticker on the covers indicated it was changed at 68k. The Engine came with all the needed parts for the swap from the ic's and piping, ecu, tt fuel pump etc and even came with the tt transmission. all for $2500 shipped. Not being able to test the motor and wanting to do a pretty big build I started to tear the motor apart and unfortunately it's still stripped down to the long block currently.
Meanwhile I had made other purchases like a front splitter from driven authority.
Also had my stock steering wheel re-done as I was tired of the ugly steering wheel cover.
And to compliment the other various CF parts on the car I picked up a mission style cf spoiler from powertrix
After that I pulled the skirts off till I could paint them and also had my windshield replaced do to the previous owner being an idiot and putting a huge scratch in the windshield with the wipers and i was tired of tolerating it.
Pretty happy at that point with how the car was i took it for a drive to see my brother who lived about 125 miles away and while on the way there took a rock in my brand new windshield and cracked it. Nothing like paying for a new windshield twice in less than a month.......
On the way back home i went over Chinook pass by Mt. Rainier which had just re-opened after being closed for the winter.
The car again sat that way for awhile before I did some more to it. That summer I had some center caps made for my wheels by a member on tt.net and decided to try something out emblem wise on it.
I also made my own throttle cable cover strip
After those minor things I basically enjoyed the car as it was again up until this last spring.
That plenum that I had started polishing back in 09 i finally finished (I have a lot of respect for those that have done more than one.)
Pick of one runner finished
Once I had the whole plenum looking that way it was time to send it to get powder coated. My vision all along was to have it done the same color as my wheels. Unfortunately i had waited so long to finish the plenum that when I took it in i found out that they could no longer get that specific powder in anymore and had to settle for something else they had that was close.
Also had the splitter pc'd to matte black
Then it came time to do the plenum pull to fix some issues like leaky valve cover's etc. and do some general cleaning/deletes
Classic green corrosion plague
All back together
This past summer i painted the side skirts and put them on. Not fully sold on them yet which is why i have held off on the door fillers. But this brings my car up to how it currently sits.
Hope you enjoyed my Z's journey; i have a lot of plans for it still, but they have been put on hold for awhile with getting a house and getting married coming up this July. I will have another little update soon though regarding the brakes.