Project Lex

[turbotalon1g]

Nice!
Can't wait to see the gauges too!

[asshanson]

More modern, nice! It looks a bit smaller diameter, any issues seeing the edges of the gauges after that? Smaller wheels are nice.
Assuming those are cruise controls on the wheel, hopefully you were able to keep that functionality (plus the airbag maybe)?

[Halon]

It's actually damn near identical in size. I put it on top of the old one and it was pretty much the same size. And the gauges are gone so no idea, lol. But yeah same size so shouldn't be an issue!

The air bag I removed, it's just a hollow cover at this point (puts on flame suit).

The cruise switches don't work since I removed cruise from the car. But I left them on there just in case I need a switch on the steering wheel for something, I could use it. Say to enable rolling anti-lag or something like that.

[goodhart]

Nice, I've never heard of that Tanin place. Looks like they do nice work. They even have DSM stuff on their page :)

[Halon]

Yeah it's who all the SC guys go to, supposed to be pretty good.

Update on the car. I put the new slave in, didn't fix it. So trans is coming out. I have the driveshaft pulled, trans drained, and a whopping 2 bolts out of the trans so far. Not a bad start though for have a half hour of time to work on it.

[Kracka]

Sucks to hear about the clutch. Hopefully you can get some type of resolution from the manufacturer.

[Halon]

Yeah I tried writing them again and no reply. I was writing Vinny Ten Racing though, as that's who I bought it from. Next I might just try writing the manufacturer (JWT) instead.

It's kinda funny, I purposely bought the stuff from Vinny Ten because of how much I heard them promote themselves as being the best all around 350z guys with the best knowledge and best customer service. But they sent me the wrong clutch, then asked me for more money when they realized it was the wrong clutch, finally sent me the right clutch, couldn't get me a replacement friction pad for my flywheel, and now don't reply to emails.

[Kracka]

Sounds like most shops that are the self-proclaimed experts on forums.

[goodhart]

wtf. I'd be going someplace else. If you know the part numbers, I'd just order locally.



Sounds like most shops that are the self-proclaimed experts on forums.

Vinny Ten seems like the Dave Buschur of the VQ/350Z/G world. Huge talker. But apparently not as good of customer service as Dave.

[Halon]

I'm not trying to re-order anything. I was just trying to ask if they've seen anything like this before with this clutch / flywheel arrangement, and also if they know what exactly the 'metallic' clutch disc is made of (i.e feramic?).

I'm not even sure what this new setup I'll be running uses for a clutch/flywheel setup yet. But yeah not going back there for sure.

Here's the new adapter setup I'm looking at:
http://collinsadapters.com/index.php/adaption-kits/aisin-a340-a341-bell-housing-to-nissan-350z-370z-g35-g37-vq-6-speed-transmission-adapter.html