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For the track attack upper control arm plate the carriage bolts are a must because of their plate design, it completely covers the bolts, so no way to tighten. But some of the others are iffy. The two I broke, didn’t need to be carriage bolts, but it would have tight if they weren’t, and the tension rod bracket was probably needed for clearance to the bushing. Their brackets could have been designed to use regular bolts if they made them a little bigger, but that’s what they went with. Over all I’m pretty happy with it and how’s it’s coming together, but there are still some improvements they could make for easier installation.

Got the subframe braces on, seemed simple but ran into some issues. Bolt to the subframe is too long, bottoming out in the brace, I cut the bolt down and used a spacer to help with alignment. Then tightening up to where it connects to tension arm bracket and snapped those bolts. Alignment from where I drilled the holes was off a little and I was over tightening them, ugh. Luckily I had two more bolts. Had to take the tension arm off to get one of the carriage bolts on. But it’s complete now, nice and sturdy.

Took the day off to work on the car. Got the front suspension almost complete. Was going to do brakes, but I didn’t get the caliper bolts, thought they came in my BBK. Got those ordered, so should get them on next weekend.

Jam nut for toe arm came in, dumb that it’s the only hardware that doesn’t come with the kit. New brake lines came in too. I might take this Friday off to finish up the suspension, and hopefully start on brakes.

Got a few more things on today. This kit has tons of adjustability, just making some initial guesses on caster, bumpsteer, etc. a little bit of a puzzle with the hardware, some things you only needed if keeping stock subframe or other stock parts. I hope to have the rest installed next weekend.

Here’s a few more pics of that plate with the impossible carriage bolts, I circled where they are. They definitely could have designed that better.

Heat advisory today, and I believe it, damn it’s hot. Started off replacing studs with APR extended studs then attaching 370Z wheel bearings to the custom spindle, did all that in the AC. Then to the outside, unboxed all the front suspension and got subframe, new plate for control arms and upper control arms up. Stupid plate was near impossible to install. It’s perfectly shaped to frame, bolt holes don’t align when carriage bolts are up, and plate doesn’t align and fit on when carriage bolts are down. Took forever halfway adjusting it, having my dad tap carriage bolts from top while I’m holding and aligning from bottom. Nightmare, but finally got it on. Hopefully the rest will go smoother. Did I mention I’m exhausted

Beautiful Z, it’s in great shape for an almost 50 year old car. I like those wheels too.

All painted. Going to do another coat of semigloss for the engine bay, but frame/fenders are ready for suspension 😁 I’m hoping to start next weekend

Got more goodies in, front and rear bad dog frame rails and a steering wheel mount for my Holley digital dash. Not sure if I’ll use it, but think it’s a viable option.

Did final scrapping and cleaning of engine bar and fender area. Dried and going to get first coat of paint on today or tomorrow.

Nice results, torque is amazing, Dyno day is always a fun day

Got on the wire wheel and went to town on the engine bay and front fender wells, prepping for paint. Need to wash it down and go over it one more time. Test painted a few spots. Also got the fender braces on, but not fully welded. Started getting a hole in the body panel, so decided to tac it and fully welded it later after some more practice, probably start practicing tig, need some gas first.

Going with a holley digital dash, this offered a blank canvas.

Nice, cool to see you didn’t waste your time making that video. Probably running 325s on the rear, and maybe even all around (still a lot of time before I need to decide on that), I’ll need those wide fenders to fit all that rubber.

Started cutting on the dash to see how it will fit, roll cage goes through it. Now I need to mock up the digital gauge display and see how it will fit. Displays is bigger than dash think it needs to Poké above dash as steering column looks to sit too close below. Too hot out, done for the day.

Started learning to weld, here’s my first tries last weekend and through today, about ready to weld on the car. Going to practice on some thinner stuff first to get more practice.

Thanks, just ordered sway bar plates from bad dog

I’m new to this platform so I don’t know anything, lol, appreciate the advice. I’ll add some bracing. I’m planning to run some big sticky tires up front, figured the assistance would be needed, this system has a dial to vary the level of assistance. We’ll see, can always switch back, I’ll hold onto the existing column for a bit just in case.

Got the steering column off and cleaned up a little bit. I’ll get the new electric power steering on soon, looks simple enough.

I don’t mess with Facebook/Instagram too much, just post occasionally, but I certainly don’t go there for technical info, that’s what the forums are for. Is there a way to get the forum hosted or accessed through an app? For example I access the370Z.com through the app Tapatalk and not the web.

Got the dash out. New dash is going to take some cutting to fit with the roll cage.

Thanks for the tip, tbh I was probably going to toss it. I haven’t been having much luck selling anything coming of the Z and don’t have much room in the garage. Only stuff I’ve sold has been off the 302 engine such as carbs and headers. I’ll make a spot and hang onto it.

Subframe and steering rack are out