KING OF FITMENT

video!

cheez80 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:17:53 +0000

Pancakes and Brokey33 setup a meet on VSC (totally last minute, might I add) and I swung by.

Here’s a video that Pancakes made:Quick stroll.

By the way, my plans have changed — I’m no longer getting spacers. I’m saving up for modded FLCA’s instead; this way, I’ll be able to dial in more front camber AND space out the front track, so I can go more flush without a large spacer. Awesome! I’ve already talked to Alex Pfeiffer at Battle Version about doing the work; I just need to save up some spare cash.

New tires

cheez80 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:13:18 +0000

I got new tires for the Q last week — Nankang NS-II’s in 255/35/18 for the rear. They’re freaking awesome. I was scared they’d rub and take out the fender, but they fit perfectly. I’m also picking up 15mm spacers for the front sometime soon, and fixing the ride height issues I’m having (the right side of the car is higher, for some reason — I think I was inattentive when I lowered the car last and the springs on the driver’s side have probably settled). Anyway, I found some photos of the Q online, ’cause Andrew and I decided to show up at a Sunday afternoon meet two weeks ago.

metro infiniti ftw!!!

cheez80 — Sat, 29 May 2010 00:29:21 +0000

I swung by Metro today to get an oil change. I’ve been taking the Q there for maintenance since I bought it. Today they let me hang out in the shop area with their senior tech, who walked through the inspection with me and made me aware of some of the issues — nothing major, but it’s good to know, anyway.

That was one of the best dealer service experiences I’ve had. Awesome. Take your Infiniti to Metro!

updates

cheez80 — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:27:09 +0000

I really haven’t updated at all in a long time; I’ve been busy with my personal and company lives.

Here’s what’s going on with the Q:

I bought a TPMS setup at an Autobacs in Japan last time I was there and I still haven’t installed it.

I aligned it again. The car’s rear camber is now around -6.8*. The front is still around -4*. We took the car up to Nor-Cal again and it did well.

Someone tried to break into the car last week. They used a rock. It scratched the glass pretty deeply in 3-4 places. They also destroyed the chrome trim that runs along the bottom of the glass, but from studying the FSM, it doesn’t look that hard to replace.

Other than that, the car hasn’t been changed any. I’m getting a pair of Hella yellow H3 bulbs tomorrow to replace the burnt out ones on my car. Hopefully I can get my sideskirt and chrome trim fixed soon.

sigh.

cheez80 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:14:59 +0000

I lowered the Q a bit more today, and found out how low the rear can go on Insurance Group coilovers (while only playing with the bottom shock mount adjustment), which isn’t terribly low at all. It doesn’t seem like I’ll be able to tuck wheel in the future. Too bad!

Here are some photos:

So that’s how the car sits this afternoon. I’ll be investigating ways to get it lower and if I come up with any solutions, I’ll blog about them.

sigh, broke some more things

cheez80 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:57:45 +0000

Last night, Richard and I were driving back from San Diego when we hit something (don’t know what) on the 5 freeway. It sounded like the front crossmember dropped out of the car or something, but it wasn’t that serious. My sideskirt is all messed up now, though:

This is what it’s supposed to look like:

LAWL

cheez80 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:48:22 +0000

hooray pedobear! haha

dang, fool, that shit is low (not really, but i gave it the ‘ol college try)

CAMBERSSS

does anybody else’s hood pop up like that? shit. need to get it realigned.

yay whale splooge on the faces!

yay! pedobear #2, with more bird crap

apparently, everyone’s amazed by the Q and ignoring this cherry e46 330i.

hahahaha blew a few minds yesterday

cheez80 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:23:39 +0000

I went to dinner with some friends, who all drive BMW’s. I think I might’ve been one or two of the people who didn’t drive a Euro. They had heard about my Q, but none of them had ever seen it. After having some drinks at the bar, we went to the parking garage and my trusty ol’ Q blew everyone’s mind.

I think that reaction is why I like VIP tuning — the car is so different visually from anything else on the road (it’s also totally unexpected, too — who mods such stodgy old-man cars, anyway?). If they post the photos they took on facebook, I’ll repost them here too.

Wald Bentley Flying Spur

cheez80 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:30:38 +0000

I was bored today, so I put together this quick photochop of the Wald Bentley Flying Spur.

Here’s my modded version:

Here’s the original:

It has potential, don’t you think?

new tires! yay!

cheez80 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:25:11 +0000

So, internet reports were true: Nankang’s NSII runs considerably smaller than Federal SS595. The treadwear rating is higher than the Federals too, so hopefully they’ll last longer. I bought a pair of 245/40/18 NSII’s from tires-easy; they came after a week. I had them mounted at Island Tire on Wednesday. I have about 1″ extra clearance in the fender now and the tire looks even more stretched. Yay! Next alignment, I’m going to reduce the amount of camber slightly and lower the car another inch or two. Yatta!