What did you do with your Z today? 🙋🏻‍♂️

[KrackaC8]

Yes!

A railroad crossing is always a good tell to judge cowl shake. The improvement in that was night & day after installing a similar chassis brace on the S2000 (Spoon X-brace).

The ease [or not] of installation will also let you know if your chassis is still straight or if it's gotten tweaked. Again, very noticable when installing similar on S2000's and Evo 8/9's.

 

[HuskeRZ34]

A railroad crossing is always a good tell to judge cowl shake. The improvement in that was night & day after installing a similar chassis brace on the S2000 (Spoon X-brace).

The ease [or not] of installation will also let you know if your chassis is still straight or if it's gotten tweaked. Again, very noticable when installing similar on S2000's and Evo 8/9's.

Looks like this YouTuber was thinking what we are and just did it!

 

[HuskeRZ34]

Looks like this YouTuber was thinking what we are and just did it!

The link still works.

 

[KrackaC8]

Looks like this YouTuber was thinking what we are and just did it!

Nice! Got it saved and will watch it this evening over a cold beer after the NASCAR races.

 

[KrackaC8]

Please share you thoughts on how it feels! I’ll be curious if it stiffens it up a lot and makes the car feel more playful and easy to rotate?!

Back from my test loop! Noticeably less floatiness during high-speed cornering and less random jittering over bumps, railroads tracks, bridge expansion joints, etc. Sharper turn-in requiring less micro-adjustments mid-corner. Best way to describe it is the chassis is stiffer with less flex letting the springs do the work instead. No creaks or rattles; car feels solid.

I plan to install the rear chassis brace after the springs since it'll require an alignment afterward.

Starting to ponder whether or not I even need these springs now, though...

 

[HuskeRZ34]

Nice! Got it saved and will watch it this evening over a cold beer after the NASCAR races.

He also has a pointer on the rear one with the alignment issue you mentioned in the next post!

 

[KrackaC8]

He also has a pointer on the rear one with the alignment issue you mentioned in the next post!

Might give it a try tomorrow before the springs. Any alignment gurus know if it will matter if I have the rear on jackstands vs. ramps?

 

[Drago86]

Wonder if this is related to the recent rogue bearing failure recall…. Nissan is calling this defective bearings? Or is it really combo of 0w-20 + high engine oil temps?

The fix is to reprogram the ecu to lower the engine oil temp. alarm - lol. Same thing just happened to chevy silverado’s 5.3L - their fix was to change from 0w-20 to 0w-40…

Interesting info, thank you. I wonder why they doubled down on 0w-20 and changing the high temp warning instead of switching to a thicker oil...

 

[KrackaC8]

Interesting info, thank you. I wonder why they doubled down on 0w-20 and changing the high temp warning instead of switching to a thicker oil...

Changing oil weight requires EPA recertification. GM was forced to do it because their modern GenV V8 bearings are complete junk.

 

[5amp5on]

Changing oil weight requires EPA recertification. GM was forced to do it because their modern GenV V8 bearings are complete junk.

It will be interesting if we see 2027 models coming out with higher base weight oil recommendations now that the draconian cafe standards of 2020-2024 era have been rescinded. That will tell us all what was really going on.

I know that there will be no more of the stop start nonsense according to multiple reports.

 

[KrackaC8]

It will be interesting if we see 2027 models coming out with higher base weight oil recommendations now that the draconian cafe standards of 2020-2024 era have been rescinded. That will tell us all what was really going on.

I know that there will be no more of the stop start nonsense according to multiple reports.

Stop/start will not change on existing models nor will oil viscosity recommendations. Full refreshes will vary based on company and their political outlook.

 

[thesilverbullet]

Interesting info, thank you. I wonder why they doubled down on 0w-20 and changing the high temp warning instead of switching to a thicker oil...

anything to cater to emissions / fuel economy and like kracker said - they would have to do something. nissan doesn’t have GM money / inside track to pencil-whip thru the red tape.

 

[KrackaC8]

Might give it a try tomorrow before the springs. Any alignment gurus know if it will matter if I have the rear on jackstands vs. ramps?

Done! Easy. I used a silver Sharpie to mark the bolts to ensure they didn't move.

 

[Zplz]

Back from my test loop! Noticeably less floatiness during high-speed cornering and less random jittering over bumps, railroads tracks, bridge expansion joints, etc. Sharper turn-in requiring less micro-adjustments mid-corner. Best way to describe it is the chassis is stiffer with less flex letting the springs do the work instead. No creaks or rattles; car feels solid.

I plan to install the rear chassis brace after the springs since it'll require an alignment afterward.

Starting to ponder whether or not I even need these springs now, though...

Glad to hear they make an improvement you can notice. Thanks for the update.

 

[traska_rz34]

I have no idea why but I’ve really started to consider getting a Seibon CF hood. I’m not even big into carbon but I think the look would be great on mine.