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

[thesilverbullet]

Still waiting on my lowers, so decided to clean up my exhaust lol - got one of the mufflers so far..

 

[beergeek]

New steering wheel…

 

[KyleWI]

I will be doing my cat back exhaust in my home garage as well. Any tips or things to watch out for?

Just did it. Installed the Borla ATAK.
It's honestly not that bad, while I had the exhaust off, I went ahead and installed Stillen Sway Bars.

However, I loved removing and installing the exhaust so much, I did it twice. The first time I did it, I must not have pushed one of the exhaust pipes "deep" enough and the exhaust was sitting high rubbing against the heat shield above the W brace.
So, the lesson is, if you can put together some of the exhaust before you have to do it all below the car, go ahead and do it. In my case, the Y pipe into the ATAK muffler preinstalled did the trick.

 

[Wangan_Z]

I will be doing my cat back exhaust in my home garage as well. Any tips or things to watch out for?

I ordered new OEM stainless cat to cat back gaskets, part number 20692-JK00B. My original ones were in good shape, but I swapped them out since I had the exhaust off anyways. I think most cat-backs don't come with them and have you re-use the originals. The old exhaust was pretty easy to get off. I used a 14mm racheting box end wrench for the tube bolts and a 12mm socket with extension to get the hangers off. The bolts are on there pretty tight, I used the "Double Wrench Method" to break them all loose

Get yourself a creeper if you don't have one. Gliding around on one of those made life a lot easier. It also helps to have a jack ready for lowering and installing the muffler. I removed mine by myself, but had my wife operate the jack when I positioned the new one since it is pretty hefty.

Invidia's system is flanged, so I didn't have any rubbing issues or major adjustments to do like you would with a slip fit system. The most consuming thing on mine was torquing the bolts. I torqued in two stages. First with a 3/8" drive torque wrench to set the tubes in position, and second with a 1/2" drive for final torque. I didn't have a lot of room to use my 1/2" drive with the car on jack stands, getting about a click with each turn. I know most people don't bother with them, but I'm an aircraft mechanic and it has been ingrained in me

 

[KrackaC8]

Still waiting on my lowers, so decided to clean up my exhaust lol - got one of the mufflers so far..

Looks great! What's your method?

 

[Ikazuchi6]

New steering wheel…

I REALLY would love to have a sick new wheel, they're just so damn expensive

 

[thesilverbullet]

Looks great! What's your method?

Finish the second one - lol

I was just messing around with it. hit the can with mothers mag polish & white diamond metal polish w/ a little elbow grease - wire brushed the welds and hand wet sanded the pipes 180\600\1000\2000 (what i had on hand).

 

[Neutr0n]

 

[ZillaZ]

New steering wheel…

Is it heated?

Really the only thing I really wish the Z had.

there is even a dead button on the right side of the steering wheel they could have used.

 

[beergeek]

Is it heated?

Really the only thing I really wish the Z had.

there is even a dead button on the right side of the steering wheel they could have used.

It’s not heated.
That’s not a feature I would use, anyway.
My hands are always hot.

 

[KrackaC8]

It’s not heated.
That’s not a feature I would use, anyway.
My hands are always hot.

I'd happily trade the pointless heated seats for ventilated ones!

 

[beergeek]

I'd happily trade the pointless heated seats for ventilated ones!

You’re in Texas.
I’m in Rhode Island.

Heated seats are wonderful when it’s 6° out, especially when remote start isn’t an option.

I would also love to have ventilated seats, though.

 

[ZillaZ]

It’s not heated.
That’s not a feature I would use, anyway.
My hands are always hot.

I hate wearing gloves and it gets cold here a lot. Holding on to a cold steering wheel sucks.

 

[Zplz]

I hate wearing gloves and it gets cold here a lot. Holding on to a cold steering wheel sucks.

Just get a cat.

 

[FSUZ33]

Lol, I put a desk chair together last night for my wife. The kind with mesh seat and back. Flipped it over onto its wheels and within 10 seconds our cat was scrunching her claws into the seat.

I have a cat. My first cat, tbh. For about 1.5 to 2 years I think.
I am still, NOT a cat person, and not sure if I will ever be.

Don't get me wrong, I do love like her. Rescued her as a tiny kitten behind our facility (work). Vet said like 3-4 weeks old. Maybe I got a defective one, idk. And maybe I'm defective, but I just can't connect with an animal that likes you 5% of the time and bites and scratches you the other 95%.