Checking my list to see if I have everything covered one week before an HPDE event on one of Phoenix’s best road courses… Got the track wheels, got the track tires, got the helmet, registration done, extra crap out of the car, fresh fluids… Something’s missing. Yep – There’s some chassis flex in the G35 […]
Do It Yourself Infiniti VQ35HR Air Filter Change
This article is to assist you in changing the air filter in a VQ35HR. Yesterday I decided to change the air filters on the Z. I had a spare hour till the GF came down so I figured this would be something I could do that would take an hour. As it turns out, I […]
Installing an Under Drive Lightweight Pulley on an Infiniti G35
This article will guide you in how to install a under drive lightweight pulley. Tools needed: 3/8″ Socket Wrench with 14mm & 12mm sockets 1/2″ Socket Wrench with 19mm deep socket Floor Jack/Jack Stands Jack your car up. Use jack stand for safety. I only raised the passenger side of my car and it was […]
When You Get Caught Between The Z and New York City
One of the continuously mysterious parts of Z ownership, for me anyway, was the almost complete absence of 350Zs from the streets of Manhattan. You can see all kinds of exotic cars in the endless streams of traffic that NY coughs up–Rollers, Peugeot, Russian stuff with DPL tags, classics, etc. but seeing a Z is […]
Z irony of it all
I recently traded my ’03 Z for an ’05 Infiniti G Coupe. On sunny Sundays, me and the Z would travel around on the back roads nearby, seeking adventure and enjoying the ride. It’s no different with the G.For the entire time I had my LeMans Sunset Z, there were only three or five others […]
Part 3 of the Fantasy Test Drive
It was five years ago, the Ides of May, when I pulled into my midnight driveway after the longest single day of travel yet. 800 miles, a record for one day behind the wheel, from Little Rock to Ocala, via Vicksburg and Chattanooga. My final mountains. The end of the Test Drive. Florida, even in […]
Part 2 of the Fantasy Test Drive
By now, a third of the way into the Marathon Test Drive of my spankin’ new ’03 350Z, I had learned a few vital things about the car. First, it attracts attention, so there is a large hubris factor in owning a small orange sports car that nobody can identify. Secondly, on these long, 600-mile […]
Part 1 of the Fantasy Test Drive
It was five years ago this week when, with a predestined wild hair making itself known, I bought my new 350Z. I traded in a perfectly good 2000 Maxima for it. It was really the first time that the dealer had a reasonable supply of new Zs, and he knew what he had; I had […]
Only Guy to Call me Dude
If you are ever in Arizona, you should go by the Grand Canyon. In April of ’03 , the Florida Z had less than 5000 miles on it when we arrived at the Canyon. It went in the unpaved North Way, along the Navajo Trail paralleling the edge, and parked itself in front of the […]
Log of The Z – Remembering the Expensive Chimichanga
I tend to write a lot of stuff about my Z. I guess because owning it suddenly put me into the Big Leagues. It was a fifty-five month period of unending adventure and oddball happenings that sharpened my appreciations and provided me with a coda for my life’s experiences thus far. Me and the Z […]