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The Z-Tune is finally HOME - After the what felt like an eternity of waiting the car has arrived in showroom condition. Some of you may have even seen it at GT-R Festival! Thank you to those who did stop by our stand to say hello!

Our guys will be in soon to polish & protect it up to 110%.

Here are some photos in the meantime straight off the truck and into our workshop.

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Stunning - car looks amazing team - well done - a great outcome and another incredible restoration by Omori factory. 

How were they with the restoration - did you get much choice on what you wanted to do with it, or was it largely a refresh and refurb?

Great collectors car that hopefully gets to see more shows and driven a bit. Well done.

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12 hours ago, Links said:

Stunning - car looks amazing team - well done - a great outcome and another incredible restoration by Omori factory. 

How were they with the restoration - did you get much choice on what you wanted to do with it, or was it largely a refresh and refurb?

Great collectors car that hopefully gets to see more shows and driven a bit. Well done.

Nismo were fairly lenient on what options we had, though we let them make the majority of the decisions - after all, it is a Nismo restoration. We did convince them to let us change the colour, add the Nismo Carbon Intake Piping Kit - but didn't allow us to add the Nismo Carbon Airbox.

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11 minutes ago, profaine said:

Seems odd to not be able to change the airbox, I am sure they have their reasons!

Yep! Could be anything. As far as we are concerned it's literally the exact same thing, just in carbon fiber.

2 hours ago, VSpecPerformance said:

Yep! Could be anything. As far as we are concerned it's literally the exact same thing, just in carbon fiber.

Exactly - which does make it hard to justify for us non z tune owners haha

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Fascinating they are extremely flexible on some fronts, but on others are quite strict - makes you wonder why... I'll try and track it down, there was a great blog from someone recently describing the whole process they went through getting their R34 refreshed.

Aki from http://www.r33gt-r.com/ is just getting his R33 GT-R done and dropped it off in June. He has expressed the same challenge around not having much information of the process while it is going on - so you are not the only ones.

We can only dream, even just the thought of shipping + refresh + shipping back makes it a costly exercise.

 

 

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24 minutes ago, Links said:

Fascinating they are extremely flexible on some fronts, but on others are quite strict - makes you wonder why... I'll try and track it down, there was a great blog from someone recently describing the whole process they went through getting their R34 refreshed.

Aki from http://www.r33gt-r.com/ is just getting his R33 GT-R done and dropped it off in June. He has expressed the same challenge around not having much information of the process while it is going on - so you are not the only ones.

We can only dream, even just the thought of shipping + refresh + shipping back makes it a costly exercise.

 

 

http://www.bnr34gt-r.com/ ? This is quite an informative blog regardless of whether this is the one you were thinking of!

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45 minutes ago, profaine said:

http://www.bnr34gt-r.com/ ? This is quite an informative blog regardless of whether this is the one you were thinking of!

That's the one - a great read - thanks Peter.

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On 06/08/2019 at 2:56 PM, Links said:

Fascinating they are extremely flexible on some fronts, but on others are quite strict - makes you wonder why... I'll try and track it down, there was a great blog from someone recently describing the whole process they went through getting their R34 refreshed.

Aki from http://www.r33gt-r.com/ is just getting his R33 GT-R done and dropped it off in June. He has expressed the same challenge around not having much information of the process while it is going on - so you are not the only ones.

We can only dream, even just the thought of shipping + refresh + shipping back makes it a costly exercise.

 

 

Thank you for that link! We didn't hear much about the entire process apart from questions here and there to confirm various aspects. It definitely was a costly exercise. 

On 06/08/2019 at 3:21 PM, profaine said:

http://www.bnr34gt-r.com/ ? This is quite an informative blog regardless of whether this is the one you were thinking of!

A good read. Thank you.

On 06/08/2019 at 6:48 PM, jmknights93 said:

Any chance of those images in high res? A new desktop background would be cool.

Sure! let me know which one you want and I'll email it to you. Don't forget to give me your email! :)

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Those strut tops that allow you to adjust the suspension from the top as per your pics.. What are they called?

I can't find them anywhere :(

 

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Would really love to know their reasoning for wrapping the strut towers in carbon. It's doing nothing for strength/rigidity, so I feel it can only be a looks thing... but thats an odd place to start doing stuff in carbon.

4 hours ago, Unzipped Composites said:

Would really love to know their reasoning for wrapping the strut towers in carbon. It's doing nothing for strength/rigidity, so I feel it can only be a looks thing... but thats an odd place to start doing stuff in carbon.

tbf it seems like its the only part of the engine bay metal that you can see

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57 minutes ago, GTofuS-T said:

tbf it seems like its the only part of the engine bay metal that you can see

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Sure, but if it's a wank factor thing then there's plenty of other stuff there that they could have done - fuse box cover, washer bottle, rad shroud, etc. Strut towers are an odd place to start, especially considering it isn't really a bang up job either, it's a little bit rough compared to how gorgeous the rest of the car is.

 

I'm sure they had a reason, it just isn't obvious to me and I'd love to know what the Nismo designers were thinking with it.

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