Upgrade plans for your Coupe or roadster in 2013?

[TexasZed4MC]

I was making making my upgrade list to get done before the big 3 days in March at the Circuit of the Americas. Here are the plans
1. Stainless Brake lines
2. New front rotors
3. New set of Daily wheels and tires
4. Track wheels and tires
5. Camber plates
6. Coilovers
7. New Front Sway bar
8. axel back exhaust

Big list I know and advice is welcome. Oh and of course cash donations.
I forgot just how much of this stuff I had accumulated over the years and sold with the car.

[pmmjarrett]

1). Paint. House of Kolor custom Kandy and Pearl. Something deep, rich and really pops. Old clearcoat is pitted deep on the hood and trunk (one reason I got the Z so cheap )

2). De badged

3). H&R Sport springs.

4). Windows tinted 35%

5). SSK, Clutch stop, engine and trans bushings.

[mousitch]

1. side skirts
2. RPI cans so i can swap in and out with the Eiesnmanns
3. Headers(budget dependant)
4. wider wheels(9" and 10") Love the stance my old ARC-8's had(dependant on year end bonus)

[cervasa]

coilovers
diff
wheels
trans mounts

[mickfo]

1.TCK D/A Front S/A Rear
2. TMS or equiv. Front sway (same time as suspension upgrade)
3. Powerflex RTABs (same time as suspension Upgrade)
4. Lightweight 18" wheels with PSS
5. Hamman Front bumper

items 4 and 5 may not be next year but this is a wishlist...my bro just got the tck setup on his e46 m3 and it totally transformed the car...I can't wait to feel the difference with my Mcoupe...the ride was more comfortable while being flat as possible while cornering hard...I drove his car and needed that suspension ASAP.

[ZStig]

1. Stack oil pressure gauge and Aem meth flow gauge
2. Techarbon headlights. Black inside
3. De-cat section 1
4. Lots more autocross, quarter mile runs, and maybe a trackday

[zBone]

1. Winter Wheels/Tires
2. Tint windows
3. Aftermarket summer Wheels/Tires

[inTgr8r]

How about reverse modding plans.
....I'm seriously considering going back to OE outa da box setup

[Kgolf31]

TCK DA Coilovers is the main objective

[007MCoupe]

inTgr8r - curious as to why? just curious!

I've got some things already ordered and will be procuring over the winter:

bought ready to install:
- AKG Engine and Tranny mounts
- Engine mount bracket bolts
- Powerflex FTAB/RCABs
- SS Brake lines w/ATE Super blue fluid change
- GC front sway bar (with reinforcement)
- APR Splitter

Plans for future:
- SSK
- *rear camber arms
- RTAB shim kit
- *Rear upper/inner bushings
- RSM
- *subframe bushings
- FULL fluid flush and change (oil, tran, diff)

Gotta get my baby ready for the 'Ring season opener!!!

[itdnwiwbp]

I bought the car in June and I'm getting married next year so I feel a bit of a crunch to get it to the point where I'm satisfied, though my fiancé is very reasonable and supportive so this is probably unnecessary.

What I've got done so far:

Maritime Dash/Console
Saddle Seats/Door Panels
AFE Intake
Dinan Strut Brace
BMW Carbon Rear Lip
Carbon Fiber Grill Surrounds
Stubby Antenna
RPI Skid Plates - soon to be replaced
ZHP Shift Knob
Tekarbon CF mirrors
Stromung Exhaust
CDV Delete
UUC Short Shifter
OEM Aero Side Skirts & Painted Corners
APR Front Splitter - on the agenda for today
Apex Lug Stud Conversion

Sitting at my house waiting for me to move to a place with a less severe underground garage entry:
TC Klein Smart Design D/A Coilovers & Camber Plates
Hyper Black APEX ARC-8 18x9.5et35 18x10et25
GC Sway Bar end links
Michelin PSS - will actually be ordered next month when I decide on sizing and the budget settles down a bit.

I'll probably get RE transmission mounts and new FCABs while I'm at it. Hopefully nothing else comes up... ;-)

[Finnegan]

Originally Posted by inTgr8r

How about reverse modding plans.
....I'm seriously considering going back to OE outa da box setup

I gotta think you're pulling our leg. If not, I call dibs on parts!

Plans:

Install the stuff life didn't give me time to install this year
3.91 gears
Recaro/Sparco seats
Coils (AST or KW Clubsport)
Vorshlag camber plates
Upgraded FCAB/RTAB
Tune
Respray bumper (or wrap the entire car in a new color)
Hope that Krissi doesn't want the same mods!

[itdnwiwbp]

Originally Posted by Finnegan

Hope that Krissi doesn't want the same mods![/INDENT]

LOL. I'm lucky. I've heard "you stop trying to mess with my car!" many times. Lucky cause I have a car to mod and my significant other doesn't want me messing with her's.

[Huz-Z]

My mod consists of construction of a new garage in a couple of weeks so I can store the car at my house over the winter, instead of sending it to a storage facility across town.

Once the garage is ready, I expect that I'll increase the weight of the car by about ten pounds between now and April - with wax!

[Finnegan]

Originally Posted by Huz-Z

My mod consists of construction of a new garage in a couple of weeks so I can store the car at my house over the winter, instead of sending it to a storage facility across town.

That's a pretty big mod! How's the purple paint and neon plan for it coming along--I know your neighbor is looking forward to seeing that.

Originally Posted by Huz-Z

Once the garage is ready, I expect that I'll increase the weight of the car by about ten pounds between now and April - with wax!

Originally Posted by itdnwiwbp

LOL. I'm lucky. I've heard "you stop trying to mess with my car!" many times. Lucky cause I have a car to mod and my significant other doesn't want me messing with her's.

Oh, I never mess with her car unless asked! But mods that end up on one car have a way of ending up on the other car as well.

[itdnwiwbp]

Originally Posted by Finnegan

Oh, I never mess with her car unless asked! But mods that end up on one car have a way of ending up on the other car as well.

Haha! Yeah, I'm always just spitballing. She has a ZHP and it's very fun AND comfortable...and quiet...etc, etc, etc. I'd never do anything without her consent.

[beta]

1. Autosolutions SSK.
2. 3.91 gears
3. Lightweight Wheels.

Wheels may or may not happen next year, as the ones I want are $$. I would also like to do some custom upholstery to the interior, aka a custom extended leather (make it look nice, reduce noise a bit) and maybe add a little more lumbar support to the seats. Probably also a future mod.

[Geauxkart]

Forced Induction.

[rkstar9]

Nothing saving all that money to get a Z4 M
Ideally one where you guys already put in a lot of work and dumped a bunch of money into it :P

[Huz-Z]

Originally Posted by Finnegan

That's a pretty big mod! How's the purple paint and neon plan for it coming along--I know your neighbor is looking forward to seeing that.



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LOL!!!

As the City has rejected the part of my plan that called for a crocodile-infested moat along the border with "bucko", I'll have to settle for that purple paint and neon sign.

Once the thing is built, I'll have to buy him a bag of apples and ask him how he likes 'em!

[kcdedric]

Ready to install:
- TCK D/A front S/A rear
- TCK camber plates
- TCK rear camber arms
- OEM FCABs, RE RTABs, RE mounts + reinforcements

2013 hopefully:
- Apex ARC-8 18x9.5/18x10
- Tune
- SS brake lines
- APR splitter (considering)

[Rated M Roadster]

Waiting:
-Install VF570
-Install AA headers

Planned:
-RadarMirror gauges (AFR and boost)
-Clutch... after I kill the stock one
-Roll rear fenders to dial back some camber in the rear without rubbing