The Worn Look: A Ceramic's Unfortunate Fate

As I gaze at the ceramic, it's hard to ignore its worn look. It appears that it has been subjected to a considerable amount of wear and tear, with the sight of it falling off being particularly distressing. The reason behind this unfortunate state is unknown, but it's clear that the ceramic has not been treated with the care it deserves. A year or more seems like an eternity for something as delicate as this material, and I can only imagine how disappointing it must be to see it in such a state.

The Pressure Plates: A Worthwhile Investment

The pressure plates, on the other hand, have proven to be worthwhile investments. Despite being used extensively, they still retain their effectiveness, demonstrating that sometimes, quality is worth paying for. The fact that I've had to replace them so frequently suggests that they are indeed high-quality components, capable of withstanding the demands placed upon them.

A Glimpse into the Design Process

With a little extra time on my hands, I find myself drawn to the design process. Specifically, I'm excited to tackle the task of designing a splitter for my 240Z. This project has been on my mind for quite some time, and I'm eager to bring it to life. The use of ABS plastic as the primary material will provide protection for my body kit, ensuring that damage is minimized in the event of an accident.

The Stencil Process: A Precise Approach

To achieve a precise design, I've employed a stencil process. By drilling a hole in a piece of wood and inserting a Sharpie, I'm able to create a flawless equidistant line along the bumper. This technique allows for accuracy and control, ensuring that my design meets my high standards.

The Splitter Template: A Work in Progress

With the stencil process complete, I've created a beautiful splitter template. By running it along the bumper and spraying some black paint onto it, I'm able to get a better idea of what it will look like when completed. This template serves as a trial run for my design, allowing me to refine and perfect it before moving forward.

The Side Skirts: A Potential Area for Improvement

As I work on designing the side skirts, I'm considering making them slightly less wide. While some may opt for a more aggressive design, I'm aiming for something that will complement my car's features without looking too out of place. The use of ABS plastic will provide protection and durability, ensuring that my design meets the demands of daily driving.

Collaboration with Others: A Valuable Resource

I've decided to show Nicole some ideas and get her feedback on the splitter and side skirts. Her input will be invaluable in helping me refine my designs and ensure they meet my high standards. This collaboration is a testament to the importance of seeking advice from others, even when it comes to design projects.

The Seidio 9: A Project in Peril

As I look forward to tomorrow's project, I'm reminded that some plans may not come to fruition as expected. The seidio 9, once thought to be a simple modification, has proven to be more complex than anticipated. Its mock-up in the car is still in question, and I'm eager to get started on this project.

The Training Tunnel: A Future Project

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of my upcoming projects is the training tunnel for the seidio 9. This will be a fun challenge, requiring patience and dedication to bring it to life. With its completion, I'll have a unique opportunity to test my skills and push myself to new heights.

A Final Thought

As I wrap up this article, I'm left with a sense of anticipation for the projects ahead. Whether it's designing a splitter or tackling the seidio 9, I'm excited to see where these endeavors will take me. With each step forward, I'll continue to learn and grow, refining my skills and pushing myself to new limits.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou guys have been giving me crap about my 350z not being a true missile car and me making it too nice and frankly I think most of stuff that I've done to it have been within reason until this so for whatever reason I just really wanted to be a little bit extra hot boy and I got a APR splitter for it that I'm actually gonna be fixing to this bash bar today kind of in between other stuff that we'll be doing I feel like it's gonna be one of those things that's either gonna last forever and never get destroyed or like the first event now is just gonna get completely obliterated but what I'm planning on doing is just kind of bolting it to the bash bar actually using some screws just so I don't have a Glee looking bolts going through the top do that mount it to the chassis a little bit to make it easier I think I am going to unbolt the bash bar and do it off the car and I'm also definitely going to have to trim some of the splitter so the wheel doesn't hit it when it turns out lock but zero function to this mod it is all formed but it's gonna look so cool the way that I want to mount it and make sure everything's kind of centered is kind of tricky basically what I did was kind of lay it out on the ground and I measured all the different points like here to here here to here here to here here to here tried to get it as centered as possible well because I'm drilling from the bottom there's no way that I can just like tack weld it real quick to make sure it stays in place centered I suppose I could try to like well no I can't even do that because I have to like be pulling it off and putting it on because I'm using different sized drill bits because the drill you'll understand more but anyway so what I did I try to put one piece of tape here one piece of tape here so I could split the difference drill a hole in the center of the splitter go follow this line drill a hole in the center of the batch bar and then once I have one screw in there I can kind of have it loose enough where I can pivot the splitter around and I can get it centered in relation to the other mounting points and then it should be straight and then what I'll probably do lastly is flip it upside down and take a circular saw and just trim off maybe an inch or an inch and a half off the back edge so it doesn't get caught in the wheel the way that I drilled these holes I truly don't think that the splitter is going anywhere very stable just with these couple points on the actual bash bar and then I'll probably have one two maybe three chassis points in the back section it did come with flitter rods which are kind of cool but again I don't want to drill holes in my pretty bash bar so this is pretty much how it's looking right now I guess all I really have to left to do is trim this back edge probably with a circular saw probably cut off about an inch and then I can go fix it to the car so today's main purpose isn't just toying with missile car mods that are gonna get destroyed on the very first lap out I am being joined by the one the only big boost my hair is all messed up he's gonna help me today we're gonna be banging a tunnel we're gonna have to bang the crap out of it to fit that CDO nine which you guys actually told me and I didn't even realize this it's actually a CD Oh Oh a I guess that's like the new version of the CD double or nine so it's supposed to be better did you know that yeah I didn't know that either we don't really know much about these transmissions other than their dope and sick and make you drift good so basically the process for this alberto removed the head yesterday and started cleaning through things obviously we're gonna have to do a new head gasket which isn't going to be in for a couple days so for now what we're gonna do is Mount the Collins adapter plate mount the seidio nine and then start bashing the training tunnel so we can get an idea of what we'll need to do in terms of clearance and hopefully get some measurements for the drive shaft length so I can get one of those in the process of being made so this doesn't turn into a month-long thing dude is gonna be sick what do we have here okay so this is the flywheel I don't know if I've told you guys this are not yet but we are actually going to be the test dummy for a brand new Collins get that uses a modified flywheel so we can run a 350z clutch and not have to modify the bell housing the biggest advantage to this is that the 350z clutch has a much larger surface area so in regards to pedal fuel we will get a much more aggressive clutch bite with a much softer pedal feel if we compared it to an SR clutch and it's a lot easier because we can just bolt up the CD transmission and we don't have to go and cut the bell housing which can be a pain over time have you done that before well cut up a CD or nine no oh really but it's a pain isn't it yes I don't even think we could do it I think we have to have like a machine shop do it alright oh I got it okay so that's the adapter plate right there right yes dang dude look at this flywheel I love billet stuff comes with the bolts that we need let me see that adapter plate dang alright guys one very important thing to do with these kids for alignment purposes when you're gonna put on the bolts put all the bolts in hand tight and then put them snug then proceed to actually tie in the bolts do not time in the vault if you don't have all the other bolts in first because this will probably cost you to get on this alignment issue and you can cross through it one of the bolts and then you're gonna have a bad day so it's not like when you're just putting an SR trans on an SR where you can kind of use the bolts to pull everything together you don't want to do that with these adapter plates it's just not very smart and we're going even above and beyond by doing it outside of the car so that way we can clearly see everything that's going on make sure it mates up nicely rather than trying to do it with low clearance in the transmission tunnel and make air like a little bit more difficult yeah do you hear the ocean no I put them side-by-side so you guys can get a better idea of what we're talking about about needing to bang that tunnel out because if you look the upper part of the bell housing on a cu9 is much much larger probably to accommodate for that larger clutch so as a result of that also a little bit thicker - she's got a little bit more you know bigness and obviously the main difference is that the shifter is located much farther back so that's why we were going to be using the Colin shifter to relocate it a little bit more forward so it lines up with the shifter point in the S Jessie that's a satisfying shift noise because we're still going to be needing to put the motor back on the engine stand we're not going to put the clutch on right now we're just going to kind of mock everything up just to get an idea of clearance it's just easy to do the head gasket when it's on the motor stand versus like on the ground or whatever rubber mallet also dowel pins off from the transmission and put both of them on the engine the adapter play will have holes to receive that that way aligns it properly in place so yeah just put them on the pins and then tap it probably because of the paint on the adapter plate we are having a hard time getting the dowel pins in so we're just gonna very very lightly clear and sit with a drill bit just to make sure we get a nice engagement with the dal pen we also did notice that we probably don't have a sufficient amount of heat resistant wrap around these water lines so when we do reassemble the engine I think we are gonna either coat or wrap the manifold as well as redo the water lines and put some of the like di heat resistant crazy gnarly stuff on it just to make sure we don't potentially have what could either cause a blown up engine water leak whatever you want to call it I wonder if this has something to do with my bubbles that's another thing that Brett told me that we have to do on this kit is that this how the starter bolts we should normally bolt the front of transmission torso starter you know they're gonna be like that so this kit requires you to install two studs on the plate and then if you need to drill out the threads on the starter and you're gonna use a nut on the other side so what's the purpose of that because that the starter is bolts I'm not gonna use studs coming from the adapter plate to put the starter on with that kid curious to see what my old clutch looks like oh wait I don't get it though I didn't have the clutch for that long why is it so worn look at the whole ceramic your sight it's falling off why the backside it's not too much laughs I wish I wasn't too bad but the pressure plates are was definitely how about worth as much so fast cuz I don't think I've had in more than a year you are be used to throwing I didn't feel like I did I felt like I was pretty gentle you say how do you like take all this material and just shove it to the side over there rivet yeah that's weird unfortunately we're just gonna have to leave the SSR kind of where it is and not be able to do what we wanted to do on the car we just want to confirm something with Collins and right now we're not able to get ahold of him because he's in a meeting so for now we are just going to resume this tomorrow morning I might actually though do a couple other little things now that I have a little bit of extra time I didn't plan on our last little project for the night is actually going to be designing a splitter for my 240 something that I've been wanting to do for a while I want to make them out of ABS plastic mainly to protect my body kit a lot of times it'll hit the splitter instead of cracking the bumper it'll just kind of get whatever deflected by the splitter so using the cardboard that I had from the splitter that I got for the 350z I finally have a perfect shape so I'm going to kind of show you guys how I stencil out a splitter and then kind of take it from there to a form where I can go and get it made out of ABS plastic not just anti-lock brakes I'm gonna try to be intelligent about this to get the perfect like equidistant line what's kind of funny is I think origin actually makes splitters for their kids but anyway so what I'm gonna do is kind of drill a hole in a little piece of wood right about where I want the Sharpie to be and then I will just kind of insert the Sharpie in there and we should be perfect so the idea is now I can take this piece of wood run it along the bumper and hopefully get a nice clean equidistant edge all along oh I just moved the bumper I figure probably the best bet is to make it too big at first so I just made it go all the way to the edge I think it's about an inch and a half honestly I kind of like the length I just might dial it back just a hair so it kind of carries out to this corner now we have a beautiful splitter template all we have to do is cut sprayed some black paint on it real quick to give us a better idea what it looks like as you can imagine I'm going to want to do the same thing with the side skirts in the rear bumper definitely not going to get to that tonight nor do I have enough cardboard but this will be kind of like the first little trial and error of this procedure so there we have it something that I've been wanting to do to my car since I've raised the front end so I would stop rubbing it on my fenders mind you the car is actually a bit higher than it normally is right now since there's no engine in it the car obviously doesn't settle as much when there's not all that weight in it but anyway I am kind of curious what you guys think since this isn't the final video before I go send these off to get made I'm kind of debating on maybe making them a little bit less wide I don't know I know a lot of people sometimes will do a way more aggressive than this this is maybe like I want to say an inch and a half a friend of mine who goes by the name of Eric Loomis did a very similar thing and kind of gave me the idea to do it for my kid I think his are two inches but I don't know cuz my car's not like super aggressive and doesn't have like a crazy ybn kit that might look a little funny so if you can get it accurate enough idea from looking at this let me know what you think too wide not wide enough I don't know I kind of like it I'm gonna just leave it but the ideas I'll probably try to match the same exact stick out NISS for the side skirts and the rear bumper they should flow together really nicely we go show Nicole see what she thinks and I guess I will see you guys tomorrow hopefully we'll figure some more stuff out with the seidio 9 I really want to get it mocked up in the car and start banging out that training tunnel it's good I'm just really looking forward to banging out that training tunnel it's gonna be a lot of fun so anyway guys thank you for watching and I will see you tomorrowyou guys have been giving me crap about my 350z not being a true missile car and me making it too nice and frankly I think most of stuff that I've done to it have been within reason until this so for whatever reason I just really wanted to be a little bit extra hot boy and I got a APR splitter for it that I'm actually gonna be fixing to this bash bar today kind of in between other stuff that we'll be doing I feel like it's gonna be one of those things that's either gonna last forever and never get destroyed or like the first event now is just gonna get completely obliterated but what I'm planning on doing is just kind of bolting it to the bash bar actually using some screws just so I don't have a Glee looking bolts going through the top do that mount it to the chassis a little bit to make it easier I think I am going to unbolt the bash bar and do it off the car and I'm also definitely going to have to trim some of the splitter so the wheel doesn't hit it when it turns out lock but zero function to this mod it is all formed but it's gonna look so cool the way that I want to mount it and make sure everything's kind of centered is kind of tricky basically what I did was kind of lay it out on the ground and I measured all the different points like here to here here to here here to here here to here tried to get it as centered as possible well because I'm drilling from the bottom there's no way that I can just like tack weld it real quick to make sure it stays in place centered I suppose I could try to like well no I can't even do that because I have to like be pulling it off and putting it on because I'm using different sized drill bits because the drill you'll understand more but anyway so what I did I try to put one piece of tape here one piece of tape here so I could split the difference drill a hole in the center of the splitter go follow this line drill a hole in the center of the batch bar and then once I have one screw in there I can kind of have it loose enough where I can pivot the splitter around and I can get it centered in relation to the other mounting points and then it should be straight and then what I'll probably do lastly is flip it upside down and take a circular saw and just trim off maybe an inch or an inch and a half off the back edge so it doesn't get caught in the wheel the way that I drilled these holes I truly don't think that the splitter is going anywhere very stable just with these couple points on the actual bash bar and then I'll probably have one two maybe three chassis points in the back section it did come with flitter rods which are kind of cool but again I don't want to drill holes in my pretty bash bar so this is pretty much how it's looking right now I guess all I really have to left to do is trim this back edge probably with a circular saw probably cut off about an inch and then I can go fix it to the car so today's main purpose isn't just toying with missile car mods that are gonna get destroyed on the very first lap out I am being joined by the one the only big boost my hair is all messed up he's gonna help me today we're gonna be banging a tunnel we're gonna have to bang the crap out of it to fit that CDO nine which you guys actually told me and I didn't even realize this it's actually a CD Oh Oh a I guess that's like the new version of the CD double or nine so it's supposed to be better did you know that yeah I didn't know that either we don't really know much about these transmissions other than their dope and sick and make you drift good so basically the process for this alberto removed the head yesterday and started cleaning through things obviously we're gonna have to do a new head gasket which isn't going to be in for a couple days so for now what we're gonna do is Mount the Collins adapter plate mount the seidio nine and then start bashing the training tunnel so we can get an idea of what we'll need to do in terms of clearance and hopefully get some measurements for the drive shaft length so I can get one of those in the process of being made so this doesn't turn into a month-long thing dude is gonna be sick what do we have here okay so this is the flywheel I don't know if I've told you guys this are not yet but we are actually going to be the test dummy for a brand new Collins get that uses a modified flywheel so we can run a 350z clutch and not have to modify the bell housing the biggest advantage to this is that the 350z clutch has a much larger surface area so in regards to pedal fuel we will get a much more aggressive clutch bite with a much softer pedal feel if we compared it to an SR clutch and it's a lot easier because we can just bolt up the CD transmission and we don't have to go and cut the bell housing which can be a pain over time have you done that before well cut up a CD or nine no oh really but it's a pain isn't it yes I don't even think we could do it I think we have to have like a machine shop do it alright oh I got it okay so that's the adapter plate right there right yes dang dude look at this flywheel I love billet stuff comes with the bolts that we need let me see that adapter plate dang alright guys one very important thing to do with these kids for alignment purposes when you're gonna put on the bolts put all the bolts in hand tight and then put them snug then proceed to actually tie in the bolts do not time in the vault if you don't have all the other bolts in first because this will probably cost you to get on this alignment issue and you can cross through it one of the bolts and then you're gonna have a bad day so it's not like when you're just putting an SR trans on an SR where you can kind of use the bolts to pull everything together you don't want to do that with these adapter plates it's just not very smart and we're going even above and beyond by doing it outside of the car so that way we can clearly see everything that's going on make sure it mates up nicely rather than trying to do it with low clearance in the transmission tunnel and make air like a little bit more difficult yeah do you hear the ocean no I put them side-by-side so you guys can get a better idea of what we're talking about about needing to bang that tunnel out because if you look the upper part of the bell housing on a cu9 is much much larger probably to accommodate for that larger clutch so as a result of that also a little bit thicker - she's got a little bit more you know bigness and obviously the main difference is that the shifter is located much farther back so that's why we were going to be using the Colin shifter to relocate it a little bit more forward so it lines up with the shifter point in the S Jessie that's a satisfying shift noise because we're still going to be needing to put the motor back on the engine stand we're not going to put the clutch on right now we're just going to kind of mock everything up just to get an idea of clearance it's just easy to do the head gasket when it's on the motor stand versus like on the ground or whatever rubber mallet also dowel pins off from the transmission and put both of them on the engine the adapter play will have holes to receive that that way aligns it properly in place so yeah just put them on the pins and then tap it probably because of the paint on the adapter plate we are having a hard time getting the dowel pins in so we're just gonna very very lightly clear and sit with a drill bit just to make sure we get a nice engagement with the dal pen we also did notice that we probably don't have a sufficient amount of heat resistant wrap around these water lines so when we do reassemble the engine I think we are gonna either coat or wrap the manifold as well as redo the water lines and put some of the like di heat resistant crazy gnarly stuff on it just to make sure we don't potentially have what could either cause a blown up engine water leak whatever you want to call it I wonder if this has something to do with my bubbles that's another thing that Brett told me that we have to do on this kit is that this how the starter bolts we should normally bolt the front of transmission torso starter you know they're gonna be like that so this kit requires you to install two studs on the plate and then if you need to drill out the threads on the starter and you're gonna use a nut on the other side so what's the purpose of that because that the starter is bolts I'm not gonna use studs coming from the adapter plate to put the starter on with that kid curious to see what my old clutch looks like oh wait I don't get it though I didn't have the clutch for that long why is it so worn look at the whole ceramic your sight it's falling off why the backside it's not too much laughs I wish I wasn't too bad but the pressure plates are was definitely how about worth as much so fast cuz I don't think I've had in more than a year you are be used to throwing I didn't feel like I did I felt like I was pretty gentle you say how do you like take all this material and just shove it to the side over there rivet yeah that's weird unfortunately we're just gonna have to leave the SSR kind of where it is and not be able to do what we wanted to do on the car we just want to confirm something with Collins and right now we're not able to get ahold of him because he's in a meeting so for now we are just going to resume this tomorrow morning I might actually though do a couple other little things now that I have a little bit of extra time I didn't plan on our last little project for the night is actually going to be designing a splitter for my 240 something that I've been wanting to do for a while I want to make them out of ABS plastic mainly to protect my body kit a lot of times it'll hit the splitter instead of cracking the bumper it'll just kind of get whatever deflected by the splitter so using the cardboard that I had from the splitter that I got for the 350z I finally have a perfect shape so I'm going to kind of show you guys how I stencil out a splitter and then kind of take it from there to a form where I can go and get it made out of ABS plastic not just anti-lock brakes I'm gonna try to be intelligent about this to get the perfect like equidistant line what's kind of funny is I think origin actually makes splitters for their kids but anyway so what I'm gonna do is kind of drill a hole in a little piece of wood right about where I want the Sharpie to be and then I will just kind of insert the Sharpie in there and we should be perfect so the idea is now I can take this piece of wood run it along the bumper and hopefully get a nice clean equidistant edge all along oh I just moved the bumper I figure probably the best bet is to make it too big at first so I just made it go all the way to the edge I think it's about an inch and a half honestly I kind of like the length I just might dial it back just a hair so it kind of carries out to this corner now we have a beautiful splitter template all we have to do is cut sprayed some black paint on it real quick to give us a better idea what it looks like as you can imagine I'm going to want to do the same thing with the side skirts in the rear bumper definitely not going to get to that tonight nor do I have enough cardboard but this will be kind of like the first little trial and error of this procedure so there we have it something that I've been wanting to do to my car since I've raised the front end so I would stop rubbing it on my fenders mind you the car is actually a bit higher than it normally is right now since there's no engine in it the car obviously doesn't settle as much when there's not all that weight in it but anyway I am kind of curious what you guys think since this isn't the final video before I go send these off to get made I'm kind of debating on maybe making them a little bit less wide I don't know I know a lot of people sometimes will do a way more aggressive than this this is maybe like I want to say an inch and a half a friend of mine who goes by the name of Eric Loomis did a very similar thing and kind of gave me the idea to do it for my kid I think his are two inches but I don't know cuz my car's not like super aggressive and doesn't have like a crazy ybn kit that might look a little funny so if you can get it accurate enough idea from looking at this let me know what you think too wide not wide enough I don't know I kind of like it I'm gonna just leave it but the ideas I'll probably try to match the same exact stick out NISS for the side skirts and the rear bumper they should flow together really nicely we go show Nicole see what she thinks and I guess I will see you guys tomorrow hopefully we'll figure some more stuff out with the seidio 9 I really want to get it mocked up in the car and start banging out that training tunnel it's good I'm just really looking forward to banging out that training tunnel it's gonna be a lot of fun so anyway guys thank you for watching and I will see you tomorrow\n"