After a few weeks of searching I bought a vert 😢
Well, I found a decent price at least. It's a 2004 350z roadster with 62,000 miles I bought for $8k. The market is tough right now, I was looking all over the country trying to find lower miles and a coupe. That combination will land you around 15-20k. Hell, some of the cars were beat to shit and ppl were still asking insane money. If I wasn't already heavily invested into racing ASRA and coaching on sport bikes I probably would have made the jump to a more expensive model.
I've had a few Z's and G's in my youth including 2006 interlagos fire Z, a 09 370z, a 06 rev up G35 coupe and sedan (the sedan still my favorite car to date) and a G37x for my fiancé. So it is a change of pace and I think the direction I'm going is a decent route.
So far I've ordered fortune auto coils, tanabe exhaust (I'm older now, I don't like loud anymore), Enkei RPF1 wheels, and a KBD ings kit for the time being until I get a nismo V2 front sometime down the line. Also did the newer head/tail lights. Ohh yeah and akebono 370z brakes with the CZP mount kit with tech SS lines.
Future plans are up in the air, been debating a VHR swap with the stillen supercharger or a mild build on the motor with VTR and either a HKS or vortech kit. I've always loved the older stillen supercharger roots style kit for the noises it produced although it doesn't make gobs of power. I thought about turbo charging but at the end of the day I am not going to be bringing this on track or racing it on the street. I just want a super clean nice car with some power. Damn....I'm getting old. What are ppl putting down reliably on a stock block these days. I see interviews w ppl in the industry saying the stock rod holds reliability up to 360-380 HP. Then I see ppl commenting they're holding power around 500 for multiple years. I'll include some pics of my other cars also....I was young and kind of a ricer.