bigterpsfan

I am thinking about putting side skirts on the 2009 black Z. I like the look, but don't like the ZR1 front lip so don't think I will go that route. What brand would you recommend, and what do they cost? What does it cost and what is involved to have them installed?

tt350z

carbon or painted? Also when does 198/29 meets start back up?

bigterpsfan

Painted. They are meeting in full force now.

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ProEFI

do it carbon or leave it.

LFZ

Badass Z right there.

bigterpsfan

Are those painted? What did they run painted and installed? I would do CF but nothing else on the car is CF, so I don't think it would look right.

Frans96ss

Katechs are by far the nicest ones.... Let us know if you need a set.

bigterpsfan

Can u pm me a price installed?

tt350z

Are they doing anything on Easter Sunday I might swing by with my son.

MarkC

I would highly recommend getting both the splitter and skirts covered with Xpel or the 3M product.

radchad3

I agree. I did the ventureshield and installed myself. Cheap and couldn't be happier with the result!

Bill Dearborn

I put Cianci (now a different name) fiberglass skirts on mine. I ordered them primered, painted them flat black using a SEM Trim Paint and then riveted them to the side of the car. They didn't fit exactly especially where the front fender and rocker panel meet. The fender wasn't lined up with the rocker so there was a gap between the skirt and the rocker near the place where the fender and rocker meet. I would have had to grind down the skirt or move the bottom of the fender to make it match perfectly.

First thing you should know is if you drive the car a lot they will get damaged. They are exposed to the rocks and stones thrown by the front tires and they will chip. Fiberglass are somewhat tougher than Carbon. The gel coat can get chipped and pock marked and they can look sort of bad but you can take them off add some body filler and repaint them with a rattle can. Carbon skirts will shatter if you hit anything with them. Was at an autocross where a friend hit a cone with a glancing blow that wouldn't have made a mark in the paint and his skirt went from one piece to several thousand pieces. After I added my fiberglass skirts I was at another autocross and spun the car into a bunch of tires. The tires scuffed the paint on the skirts but that was all of the damage.

Since I do a lot of track and autocrossing I get a lot of sand and stones thrown back from the sticky tires and the skirts take a direct hit from them.

If your car is a garage queen and you don't drive on streets with stones on them you probably won't get any damage.

Bill

Grim Reaper

I have the carbon ones on mine

CKSIX

Thanks Dude, did you put your black Z spokes back on your Z?

CKSIX

They are CF. Your front fenders are CF

LFZ

Rollin on black wheels and Toyos now...got a few things coming up this month and next.

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CKSIX

I thought I saw a photo of your Z with your current setup, looks great. As almost any Z with darker wheels. I'm done for awhile, I had to have the motor pulled due to a lifter fail this fall. One of my Morel lifters failed, took out my oil pump, oil cooler, bearings, cam, metal everywhere, my factory machined heads were good, the ferrea valves and guides were still good, pistons, rod, crank still good, and just lots of metal clean up. $6,400 dollors later car is running great making great power with a fully blue printed motor thanks to RPM in Garner, NC. Cause of failure not truly known, but I have a few good guesses, one being were the work was done the first time. After the heads were milled, the pushrod length may have been off causing a geometry error on the motor, then causing a set of $900 lifters to fail. Oh well.

Katech_Zach

Thank you.