- $1600 body kit - Versus $5500 body kit. - Does more expensive mean more better? - Let's find out. History tells us yes. (upbeat music) - We bought two identical Nissan 350Z's and we've been modifying them to be fun, daily drivers, that you
can take to the track. - One Z gets expensive parts
and one gets cheap parts. Today, we are installing body kits. I'm getting a $5500 C-West Body Kit built by the JDM gods themselves. I'm talking front bumper, rear bumper, slide it, carbon fiber hood. (imitating explosion) Side skirts. Whoa! Big 'ol, carbon fiber wing. So this kit has pretty much
everything you could ever want. Except for maybe some mirrors. So I went and bought a
set of six hundred dollar carbon fiber mirrors from Charsby. Cause Zach Jobe really
wanted them, so we had to. - Meanwhile in low car, we're installing a $300 Duraflex N1 Body Kit, okay? $300. But, it didn't come with a sweet hood or a wing like hi car's did. So we got ourselves a
gigantic Street Faction Wing and a JGTC inspired carbon fiber hood. The wing itself was $800 freakin' dollars, which makes the wing officially the most expensive thing on the car. Oh and also we got these eBay knockoff Ganador mirrors for $40 bones. The money you save in
materials, we might end up having to make up the
difference in labor, you know? - I am so stoked. - I can't imagine what
the outcome's gonna be. (cha-ching) - This is our kit, it is a C-West N1 Kit. C-West is a brand that we have known about since we were little kids
and we feel so honored that we get to put one
on a car that we own. - And honestly, I think
it's gonna fit really well. It seems really well made, it looks like it is gonna match up. It's already got holes in it, so we're a step ahead of low car there. Let's get something done first. Let's start with the hood, get it on, I think that would be nice and easy, get our juices flowing. This is gonna be a
painful day for our hands and arms, toes. - If we come out with all 10... (grunts) Off to a bad start. - All right, so, it's time
to put a body kit on our car. I've never done this before. - I've done it before,
but not to this extent. It can't be that hard. - I don't like when you say that. - I'm thinking we pull off
all the old body panels and then kind of just go at it. - Here, just keep your
hand on the bottom there, 'cause I'm telling you... - Yeah, yeah, yeah. (beep) - A journey of a thousand miles
starts with the first bolt. Dude, look, our hood is see-through. Now, that might seem
cheap, but in reality, it's very expensive. It's hard to make something
this strong, this thin. - So like this stuff looks cool. But I think a big reason
that we're doing this is for the aero-benefits that we'll get. And these vents are gonna
help the engine stay cool. The idea is that all the
air that enters through the front mouth of our
new, big, sexy bumper, goes in there, across our inter cooler, across our radiator, and out these vents. - Hi car probably has a little bit better aerodynamic principles, in theory. - Probably not worth the difference. - Yours is in? - Yep. Ooh. - Already chipped it. - A lot of the stuff you
want to pay attention to when you're fitting new
body panels are the gaps between all the other panels around it. So you want to make
sure it's nice and even, like, your passenger's
side gap is the same width as your driver's side gap. - Look, there's a fat gap on this side and then it's like super
close on the other side. - Well, you just gotta
adjust it a little bit. - We're gonna have to ricer this. - No, you just got... All right. - We could full on ricer it, you know? - What does that mean? - It means that we put in a lot of washers or a full nut on the bottom. - They're so dramatic. - So we lift the back end of the hood up. - Yeah, that's what I was thinking. - Our hood doesn't close. I'm like, yeah but there's a huge gap right here and it's
really tight over there. - Washers... - So you do like it? - Well, I don't like the name. - Ricer it. - He's like we're gonna
have to hot boy it... use hood pins. (laughs) - No, we're adjusting it to make it fit, that's what we're doing. We're not ricering it... Just call it by a different name, so it makes it sound like
we know what we're doing. - All right, we are gonna ricer this hood. - No! - Overall, for a carbon fiber
hood, this thing fits great, and we've been at it for like 15 minutes. The gaps aren't quite as tight as OEM, and even with the bump stops extended all the way on this side, it still closes a little tight over here. So, I'm really happy with this. - Dude, this thing is
really, really cool, dude. I love this guy. - Does it close? - I'm afraid to close it all the way. Well, let's give it a go. - Ready? - Yeah. (hood bams) (beep) (hood bams) - Nope. - This was the hood, this was
supposed to be the easy one. Damn, Aaron looks cool as (beep) dude. You look like a cyberpunk rebel, dude. - So I made a mark. I've gotta cut just
enough to let the latch, kind of, slide over the hood. If we go too far, we ruin the hood. (dramatic music playing) (metallic cutting) - We're gonna put that
front bumper on now. So the first thing you gotta do, when you put on a front bumper,
is take of the old one. Oh yeah, there's that
big old inter cooler. So you can see here,
this mouth on the bumper comes back very far. It looks like it's supposed
to mate up with something that the car had from the
factory, which it doesn't have anymore. Now it's got a big old
inter cooler in the way. So, most of this is
gonna need trimmed off. It's always, kind of,
nerve-wracking trimming new stuff, especially new expensive stuff. But, we're just gonna do it. (metallic cutting) (music playing) - I'm just gonna bring these in. Back to the cutting board. (metallic grinding) A little more. (metallic grinding) Let's go check. I think that's it. - Seventh time's the charm? Six time's the charm. FBOO, front bumper officially on. That's right. - Dude, I really like it. - All right, while Aaron
takes care of the hood, I'm gonna move on to the bumper removal. What do you think? - Fits just like I thought it would. - Yep. (laughs) Damn! Hell yeah, dude, this
thing is gonna look tight. - James! - Not impressed. The OEM bumper comes in, and it, kind of, contours and gives that flare look. This just looks like a giant lip. So it's just like... - James, you want to see our bumper? - Ah. - Oh my God. (metallic grinding) I'll be completely honest, I
have no idea what I'm doing. (metallic grinding) - Which isn't a surprise, at this point. But the bumper would not
fit over the brackets that held it on, because there was tons of filler in these corners. It was just pure resin that had hardened. So what I had to do is take the Dremel and just get it all out, so it could fit over those brackets. I chipped a little bit of my bumper away, and I feel like a moron. But what else is new, you know? So, I'm making a stencil. Since we don't have any
holes in our bumper, I've decided to make a
stencil out of cardboard. Which we can use to find
where the holes are at in the OEM one. And hopefully it'll match
up as well as they can. It's probably not gonna go
as smoothly as we think, you know? That's just the nature of
low car, but I'm optimistic. - It's close, but it
certainly, ain't no cigar. - Were these for a 370? - I don't think. So, our big expensive mirror doesn't fit, where it's supposed to, very well. So it's supposed to slip onto
this, the OEM mirror holder. It doesn't, so we're
gonna have to trim this to get these to fit. - That's car parts. - Yep, not that big a deal. (metallic grinding) - Okay, so that fits now, roughly. That looks awful. Look at that fitment. Something is not right here. I don't know if these
mirrors were meant for some different version, maybe
a Japanese market 350-Z, something's not right. (metallic grinding) (thud) - Oh, was that it? - Yeah. - Did you get it? - It latched. (thud) - But... Um... (thud) - Okay but then how... Are we gonna have to cut a
freakin' hole in our bumper, so we can do that? - No, it'll unlatch,
but it's not releasing so that we can actually
get our fingers in there, when you pull the latch
on the inside of the car. - Yeah, a rat's nest. So, our after market skirts didn't really come with any mounting holes drilled. So, I'm using the OEM holes and just mirroring them onto each other, making sure they're flush,
and drawing stencils. Hope that it fits. - Go up. - It's not only bowed
in, it's like pinching frame rail. So, it's not allowing
it to come up and over. It's just like (thud,
thud, thud) not gonna fit. - What's the plan here, Ian? - We have to screw it in here
and as you can see right now, this is not lining up with that. So hopefully the heat
will allow us to bend this a little bit closer
and we can screw it in. - Is it working? - It's working. It was like out here at the beginning. (music) - Well the mirror is actually gonna need a little bit more work
than I was anticipating. So, I'm gonna think about
it for a little bit, and in the meantime
we're gonna switch gears and go to the rear bumper. Because I think that should
fit without any problems because the rear's, pretty much, stock. So, let's figure out how to get the rear bumper off a 350-Z. It can't be too hard. (music playing) (grunting) - Kylo Ren, dude. (drills whirring) - I'm working on the car. So, getting ready to put
the new back bumper on. Gotta transfer over our lights. I think this is the reverse light and maybe a turn signal. And our license plate lights, gotta get that swapped over. Oh, no! This bracket is very near broken. Not that big of a deal,
probably happened in shipping or whatever. But this bracket is about to come off. So we're gonna mix up some J-B Weld and slather on. You know, J-B Weld gets
a bad rap, I think. But it's really handy stuff. - I kind of forgot until just now, how freakin' hard body work is. It's no picnic, Eddie. I think cardboard was
probably the wrong material. Have I mentioned I've
never done this before? - Yeah, no (beep), Nolan. (laughs) - There we go. My holes line up. Dude, we freakin did it, Eddie. That was a major pain,
and I'm glad it's over. We're still going. (ding) (thud) - This side is not cooperating. All right, go ahead, just make sure, ah... Just joking. - James, hey! It's me over here. - So now, I'm taking off
the stock side skirt, it, should be, be pretty easy. I think it's just a series
of clips along the top and a series of 10 millimeter
screws along the bottom. - One ratchet all day. I'd say I'm pretty ratchet. Less and less as I grow older. - 350-Z stock side skirts for sale, hit us up in the comments. - This looks like its
color matched already. Can you tell me that
that's a different color? - (laughs) That makes
the whole visualization thing so much easier. - Really cool. - I mean, I have a
really dumb imagination. - Yeah, I can't see anything. - SSOO, side skirts officially on. (ding) - Yes, fits, yes! Goes on nice. That was awesome. - Is that side done? No way! - Not bad, right? - No! It looks great! I think that looks really good. The wheel well looks great, the panel gaps aren't bad. - Not bad. - Are these on, too, the spats? - Back's good. - Whew! Dude! (ding) - Progress, man! - Yeah, we're making progress. - It's pretty good, huh? - You gotta get your little victories. - Our J-B Weld is dry enough
to start playing with. So, I'm gonna put the lights
back into the rear bumper, and then put it on. This came with hardware
and holes in the bumper where the hardware's supposed to go. So that makes it a lot easier to install, which is really helpful. So we've been, kind of,
having a breeze of a time. Where they are honestly struggling, but nice parts seem to fit. Well, so we got our rear
bumper on, that's great. Now we're gonna fight with these mirrors and get that done, and then the
icing on the cake, the wing. - Big old wing. - Big old wing. - Big old wing. - Ooh, can't wait. - Dude, I got an idea. All right, Nolan, I got a job for you. (slams car door) - I think we need the key. This car is so funny, man. Because the interior is
actually pretty nice, and then the outside, right
now, looks like hot garbage. - Dude, well, our eBay mirrors came with three wires coming out. Which is just like this
single core cheese wire and the OEM has more.
- Oh no (laughs). - So, we got Nolan in the driver's seat, he's just gonna hold the buttons and I'm probably gonna electrocute myself. So we got a voltage
reading on the blue wire when Nolan hit the up
button, so we know that that's gonna tilt the mirror
back, which is gonna go up. Purple is right, yellow is left. I'm, kind of, going out and
just guessing on this one. I'm gonna say that the white
wire is gonna be ground. Down, left, right. It's not working, Jimmy. Up, right, left. That'll work. Cool. (machines whirring) (ding) - Let's do the mirrors first,
because those are easy. - All righty, so on the
topic of the mirrors, yesterday, we trimmed up this base plate so that it would kind
of fit with the mirror. But then our holes didn't line up. So this morning, I went to Ace Hardware and then I just got done,
basically, opening up these holes. It's not that pretty, but it will work. See, look? This is okay. It's gonna be all right, eh? So we're done with this
one, and this thing's ready to go on the car. But first, let's get the
other mirror mounted to its base plate. - Ooh, that one was way off. - Let's go to the Dremel. (music playing) - Was it worth it? - I'm not sure. So they're on. They look okay. It was a bit of a battle, but they are on.
- I think they look great. - They do look pretty good. The mirrors don't adjust very far. (laughing) - I can see the side of the car. These are the (beep) $600
mirrors, I've ever installed. (ding)
- Yeah, true. - All right, I love these mirrors. They're molded in a way that make them look very alien. Which I think matches the rest of the car. The C-West kit is a very
fish-like and alien-looking kit. So, I think these are a real nice touch. It does suck that they aren't functional. Don't be offended, this
is kind of what I think your car looks like right now. - Yeah, fastest animal in
the world, the blob fish. (laughing) - Nolan, can you come
over here and hold this just like... Okay, another hair towards James. Yeah, you guys are almost there. This is called an automatic center punch. You push in, and then
it spring-loads itself and shoots into the thing. When we go to drill it, the drill's gonna wanna walk. But, with a little (click, thud) Now we can drill some
holes, mount some wings. (machines whirring) Hopefully those holes
are in the right spots. - Okay, let's try to find that first hole. Almost long enough. - How's it going, boys? - It's going, this hardware
isn't quite long enough to make it through. So, I'm gonna go back to Ace. Yeah, we just got back from Ace. I got the longer hardware
because I definitely want to avoid using a hole saw to cut. Basically this is two layers here, the top layer and then this bottom layer. - We put our holes in the right place. - We did. - I knew it was gonna be good, but I didn't know it'd be this good. - These are the end plates. They'll help with the
lateral stability of our car. There might be some people
out there rolling your eyes. But I do believe that it's true. - I agree with you, James. All these different holes give us a lot of adjustability over the angle of the wing. The steeper it is, generally
the more down force you'll get. But, you'll also get a bunch of drag. So, it's a little bit of a balancing act. That is the icing on the cake. This is why we saved this for last.
- I love it. - That is so good. - Let's quit talking
and adjust the angles, so we're like done, done. (yay) - Jealous. Thank you so much, Tony, from SoCalZ, for dropping this off. Let's take this one
nice and slow, test fit. Hey, that's not too bad. A little bit too much right there. But I think I could work
that out a little bit more and this side should be
pretty close to mounting. I think that's good. Good enough. Do the other side. Oh! (machines whirring) (whistles) Right to there. This is actually gonna work out. That fits, awesome. - You did all the work, you get the honor of closing the trunk. - First impressions on the GT wing (thud). (ding) (yay)
- Yeah, dude. - Dude, it looks mean, man. - Looks really good. - Just the rattiest track beast you could ever imagine right now. - It was not the easiest install. - Did it in a pretty timely fashion, I think, didn't you? - I mean... (music) (engine starts) - So, does more expensive
mean more better? - Yeah. - Yes, absolutely. - It was a lot of work
to get the body kit on and still not great, at all. I think it looks really
cool, but man, it was a pain. - The main difference is ease of install. - Mm-hmm. - Jobe and I used one tool. It was honestly the most rewarding day of working on cars that
I have ever experienced. And I have worked on
cars at least four days. - The biggest disappointment of the $300 body kit was, just, there
was no holes drilled in it. So, we had to figure out
everything ourselves, we had to mock it up with stencils, and keep fitting and
refitting, just making minor adjustments. Even if it just had mounting
holes, that would have been such a relief. But we had to do it all ourselves. - We have to finish all of these projects in a day or two. So if you had months
or a bunch of weekends to figure it out, I think
you could probably make your kit fit pretty well. - Yeah. It's actually not a bad choice for someone who wants to take that time
and change up their look. I think it looks pretty freakin' good. - I think it looks pretty good. But time is money, baby. - Mm-hmm. - I just made that up. - All right, let's move on to the hood. - I love it! - I love the design of it. - And it fits really well. Nolan's hood is carbon fiber laid on top of a fiber glass frame. So, it's a lot heavier than ours. - I think us having to
drill a hole in the hood for the latch to latch was definitely an engineering oversight on their part. We have to open the hood with a flathead screwdriver every time.
- Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Your hood does suck. - I don't want there to be a situation where something catches on
fire underneath the hood and then we have to solve it with a flathead screwdriver. I think it's wise to install the hood pins before we go out there. Mirrors, I would take
mine any day over the ones you...
- So would I! - Yeah, they don't even work.
- Our mirrors were $600, I can't see anything out of them. I think they look really cool. - They look amazing. - We're literally going
to a track day, Jobe is going to AutoZone to buy
one of those convex mirrors that old people have. So we can actually see behind
us and not be a danger to everybody else on the track. In this case, more expensive does not mean more better. In fact, more expensive
means more crappier. - I think the low car's
wing looks pretty great, really adds to the hole vibe of the car, is just like a rowdy hooligan. The fit of the mounting
plates onto the trunk itself is not quite as smooth as
the C-West mounting plates. - They did so well.
- They're curved and they came with a little gasket.
- So awesome. - Like a little rubber gasket
so it won't scratch the wrap. - Dude, yours is taller and wider. So, sometimes I'll look at
them parked next to each other and I'll be a little jealous. - Got wing envy. - Yeah, a little. All in all, if I had to
buy one of these kits, I would do everything else
to it, I would make it fast, I would make it stop good,
I would make it handle well, get it to the point
where I really loved it, performance wise. And then I'd save up for about six months and if I wanted to, I would
definitely buy the C-West kit. - You know what? I think I'm gonna have to agree with you. - Did I just convince you? - You've persuaded me. Putting the Duraflex kit
on, while it is a decent kit and we made it work, it
was a huge pain in the ass. I don't really want to
go through that again. - I used to look at that body
kit when I was in high school. - It does kind of look like
a blob-nosed fish though. - Nolan! Thank you so much for watching HiLow and everything else on Donut Media. Got a lot of new stuff coming out. Oh, big episode next week! As you guys probably know, Nolan had a bit of a plastidip fiasco. - Yeah, it's why the car looks like trash. - Next week, is HiLow, The Redip-tion. Speaking of new stuff,
if you haven't already, check out our new show Money Pit, hosted by Zach Jobe. - Hey, are you team hi
or are you team low? Show your freakin' allegiance with some hashtag hi and low stickers, now available on donutmedia.com. - I'm team hi. - Really? Be kind. - I love you. - See you next time. - Holla! - Whoo!
