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Today I worked on removing unused wiring. I decided to move the fuse panel that is located by the driver's feet to the center of the car. It is very difficult to access and is in the way since I have a roll cage, so moving it to the center will help. It looks like a big mess, I still must untangle all of the wires. The good news is that the car starts and runs with no problems!

Today I finally concentrated on cleaning up the wiring. I removed all of the wiring for the heater/ac and radio so far, but since I must follow every wire back to it's source and depin them from the harness, it is a very slow job! I am about halfway finished, and the good news is the car still starts without any new problems or codes.

Another thing you might notice from the picture is that my instrument cluster had to be moved closer to the driver. Once I welded in the front dash bar, the mounting points for the cluster were blocked. I had to modify the mounting bracket and move the cluster about 2 inches closer to the driver. I also removed the cluster outer cover. I may be replacing the cluster with a RacePak digital combination gauge very soon.

I also completed the rear wing chassis mount and trunk lid modification. I removed the trunk lid hinges, latch and also cut out all of the trunk lid inner structure. It is now just a shell. I then welded plates to the trunk floor on the frame and made a structure from tube to mount the rear wing to. This will allow full the down force created by the rear wing to press the rear of the car down, and not lose any force through the body panels. The wing was previously mounted to the trunk lid, which is not very effective.



The trunk lid no longer uses the hinges or latch, and now comes completely off and is secured with 4 Aerocatch hood pins. I will be adding a welded in rear strut tower bar that is tied into my rollcage. Once that is completed, I will also add bracing from the rear wing mount to the rear strut tower bar, which should make everything much more solid and unified.

This weekend I removed the rear window so I could weld some of the x-brace that I could not access. Now that the rear window is removed, I will use it as a template and replace the glass with Lexan. It should save a little weight.

I also started fabricating the chassis mount for the rear wing. I welded plates to the trunk frame rails to reinforce the structure. The trunk are has been cut up to allow for bracing. I also removed all of the inner trunk structure, the hinges, struts and latch. The trunk skin will be held on by Aerocatch hood pins and be completely removable once finished.

My G35 is completely a track car now and has a full 6 point roll cage welded in it. There was 2 areas though that I have wanted to modify, and finally decided to fix them.

The front of the roll cage did not have a dash bar, and instead tied into the large front brace that is installed from the factory. I removed the large factory front brace and installed a dash bar onto the roll cage. This also meant that the mounting points for the steering assembly had to be modified, since they were attached to the large factory front brace. I also had to modify the instrument cluster mounting. Luckily I will not be using the factory dash any longer, but now I have a lot of wiring to remove from all deleted parts (airbags, radio, ac/heater, etc).

This picture is when I was test fitting the new dash bar. The large factory bar is still in place... I need to take a picture of the deleted factory bar and the new dash bar fully welded in.



The second area was that required modification was in the rear. I wanted to include an x-brace between the 2 rear support bars to increase the cage strength and the rear rigidity.