BASH BARS!! 350z Gets DRIFT Ready

I don't take no chances, fill up all the blanks with lemon-sprinkled ice Please don't ask me twice, rhythm got me bouncing, bottles got me crashing Don't you know, don't you know That I'm just in it for the thrill of it I just wanna get the hang of this And I know there is no cure We're moving to a drowning idea I'm just in it for the thrill of it I just wanna get the hang of this And I know there is no cure Drowning idea I'm just in it for the, just the highlight Drift in the highlight I still can't believe that's my car Look at it Dang girl I still can't believe I have a hot pink car I have wanted an all pink car for so long I feel like since I was a little girl, no joke And I always almost did it And I just never actually did it So I'm still freaking out every single day when I come and see this car I love it I still feel like the color can't be perfectly portrayed on video I just still feel like it's really hard for you guys to see like all of the pearl And the sparkle in it when the sun hits it just right I'm so happy with how the color turned out It's officially Barbie pink And now I can start to get this girl ready to tear up the track again Which brings me to today Obviously you saw all the marks that I had to fix on the sides here with Bondo I would say Adam did an okay job fixing his bad door here You can see the marks from when we stud pulled this door out But this was really bad, like this was all the way sunken in So I would say improvement definitely made But obviously it's not perfect And again, it's just gonna get hit right away So I didn't want to spend a lot of extra time making it perfect just for it to get hurt again But next time on track, I'm gonna have some health Which brings me to today's video I'm finally installing some bash bars on this car to turn it into a proper drift car And guess what? They're already painted They're already powder coated actually The color that I wanted And I'm freaking out because they look amazing They look better than I thought they would And it's gonna go with this pink car so well I'm seeing the bash bars for the first time next to the car And I freaking love it The colors look so good Oh my gosh I love it I don't even know if the camera can focus on all of this neon that's happening Holy crap It looks so good Wow If you've been on the channel for a while, you knew I was gonna throw some neon yellow on this Neon yellow, fluorescent yellow Whatever you want to call it That's my jam Ever since I started racing, I've always had neon yellow somewhere on all of my cars And I think this is going to look insane Oh my gosh, look at that I got this powder coated too so this is gonna last Hopefully through a lot of abuse Wow Such a good combo So if you don't already recognize my bash bars I partnered with True Focus Fab for bash bars all around my car So I already knew that they had the front and rear ones I really like their design for the front I decided to get it with their gussets That I feel like they're known for I don't know, I feel like you don't see the gussets on a lot of bash bars And I'm obsessed with gussets, dimple dyes, all of it If you guys have been here for a while, you will know that I spent days Cutting out gussets for the cage on a three-roader car I would mock them up and just was dimple dyeing all day long So you know when I saw their bash bars, I was like You get me, I gotta work with you This is the front bash bar by them This is the rear, which of course, look at all these dimple dyes I love it, I love all the extra flair on this And it has a super sick jack point with their logo in the center One thing that is new that they didn't have when I first reached out Was side bash bars And if you guys have seen even my first track day with Adam I gotta have bars on the side, I gotta protect my car We're gonna be hitting doors, tapping doors, whatever you wanna call it This is a practice car, I'm gonna be driving hard And I couldn't be the only one without side bars So True Focus Fab whipped some up for me and made some So now you guys can get them as well But I think this is probably the very first one by them And I love it, and of course, look, look at the back here It's wrapped right now but you'll see it In the bag, we got our dimple dyes I love them, I love them so much So that is what I'm gonna do for the bash bars I got front, rear, and bars on each side So I can tan them to my little heart's content And get some revenge for all the marks that have been put on this car before I'd already sent them out to get powder coated Just so that I can install them as soon as possible I'm gonna move the car inside and take the front and rear bumpers off to start on the install I just was really, really excited and I wanted to show you guys everything in the sun So you can see the colors and how they popped I love it, shout out and thank you again to True Focus Fab For not only the front and rear bash bars That are amazing and I'm really a big fan of the design But also for whipping up these sick side bars I'm really excited to get all this stuff unwrapped too To show you guys because these are so extra in the best way I love it Oh and I will have to cut the front bumper Before I go inside, I will show you Adam's car Because that is most likely what I'm gonna end up doing for my car Cutting the front a little bit You can see that he kept a little bit of the front bumper Just this small, small piece right here Kept that and I think it makes it look a lot better Because I want to show off my bash bars I don't want to run a front bumper I'm gonna try and run the rear I should be able to, I'm looking at Adam's car right now But the rear is definitely gonna have to be cut a little bit Because I want to show some of that bar I don't know, I like the whole aggressive race car look that it gives So this is what I think I'm gonna be doing I think I'm actually gonna test fit this once I get my bars on That is the plan for the front Looking at my car too from far away It just looks so good, I'm walking back towards it Another shot in the sun Look at that! Dang! Gosh, such a good combo I'm really glad that the pink ended up being slightly darker Than I initially thought it was gonna be Because I think it contrasts a lot better With the neon yellow bash bars I love that! All the bash bars are in the shop right now around the car So I want to show you the vision Whatcha working on? I don't know what I'm doing It's embarrassing I don't know how to properly bend things So I bent it with a hammer and heat I'm trying to make a bracket Well in theory putting on bash bars is supposed to be really easy But clearly this was broken And probably from when we crashed into each other twice Your zip ties did a good job I just am worried on this side Because it's kind of like a lateral thing That they're still gonna sag down So you're making a bracket! Yeah, right here Just drilling holes in my car I've learned to be really careful Drilling by condensers and radiators Because I've definitely punctured a few Is this that LZ custom fab? Let me just rattle can it neon yellow With a bunch of flake Then it'll be up to spec for you Yeah, that'll be good So yeah, we're gonna be spending some time Trying to get this far enough along Where we're at least confident That it's gonna stay And then put the front bash bar on Is that legit? Legit enough Damn, look at that LZ fab spec It helps It'd probably be ideal to put another bracket here I'm just worried about that coolant line Hitting that pulley again more than anything If anyone else wants this for their Crash 350z radiators Go to LZMFG.com and buy your own Also, with my car And Alberto's car in the shop Look how much color Is it making you uncomfortable? How does the factory crash bar fit? That's what I want They might have bent that Look at the mounts That's way easier to bend Because this is like You did half inch off Oh god Push it up, let me see how far off it is It's frame rails bro This sucks You wanna talk about it? Show it This is really sad Apparently the frame rail is too Messed up to just have this be easy Like it's supposed to be And just bolt straight on Because If you look, it's about Half an inch Away from where it's supposed to be It's supposed to bolt in right there It's loosely bolted on the other side And watch, as we get Closer, boom That's where it's supposed to bolt up to And that's where the hole's at, yay We have two options We can either try to ratchet Sharp the frame rails together Or we can Oval out the holes on the Bash bar a little bit I think there's enough room to make it work We're gonna try And see if we can use a ratchet strap To maybe pull these two together I just think it's gonna go right back Well, some of it should at least stay Oh yeah, it's moving a lot Actually I assume even though it's gonna rebound back out It'll at least have stayed a little bit So pulling the front in Did work a tiny bit So if you can see it now It at least When I hold it up You can at least see where the hole is supposed to be Versus before you couldn't see it at all So that's a good sign But it's still not enough So Bolted it in on that side And then what are we doing? We're gonna ratchet strap it? You're making it seem like everything we do is so ghetto It's not, okay, have you Obviously you haven't watched any of my videos This is not The ghettoest thing I've done We're getting creative because this sucks Can I point something out here? We are choosing to, rather than ovaling out the holes Because she doesn't want to mess up the pretty yellow paint Yeah We're pulling her frame rails together Sounds right See how hopefully that'll work And then when it's pulled in Just throw some bolts in there and tighten it up Oh no, worst case we'll oval out the holes It's not that big of a deal I'd rather not Also I can kind of see how it's gonna look though coming together And it looks amazing Look at it So good, look at that Oh I love all the gussets Dimple dies for life All right, so this was really close We are so close It's annoying I can almost get this bolt in But now Every time he keeps pulling that The wheel moves a little bit And kind of like undoes Any progress that we make So we're gonna try this again But this time I'm gonna pull forward And have the wheel, I just don't know So it sort of braces itself And hopefully reduces that movement Or prevents it Then we're gonna have a bigger strap And then hopefully we can just get that extra little bit That we need Oh my god Ma'am, ma'am, you have four bolts All good Yay Wow At least we don't have to sacrifice the bolts Look at this and laugh before we undo it Hey, you know what, anyone can laugh But this worked This was a genius idea And didn't even have to sacrifice a bolt I totally thought we'd have to sacrifice Like the top or the bottom Or a combination of the two Got you, with that fresh new hardware Dang Spicy Wow, I can't believe this worked No, I didn't break it, it worked Look Success This little contraption Oh my god, it pulled that much Yes, it worked though Wow, I'm still just mind blown that that worked And I got all four bolts in somehow without ovaling them out Literally, she didn't want us to oval out the holes So we had to wrap the strap or frame Around us together Because of the paint, bro, look at the paint You don't oval that out unless it's like a last resort I might need a new alignment But Worth it If I need another alignment, that's fine Look at that And again, that is not normal, none of this is normal This is supposed to be really fast Bolt on, and it probably will be for you If you get this setup from True Focus Fab However, do not Every Z might be crashed So you might be screwed on that part But, if your Z maybe wasn't A former drift car, maybe you'll have a lot better Luck than me, and The frame rails won't be messed up, but We made it work, and it looks so good I'm hoping this is the hardest part And we just did it, so I want to do the front cutout piece like yours But I love, love The dimple dies, the dust it's showing So, I don't know, we can just test fit yours These are my thoughts, but it's the most work I think what would look best I think, they need bumper cuts Because the problem is the headlights So it looks cheap and junk Now, mine is cool, but It comes down a little bit, and then goes here So it might cover a little bit of this, we'll test fit it Ideally, I think what would look best on yours Would be to just keep this line From headlight to headlight But the problem with that is, you're going to basically Cut the front emblem in half And it's going to look weird, because you won't be able to run a Z emblem Do you know what I mean? So I think we take mine off my car, which will take two seconds And fold it up on here, and see what it looks like It might look cool having this subtle and recessed Because it will be one of those things Like, ooh What's she got in there? A little thong line showing Wow, that is not my, wow My car's thong line Oh my gosh It's like when you're driving, and you see colored Control arms under a car, and you're like, oh Maybe it's got some suspension work done These bash bars look so amazing I love them Oh, you will have to move This air temp sensor Because it kind of hits the top, but Where it's connected anyway, it's connected in by Two studs, so I'm just moving it to the bottom one And putting a nut back in, and then That's fine That kind of looks cool With the black, actually Look, hold up, from the side That actually looks really good If you do the third color that you were talking about Do that The third color Black? The color of the wheels Black wheels? Oh, yeah That, yeah Whatever color I end up doing the wheels I was going over some different options earlier Use the wheel color The same color as that piece That would be cool I think in an ideal world, you would run the line from here And then you can see your stuff But you would have to cut the Nissan logo in half That does look really clean, though The way it is now, that's what sucks I'm like, do I risk cutting it? Because, look, you also This is the perfect line, like you said For the headlights, but it also Covers up hardware, so you don't see As much of the clunky stuff in the back Another option, too, if you don't want to run a logo We could do the cut, we could fill it with bondo Yeah I don't know What I'm saying, Colette, if you cut it like this You can always cut more Yeah You can't cut less, but you can always cut more It'll look a little different in pink I think it'll look even better Yeah? 100% It'll look complete I've been chosen, I'm so happy Okay, so that took a really long time We're moving to the back now, and I'm really hoping That it just works While I'm going to start working on this Adam is actually going to cut the front bumper Because he's already Done his before How's the line look? I mean, good, right? I mean, I just did it by eye, but It looks pretty good Yeah Similar to the front It's going directly to the frame So I'm going to have to take this piece off As well, on this side And on that side And it should match up perfectly Okay, that is how easy the front Should have been Boom, done Back is done, now I just have to figure out How to cut the bumper Adam's making me a special surprise Which is also going to give away A larger theme for this car That I feel like I haven't Gone into detail about, haven't officially Revealed, but I've given a lot of hints He's having to be creative though with How he's making it work, so I don't want to See it until it's absolutely ready Can I look to the front now? Yeah, go look at it Is it done? Oh my god, I love it That worked out so well It's like the perfect size You're crazy Oh my god, I love it I love it, I love it Okay, and there you go There's the theme, my childhood dreams Are coming true, I'm having a Real life Barbie car That I've always wanted, I've always Just wanted to go even crazier for this Car, because it's supposed to be the fun car, it's supposed to be The practice drift car, and Yeah, I want to feel like a kid again When I'm sending it on the track, and now I'm going to It's going to be the ultimate Barbie car, I'm still figuring Out, like design wise, what I want To do, but I'm going to have A ton of fun with it, and I'm so excited So you know the inside is about to be Transformed into like an All crazy pink interior And coming up very soon Actually in the next video you'll see that Transformation, but there you go It's a Barbie car now, thank you for my Awesome custom Barbie emblem on the front, that is so sick I'm going to actually start on The side bash bars Because Adam is way better At cutting things, and I don't really trust myself with this And he's already done it to his, so Adam's going to cut the rear bumper While I get started on the side Hey, can I try something a little different on yours? Oh gosh, well I just, I don't want to cut Off too much because your bash bar is different than mine Yeah, mine comes down lower on the sides And I'm worried that if I do the same cut that I did On my car it might look weird, so I'm going to cut Less first, and then if you don't like it then I can do The same as my car, I'd rather do less first And then if we need to do more afterwards So the first cut, just have it coming Right here, so you see Yeah, pretty much Okay Kind of follow the line up and Probably do something with this and just follow it up And make it look, I don't know Cool, thanks You can't tell that it's a bar, so it looks like It's part of the car You know what I mean? I kind of like how it's like Peeking through, it'd be nice to see it Without The exhaust lines off, so if we just Followed like this line Okay And cut it so then we can see what it looks like without The extra On mine I came down Into this I like it, it's kind of just like Peeking through Saying what's up I love them They're so obnoxious I really like it Let's see Version two Oh yeah I like it I think that's it, I love it No, I like how you Redid the outside to follow more of that line Look at it in video You can see what it looked like in photos It looks cool I did the even gap on each side And even that line down there I really like it I can clean it up more too Okay there you have it I absolutely love these bash bars Especially all powder coated And neon yellow I'm obsessed and I love gussets I can't tell you how I just want gussets all over my car If you guys like I said saw my three rotor I spent days just making gussets So the fact that all of my bash bars Have gusset elements To it makes me so happy So again shout out and thank you to True Focus Fab I love their design And these are new So the side bars we just made I think these are the first ones that they sent out You guys know me I'm always trying to be Extra and have aggressive elements On my cars and this definitely Fits the bill I also like what we did here with the front Cutting the bumper and only having this like Thin trim to make everything Look a little better I'm still going to see how I feel about it over time Because I do really like The gussets That are on the front bash bar and you can't really see them As much anymore with this but For now I think I'm going to rock it like that I like it the color pink and Think my custom Barbie emblem Is so perfect Now you guys also know The theme for My car I'm making my Dream Barbie drift car In the next video you guys will see How all out and how crazy I'm going with this theme it might be a little much But I feel like a lot of my cars Are a little much and you know maybe I'm A little much so it will all make sense Very soon in the next video I'm going to be tackling The interior and some additional Elements for my Barbie theme But I'm super happy I love it and I know I need To get wheels I know everyone keeps Pointing that out thank you to Adam For continuing to let me Borrow his wheels I'm trying to dial in some Fitment stuff and be really 100% sure about The wheels that I want hopefully be able to confirm Wheels very soon because I know people Keep pointing that out that's Not my end goal right there is to just Borrow wheels all the time I'm obsessed With how the car is coming together and It's only going to get crazier from here