Dylan Sattler - Nizmo Parts Plug - EP.98

Hey, and welcome back to the next episode of the right hand drive guys podcast the podcast for guys who like right hand drivesI'm Bobby. This is Aaron. Yeah, yo, and we are back yet again for episode 98

98 dude working up there only two more episodes and it will be our hundredth episodeWhich we are super excited about oh yeah, but not quite as excited as we are to get the scoop from the plugDude the plug what plug are we talking about we are actually talking about Dylan Sattler from the Nismo parts plugOh, yeah, and this guy hasSource parts for people from east to west north to southHe's even source parts for people in Japan believe it or not that sounds crazy that does sound a little bit crazy

But hey, hey, you're the man. I guess that's what you can do right? Yeah, absolutely so

Yeah, we're gonna get right into it with Dylan. I mean, he's gonna really let us know how you go from

You know a Nissan parts guy to the literal plug and everything in between yeah, hell yeah, let's do itAll right, this is episode 98 with Dylan Sattler the Nismo parts plugAnd we're back with Dylan Sattler the Nismo parts plug what up manGoing on guys how are you? How's everything? How's your evening pretty good man

We're definitely a pump to get out here and and get you on the podcast and just kind of pick your brain a little bitYou know, I mean a guy like you who's been in the industry for as long as you have we know you got some gems for usYou know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that I love to share some information with you guys and you guys have a lot of questions a lot of your viewersProbably have questions regarding all these parts whether they're Nissan NismoThere's tons of info to go over the state of Nissan and Nissan Motorsports and what's coming next?

Plenty of information to go over with you guys excited to be here. I've actually been

Listening to the podcast the brush up on see what you guys have been doing. So I'm a I started following I'm really

Appreciate the be here. Awesome man. And so you know

We you know Aaron and I of course we've been following along on your progress for quite a whileBut in case anybody listening doesn't know. Let's just get to the nitty gritty like who's Dylan Sattler?

What's the Nismo parts plug like what's the scoop?

What's the scoop well real simple Nismo Parks plug is a website where you can source genuine Nissan Nissan performance partsWe deal specifically with customers to help them find these items rather than just have you in a sea of parts with no information to go off ofWe like to add a custom approach to it. So the same way if you were calling up your dealer and looking for information

You're going to get a professional responsePretty much knowledgeable into the Japanese market for these partsIt's one of those things where there's very few people who have the ability to also search these items through the market through aofficial Nissan chart charter andI'm excited to do it. I've been doing this for some time now at Nissan and more recently for customers friends and it's been expanding

largely worldwideWow, and so pretty much like you are saying you what were like the Nissan parts guy at the local dealership or what?

Yeah, so if we were going to go back, you know to that I startedWith the love of Nissan way before I was even able to drive but when I was going to school. I'm like a UTI graduate in

Xton PA and then also Nissan and Infinity Technician trained in North Carolina at NASCAR technical instituteSo there was a lot of I read that I went into thisI mean I was at the time for to get like $10 an hour still so it didn't mean much but overall learning those type ofThings whether it was automotive mechanical or the way that Nissan just works on their systems really help mold me into thatBut once I started working for the dealership

That's when I really got my fingers on everything with the motorsports division and really started to tap into that in early2011 2012Wow, so I mean yeah, you do you got some time on you for sureI mean you look young man. So I was pretty surprised when you started saying that

Yes, I mean I thought you were like 26I will be 34 October 13th, so not badTake it. Well, we share a birthday dude. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, yeah October 13th. That's pretty wild. Oh, yeah

So birthday's right around there. I'm planning on doing a discount for people. Maybe that will you know get some people to go to the website plug it up

You know get some extra orders maybe to go out to my girlfriend something nice, you know, oh yeahYou heard that ladies in gentleman October 13th. Let's get this man out to dinner

All right, man, so I mean pretty much what made you realize likeThere was an opportunity for you todistribute these parts and kind ofHelp this niche market that wasn't being served maybe as well as it could be it could have been you knowYeah, no, that's a good question. I

Want to say it wasn't immediate for me. I want to say I was slow off the mark to do something but I've sought early on

Even back in 2009 2010 when I was doing my Nissan training. I was already in

Into cars, you know into the enthusiast world that had an S13 and a 300 ZX already had a hard-body pickupSo I was already experimenting in that region. I had you know, I'm closer to like 17 18 personal cars

I've had now and majority of them have been Nissan'sSo even even back thenWhen I was looking up my own items I was able to realize like this this market'sAvailable for people and there wasn't really an easy way to go about you know socializing and and and referencing that soAt the time of all the older heads will knowZilvia.net which was used very often for the forms of S chassis build Z anything Nissan

Yeah, you guys know so you you've been around for some time and I've had some builds on thereNot really understanding what it would snowball to I had a92 240 SXunknown miles K.A. And I wound up doing everything parts shop max

Trying to get into the drift scene here down in club loose in English townAround that same time I stumbled upon the motorsports division partswhileWorking in the parts department and saw how many items we really could get and at the timePricing was really good like you can get some certain things that would be unmentionable todayI mean my type X S13 spoiler brand new is about three hundred dollars brand new in box when you're availableYou can't you can't even come close to that use for like 11 or so. So

a lot of these itemsWhen we started posting up in the group had a lot of people you know message saying heyCan you help us with your car or with my car?

I'd like to get some parts if you can you can help it source it which you know easily could do can do we just didn't havea readily accessible way to put all the items on the website soonce we got everything on Shopify it really helped uniteAll the different kind of media social media that people would like to contact us on and that's when we really started to see the snowball effect of peopleTaking notice to what once you put a name to it. It really became more official

And and the name pretty much came as quickly asA day or so I came up with it and under under under a day and it just stuckYeah, I meanProps to that because when I first saw it I was like oh shitIt's the plug like it was just it's just that you know like especially in our generation right like if you went and talked about the plug to a boomerThey'd be like what what do you mean? You know, but to anybody in our generation that automatically means you are the dude with the heat

Yeah, you're the end if it's backI mean even you know over here in my town and UnionEven going to school we had a very large high school. I mean I have three thousand kids in my high school

All the same time between freshman and senior year andThere is a lot of things that you know, you wanted you wanted a carYou need to make some money if you weren't you know doing some other you know legit workBut it wasn't always feasible. So I used to start even selling candy, you know back in high school just the trying

I was going to Costco buying packs of candy and then selling them to afford shoes or whatever the next step was for meThe automotive part when I was working atNissan and and parts it wasn't something I ever saw like heyThere's gonna be a lot of people that are directly needing all these motorsports itemsBut the influence you know these cars have had over the last 10 15 years have just grown exponentially so many people areEnthusiast now who weren't even five 10 years ago

Yeah, no, I agree and you know some people maybe thought that they were like likeThey thought that cars were cool, but over the past 10 you know five 10 yearsThey've actually purchased a car and now they've started hunting and now they found Nismo parts plug and they've ordered that rear badge or they'veOr you know and so yeah, they've actually become enthusiast instead of just fans, you know, which there is a differenceYeah, I know Aaron had some reallyYeah, yeah, so

Basically, I'm I'm a guy that's into rare type parts in the cool little niche thingsWhat are some of the rarest parts you've acquired and what do you think has been the hardest part to come across?

Oh, I had to load a questionnaire and you know how you knew one of those there's a way I think he heard it. He had it prepared. Yeah, so

As far as some of like rare parts, I mean as far as things I've been getting in some thingsEarly on we're not rare that are now rare so it's kind of hard to say which is the rarest right?

But there tons of itemsYou know that we're one-offs that they didn't do too much productionFor so lower numbers which makes them a little bit more rareI would say one of the more rare brand new old stock items that was available through motorsportWhen I was still working at Nissan was a very specific S14Koki NismoRear spoiler it was a Nismo spoiler set and they sold the wing stands and the wing blades separately

At the time when we were referencing gang the actual standsThey couldn't complete the kit because it was opened. It shouldn't have been opened

It was gonna be used on one of their demo vehicles at motorsport. They decided to scrap the project for whatever reason

They couldn't complete the project so I got the carbon fiber wing blade and I'm missing the endsOne one side. I was like I can't do anything with this. There's there's no way and

Luckily, you know, bless her heart Brian Brianna ManningWho worked at motorsport back in the day?

She actually found the other portion of that kit and sent it over to us and I was able to secure itI had some photos back in the day. I wish I took more because it was super, you know, I've always seen one in person

YeahIMean we have a bunch of weird little niche things. I actually pulled one out right before we got on here

This one was actually gifted to me. So this is actually a Nikon. Let me say you can see this

Oh, so this this right here is a Nissan PrinceOdorizer, so this is over 40 years old and this is justSomething from Prince Motorsports for Prince, which was then later pushed into NissanThey were purchased from them and that's how the skyline even came about through PrinceThat's pretty well a couple other things like small small optional items like I have the Ken Maryvest like the vest from the actual

Yeah, it's weird stuff. It's just things that you know more recently have come across that people were okay

I'm getting rid of I can make some good money on thisAnd I realize you know, there's gonna be people in the US who want some of this you know nostalgic stuff whether it'sAuthentic jackets or magazines like the Nissan SEMA that they normally don't see hereSomething to give back to the culture that's just not parts because there'sThere's people who purchase these items that don't even have the carsThey just like the lore they love the collection of this the same way, you know, it was any other type of hobbyso

When you really get into it, there's there's tons of rare items. I

personally saw something a little differentDuring the time when Motorsport USA was still giving usPretty much sheets of information for these partsAbout 6600 items were available through the Motorsport division afterMyself and some other people who were looking up these itemsThey got pushed into into their divisionOnce they got pushed here they were available for US sale the other items were not so those items are

Like things that you can't you can't get any longer we have parts in Japan that are restricted and other items that are already hereThat were from Japan that made their way to the USSo there's a lot of things like last minute and maybe I can have him showed anyone this item is actually over hereBut I just don't want to get the messages about seeing if I want to sell it because I'm not gonna sell itHere's probably the last one that came into the states it was already discontinued and somehow came in through a back order

It is a a dry carbon part and is made forThe 34 GTR soYeah, it's one of those type of itemYou know still brand new in box. Let me see if I can if I can show you here walk around a little

So I just kind of want to show you what we got going on here. Don't these are the floors that you see don't don't worry about them right now

They're a little messySo you know just a little bitYeah, so a little bit in sight keep a little everything all over the place, but there is some organYeah, so it's all organized between a to Z and then one to zero in pretty much the same order that Nissan will do it everything that I'veI've applied from Nissan is pretty much done here in the shop, but this item right hereSome of you guys will know it by the actualIs that the food?

It is the foodThese spec dry carbon rear diffuser brand new in box those itemsYou know as far as gathering them now you'd have to only go through the heritage programWhich is an item now that you're even trying to order through Japan isNot necessarily just readily available. It's usually made to order and

a little bit more information the company that used to make it benetech with a more factory is no longer in contract for themSo to get one of those items they'll tell you it's on back order, but you won't see another production one soThere's a lot of things that transpiredover the last four or five years between items that were easily available maybe we get a couple in aYearIt depending if people are looking to purchase them to now you can't find them anywhere and if you do

It's going to sell quickly for usually a veryOutstanding price wow, so yeahIt's like thatActually just got this gem in here. I know you may not see it by part number, but that is the S15 spec are

bumper oh wowYeah, so there's a lot of like cool like little niche things I have hereSome are saved for my own personal 34So you know I purchased them for myself knowing I don't put on the website to flaunt it to put it in people's facesI want to make sure they understand that you know what they're gettingIt's still an OEM product not everything is availableBut you know, there's still plenty of like rare items that we still get and we still have

Once we saw a lot of the items for the 32 start to make its way heritage or discontinued weImmediately started already working on the 34s and the 33 some of the items that we could getAlso the S15Yeah, you know you see as you work with Nissan and you see what happens with motor sport and how they they do the rollouts of products andthe difficulties they've had you kind of start to see what you have to prepare yourself for so being a little bit more

Prepare because of the failures that I have seenDefinitely set the tone for making sure we had parts during even the times where COVID you knowThere was no items available in the states who take 16 plus weeksSo I think that was it was very important an easy move for usSo okay, I got a question man. So here's the thing like you know Dylan back in the day at NTI right he he was

Doing his thing getting his educationDid Dylan back then ever imagine that he'd be literallyShipping these parts that are in such high demand across the world not just the country now across the worldDo you think that Dylan back at NTI could have ever imagined that?

No, not a chance. I'll tell you I had no no plan

For me to get to this extent. I just knew I was passionate about cars and I really enjoyed the Nissan

You know segment of all this I had the choice when I was still in PA deciding if I wanted to goMore down the Toyota path or the Nissan Toyota I could have stayed in PANord Carolina would have been a whole another adventure. I wasn't used to especially

I was what 17 18 at the time. I didn't have any family there

There was no like programs to just immediately you know live on campus that didn't existumIf I'm being as you know open as possible. I went down there without the ability to even have a spot to live

The person I was opposed to room with dropped out a week before I was supposed to move down until andWell, yeah, you know, but you had to do what I had to do. I wound up

Ganging contact with a friend MattPleaven he actually works for Penske racing shout out Matt and his familyWhen I was down north Carolina they took care of me. They sent me up with a place to stay. I slept in the couch

But you know, it was still it was it's what need to be done in order to push myself if I wanted it that badI need to go there and do itI applied myself. I really did. I think I finished off, you know, I mean

It's a automotive school, you know, sometimes it's not that too hard. Sometimes the teachers they get you some leniency's but

These guys down in in North Carolina the NASCAR technical side. It's not a joke. So I think um

also and done wound upFinishing with like a 3.92 GPA there all the you know stew and other classes. We didn't ask our engine building which um

We wound up being Ford FAC and I wound up taking that uh back for the Nissan guys. So it was really excited about it

I felt in a way like there was a lot of energy pushed into my realm when I was down there a lot of things that could have went wrongI even umOne day I woke up and I had a kidney stoneAnd it was I didn't have health insurance. I went up going to the hospital. It wound up costing me a lot of money

andI still had to go to school because if I missed any timeI would have been deducted points from my overall grade and I didn't want that to be the caseumSo I manned up, you know, when inside we were working on a 350Z six-speed trans that dayTaking it apart rebuilding it all the fun stuffum the TTLs in the class were great. I really

Do appreciate everything that they taught meAll the Nissan training really did push me to this next level to convey the type of the service or the professionalismYou may see when I'm talking to customers without thatI would just be some guide just trying to sell youSome parts he's he saw that someone else wanted to sell, you know, I umI pretty much live and breathe Nissan for the longest now. I don't try and you know

Push it out to the public. I like to be more in the background

I want to make sure that the customers are getting their parts and um that they're correct and we give good informationWith that with these OEM itemsThat's a that's a good mindset to have because a lot of peopleWant to just put out the look at me look at me look. I got these parts. I got these parts

But then you'll see, you know these reviews that those parts didn't make it to those peopleOr not for weeks or months even because the people were not focused on thatThere are so many scammers now. I mean like I've seen it

I didn't really promote too much through Facebook is a lot of Instagram stuff, but we've had to makeChanges over the years like any other business wouldUh to make sure people are safe when they're making purchasesAs far as like watermarking our images so that people aren't stealing our photos and saying heyI have this for like $300 for a quarter panelI've had all these experiences with with customers getting potentially ripped off from other people eitherPretending to do something like us or you've been on marketplace or some of these Facebook groups now that everything is just a

A robot or some guy trying to scam you, you know with minimal photos trying to sell you some of the rarest partsYou've ever seen for the best deal you've never seen and it's just like it should be obviousBut sometimes we let uh let it get to our headsSo I like to make sure people understand what their games and do themselves intoWhen they when they start even looking into purchasing a right hand drive car whether it's a Sylvia skyline z32 fair ladyUm all those things are super importantYeah

What do you get so yeah, I got a question manJust like you man. I've been a Nissan guys since way back in the day. You know, I got my first 240 in 2008 I believe

um, oh niceYes, and one thing I noticed about Nissan is thatThere there's always been kind of a disconnectI mean what do you think the disconnect between Nissan and its customers is and how do you think they can solve it becauseI mean you see people asking for you know these are 34 parts are 33 partsAnd like they can't get them. Why not, you know

I I think it definitely another little because you got great questions AaronI thinkYou know if they if they wind up hearing this they're gonna they're gonna not like me anymoreBut they definitely do have a disconnect there has been that since I want to sayMaybe mid 2000s and then therefore after um, you know whether it was a change ofCEO and who is you know in charge of what models were still in production and where they were goingYou know, what kind of funds were we're available

We saw and grew up with majority of theseReally cool Nissan race cars even from like 80 85 all the way to early 2000sAnd we saw a generation of cars that were built in a technologicalAdvanced air for Japan. So they had plenty of spending to you know put into R&D for these vehicles and making really good

I think what we are seeing now is such a changing environment and world that we live in that not everyone is thinking about ohIn the car needs to be sports orientedumA lot of crossover pairs are what's cool or miles per gallon and it's cool and all to be able to you know save money that wayBut you start to take away the soul from what Nissan was originallyDoing with their early 90s models and a lot of us have attacked thatumI think I started seeing a lot of that kind of disconnect

um around the time I started working for Nissan andYou know at the same time they were I believe one of the big things they were noticeable for was the fourth largest in innovation for a company at at the moment in like2010 2011 new modelsumPlenty of support plenty of customer loyaltyI think where we start to see a decline is when they started doing all these extra like gimmicky add-ons likeDid you color studio where you can you can purchase this like you know mirror caps and different color

You know just like you know weird except reads and just really didn't connect with the customers on on aOn any kind of on any levelumWe were speaking about this before andThere's so many other contenders who either entered the entry models sports car or or hot hatch segmentAnd Nissan really isn't anywhere to be found although they decided to cancel their maximum which was their longest runningFord or sport sports car

um, you know for almost 50 yearsThey got rid of a lot of popular models they had issues with the CVT the first like in 20002000 hard maxa when that CVT came out that was downfallYeah, that's what started itYeah, it really it really was i meanThey they they they they had a good idea, but it was geared towards more of ahigher end like luxury type of type of owner and for the most part early 90s late 90s that wasn't what they were conveying

But they had a different um switch up and and goals as they entered into the 2000s with carless go and then being CEOTheir merger with Renault were alliance with RenaultUm, I really set set the tone for what they wereputting out as far as workum, I think they definitely missed some opportunities withA lot of these cars that are 25 years old nowYou see you guys are owners. I supply parts. I mean they are even they're bigger than us

Completely they they know a little bit more. Yes, the sports car is a small segment in their a math in their eyes

But there's so much riding on this portionUh, so many people love these cars and I think they're not tapping into the the the culture to reallyGet that on the new vehicle so that people would be interested in themYou're not seeing a a select demographic of people you know certainly go to Nissan just because of a sports car13370 and zr 34 the the new z very similar price points are still pretty highr 35 is still expensive car

And now with them no longer production for the 2025 model year you leave this gap andI really think if the same time these people who are looking to get into 13 the 14 and especially the 15 SylviaBecause they're now 25 years legal should have an option to get themselves into a brand new Sylvia s 16 whatever you call itUh, we've seen some rumors, but they're not hitting the tarp audience. They're they're saying it may be an electric vehicle

Or they come out with no aura and how many people are really looking to have a crossoverThe drive extremely fast with their kid in the background and in the back of the carYou know, it's just a weird situation ofof um componentsI meanI've never felt moregoofy driving around in a Nissan marano cross cabular layDon't get throughWe had extra time when we had extra time I'd go with umThis guy Doug he was the the manager of service and parts manager

And we just go for a quick drive and one of these cars that need to be test drove you know for an issueAnd we ran to you know cruising around the town in a uh in a cross cabular lay just to see if we can replicate this uhThis concern and we were just getting the craziest looks and you just feel like something's not right something's off a lot of mechanical issuesA design it doesn't really extend to too many people that we're looking for it umI think they definitely have a disconnect. They want to fix this. They have people there already utilizing

In in their culture on social media right now they couldn't come to cut some of their car meets they can come to english townThey can see what these guys are doing with 240s whatPeople who are trying to get into this motor sport who can't because they can't find a nest chassisYou know for a reasonable price or you know, they're going to they're going to other chassis is theThe core vets become very uh popular at the 350z alwaysAn easy car to jump in to go drift umBut I think what this does is not having the bill you have an entry-level sports car doesn't allow people for the next generation

Getting into these cars or feeling this to that logic about these cars doesn't give them the opportunity to fit their marketThey may go somewhere else um like Toyota would they have plenty of vehicles that meet entry-level sports needsAnd I think that's where Nissan's really a disconnectedYeah, I could agree with that like like we're kind of talking about um, you know yesterday wasSomebody who's paying let's just say 50,000 for an s15 spec areThey could have been that buyer for the 42,000 dollar s16 if Nissan was hitting that you know

Instead they're not making this money because people are spending it on a car that's already been purchased from themAnd they've already gotten their money from I definitelyWould say that they're really missing the mark on that and then on top of that that same car, you know the s15You know they're making parts for itBut they're not making a lot and they're not making the cool stuff like all the arrows type stuff and all the sought after stuff that people wantSo it's like also a disconnect with on the part side too. I feel like yeah

Yeah, there are definitely some itemParts wise for the s15. I mean these guys are gonna need they you know once again if being an entry-level car

They were pretty bad with the sheet metal in late 90s Nissan was close to going you knowLosing it all so they they kind of the quality control kind of went down especially on s15 sheep metalI've had customers picking up brand new cars to themTo get parts coming to us and then realizing the cars they bought you know have dolex whist she is there they're in poor conditionNot everyoneIs going to have the same reference information that we had from back in the day through the forums were working onMultiple cars when they were cheap now they're expensive

People have this information like via youtube or you know whatever they're they're they're looking to gain knowledgeBut you really got to get under the car and you have to you have to be there you have to see these things first handTo really understand themAnd I think you know especially if someone's trying to get into you knowAn s15 right now a spec are I mean we've seen them we've sold them. I've helped people

I've helped Jimmy Oaks grab that black s15 from one of my friend Will who was a customerWho's been grabbing parts forever from usYeah, yeah, so we came to the house before we had the this warehouseUm, and that kind of snowballed a lot of you know other people finding out about itWe've we've done some stuff, you knowI'll touch lightly on this with like you know Jimmy LZRottle uh Randy from eliminate Tommy Fia and a whole bunch of other shops, you knowAnd we wouldn't be able to do this without their continued supportYou know their customers understand

They want their their parts brand new and good conditionI sometimes have the shop contacting us and then also the customer contacting us and they both chose to come here because they knowUm, we're pretty knowledgeable when it comes to these items and we we we stock a lot we we saw this coming in advance because of all the downfalls from previous endeavorssoI'm happyYou know that we we we have this I did not expect this to be where I was in a land at allI really thought I was just going to be a technician doing this um, you know for too many years

But it I quickly saw you knowI spent when you're passionate about it right you're passionate about these carsImagine you you know you get an ultimate comes in for a while change rotate low for rotate and umYou know, maybe you you'd like to see some more custom things done but people are coming inTrading the cars and every two to three years. They're they're not even getting the basic air filter cabin filter maintenance

They don't they don't care about that. So you're just you know stuck doing the same job over and over again

And I like to change it up a little bit do someSpecialized work, you know work on some projects that you know guys like some cars you probably never seenBut our Nissan in orientation that have been modified extensively either by all tech or you know one of eight type of vehicleJust you know very cool concourse type of builds. I'd like to you know help these guys with that

Especially when that information is just not readily availableIf we have the parts here some of those times we can you know directly use it as as references to see if it can be used or adapted to work on these cars becauseA lot of these times do pro do fit on other models without them saying they will as you probably know from experienceOh, yeah, yeah absolutely and soYou know when we talk about the futureYou knowObviously some of these cars are gonna have been legal for as you said well over 10 15 years

Where do you see the future of the rare parts going? You know once some of these items have been discontinued for 10 15 years

What are we gonna doSo that yeah once another another good question um once they 10 15 years goes byI guess we can kind of relate this to even even the older generations before us thatWe're working with more of the muscle carsWe've seen you knowManufacturers get to the point where they're reproducing a lot of these OEM products to almost a very similar or surpass the standardI don't see that being always the case especially with a you know aftermarket or you know someone emerging a new product out there

But with the stuff that goes discontinued that you absolutely need it's gonna be a really bad time if you specifically need thoseItems and I can name you one right now, you know you have other optionsBut there's gonna be aftermarket companies coming in to try and solve these issues at a price point. That's reasonable

Um, you know for instance if you were looking for our 34 is you know at headlightsI've seen the full fluctuation of those from brand new when we were getting them and selling them for 1800To be even right now in 2024 where these cars are still coming over and being legalizedThose headlights aren't available the pricesI've seen you know other companies now closer to six to 10,000 just for headlightsIt can go upwards from thereBut realistically this is another situation or problem that we realized if we have this ability to

host these items and get them for customers and we have maybe first reference like hey this item is no longer availableWe we kind of have that inside knowledgeSo what I want to try and do and I have been doingMajority of parts that seem to be very popular as far as discontinuation is holding on to at least one or twoTo have that part reference information availableTo potentially, you know make it down the line. It's someone really needs it

um, the molds are not cheap thesemolds can range up there extensivelyEven the used Japan parts that we we offerSome of the molds to produce the radio bezel, you know 25,000 just to just for the mold itself just to get that you know correctYeah, so I think peopleMay understand what goes beyond behind the scenes to do all this and get it right you know so that you're happy with your productIf if I had to relate to anything just imagine anyone who's listening this right now at your own job all the

Complex intricacies that your customers don't understand and you don't haveOr the want to explain it to them because it's too complicated to the point where they may not get it or it's just too much informationSo I feelLike you know having those parts once againDown the line if we're going to do reproduction items which we have been slowly working on with outsiders garageMuse Japan to bring back some of these items that generally aren't available

umRecently in use Japan just released there are 34 GTRspoiler the carbon spoiler. Oh, yeah, they did we were seeing you

Yeah, use one you know, we're going for like five six thousands for a used34 GTR spoiler in good condition before shipping and customsSo it really helps break downThat extensive cost you know on on one or two products that you knowOtherwise you're going to be paying an arm and a leg for and you don't feel good about the purchaseYou want to be able to enjoy but not feel like hey, I can't eat for the next two weeks or umYou know, I mean, I'm sure we've all been there. You know, there's times where you just

I'll say you know have to wing itThere's a part that you need right away and you can't make put on your credit or you can't do uh, you knowApple pay and break it down which we do allow on the website nowSo if you need to break itWith these new items it makes it much easier for youTo really to you know to be able to live and afford a car hobbyIt's uh, it's not easy like it used to be there were there were a lot of itemsThat were much cheaper four or five years agoUm even last year

June to julyMajority of people will remember this we've seen about six hundred and sixtyNeeds some motor sports items that I mentioned that we're on that original list that we helped withGo up three to four hundred percent in costSoYeah, if I had like bracket for this r34 gtrUsed to cost you know150 and now our new cost is close to the four hundredIf we're gonna be still looking at making you know same marginsIt's gonna be so expensive. So we have to you know come down to be even competitive

But ultimately the parts are still more expensive than they were even a couple years agoUm, I found out we have some you know obviously some mutual friends you spoke about it in one of your podcastsUh, Justin Wong with the midnight purple r34 gtr the midnight purple three in Maryland and Delaware I believeUm, I've been helping him with that project for the last five years getting him all the NissanOEM items and motorsports partsShe's now don't tell everyone right but like he's thinking about getting another car another 34 and I I'm telling him

The battle back car to where you wantTo get like this in this yearYou're gonna be looking at significantly more money and more a wait time or items you're just not gonna be able to touchsoThe state of what we got going on between you know the economyUm, the parts availabilityIt can get dicey if you're going into these right hand drive cars know what you're getting yourself intoFigure out what parts you need in advance before he can sometimes purchasing and if you can get them huge

Especially if you're trying to go for like more of an OEM plus type of build you want to look goodYou're gonna you're gonna need that type of information before you start up planning your build upYeah, I agree. I mean

Yeah, and and you gotta think a lot of us guys like me that have a 34 still inStorage over there. We've been stacking these parts. We've been stacking them stacking them. So you know if you haven't already been doing that and you think you want one

Then chances are yeah, you're not gonna get some of this stuff for sureYeah, it's one thing to acquire theYou know the car is already difficult to get the you know r34 came from AustraliaIt was in Japan for like three years. So I mean, I'm lucky. It has like no rust. It was well taken care of over there

Had to rebuild the no-nineNot so many people get as lucky when they get their cars over here. They find plenty of problems

And then things they didn't inherently think they were gonna need to replace have now become catastrophicDown time on that car where they're not they're not moving, you knowUnless you're you're trying to do something a little less junk or more junk at that point, butIt's sometimes not worth it with use cars especially with the prices continuously going up for them. That's for sure

I thinkYeah, yeah, it's it's definitely become hard for the enthusiastIt's it's been a hard year for Nissan as far as their sales too. So I would say it really boils down to the way the economy is really

Work or not working for us at the moment for for people. So I think once once we see some change there

We're gonna see once again another influx of business because these cars they're they're not going out of styleI mean, they're 25 30 years old and we're still talking about themRather than brand new cars you go you go to a car meter car eventI see people walk by you know hyper cars and super carsJust to come by and talk about you know Nissan homie or a sefero or the 32 or yeah or anything the 33I1 because there's so much more lore to it and the history is is there and each car has its own

Kind of story and it's cool to find that out because we know about the carsWell, we want to hear everyone's personal story usually when it comes down to meeting our friends and people we we know onlineYeah, and that's like a big part of the cultureHowever in 2024 yeah, I got a question man. What do you think is ruining the culture right now?

Running or running as is killing it ruiningUm, so I've diagnosed this a couple of timesI want to say you knowWe can we can go for the obvious these take over culture type of events where people are just going andYou know causing mayhemHurting people people were in shop people were getting ran over you know people are getting killed peopleRight

It's the number oneI want to say thing that's killing the car community as far as us being able to do what we doUm, we used to go to you know car meetups and hang out and have a good timeWe're able to really speak to even you knowWhether it's a security guard or an officer and they would understand what we're here for we make sure we were patronAt a location beforePotentially, you know, just going there to destroy shit, you knowI'm not I'm not doing burnouts in in the parking lots, but these guys are doing donuts. They're going crazy. So

It's good. It's fun, but do it in a spot where it's controlled

Um, you know, there's plenty of that at race tracks even some of the private shows that we do with timelessuh dot expo umWe have certain sections where you can you can do that one these guys aren't gonna listenWe know that's not gonna be the thing. So as long as they are still doing this

It's gonna be an issue because they're gonna group us together with them. Yeah, um, that's the problem

That's the problem. There's no way they can you know differentiate uh to tell the difference between us

You know, you know, just being in the carThey they you know for the most part they can all sound the same it comes down to the individual really and what they're trying to doA lot of that and this is gonna be crazy here, but that all stemmed backfromInstagram all these social media apps right where you can flex your carAnything that's happening became almost an influenced or momentI used to go down to h2oYou guys probably familiar with that um in Maryland and ocean city and that was an automotive like safe haven

At the end of the year where every guy who was a car builder and thuzeas can get together and enjoy these carsYou know almost like a holiday week. We just go down and enjoy it go to the event afterwards

umPrimarily, you know all Volkswagen or air cool Porsche or city's the mw type stuffumBut once it got to the the point where we saw the streets line with peoplerecording video footage and sharing it through social mediaIt kind of was almost glorified in a way. I

I don't know why I remember this, but there was a uhIt was a cambered out frs or b r z. I mean it must have like negative 16 degrees of camber front and rear

And a cop pulled pull them over right in front of like the tap house, which was normally a hubOr a good portion of these guys in ocean city and you know it made the video for crispy media for the h2o after movieAnd people glorified that because they saw something thatYou know had so many people interested in that carThey saw it as a way of marking themselvesOur egos generally are what usually control what we're doing most of the timeSo these guys just want to show off or flex, you know what they're what they're doing

It's it doesn't really impress me. I mean, it definitely doesn't impress you guys

I know you know when it comes to that stuff we'd ratherHave cool sit-downs talks hang out with friends and talk about what they got going on with their builds and how we can you knowTake information from one another if we're gonna go tear up the streetWe're gonna do it in a controlled environment if we're going to to english town to raceway parkShout at chris nap of courseI'm going down there to enjoy a good time. We're gonna do it in a controlled environment

So this way we're not causingAnyone else harm other people to get hurt. We're not even involved in this it just being respectful and I think

A lot of people have have forgot thatYeah, they get like you said they're just gettingToo caught up in in the glitzing glamor of social media which in the end actually doesn't mean anything and for 90% of us makes us zero moneyLike you know in that sense it'sIt just showing off on instagram is not where it's at especially whenYou can't monetize it because you're actually doing something illegalYou know

They not but it's true like you're not saying doing doing those things aren't cool like we all we all fucking love that rightBut like not everyone enjoys the same things that you do soLike do it do with some respect and if you're gonna go to an eventYou know someone else's event who isn't even you knowHaving those type of things happen at their at their shows and you go there to do that just leave just don't be a part of the sceneYou're not gonna be impressing them. You're just

Pushing the culture further away from what it used to be I like to thinkYou know, maybe it maybe too hard on ourselvesBut I like to think it's up to us to teach these kidsWhen he's to be done, but they also have to absorb what we're saying or we're teaching themIt's it's it's up to everyone to really you know do their own part, but you got to be mindful be respectfulContinuing to do these type of events and meets that we host where they're in a controlled area. We have

Security we have everything there for for families to enjoyThat that's what we're trying to push and that's what you may have even seen with our with our friends from greasy goomba kidsOn their YouTube channelThat's what we like to push as far asEvents and car meetups. Oh, yeah, man. I can definitely and I know I can speak for Aaron on this

I respect that you know kind of pushing the right way to do things as opposed to you know this kind of moreI don't know dangerous. I don't know. I've never had the desire to get re-rended by a charger or something and fly through the air

It's just never been on my listKnow how okay, no, I saw a few minutes right to the backUm, man. All right

And it ripped his pants off completely and really was on the ground andYeah, funny, you know, but like I don't I mean I wouldn'tYou know, you see that meAnd um and so lastly, man, we'll wrap this up but firstThere's no way with the news that we got this morning that we're gonna let you off of this podcastI'm sorry, dude, but we got to do it. There is no way that we're letting you off here. He's been getting drilled all day

Yeah, tell us about the 40th and this mo dropWhen can we expect it is the pricing live on the site like what's the deal?

All right, so originally I'll give a little rundown the 40th anniversary stuff was about 22 23 items that motorsportsAnnounced during their 40thum anniversary, which was September 17th of this year um, so they had a couple teasers of some itemsThey then released them again on the 40thThey didn't give us any pricing and they restricted all the items in the US. So

Huge disconnects like we were saying beforeBut they have opened it up now. So we did get pricing. They are set in motion

The pre-orders are live on the website right now. So you can go there. You can place the order

We're expecting items to come in from november all the way to summer of 2025 for the range of the itemsThere's about 18 to 19 items that are currently activeThe LMGT4s were still waiting to get pricing on and the order appeared to openNo, those are huge. I mean we we've seen I've actually had a couple orders since we've been doing this conversation

It's been over about 20 to 30 orders just today on the 40th stuff since we opened the pre-order which wasto the 3 p.m. Today at Eastern time and

It's it's it's good to know like it's one thing to have the items right but people also trust you andWe don't ever have any ill intentions to do someone wrongWith their products, you know that as any other business shouldWe're we're rooting for you guys to get these items. We want to seem come in

And if we have the ability to to pre-order them make them available to you guysIt just makes sense to open it up now so that you can go in you can grab these items all logo nismo stuff that you normallyDon't ever see any any longer. I believe that stopped in like 94 95

And now they're back. I mean such things are like a steering wheel the GT 500 titanium shift knob

Emergency e-break boot for the r32 with the nismo old logoThat's available by itself that only comes with the center consoleSo that's a huge one. I've already I've already placed like several of those

Um there there's so many items a small trinkets to larger performance parts things you've already probablyHave ordered in the past just now with an updated logo. It's kind of feels yeah a little off base

I mean the old logo stuff definitelyIs a large crowd of people looking to get their period correct builds um setupSeat belts anything that could really you knowAdd a little bit of nismo flare people usually tend to uh to run towards so this has beenHuge. I'm really excited that the for you if is now available for people to to get these items

We are going off of what we're able to sell and then a little bit under that for a currentWe will see these these things becomevaluable to the point wherepurchasing one could ultimately net youMaking money because you know some some designers just continues to go upThere are collector items. They are hobby items, but there are still parts that work on the cars that we all love and enjoy

So I think it's umIt's a great day. I'm really it's changed my mood up completely. So I'm excited

Yeah, I was just dreading it the whole the whole week like why don't we have any informationIf I don't do this to us we customers want it. I want it. I'm a customer as well

So I understand where you guys are coming from um, but now they are liveWe're additionally going to be doing something a little special. We're going to be doing a special decal

Um almost like a nismo and izmo decal in reverse with the ovalSo something to commemorate like theWe're giving them in the actual um for you th anniversary pre-ordersSo once the pre-order stop those won't be in thereUm, additionallyI did set up at discount for all of your viewers everyone who listens to spotify and through youtube for for you guys to useOn on on their future orders. So this way they can save some money go to the website shop nismo park squad

So right wait. Yeah, absolutely. We're all about that. I'm actually I'm on the site right now

I'm like oh damn let me add this to the cart. Let me go ahead and add this to the car and so we're getting another order

Where uh where can the listeners find you you know, I know we keep saying nismo park plug, but reallyLet's lay out the website the instagram wherever you want people to go. Let's hit it

off my only fansReal simple website nismo parks plug nizmo parts plugThe gmail is exactly the same uh the instagram is nizmo parts plug we make it real simple for you guysYou're gonna see the logo on every single aspect where it's a social media platformTikTokInstagramFacebook we have a page for for pretty much every social youtube is nizmo parts plug as well

Um, so we'll make sure to also drop the link down below so your guys can can also join in on that easily reference it if they need toAnd you've probably seen some of our videos now through instagram even if you aren't following usOr if you've ever you know been in the jdm world in the usYou've probably seen some of our collaborations with some of the larger youtuber guys and most of our products are makingTheir way to most of the japanese shops that work on these cars

Yeah, that's that's definitely something to be proud of man for sure and and we're over here rooting you on a hundred percentYou know, anybody that comes from you know just trying to live the dream of beingAffiliated with nizon to actuallyBeing the plug like that's super dope man. So props to you props to you

We appreciate you coming on here today man and uh let's do this again after the 40th stuff drops like after you get through some of thisLet's let's revisit and just see how everything went and you feel meYeah, I definitely love the follow up with you guys in nowWe can pretty much round off how the collaboration went as far as nizons partake as far as getting the items out in a timely fashionWhat customers thoughts on you know the price range for some of these items

Additionally, you know, you know some other products that maybe they want to see motorsport come out with itWe can establish a good connection between the culture and what nizon corporateYou know once again corporate guysOnce the motorsport division can really join that that union between the twoIt really just becomes a communication process between the between everyone to getWhat the enthusiast wants want on the road. So I'm uh, I'm really excited for it. I'm hoping you know, we can do some more collaborations with

um, you know more people looking to get into this marketAdditionally, it'd be cool to work with nizon in a in a little bit more of a social media aspect to once againPush some of these products so that people can really get to know these cars and then additionally become new new enthusiasts as well and to the to the brand reallyAmen to that brother amen to thatAwesome, and once again, we appreciate you being on we'll let you get back to it and uh good luck with all the ordersI hope they just keep flying in while you're sleeping brother

I hope so I hope I wake up and I'm just grinning from here the ear. You'll know I'll text

All right, buddy. You have a good night

Thank you guys have a great one once again shot nizmo parts plug npp. Oh, yeah

The nizmo parts plug dude holy moly that dude is a wealth of knowledge. Yeah, for sure

He takes what he does seriously, which is probably what attracted me to him when I was looking at the next guestI'm like we got to do Dylan becauseAnd especially with the fortiest stuff coming out. Yeah, that was good time to touch on but

The guy is just he's into it and when I find somebody that's like really into itI can tell and so it was definitely good to get his perspective on some of these things and including the takeovers right becauseUp here we're not experiencing that quite as much, but he definitely is so yeah, it was a good time talking to him and and he's gonnaWe're gonna drop this little discount code. It'll be in the description of the episode or on YouTube underneath and go use it

Go hit this man up. I mean I got a new

Rear badge for my 34 skyline that I have been looking for forever and he had it, you know, soYeah, he definitely has something for you. I guarantee you guys you're gonna find something you'll find it that car will not be empty

butYeah, again hit him up at Nismo parts plug with a Z and do your thing manLet's support each other in the community and follow us at our HD G UISBut for episode 98Palm Bobby. This is Aaron. See ya. Peace

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