ZSPEC Design was forged out of their passion for customizing their personal cars to be unique and to obtain products they personally wanted for their own vehicles that didn’t really exist in the market. Thus, ZSPEC Design LLC was formed in 2014, though product development started in in early 2013.

As owners (in their case) of Datsun and Nissan Z cars, they really wanted to have more “dress-up” options to finish up the engine bays of their vehicles. From 240z to 370z, the market had pieces and parts, but no one company really was addressing the aspirations they had for aesthetically pleasing products that weren’t "branded" with the product manufacturer’s logo. Last they checked, when enthusiasts started to “advertise” an OEM’s logo on their car there tended to be a sponsorship involved. So with several ideas in mind and this underlying notion of creating “Simple Innovations” to beautify their personal cars, development began.

It all started with the 300zx Z32 platform as they happened to own several. They popped the hood and looked at the various “chromed” OEM products and aging/rusting OEM parts and nuts/bolts and figured there had to be a better way. Their “Ultimate” engine bay fasteners were the result of tearing down their own vehicles and mapping out replacement fasteners (for non-load bearing components) to dress-up the fasteners in their engine bays. This included the adoption of (A2) stainless steel fastener solutions for the Z car which over time spread to most of the models in the Nissan Z family. They then designed and launched their own series of finish-washer solutions machined from billet aluminum and anodized in a number of bright glossy colors.