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I don't know why, but I really liked this part. Going over a freshly painted car with a cup of black paint and a brush Part of my original jute was toast. I wanted to use the original because it's the correct thickness and would make everything fit better. While looking for something, Jenny from the junkyard, yup, her again, comes to my rescue. She shows me a picture and I wasn't even looking for jute, but there it was! can ya get it off in one piece? she did. Enough to do the job. I coated it with contact cement and let it dry overnight, to keep it from being loose. the next day I glued the vinyl to it.

By Springtime of 2024, a local bodyshop had changed hands. I knew the guy. I asked if he could get me in! I was the first one in the new clean paint booth. He said, I'm gonna do it my way! Okay, do it! Another 6 grand later......oh well, I past the point of no return awhile ago. Looks red from the lighting, but it's really 918 orange Damn!

It's time for the tarmat! There's a clear plastic film over this tarmat. It keeps it clean until it gets painted. Yup, Why didn't Nissan do it this way.

I had enough waiting, went and got the car and pieces as is. Time to go home. I spent the winter of 23-24 assembling the suspension, and installing the tar mat. I don't remember who put the templates on here, but I really thank them. I had them printed at the print shop. I bought the porsche wurth tarmat that was also suggested on here. It was fun assembling this. The only clear coat on the whole car. Now I have a roller!

Are you buying a new system or trying to figure out if a used system will fit the car? Need more information

If the supplier states it will work with year,make and model I’m curious what your concern is.

If the header will work with the stock 280z intake manifold.

Not sure what you’re asking here. You are talking about exhaust correct?

Meanwhile........I had found my missing pieces, 4 wheels and d-hubcaps found by a guy cleaning an attic in California. one year later............my hubcaps are speaking to me....... Well, We're waiting............

In a couple months, I had welded in all the repair panels myself. It was easy to blow right through some areas, like the toe boards. The rotisserie made it nice, just go to the other side, attack it from both sides. I replaced both frame rails, the tub, both outer rockers after cleaning inside them, doglegs, and fender bottoms, and hatch slam. It was time for me to go build roads and go logging. Spring break was up. The inside was painted, the engine bay, and bottom undercoated. Sometime that summer, I brought the lines down and installed them before the car was taken off the rotisserie.

The paint job was his responsibility, I wasn't interested in that part. I would pay him separate for that. stripping the car with aircraft stripper. There's me, gettin the rust out! Gotta love it.

I refinished the steering wheel meanwhile, I had dismantled the engine and found some rust in the cylinder closest to the firewall, damn! So off to the machinist it went and by January of 2022, I had the engine done. so, by spring of 2022, I had done everything I could. I needed help. My Nephew works at Napa in Kalispell, and said, "hey Rich! this guy just came in and all he does is restore 240-Z's. He's from California, just moved here. I said that's the guy I'm looking for. So, he came up with a cart and we discussed the car. I would pay him for the body work. He would teach me how to do it, and we would put it on a rotisserie. I tried to buy a rotisserie at this time, but covid had messed everything up. I had already ordered the repair panels from KlassicFab in Columbia or somewhere. I could get a part shipped from them in less time than it took from Colorado. So, here we go. Also not seen here is the hatch slam and the rockers.

Anyone know if this system will work on EFI manifolds?

Reading through the restorations on this site, I decided what would get powder coated, and in less than a week it was done. the price was $250 and I didn't have to clean them, but I did plug all the threaded holes with threaded plugs I made. I showed them what to tape off as far as bearing surfaces etc. They did a great job. I later added the brake backing plates, I liked the fact that brake fluid would not hurt them. First batch back from the platers. It was like jewelry! Now I'm getting excited. But some of the larger pieces were blistered. I sent those back and they re-plated them. I believe they were with the smaller parts and didn't quite work out. I also folded the long fuel, vent or brake lines like I read here, and made them fit into a 6' long box. Shipping was very expensive for those.

As far as repairing rusty panels on the car, I was lost. So I continued what I could, disassembly, and refinishing.

All right, where were we back in 2021........I started removing more parts, pulled the engine, dismantled as much as I could to get a batch ready for plating. I bead blasted the pieces, really nice for getting into the crevices on phillips head screws, bolts etc. It was a long tedious process, but I liked it. Then I wire wheeled each piece to give it smoothness and shine. It worked amazing. I bought a nice small paint gun, good automotive primer, activator, reducer and 2 gallons of high quality black paint, one was a gloss black, and one was flat. I could mix the 2 and get the desired sheen. Fortunately I had plumbed my shop correctly for eliminating moisture out of the air lines. My compressor is in the loft, the copper air line 15' off the floor slopes gradually down with drops that have valves for releasing water. Then the air line goes up, then drops to an outlet. It goes all the way around the shop this way, with water drop lines, then tees off for air. In the upper right corner of this phot, you see the air line leaving the loft above that Conoco Germ sign. The first tee down is a water drop. the second tee down is the air drop, which runs under the wall lights. and it continues above the door and same principle on the next one. It actually goes back into the loft and drops again, this is the one I used for painting. Never had an issue with water in the line. I built a small paint booth under the eave of my shop and proceeded to refinish parts that were not going to get powder coated. Such as the steering column, pedal assembly box, fan and heater box, any part that I could not find replacement original style bushings for. Here's the half shafts getting sprayed. The blast cabinet made it easy to clean parts.

I think I would richen that mildly with the mixture nuts. I wouldn't really want to be on the lean side of 14.7 except on deceleration

That's correct, I started working on the car when I first got it, January of 2021. I took photos along the way, but never planned on doing what I did. I've restored a few gas pumps, but never anything like this. One thing led to another, then Covid hit. I had it in a body shop which took my money, but never finished the paint. It languished there for almost 18 months, and the car was held ransom for bogus "Storage Fees". It's called "body shop prison". I hope none of you ever go through it. Made me sick. Got the car back home last fall. Found another shop to finish it, and the restoration continued. I'll continue the progression with photos, but yes, the car is done. Here's a sneak peek.

Update time. So I lost my window of opportunity to finish the car when the doors wouldn't work but I finally took care of other commitments and I'm able to get back on the car. I skinned my old doors and did a test fit on the passengers side. just as a comparison here is the first door Max sent me. And here is an aftermarket skin on my old shell. I think at this point it's pretty obvious that the doors supplied to me from Resurrected Classics are garbage. Max if you are still following this you really need to step up and refund my money. I'm not sure how much more I have to show you that the problem is on your end and not my car.

The Activity page now lists each post instead of each Topic. Is that intentional? All a person sees today is a long list of parman's thread posts. Not much interaction there either, it seems to be a collection of old pictures and a story. Nothing wrong with that except that it's dominating the "feed".

When did the work on it start? It wasn't 18 hours ago. Is it done now? What are your plans? Edit - is this the 4 year restoration car you mentioned in a different post? Those first pics are four years old?

The story goes a doctor had this green car, he wrecked it, then someone welded the back half of another car to it. he wrecked it again, then decided to make an electric Z. took most of the interior out of this one, and stuck it in his barn. Meanwhile the electric Z caught fire in his garage and burned his garage down. Along side this green car was this 65 Datsun pickup. I thought why not, Merry Christmas to me

meanwhile, while studying up on these cars, I realized most of this car was here! Except the 2 things that most of them are missing, the wheels and hubcaps and radio. About that time I get on Craigslist, "I never get on Craigslist" and did a local search for 240z. what? here's one for sale near Kalispell. Funny but sad story attached to it. So I notice it's a 1/70 car wrecked and wrecked again but it had topy wheels. I ask if there's a radio somewhere, he sends me a picture of a box of parts with a radio, I said I'll be right down. 60 miles later, this thing is actually 2 cars welded together, the front of a 1/70 and the rear of an 11/71 judging by the unused spare. But, a couple rims were dated 12/69 and 2 were 5/70 and it had a nice bullet tip antenna. I bought it for the radio. Got my money back selling the rims and got a complete engine too and many other parts. Now I think all I'm missing are the correct dated rims and D hubcaps.

Close up of passenger side floor I guess I gotta keep going.... Did you notice? Junkyard Jenny said it's wearing a 72 bumper. also 1 rear finisher clip is broken.

I apologize for not seeing this earlier. I would like to see pics and really appreciate you responding. Thanks friend…John