What I did Labor day weekend.

[Ed]

I know some of you partied. Some worked. Others got to ride around in there Zed's. Me I spent it rubbing a piece of metal.

[MikeW]

Wow, that looks like more than a weekend worth of work to me. How did you do it?

I spent much of yesterday cleaning out the garage so that I could get my daily driver back in behind the 240Z. I had been parking it outside for about the last 6 months. This morning I looked out the window and noticed a huge oak tree limb had fallen exactly where I had been parking. It would have crushed in the roof and/or broken the windshield. Thanks you tropical storm Frances.

[e_racer1999]

looks sexy!

[ChrisA]

Hey Ed that looks great. Can you give us a little info on how you accomplished that?

Spent my weekend with family, relaxing in the shade, drinking cold beverages, grilling good food, splashing in the pool.

Chris

[gramercyjam]

Oh man! I barely have the patience to bead blast! Thats a good amount of work there.

I partied in Port Aransas, beer, margaritas, and sunburn on the beach Sat/Sun , then went home, slept till noon Monday, got up and pulled my Z motor/tranny and tore them down.

[panchovisa]

Do you take advantage off rouge and cotton wheels, or did you make love to it by hand? Great job, want to do mine? Didn't think so.

[240ZX]

Ed, really nice work on the front cover! I'm one of the guys who went for a drive in my Z toy. Early Saturday morning, on one of my favorite sections of blacktop, I came up on a black firebird, just prior to the downhill (lots-o-twisties & smooth pavement) section. As soon as the guy sees my Z he starts to pick up the pace. Well, before we reached the the bottom of the hill, I figured the guys was going to have an off road excursion at any moment. Mind you it was a brisk pace, but nothing I would consider pushing it. Anyway, the guy kept it on the road (my 240 a consistant car length off his butt with ease) and made it to the bottom. I had my little bit of fun, but the guy in the firebird just kept on it all the way in to town....oh well!!! Now I don't advocate playing too hard on the street, but it sure made my day (got my adrenalin fix). What a great way to start out a weekend. Oh! By the way, we were the only two cars on the road. That's how I started my holiday!

[Fun_in_my_z]

I spent my weekend working on the Z. Found a lot of rust that is repairable.

Bbqed Monday cuz everyone was off and out of school.

Got in a arguement with a 100 pound pit bull over my grandmothers trash cans...You can guess you won...Yup i was picking up trash all afternoon.

Man is that mut going go get it. :mad:

[hls30.com]

Ed,

Your car is going to follow you everywhere!

Wiill

[59ghia]

I finally got my "renewed" gas tank in, all new "fuel" hose and all! Now I can fill-er up and not smell gas!

Dave

[2-4-T-Z-MAN]

Ed,

I would have preferred polishing anything rather than dodging falling oak trees, 105 mph winds, neighbor's tree branches, no power for 4 days, cold showers and no car shows on TV.

Your engine is going to look great. Good job!

[Ed]

Hey, you Florida members, hat's off to ya! I lived in Okinawa for 4 years and we had all kinds of typhoon's. Nothing as bad as this 1-2 ya'll just got (Charlie-Frances).

For you people that want to do something like this yourselves do a search and put "rouge" in the query. That's what I did and found lot's of info.

For those that don't want to do a search, I started by Glass bead blasting,

then I smoothed the surface with 220 grit wet/dry.

From there 320 grit.

Then 600 grit.

Followed by the "red" rouge that I got at Sears Hardware. On a soft cotton wheel.

If you guys have the patience I 'm going to post pics of my engine when I'm done (unfortunately this will be a couple of months) :classic: .