Starting down the long road to new paint...

[Rainman]

Thanks Esmit! I really lucked out on this rotisserie thing... some guys in the Z Club of Southern Oregon loaned it to me.. Your 3/72 project looks like a handful but you are coming along nicely! I ended up using an electric random orbital palm sander with 80 grit pads to get the paint off the large, unsupported metal areas before taking it in for media blasting. The guy that's doing that work for me said the media (or sand) can warp the metal, especially in areas that I mentioned above. So I made sure the roof, hood and larger areas of the doors were stripped prior to the blasting.

Keep up the good work with you 3/72 project, I'll keep an eye on your thread and will look forward to more pictures from you!

Never give up!

[Bonzi Lon]

esmit208, there are several threads on how to make several styles. One inexpensive way is with 2 Harbor Freight engine stands and some rigging.

Bonzi Lon

[Zedyone_kenobi]

I wish you all the luck in the world. My Z would love to be stripped down and resprayed. So many little things that I know are wrong that this level of restoration would fix. One day...

[Rainman]

Thanks Kenobi, keep checking back as I continue this project.. I hope to get the 260Z back with all the repairs finished and in primer by the end of the week. More pics will follow of course! Take care...

Tom

[pjoe]

what grit sandpaper are you using to remove the paint? Im getting ready to start sanding mine down soon. My project is more of a get it back on the road and have fun with it now and do a more thorough refresh down the road. your project looks like its coming along great.

[Mike B]

what grit sandpaper are you using to remove the paint? Im getting ready to start sanding mine down soon.

From his post #13 above....

I ended up using an electric random orbital palm sander with 80 grit pads to get the paint off the large, unsupported metal areas before taking it in for media blasting.

[soundmasterg]

Thanks Esmit! I really lucked out on this rotisserie thing... some guys in the Z Club of Southern Oregon loaned it to me.. Your 3/72 project looks like a handful but you are coming along nicely! I ended up using an electric random orbital palm sander with 80 grit pads to get the paint off the large, unsupported metal areas before taking it in for media blasting. The guy that's doing that work for me said the media (or sand) can warp the metal, especially in areas that I mentioned above. So I made sure the roof, hood and larger areas of the doors were stripped prior to the blasting.

Keep up the good work with you 3/72 project, I'll keep an eye on your thread and will look forward to more pictures from you!

Never give up!

I wish I was ready to respray my Z and had the use of the rotisserie that you're using. I wonder if they might lend it to me also when I will be ready to tear mine down in a couple years? I'm up in the portland area....

Car is looking great!

Greg

[pjoe]

yep totally missed that..thanks

[Rainman]

I can't go more than a few days without visiting my car, so here is an update after a visit to Ferguson's last night. Most of the repairs are complete now and the chassis is nearly done with the media blasting. The pros at Ferguson's have 'massaged' the areas of one of the doors and one of the fenders where some old repairs had been made, filling holes and pulling areas that had previously held lots of filler. Have a little of that to do on the rear of the body as well.. Overall it looks awesome!!

Pics start with a couple of the mess I made in my garage removing as much of the old paint from the unsupported areas of the hood and doors prior to the media blasting. I'm still cleaning up after that business!! Next time I'll use drop cloths to cover the busier areas of the garage... except there won't be a next time.. With any luck that is!!!

I received another bunch of parts including a urethane kit from Energy Suspension, new set of rear bearings, lower control arm bolts, a reman steering rack with inner and outer tie rod ends and new lower ball joints. Also have new windshield and rear hatch glass weather stripping.

Thanks for the replies everyone, your enthusiasm is much appreciated!! Greg, not sure the rotisserie owners will allow it to stray all the way to Portland but you could ask... Worst they could say is no.. PM me with your email address and I'll pass it on to them.

Thanks for reading... Here are the photos. Enjoy...

[Rainman]

So the 260Z is sealed in two part epoxy primer! After ten days of media blasting, a little rust repair and plenty of metal massaging, the A-Team at Ferguson Fabrication is nearly finished with my car. Will bring it home tonight, closing this chapter in the refresh until I my next time off period beginning next month.

Still need to figure out a solution to fitting the fiberglass 240Z bumpers to the car... So I may take it back to them for a few days next month to sort that out.

Will take some pictures of it on the trailer, so one more post before I go back to work..

Here are the photos, as always there are more at my photobucket account as noted earlier.. Enjoy.