My two swiss S30Z Fairlady Restoration build thread

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Sorry for the lack of updates. Pre-christmas stuff keeps me busy currently, but soon Christmas holiday is coming so i hope to be able to get a few things sorted.

Compared the damage on my two chassis today. Still need to check a few things but this is what i saw so far:

So my plan is to do the same as Torby from Latenightgarage to his Z. Swap the entire front end from my black car to the white one, as well as the taillight surrounding. still need to study a lot of things but this seems a pretty nice way to make one good Chassis out of two rusty ones as the front is pretty well on the black one but the restunusable and the front-end is the biggest problem (with a lot of cheap repair patches) on the white one:

[EuroDat]

Nils, Thats a serious repair you have planned. It will be inteesting to see how this all comes back together. My Z is completly rust free, but the rails have had a hard life and are all dented and bent. Ill probably change them.

Chas

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Haha, it's more a "make-one-out-of-two" thing than a serous repair. i believe the black one would'nt make sense to repair and the white one would be very tricky to replace all the panels in the front end so i think this is the easiest way to get it fixed and after torby at http://www.latenightgarage.com/?p=669 did the exactly same i feel like this is a great idea to save the best from two cars.

Anyway i still need replacement of the frame rails but for this i will have another update soon, i hope

Also i still need to investigate a bit further on the quality of the black front end, i hope it's really as usable as i think it is

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Spent another hour at the new (black) Z and "freed" the front end to have a closer look:

1) Grille off:

2) Fenders off:

3) Hood off:

Good news: I found what i was looking for: A pretty solid, straight and not-too-rusty Front end. Perfect for swapping it over to the white chassis

[EuroDat]

Hi Nils,

Looks like the front end is in pretty good condition. You have a good donor for the white Z.

Chas

[JDMjunkies.ch]

yeah definitly. the rest of the body is a bit useless i think, but the front end is exactly what i was hoping for

[JDMjunkies.ch]

You remember the "Datsun parts heaven" i wrote about a while ago? Today i visited this place again, because i wanted to pick up a set of pretty damn rare NOS OEM Frame rails for the 240Z. I've never seen them for sale so they must be something really sought after and i wanted to secure them for my project. here they are, can't get any better

Then my mate stefan and i Checked out a nice Z which is for sale and a few friends of us are interrested in:

And Stefan took a closer look at a Datsun 180B Triple S, a seriously rare car over here! He might be buying it soon, at least i hope so

And last but not least i edited an Image of my second's Z engine bay, just because it looked so nice and i loved the picture with the lens flare

More updates to come soon

[EuroDat]

Do you guys all have sunroofs in Switzerland?

[EuroDat]

I have never seen original NOS rails. Rare find:love:

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Haha yeah that's why i had to buy them. i've only seen once a set for sale in the USA, but without shipping outside US. and the baddog rails are good replicas but quite not OEM quailty

And yeah most of the car's have sonroofs in switzerland (Don't ask me why). when i bought my first z they told me it's a rare model without sunroof but i later figured out it once had a sunroof and just was closed by welding in a piece of sheet metal.

anyway, now i have a shell without sunroof that's pretty fine

[bartsscooterservice]

Hi Nils,

I have been reading everything and looked at the pictures. Been there, done that. Personally I would not cut anything in half, but use the black one, and weld in those frame rails you showed in the picture, together with new floor pans. ( when cutting things away, make sure you weld support structure in first )The first thing you need to do, to get things done more quicker, is to get the black chassis sandblasted, once sandblasted things work alot quicker and cleaner, and you will see welding in the new parts will go alot quicker. Then you can put everything in protective primer/paint, and can start assemble the car.

Keep going !

Bart

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Hi Bart, thanks for your input. the problem is the complete roof, side panels rear end and more is pretty bad on the black car, while good on the white car, so i think cutting them in half is still the best, but a complicated way to preserve the best from both cars...