My two swiss S30Z Fairlady Restoration build thread

[JDMjunkies.ch]

A while ago, the famous JDM legends shop had a contest on their facebook page and, well, i won it

Today a package from USA arrived with a nice JDMlegends Tee and a few stickers, which i will proudly put on my car once it's done. Great! And big thanks to Eric and Ryan over at JDMlegends!

[hr369]

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He quoted me 15 grand for a completely restored base shell including the bolt-on panels. but also explained it could easily be more work discovered at work. im ok with that.

Wow 15,000. Wouldn't it be less expensive just importing a nice rust free one from Los angeles?

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Hehe, no - definitly no import costs at least 2 grand plus taxes and stuff and i think prices uf rust-free shells in USA are rising. Also most of the US-shells aren't really rust free compared to what mine will be when it's done. we're talking about a complete rebuild with a lot of custom made panels and a car which is better than a new Z was back in 1972. Importing a car and getting it to the same quality level will cost about the same at the end and i like the fact that i save an old shell that most of t he people would have thrown away

[JDMjunkies.ch]

First the bad news: I've planned to get a lot of work done this week due to swiss labour day and so on, but of course i had to get a damn cold exactly during this time so i'm currently lying in my bed with fever and other uncool stuff...

Now to the good news: I made a few phone calls around the country to different registration stations and Authorities and this led me back to the original car's documents which i - 50 bucks later - got an original copy from now. This will alow me to get the car registered when it's done. great - my car has documents

[JDMjunkies.ch]

I still have a damn flu, but somehow it got so boring laying around in front of the tv - i just had to get something done. so i went to the garage and started with no special goal in my mind. Seems like sometimes it's the best to work without pressure

1) Got the clutch slave cylinder out after i had it soaked in WD40 for a few days:

2) Next was the Fuel pump to be removed:

3) jacked up the front end and put it on jackstands and prepared the engine hoist / Lifter:

4) removed the engine mount-bolts and lifter the L24 out with no problems

Big hole here

5) put the engine on an old tire because it's a great way to store engines

next step will be the dashboard i think. it's coming along again

[JDMjunkies.ch]

We have a day off here in switzerland so i spent an hour at the garage and removed the transmission:

1) Jacked up the rear end and put it on jackstands so i was able to unbolt the driveshaft:

2) Unbolted the driveshaft from the transmission and unbolted the transmission mount. and out it came:

and out of the car it is

also started to uninstall the fuel tank but have to drain it first

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Finally winter is gone (well yeah, in June!!) and summer arrived so motivation and weather is back to get some stuff done.

Worked with the fuel tank today:

Removed the Fuel lock thingy:

And all the hoses and stuff connected to the tank:

and after an hour of work i finally got it out:

also started at some other areas but need to soak a few bits in WD40 before i'm able to remove them completely, see next update

And yeah, had birthday last week and my good friend danny amazingly bought me this Nürburgring gift box which includes a Caterham drift training workshop at the Nürburgring as a gift. Damn - this will be fun

[EuroDat]

Grats with your birthday. Cool gift

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Spent two hours at the garage today and got a lot of stuff done:

1) finally got the stuck scews at the trunk lid out:

2) Then started to prepare for the dashboard removal, so started with the glove box first.

On the glove box liner there are three japanese katakana characters (ス イ ス) which means Su-I-Su and stands for Suisse. So this is the proof it's a swiss market car and not an import vehicle:

and out the glove box lid is:

3) then removed the steering rack coupler:

which finally allowed me to remove the complete steering column :-)

[240260280z]

Nice progress...this is a fun thread to watch!

[JDMjunkies.ch]

thanks man, always appreciate feedback

[bartsscooterservice]

Talk about the weather ! Thought summer would never come...