My two swiss S30Z Fairlady Restoration build thread

[bartsscooterservice]

@ Eurodat: i do wear mechanic gloves while working. this happened with gloves

Well hello there People keep asking me what's going on and you might have noticed i'm currently working hard on finishing my EK9 project. But anyway, this is what happend with the 240Z's lately:

First a friend told me about a great retored 240Z body in germany. took ma a while to get in touch with the owner:

what looked to be a great deal first turned out to be an US-imported model with a weird badly executed widebody conversion with modifaight taillights (even worse than my white shell). so it's useless to me. Too sad.

Then found another car for a reasonable price which was sold in germany but then i figured out the ad on Autoscout was a scam and some people tried to trick me sending them some money. i'm happy i was smar enough and didn't get fooled

So why am im telling you this? I thought having a cheap good shell istead of restoring mine would make everything faster and cheaper. but turned out this option seemed to be a bit of a dream. so i think i'll just proceed with my initial project after this little dream-break Watch out for news soon

I believe this guy had 2 240z shells for sale a while ago, maybe he still has them.

VA-Motorsport Engineering - official KNAF rollcage manufacturer

[JDMjunkies.ch]

thanks for the input, man - just wrote them an email

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Thanks to this great thread on JNC i thought a H4 conversion for my 240Z headlight would be something useful. But as a real JDMjunky i was looking for a Japanese version istead of the german Hella headlights and therefore i measured my headlights and they're 180mm (7 inch). But when measuring i figured out one of my cars already had a Hella H4 conversion:

but they're slightly rusted and aged and some oldschool design, so i still want to replace them. Now what i'm curious is the Hella's have a small positioning bulb:

The other car also had some H4 conversion by an unknown manufacturer, but it seems without positioning bulb:

I found some replacement H4 headlights by IPF japan. Available both with and without positioning lamp. LHD and RHD design also available

Now can anyone tell me what Kind of headlights the original z's came with? H4 or closed oldschool design? With or without positioning light? Thanks for your help!!

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Finally got some work at the chassis done.

1) Removed all the sound deadening and tar mats. this is what the car looked before:

what i removed:

and how it looks now. You can see the common rust-spots in the floor mats and at the battery area in the firewall:

Also got the wheels removed and did a lot of small stuff. Also cleaning up the mess in my garage, so hopefully i'll go to the garage more often now again

[bartsscooterservice]

Keep going, your in the hardest part right now, alot of body work to do..

Are you going to get it sandblasted ?

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Are you going to get it sandblasted ?

yeah i think partially, but big surfaces like roof, hood etc shouldn't be sandblasted from what i heard. because the heat of the process may produce some waves in thin big areas. but i think it's ok for the engine bay, wheel well's etc.. have to discuss this with the bodyshop then. we have another method in switzerland in which the car is put in an special non corrosive alcohol bath but it's expensive and usually only done to expensive cars like old ferrari's etc. think the easiest way is just to sand big surfaces down by machine, like i've done it partially on my first chassis

[240260280z]

Paint Stripping

[240260280z]

Paint Stripping 101 - Get Schooled in the Many Ways to Take the Paint Off Your Car - Hot Rod Magazine

[bartsscooterservice]

yeah i think partially, but big surfaces like roof, hood etc shouldn't be sandblasted from what i heard. because the heat of the process may produce some waves in thin big areas. but i think it's ok for the engine bay, wheel well's etc.. have to discuss this with the bodyshop then. we have another method in switzerland in which the car is put in an special non corrosive alcohol bath but it's expensive and usually only done to expensive cars like old ferrari's etc. think the easiest way is just to sand big surfaces down by machine, like i've done it partially on my first chassis

Yeah the acid bath I know... Are you going to do the welding yourself or ?

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Yeah the acid bath I know... Are you going to do the welding yourself or ?

It's not the normal acid bath, they have some different fluids which isn't as aggressive and corrosive as the standard acid bath's it's more of an special alcohol bath. but it's expensive

No the plan is to get the chassis welded by a bodyshop. i can't weld and don't have the gear..

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Yeah it's getting around 0°C here so that's the perfect time to start the garage season I did something long overdue and cleaned up the garage:

1) Removed oil from the engine. also removed the oil filter and created a big mess inside and outside my garage. spent an hour cleaning it. But that's another story

2) This made it possible for me to move the engine Nr 2 on a trolley. Well it was a cheap trolley which actually bent a lot right after putting the engine on it, but yeah, it was only 16$ and works fine for moving the engine once a year

3) after that i finally was yble to clean up the garage. still not done, because i ran out of time, but at least i can move around free in my garage by now

4) Also started with the removal of the steering rack stuff, but as i said, ran out of time. more next week hopefully

[dpascual1986]

Yeah it's getting around 0°C here so that's the perfect time to start the garage season I did something long overdue and cleaned up the garage:

1) Removed oil from the engine. also removed the oil filter and created a big mess inside and outside my garage. spent an hour cleaning it. But that's another story

2) This made it possible for me to move the engine Nr 2 on a trolley. Well it was a cheap trolley which actually bent a lot right after putting the engine on it, but yeah, it was only 16$ and works fine for moving the engine once a year

3) after that i finally was yble to clean up the garage. still not done, because i ran out of time, but at least i can move around free in my garage by now

4) Also started with the removal of the steering rack stuff, but as i said, ran out of time. more next week hopefully

sooo... about that picture of the hot UPS chick..???