My two swiss S30Z Fairlady Restoration build thread

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Recently i acquired two pieces of Nissan sports option aka Datsun Competition aka the Triple Mikuni carb heat shields from Japan. One was in a good, used condition. the other one seemed to be restored on the first sight. But after i received it and inspected it closer, i quickly realized that they just sprayed it with some silver paint that came off upon touching it.

After looking at it again, i also saw that it was not straight and had a few cheap weld repairs. Here is the "good" side, which only needed a bit of flattening with the hammer (probably from wiggling it off the previous installation):

And here is the bad side from the inside You can see the corners and the holes have some weld leftovers and do not look nice:

And this is the outside (after i already started to work on it). You can see some rough remaints of the welds:

And this is how it all looked after an hour of filing and straightening everything with my recently bought bodyshop hammer and file set:

Now it's Much better than before. Everything is straight and the surface even, and the curvatures / holes are round again. After i took the picture i sprayed it with some rust primer, but i will have to have the whole thing resprayed once it's going to be installed. I also finally managed to get the car back on the lift again and hope i find some time during the christmas holidays to get some stuff from my to-do list checked off!