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!

 

[JDMjunkies.ch]

So, Over the last few days i got a few nice parts again. First a set of Nissan 50th anniversary badges in black:

I always had a red and blue one but the black one was missing. now my set is complete and i got a few black ones for spare too 🙂

Then i got some Parts from S30.world.


The first item is the Handbrake cable including all installation hadware. Just look at all the details. it's as close as it can get to the OEM part. including all the little hardware details!


The Second set was the fuel tank installation hardware straps including the rubber insulation pieces. the rubber blocks for the fuel tank and the installation hardware.
Again excellent quality parts down to the smallest detail.


This should allow me to install the S30.world reproduction fuel tank on my test-assembly soon. Thanks again Chris for those awesome parts.
Make sure to check out their ever-growing lineup of parts on the S30.world shop: