Air Dams, Spoilers and Exhaust Fumes

[Gav240z]

I had a 260z that had been in a accident at the rear quarter near the exhaust side and it had actually seperated part of the body from the rear floor. There was a gap there and fumes poured in very bad used to give me vile headaches. It's definately the shape of the car that attracts the fumes there but it's the seals that keep them out.

I'd seal them up as quick as possible as I feel it's quite dangerous and could be a health hazard from my experiences of headaches not to mention clothes smelling like fumes.

Off Topic MR Camouflage I luv your avatar did you make it yourself?

Is it an animated gif?

[Murph]

I agree it can't be too healthy.

I bought my car 1400km from home, and I had to drive it back with it leaking quite badly. Despite the heat at times we put the windows up jsut to get a break from it for a while. About half way through the 15 hour trip it started making my eye sting.

They next day we both had quite bad headaches and I found it was very lethargic (falling asleep by 3pm regradless of how many hours of sleep I'd had) for the next 2 weeks.

Not good.

[72zcar]

tail light seals: take tail lights off and seal them with silicone.

hatch:

This is most likely the mail problem. I sealed everything in the car... still got fumes, hatch seal looked fine. Then I bought a roll of thin self adhesive foam strip and put it to the hatch on the underside. not all the way around... only on the bottom side and about 8-10 inches up the sides from the bottom. use the thin stuff. You will have to slam the hatch the first few times. if the hatch won't close take a couple inches off the sides. No more fumes for me at all! I used to drive around crying the fumes were so bad...

[Mr Camouflage]

Originally posted by Gav240z

Off Topic MR Camouflage I luv your avatar did you make it yourself?

Is it an animated gif?

Yay, somone finally noticed my avatar!

Yeah its an animated gif that i made.

I made a 3D animated scene of the 240z in lightwave then exported each frame as a separate image. then loaded each one in imageready and converted it to an animated gif.

I had to keep lowering the image quality and shortening the animation to keep the filesize small.

[hf240z]

Originally posted by 72zcar

tail light seals: take tail lights off and seal them with silicone.

hatch:

This is most likely the mail problem. I sealed everything in the car... still got fumes, hatch seal looked fine. Then I bought a roll of thin self adhesive foam strip and put it to the hatch on the underside. not all the way around... only on the bottom side and about 8-10 inches up the sides from the bottom. use the thin stuff. You will have to slam the hatch the first few times. if the hatch won't close take a couple inches off the sides. No more fumes for me at all! I used to drive around crying the fumes were so bad...

hi,

it works. i bought 1/2" by 5/16 by 10 ft weather strip at a local hardware and stick it just behind the rubber seal(on the hatch).

after two years of suffering.

thanks everyone...now i will really enjoy driving it......with a:classic:

[Mr Camouflage]

Here's a zipped quicktime movie of the avatar animation.

avatar.zip

[Alfadog]

That's a pretty good model there... you make the model yourself too??

You should make more movies with that car :love:

[JEFF]

Originally posted by Mr Camouflage

Here's a zipped quicktime movie of the avatar animation.

That's VERY VERY COOL!!

- Jeff

[Mr Camouflage]

I've been modifying a model that i got from a need for speed site, as a base, adding more detail, and making bits myself. I'd like to model the whole car piece by piece, including the engine internals, though its going to take years, because I dont work on it very often.

Would be able to make some cool animations then.

I've some more animations, but they are too big to upload.