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1976 280Z Restoration Project


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Better? Or worse?

Tried adding some detail to the valve cover tonight. Black powder coat stripe.

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Then I discover that the black powder didn’t adhere too well. I can touch that up. THEN, I decided to clear coat the cover. This added a real nice gloss to the cover BUT, it made the colour shift to raw aluminum. Not chrome anymore. The white powder on the cover is the clearcoat powder.

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Another shot of the clear on the red anti sway bar. Makes it pop pretty nice! The bars did not end up with a perfect finish as the corrosion had a mottling effect on them before powder coating. But they will look good from afar!
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I got back from field training for the weekend and only have another day before I am back out in the mud and fields of Wainwright.

Just enough time to change a noisy wheel bearing on my rear driver side in the 370Z and install the new rubber brake and clutch pedal covers on the 280Z!

I drove the 370Z a little on Monday but the Ventus V12’s are showing the steel bands... 27,000 kms and worn out already! Oh well, better than the Dunlop’s that only got 17,000 kms. 305 30R19’s aren’t cheap. Back to work!

 

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Hey, that's just like a civilian work site, 9 guys standing around looking at the job that has to be done.[emoji106]
I like the engine load leveler,  actually I like it all.

Yaaaaa.... actually nothing like civilian work. That’s a hot, 8 ton engine pack sitting on the ground 20 minutes after rolling in to my maintenance biv. 2 ton rear deck lifted, moved over and dropped to the ground by the 80 ton Armoured Recovery Vehicle, then the hot 1500HP diesel pack being completely disconnected and unbolted from the chassis and lifted out by the pack sling onto the ground...
the guys are there to swab the hull while we repair the pack and replace it in the hull again as fast as possible.
It’s like Indy pit racing without the fun...
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