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1976 280Z Restoration Project


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12 minutes ago, grannyknot said:

Does that mean you have to remove the existing airbox and blower?

None of the stock components are re-used basically. I will have new heater lines, new vent hose, all new evaporator and condenser, new blower etc etc 

This will be a modern replacement of the old system. It should provide a nice quiet, leak free version of the old basic functions, but also give me AC! Of course, that means a bunch of new lines and a compressor and drier and yadda yadda yadda, but it will be worth it.

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19 hours ago, wheee! said:

Still need the compressor and lines and condenser and..... stuff.

Mark,

Do you have a compressor in mind? Last time I was solo junkyarding, I saw that the early Pathfinders/D21 trucks used a V-belt pulley compressor. I didn't pick it up, but hopefully giving you a nudge to check that compressor out. R-134A too.

Wayne

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So with temperatures around minus 30 Celsius for the last two weeks, my shop furnace decides to stop working this last weekend. Hot surface igniter died. Luckily, I was able to get a new one locally Monday night and get heat back into the shop. Unfortunately, I probably froze a lot of paint and chemicals that will need to be replaced. 

In the meantime I was inspired to strip some of the old blue paint off the Stroker... and found... more paint!

 

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4 hours ago, wheee! said:

So with temperatures around minus 30 Celsius for the last two weeks, my shop furnace decides to stop working this last weekend. Hot surface igniter died.

What do you guys burn up there?  I'm still on oil.  It's a dying technology around here I had to learn how to rebuild my own furnace.

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