1976 280Z Restoration Project

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Negative. Just plain old nozzle and fire

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Finished the frame rail support. Finished the welds and cleaned things up. Doesn't look like a lot of progress but it was a couple hours of welding and grinding!

[Captain Obvious]

Beautiful.  And may I be first to suggest that it's "built like a tank"?  

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My other ride is a tank...

65 degrees Celsius and 30 hours into a road move with no stopping with enemy contact throughout.... not in my happy place!

[gwri8]

Dude, nice Porsche! 

 

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Well.... technically I was working on German Leopard 2A6M main battle tanks.... manufactured about 100kms from Stuttgart (the Porsche factory)

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Finished the frame rail seam weld tonight.

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I'm looking forward to the primer stage. The metal looks ugly like this!

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This side looks good too!

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So I made a boo boo with the bulldog end I fabricated on the passenger side. It was a good shape and proper size, I just welded it on to the existing metal a little too low (towards the street) and the fender did not mount flush. I had to cut out about 3/8" of metal from the middle of the piece and reweld it together. It turned out great so I am happy but disappointed I didn't catch it before I welded it in before...

You can see how the "bump" is higher than the rocker panel. They should be the same with an indent in the middle of the bulldog.

The pictures in the previous posts show it rewelded in properly.

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This enlarged area is where the change was made. Note the red line is now in line with the rocker profile. I will get a better picture tonight.

The second picture shows the blue line where I cut across the bulldog and removed about 3/8' of metal and then rejoined the two together.

This shot shows how far off I was...

Edited February 8, 2017 by wheee!

[grannyknot]

Better now then when you hang the fender for paint.