73 240z restoration 904 White

[DC871F]

2 minutes ago, Patcon said:

I think the bigger the panel and the longer the seam the more chance for problems. Small patches are a great way to learn because they are reasonably forgiving

Yeah, especially on the upper rocker where the escusion plate will be covering them as well. Mama didnt raise no dummy.

[DC871F]

A few improvements to the shop.

Rigged up a transmission after cooler for my new Kobalt compressor, reduces air going into the holding tank to room temperature. It drastically keeps water out of the air lines. I also made up a 3/4" copper pipe system to catch any moisture that comes out of the tank before going to my water filter and regulator. This is just a preliminary set up before I put in a 5 stage filter system for painting.

Also am trying out this small blaster from HF. The cowl area on the Z has plenty of surface rust and a few pitted hole in it. I need to weld patch panels in and I cant really figure outa way to get in there and clean it out. I'm using glass media. 

[Mark Maras]

Just used one of those HF blasters with walnut shells to decarbonize the intake valves and ports on our son's VW turbo. It worked great.

[DC871F]

10 minutes ago, Mark Maras said:

Just used one of those HF blasters with walnut shells to decarbonize the intake valves and ports on our son's VW turbo. It worked great.

I used it briefly, and it did work good, but it went through material like something fierce.

I'll need to go get a soda blaster for the job I'm doing. I didnt realize it was meant for small jobs. I'm glad I have it though, it will come in handy.

[DC871F]

Upper left fender attach area.

[DC871F]

Passenger floor pan installation.

Lucky for me the tunnel is rust free except on small area where I will have to bring up the pan up the vertical slightly.

These are pans from Zedd Findings.

Edited November 28, 2021 by DC871F

[grannyknot]

Text book, you done this before😉

[DC871F]

22 minutes ago, grannyknot said:

Text book, you done this before😉

First time. Had to stare at it for half a day before getting the angle grinder on it. Thanks for the kind comment. Hopefully the frame rails can go as smooth.

Been doing odd jobs around the shop to improve welding skills and fabricating.

[grannyknot]

4 minutes ago, DC871F said:

First time. Had to stare at it for half a day before getting the angle grinder on it

You're a natural.

[DC871F]

1 minute ago, grannyknot said:

You're a natural.

Ha. It takes while to accomplish some tasks. When the power tools touch expensive parts is when you know I have excepted the reality I may be destroying a perfectly good part, and tell my wife our check book may need more depleting.

[DC871F]

Small update. Cleaned up rocker to accept new passenger floor pan. Patching better metal on the front tp accept pan. Was welding up a small patch and kept blowing right through it, kind of strange.

I'm blessed with clean rockers.

[Patcon]

I don't understand.

Where were you blowing through??