Is it just me...

[drunkenmaster]

Or is there something unnaturally sensual about the bare metal of a Z...

Or maybe I have spent too long out under the car, more photos on my website in my signature

[Z Kid]

What did you use and how bored were you?

ie how long did it take?

Damn that looks neat.

[drunkenmaster]

Check the website and you will see the knotted wire wheel attachment on my angle grinder is not what it used to be. It has done the passenger underbody and half the transmission tunnel and that wheel arch and now its looking very miserable and in need of replacement.

Its taken me around 4 days so far...

[Gav240z]

I looked through your gallery looks like your doing a great job on her. I hope to do the same justice to mine one day but at the moment I need to be able to drive mine so it's not practical. When i finish my schooling I'll get a run around I saw your Mirage :classic: I had a corolla for the same purpose but it was costing too much. You won't believe how much better a Z is to drive once she's finished.

Keep up the good work and it will all come together one day.

[drunkenmaster]

Thanks guys.

I couldnt imagine doing it any other way unless using chemicals, but due to the strange reason that made me paint the outside first, i dont want to risk any splash over.

Angle grinders are cheap these days and the wire wheel attachment was under $20AUD but it looks like i will need at least 2.

Its not all glamour though, you get pretty sore twisted in unnatural positions under a car trying to fit an angle grinder in the transmission tunnel...plus the deadener that comes off goes everywhere.

I wear a respirator mask, goggles, face shield, bandana, and recently ear muffs but somehow the deadener can get past all these :cross-eye

[Gav240z]

When I was gonna attempt this I was planning on getting a rotissorie can't spell it. You know what I'm on about :classic: .

[kmack]

drunkenmaster,

I understand what you mean about the shiny metal. When I was cleaning the underside of mine, I had a thought about just leaving it and maybe trying to polish it out and have a "chrome" look instead of paint.

It was a rather fleeting thought as I then remembered how tough it is to polish things and then keep it nice. :stupid:

[kmack]

Gav,

If you can get a hold of a rotisserie, by all means, get it! I loved using mine. No more sore back or arms from laying underneath the car with all that stuff falling in your eyes.

[peterc]

Hell Yeah, it does look sexy. I think mainly because it's so nice and shiny. The rusty bits don't look near as niceROFL

Cheers,

Peter

[kmack]

mperdue,

you should be able to rotate the car until the drip rails above the door just touch the angle you have mounted between the stands. Basically, you should get about 300* of rotation.

[Bambikiller240]

Originally posted by drunkenmaster

Check the website and you will see the knotted wire wheel attachment on my angle grinder is not what it used to be. It has done the passenger underbody and half the transmission tunnel and that wheel arch and now its looking very miserable and in need of replacement.

Its taken me around 4 days so far...

Drunkenmaster: How does the knotted wire wheel work on undercoating?

I'm trying to strip the passenger floorpan for POR treatment, and my arms are killing me from scraping with a putty knife. It worked well for the tarmat inside the car, but sucks for the thick undercoat.

Thanks, Carl

[drunkenmaster]

Its quite good, on thin areas of deadnener it will take it right back to the thin white undercoating (well my car has white, im not sure about others), on thick areas first pass will smear it, second pass will remove most of it and by the third pass you should be seing all white. Holding it a little longer on the same spot will remove the white undercoating and reveal what lies beneath (hopefully shiney metal).

The fact that it can remove the black deadener and not the white undercoat is kind of reassuring to me that I beleive I am not thinning out the metal as it seems to only take off the layer at hand.

Of course I am almost halfway done and need to replace the wire wheel, it loses itss efficieny as the knots become undone and the wire falls out. Yesterday I was doing the front of the transmission tunnel and it took me an hour or two and I couldnt work out why. When I stopped I saw the wheel was about 1/4 as thick as it used to be, thats why i took the photo of it on my website. When I pick up a new one I will make a comparison shot.