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Is it Christmas already? Well, feels so, because today i got a nice delivery with some super-rare parts from the land of the rising Sun again: Forst the least important part: Some Oldschool Falcon racing stickers from RS Watanabe which will perfectly Fit my Falcon steering wheel Then i Got a NOS Fuel 52mm gauge from the now out-of-business Omori Meter company. With the right resistance for S30Z Fuel sensor. Will use this one to figure out if it will fit into the Center gaues. if yes i'll buy two others Like the Patina / wear on the original packaging And now the Highlight A Brand new NOS BRIDE Histrix seat. they're so super rare that i've been looking for one since over two years and now found one on an occasion Brilliant quality. great design. just perfect. Maybe not really oldschool with that carbon shell but most people won't even recognise and honestly it's just the pure style and JDM-ness that made me want one of these for many years now Anyway, still need a second one :

Had some free time so i decided to uninstall the gauges from the dash, to do a few measurements and thoughts about the future installation of some oldschool aftermarket gauges. Before: From behind: Removed Out they are And that's how they look from behind: I always thought 52mm gauges will fit plug & play but the holes seem to be much bigger (like 80mm's) does anybody know how to install 52mm gauges in a nice way? or does everybody use 60mm? I'm a bit confused... Thanks for any input and / or advice

Found a few spare minutes today, so i decided to jump into the workshop suit and get something done. well my progress wasn't that big, but at least i got something done Steering rack before: Found these nice Genuine Nissan stickers underneath the steering rack boots: And that's what it looked like after an hour. Was quite a task to remove the sticky busihngs and stuff, but the rest shouldn't be that difficult after i'm soaking it heavily in WD40 now

Whoohoow! After some delay by the postal service i finally picked up a BIG Package today. So what was inside? A bunch uf nice JDM goodies and parts: 1) A Bunch of Kameari Racing Goodies like reinforced Transmission mounts, engine mounts, Engine Brackets, Steering damper deleter, and a NISMO Differential Mount 2) A set of ENDLESS Reservoir tank covers (Just for fun ) 3) A Set of Autorefine ARC Stabilizer bars (For Cars with Differentials), including bushings and stuff... 4) A set of IPF H4 Headlight conversion kits, including the High-power relay 5) And last but not least i bought a Poster from 7tune.com which is from the Famous Starroad Fairlady Z. THe poster is limited to 50, numbered and signed by Inoue-San from Starroad himself I Hope to get back to work on the car soon but because i'm so busy it's hard to find time.. On sunday i have another Datsun guy visiting me and I then i just have to annaunce another great buy for a big, rare part in Japan, which will hopefully arrive here within 2 weeks

After vacation, a few crazy weeks at my job, a rusted-through exhaust system on my daily car and a lot of other stuff going on, im happy to have some good news. I finally found some time for the fairlady again and i have a big Package of JDM-parts for the Zed coming in the next days. So be sure to watch this thread here next week Nothing big today, just wanted to thank my mate Nils for his input. Thanks to heat and a copper hammer my stuck-for-weeks tierod end links came apart pretty easy and next step will be to rebuild the entire steering rack Oh and then i got a TODA Racing flag from japan (you might know my EK9 is running Toda parts) so i decided to hang it in my garage This is how it currently looks in my shed

Thanks for the input. Now i see there are holes on the other side to attach these rubber pieces! will custom make some of these! thanks for your help

Got some stuff done again: Started with the removal of the tierod-end links. one worked fine, the other one destroyed my splitting-tool. ok, have to find another solution removed those side-skid panels within the fender-housings: and out they are. one seems to have a custom-made rubber extension also removed those water-drip hoses inside the car: both out: and while working i found an old wrench inside the space where the wiper motor usually sits. someone must be missing this one for ages

Finally i got some stuff completed Removed the doglegs first: And then the stabilizer bar: As next i disconnected the brake-lines The removed the front axle Out it is And this is how it looks now Hope to get some more stuff done during christmas days

Well started to remove the front axle stuff today. can't show you a lot of progress because due to a lot of rusty bolts i wasn't able to complete it yet. still soaking stuff in WD40 1) Completed the garage-cleanup and sorted all the tools and labelled the drawers. Much easier to find stuff now 2) Then started with the removal of the steering rack / tierod end links, but not complete yet: 3) Next was the stabilizer bar front, almost done but not complete 3) Same for the doglegs, almost done but not complete Hope to be able to remove the entire front axle soon

Yeah it's getting around 0°C here so that's the perfect time to start the garage season I did something long overdue and cleaned up the garage: 1) Removed oil from the engine. also removed the oil filter and created a big mess inside and outside my garage. spent an hour cleaning it. But that's another story 2) This made it possible for me to move the engine Nr 2 on a trolley. Well it was a cheap trolley which actually bent a lot right after putting the engine on it, but yeah, it was only 16$ and works fine for moving the engine once a year 3) after that i finally was yble to clean up the garage. still not done, because i ran out of time, but at least i can move around free in my garage by now 4) Also started with the removal of the steering rack stuff, but as i said, ran out of time. more next week hopefully

It's not the normal acid bath, they have some different fluids which isn't as aggressive and corrosive as the standard acid bath's it's more of an special alcohol bath. but it's expensive No the plan is to get the chassis welded by a bodyshop. i can't weld and don't have the gear..

yeah i think partially, but big surfaces like roof, hood etc shouldn't be sandblasted from what i heard. because the heat of the process may produce some waves in thin big areas. but i think it's ok for the engine bay, wheel well's etc.. have to discuss this with the bodyshop then. we have another method in switzerland in which the car is put in an special non corrosive alcohol bath but it's expensive and usually only done to expensive cars like old ferrari's etc. think the easiest way is just to sand big surfaces down by machine, like i've done it partially on my first chassis

Finally got some work at the chassis done. 1) Removed all the sound deadening and tar mats. this is what the car looked before: what i removed: and how it looks now. You can see the common rust-spots in the floor mats and at the battery area in the firewall: Also got the wheels removed and did a lot of small stuff. Also cleaning up the mess in my garage, so hopefully i'll go to the garage more often now again

Thanks to this great thread on JNC i thought a H4 conversion for my 240Z headlight would be something useful. But as a real JDMjunky i was looking for a Japanese version istead of the german Hella headlights and therefore i measured my headlights and they're 180mm (7 inch). But when measuring i figured out one of my cars already had a Hella H4 conversion: but they're slightly rusted and aged and some oldschool design, so i still want to replace them. Now what i'm curious is the Hella's have a small positioning bulb: The other car also had some H4 conversion by an unknown manufacturer, but it seems without positioning bulb: I found some replacement H4 headlights by IPF japan. Available both with and without positioning lamp. LHD and RHD design also available Now can anyone tell me what Kind of headlights the original z's came with? H4 or closed oldschool design? With or without positioning light? Thanks for your help!!

thanks for the input, man - just wrote them an email

Thanks to a great review post by Dailydatsun i thought it would be a great idea to update my Alternator mounting bracket to a better fixed and more solid version from Futofab so i ordered one a few days ago and here it is. Pretty nice litte piece of craftmanship

Whoop Whoop! You know it's gonna be a good day, when a new hot UPS-chick shows up with this: So What's inside this long-awaited Japan-delivery? Let's see: 1) Tomei Powered Cam wheel. Not really important yet for the build, but i wanted to secure a few parts which are out of production and only last stock: 2) Same for next item: A high flow L6 Oil pump by tomei powered: 3) and now to another Holy grail to come on this Car: A set of Ultra rare (many don't even know these exist ) Hayashi racing Aluminum rear brake drums Many people don't know but Hayashi racing (famous for their wheels) also do brake drums (usually for Daihatsu Copen and these kind of cars) but thanks to a shop called half-way / kuruma they also made a very limited run for the 240Z and what you see here is the last item in stock i got. Bang have another small order on the way here and im planning big updates again soon

On we go, spent an hour with the mirror bases / Stakes again and some agressive industrial paint removere and a wire brush and finally all the paint is gone - ready for some new paint in the original Charcoal flat colour - Anybody has an input about the exact colour? oh and you guys asked for a picture of the Kakimoto underside - here it is:

Thanks for the input, will remember this when installing the engine! Upraded engine bushings where planned anyway and lowering it sounds like a good idea Thanks! your knowledge is incredible Thanks mate! I'll make a picture for you and upload it within the next days

Here we go! Could'nt wait to get the textures on the freshpainted valve cover sanded down, so started straight. 1) Added some protective paint and stared with 240 grit sandpaper and a block: 2) first results visible. Because the 240grit paper leaves some scratches in the soft aluminum i changed to much higher grit paper once the paint and primer was removed: 3) three hours later: DONE!! Absolutely love it! can't be happier! Just need to polish the textures now and do a minor touch up, but nothing big. Did i mention i love it?? 4) Next on the agenda was removing thepaint from the old mirror stakes / bases. Before: After adding some industrial paint stripper and waiting a few minutes: and first layer of paint removed. this thing has been repainted a few times so i will redo the process once they've dried, until all the paint is gone

Update time (finally again ). Yeah it has been a while, but im back and trying to posh the project with a slightly new timeline. I've set the goal to bring the body to the bodyshop next year istead of this year so i can save a bit more money and get it all done in one istead of doing it partially. this also gives me a bit of time to get some smaller parts restored. like this: Got my Kakimoto Valve cover repainted and just picked it up at the industrial painter a few hours ago: It's DuPont Colour #RAL5005 (Signal blue), applied in a special technique to get this wrinkle-paint look which the Kakimoto valve cover originally has (mine came withe some rattle-can paint from the previous owner!!). They also added some paste to make the finnish slightly more "Matte" - and i'm pretty damn happy with the result I still have to block down the Highlighted textures and polish them to get Original look This was the reference picture from the Kakimoto Drag machine i used. Colours slightly vary depending on the picutes, but i liked this one and i think i got really close to it: Also i changed my heating system from Oil to gas. With the now removed huge oil-tank, and soon-to-be removed old heater i have a lot more space in my hobby-room which i just used to add some extra storage space for my Z-parts which i really need to keep me able to move around in my garage Mhh, nice Oh and that isn't all. Have a lot of planning and stuff going on for restoring small parts. and i'm pretty exited about another package on the way from japan, containing a few damn rare parts for the ol' Fairlady You'll see next week and hopefully some other updates this weekend

@ Eurodat: i do wear mechanic gloves while working. this happened with gloves Well hello there People keep asking me what's going on and you might have noticed i'm currently working hard on finishing my EK9 project. But anyway, this is what happend with the 240Z's lately: First a friend told me about a great retored 240Z body in germany. took ma a while to get in touch with the owner: what looked to be a great deal first turned out to be an US-imported model with a weird badly executed widebody conversion with modifaight taillights (even worse than my white shell). so it's useless to me. Too sad. Then found another car for a reasonable price which was sold in germany but then i figured out the ad on Autoscout was a scam and some people tried to trick me sending them some money. i'm happy i was smar enough and didn't get fooled So why am im telling you this? I thought having a cheap good shell istead of restoring mine would make everything faster and cheaper. but turned out this option seemed to be a bit of a dream. so i think i'll just proceed with my initial project after this little dream-break Watch out for news soon

Just a small update: Spent an hour at the garage removing random small parts from the trunk and then a ton of sound deadening stuff: well until my right hand looked like this. then i decided it might be a good idea to complete it another day

NO the actual plan is to restore the black one and use a few parts like the roof and spare-wheel-well from the white one