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Where did you source that from? It's one of the many things on my list.

I'm gonna have to do this on my zed when I finally get it back. Not looking forward to it. My mechanic said he took 3/4 of a day to remove just one from his 240Z.

What's the condition of this shell? Straight? How much rust? I could use one. Drunkenmaster can have all the bit's he wants....and I'll have the shell. Sounds like a plan. Just a little update on my car. At my mechanic atm getting a quote on fixing non roadworthy items. Had a rough quote from a body shop for the chassis work. $3800! Should have an offical quote by next week. It seems if the workshop doesn't wanna pay up after my letter of demand, then I do still have a good possibility of getting the money. I go to the DoT get the car inspected then they will take the workshop to court and take their licence off them. If they loose their licence it leaves an open path for me to go to small claims court. Apparently it's been done sucessfully, many times. Here's hopeing.

Yeah that's the one. If I remember the dyno printout in their office read around 550HP.....and that's a chassis dyno. Unfortunatly all that horsepower didn't run off on my car while it was there.....it made 83HP @ wheels.

Was the RB26 powered car the one from Brisbane tuning and turbo? There used to be a gun metal grey NA L28 powered 260Z 2-seater around here a few years back, ran some damn impressive time on the track and boy did that thing sound awesome!

What colour was this turbo'd 240Z? Fits the description of a local car. Alfadog and That Ozzy Guy.....if your selling your zeds, can you PM me some more info on them and what sorta money your looking for, as I might be interested.

Cool....that's what I suspected.

Where abouts is the hazard switch supposed to be mounted? For the life of me I can't see one in my zed.

My zeds head lights are pretty bloody dim too. Moulded into the front glass it says they are Hella H4's. The aren't aimed properly which is part of the problem, but even if they were they are still dim as. Should the H4's be pretty bright? Maybe the wiring to them is inadequate, therefore not getting the voltage they need?

Sounds good... Sorta over what I can afford since I'd still need to paint it. But we'll see what happens, I may yet get some money because of the damage to my car. I'll certainly be keeping it in mind. Thanks :-)

Maybe building a space frame chassis could be my thesis project.

Yeah....this might be wee little bit harder.

Plenty of theory and not enough hands on as far as I'm concerned. I was doing mechatronics for three years, but I didn't do so well because the electronics side was all theory and I don't apply myself well with purely theory based stuff. I learn well with the hands on stuff, hence the switch to straight mech. There's still not enough though. Btw....at uni now doin some finite element analysis work.

I'm 3rd year Mech Enginnering....so yeah....not much time on my hands. If I can find a good shell cheaper than repairing mine thne I'll do it, even if it takes longer to do. I can just work away at it bit by bit, and then every now and then get all the lads over and spend a day with four or so of us working at it. They owe me bigtime for all the work I've done on their cars! drunkenmaster: While my car isn't worth that much anymore, I've spent to much on it to sell it cheap. How low would you sell your shell for? (too much I know) Alfa: You can have my zed in exchange for yours! And the C110!

Thanks EScanlon. Just about to ring a few more restoration/body shops around here, we'll see what sorta quotes I get. The repair/welding at the rear of the rails would have been done before what happened to the front sections of the rails. At least the repair at the rear was effective. The welding job they did on the broken front rail was quite obviously (when you see the car) only to hold the rail in place. No effort was made to give it any structural integrity. Looks like my car has quite a history. The bolts and washers coming outa the floor appear to be the way they have attatched my seats! Very dodgy!

.....got it back yesterday. Now I'm gonna have to take this photo!

Thanks Zpeed. Legend! I have a new question now. How easily can you transfer the interior and driveline from a 260 into a 240? There are quite a few differences between the cars which I could see being a possible problem.

Since my chassis is rooted and will cost me an arm and leg to fix, I'm considering the possibility of buying a good shell and transfering all my gear to it. Finding a top condition shell at a good price is a sorta tall order, but it's worth a try. I'd be lookin at paying max of around $2k. Gotta be straight and have very little or no rust. Good paint would be nice but I'm not too worried if it doesn't. Oh yes, and has to be a 260Z 2-seater. If you have one or know of one (even if it they want more than 2k) please forward me the details.

That would be awesome... Thanks

I'm also thinking about the possibility of finding a good shell and tranfering all the gear from my car to it. Could be alot cheaper than repairing mine. However finding a good shell at a good price probs wont be easy, and it's be a BIG job. Anyone know of a 260Z 2-seater shell for sale?

Zpeed: I'm very interested. Could turn out alot cheaper than what it will cost to repeair my zed. Can you forward me his details please. How much was he asking?

How does this suck! We both need each others zeds. I have an almost perfect black interior, but my chassis is stuffed. You have a great body/chassis and nothing else. Only if you were willing to part with yours cheap. And I'm sure your thinking the same.

Would you say the left rail MUST be replaced?

Just got the digital camera back..... New pics at http://users.bigpond.net.au/oceanz/z/zrooted2/ 1. Behind the right front wheel, now with alot of deadener stripped back. You can see the metal is mostly good, but it is fairly bent just above the break. 2. Here you can see how smacked up the bottom of the right rail behind the rear break is. Also the dings and gouges in the floor pan. Again, not much rust in the floor. 3. Another view. 4. Note the rectangular section of the floor and rail (your looking at the rear of the right rail) that looks like it's been cut out and welded again? What's it supposed to look like here? 5. Behind the left hand front wheel. The rail is not broken here, however it and the floor have been smacked up too. Note there is some bending in the metal above the rail. 6. Some rust holes just below the firewall. 7. Rear of the left rail. Again a section has been removed and possibly a new section welded in. What should this look like? Why have these rear rail sections been cut out? 8. View along the left rail. All smacked in. Sorry bout the $^!# pic. 9. Another view of the left rail. So what do you all think now?

If the digicam wasn't in getting fixed I'd take a pic of myself in all the gear for everyones amusement.