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More gold! This time rear end bits and pieces. Someone how they forgot a bolt in the box. Now I have 1 single bolt not done.

I screwed up and didn't add a drain for doing redkote. With the baffles and such it would have been too hard to drain. So I had the shop put this in. Now time to fix the powder and do the redkote. 2 steps forwarder and 1 step back.

Bc are welded. My buddy is professional welder and he did the tig welds for me.

Here it is. It started off as a wet sand blasting unit from amazon. Basically hooked up a pressure washer to sand. It sort of worked. I took the pressure washer side off and added air. Now air goes where the water went with a quick valve and a slurry of glass bead/ water goes where sand went. I need to test it.

I spent around 2 hours cleaning the seat sliders, then re greasing them. Wow they were filthy. I also had some surface rust on the seat bottoms so they got a powder coating. I saw a sneak peak of my seats at the upholstery shop. They look amazing, all new foam and padding.

I Have been working on this for a while. Trying to get it one uniform finish. Which seems to be impossible. I have been building a vapor blasting setup and might try it on this and see how it turns out. It's come a long way from tar, grease and paint covered.

How did you decide to do it in this order? I am hopefully getting to about the same spot this weekend.

All of this is going off to paint and powder tomorrow. So much to tape off. I might give up on all the u joint areas and just paint them, that way I can just use a wire wheel to clean the paint off. Hard decisions.

That's the plan, poly in the front and ruber in the back. I had two good washers. So I only need one kit.

Are they yellow zinc?

I only have two of those that are good. Two are ruined. I am going poly and I think i will get rubber for the backside of the tension rod like people have said.

I actually live in Sandpoint. I love it here. I don't see a lot of z's in my area. Got the front mostly installed. Some of the zinc chromate seems to rub off with lots of handling. I will need to contact the platers. Googling it seems to say the same thing, can be rubbed off and gets harder with time. It was plated 2 days ago. Hopefully it changes. Or maybe they did something wrong? Zinc is the part that is electroplated. The chromate (yellow) is just a coating. Sure looks pretty

Almost all big cities have a plating shop. My local large city, Spokane Wa has novation. I need to find a local vapor blasting shop! Having fun tonight installing parts:)

First batch of gold is back! Time to put some stuff back in this car!

How fun is a stock 240z motor to drive? I sadly have never driven a z.

Stock pattern, they are probably the same kit:) I just paid too much. I really like the gold of the BC. I got standard stud length, but they seem long. This happened, ended up ruining it. Vise, vise grips, tig welded a bolt to the end, everythig failed. Dry to drill out, and again that failed and I had my bit walk. Oh well, this is the first bolt-bolts that I couldn't get off! Now time to find a new thermostat housing.

Got my BC Coilover kit!! I should have the fronts done this weekend. Still waiting on the auto shop to have the bearings pressed out.

Overspray/ Paint look way worse in person. Just FYI.

This is a little bit of bragging. But I changed out a bulb, and this light bucket looks brand new. How crazy.

Thanks guys. I will try that first. Gotta get it driving. Then I can focus on the details

Sadly my vin plate has overspray on it. I have been trying to think how to get it off and not ruin the plate. I added the HLS30-20212 to my signature though.

2nd major issue, well, not really my fault. Painter didn't listen and didn't tape off the brake booster. So he got copper slad in it. I then tried to clean the slad and dropped the rubber stopper inside the bowl, which is basically impossible to get out. I then put duct tape on my finger to try and get it out, the duct tape fell off. Then I tried to take it apart and now I have given up. A fellow member suggested http://boosterdeweyexchange.com/ I called them and them and they don't list it, but they know datsun stuff well. The owner actually owns a 240z. I should have it back next week, rebuilt and painted. I am going with a upraded 15/16 master cylinder to help with the rear disk brakes and also it's a bigger.

Wheels showed up. Rota RKR, 15x8 with 0 offset. Going 205/55 R15 on the tires. I picked magnesium black, which is sort of a dark gun metal grey. I think it will pop off the safari gold well! I also got my calipers back from powder. If anyone is interested in having calipers rebuilt and picking powdercoat colors. Here is who did mine. phoenixbrakeco@gmail.com http://www.phoenixcaliper.com/ Going with 4 piston toyota fronts and maxima rears with zinc rotors from silvermine.

I made my first mistake on the z. I didn't have a drain installed, so when I went to do my final acetone rinse before redkote on my tank. I couldn't get it out and it messed up my pretty powder coating:( So I am stripping the powder, welding on a drain to the top corner then re - coating it, then redkote without acetone rinse.