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Hey man, That is mine, and as owner, invenor, and creator of that intellectual property, I grant everyone who reads it the right to use it any way they see fit-just send me a picture!(I will not share, copy, distribute, or display it-but I will look at it, and enjoy!) Will

I would agree to dissagree and move on. Life is too short to worry about things you can't change-like other people. Will

What about instead of the BLACK PEARL, the RUSTZ BUCKET FEO2S30 FEO240Z 240ZR I wonder if all of those were available in only one color...SOrt of a brown orange... I think they could be had with any interior color thoug! Will

Tomohawk, I am after a pattern of the standard shift S30 shifter boot, but I will be happy to send you this brake boot-just send me back a pattern of the brake boot! WIll

Tomohawk, I'll send you a used brake boot, if you will send me a set patterns of the shifter boot and brake boot-whenever you get them. Maybe they would be a good post for the archives. PM me your address, and it will go out tomorrow. With that, I 'm in no rush for the paterns, My car is still under the knife (plasma cutter) on the rotisserie, waiting for more metal from Charley Osborne! Will

1GENZED, I must have missed that "variation" in the FSM, thanks for pointing that out! Will

Don't forget the colored ink! Will

~$7,500 all on parts-before front windshield, exhaust, paint, springs, seeatbelts, shocks, upholstery,and sterio(not necessarily in that order). Granted, I have bought NOS when ever I can find it reasonably, and refurbed that I could not find NOS. All of the labor is from my perspiration, I didn't count filling the welding tanks, wire, generic sheet metal, or bribes to others(food, drink, women, taillight lenses...) Will

Get the whole a/c system(inc the compressor bracket) from the 76, except the controls and the evaporator, it will fit with only a few tweeks, and look factory! Will

800 grit sandpaper, water and a massive smathering of elbow grease! Will

What Gary said! Will

I didn't give a primer on car painting becaouse I the article on Parts Edging in Autorestorer I referenced addressed the original question posed in this thread, whether to leave the panels off or reassemble to paint. Check outy the article, it nails the question! Given proper masking techniques, it has been my experience that shooting any light color low pigment translucent metal flake or pearl paint will respond wonderfully to the multi layer process, Each layer(starting from a different location on the car) has the suspended reflective particles oriented a different direction, creating several times more "action" or "electricity" in the paint with out adding the distraction of actually seeing the flakes(like looking at a .41 dot pitch monitor instead of a .24 dot pitch, thje picture is the same, but the eyestrain is completely different) The more action is in the paint, the more a huge difference is clearly made-unless the process is not done correctly The gloss benefits from the color sanding, but the transparent layers of suspended reflective surfaces is what really livens up the paint, and allows it to fade without affecting a color change as noticeably, or as quickly. Shooting paint that is a solid color with a high pigment density the same way is pointless. It is like a front surface mirror, there is no depth. When I want to shoot a dark color with metal flake or pearl, I shoot a base color coat first, then for a second coat, thin out the base color substantially with clear, mix in the additives, and shoot-atleast one more coat. This process brings out a depth unachieveable any other way-regardless of the paint system used. The key to the depth is the clear-even 1 coat will do, but, the key to the "electricity" is the layers of the reflective additives all slightly colored by the low density of the pigmnet layers in the paint. Will PS. if we all did everything the same way, there would be no differences in our cars-or us-what fun would that be?

Jon, Thanks for the info! I will hunt down that article this evening. I am going to remove the perch weld on a lathe, and probably could just use a parting tool to cut the strut, re-thread the remaining strut tube, and re-position and weld the perch-alleviating the need for tube allignment. Thanks again, Will

When I have sprayed metalflake, I shot the cars twice, once off the car for total color change coverage, and once when the panels were back on-after color sanding, to keep the deposit angle of the flake aligned-just as Enrique pointed out. The two covers actually made the paint appear really "deep", and massively slowed down the fading of light blue(fades the worst). Will

The new issue of Autorestorer has a discussion of this very subject, and some great paiting tips. Will

I have a full set on order form Charley Osborne at Zedd Findings, They are not listed on the Web site, but he has them. You could cut out the rust and weld a patch panel in-but I want the area to be right! http://www.datsunzparts.com/start.htm Will

The metal recycler will come an pay cash for it-they come faster if you have more than 2. Will

when this comes into the time to do it, I will write up a technical article with all of the specifics needed by a newbie to reproduce my results. Will

There is doccumented use of Toyota MR2 shocks and Volkswagon Rabbit shocks in the modified struts. I know they work, and my real quandry is on the ride height. I will make a set of the 240Z Tokico springs work despite the strut modification. I am considering using a moveable perch, and a trimmable sleeve over the strut to locate it to find the best ride height. Will

What do you expect Bill! He was intimidated, and thought you were making pity conversation... An old rust bucket Porsche is just no match for an old rust bucket Z car. Will

Parts, parts, parts, and you let them get a way-I bet you won't get a fishing or hunting invitation after that! Good used parts are getting harder to find. For $5, add $40, arrange a tow dolly from uhaul, tow it to your house for the afternoon, take off the doors, hood, fenders, interior, and store or ebay them. Call the recycler-we get $75, and the metal yard will come and get the remains. Even if you don't sell part one, you come out $30 ahead! Will

That's Z related, something to pull other Zs home with!!! Will

Opps, I did it too, I have no wall paper, the complexity of the background adds to windows overhead, and for rendering, every bit of available resource-even with 2 gigs of ram and a current processer high end-helps. That damned daytime job gets in the way of my fun again! Will

Alphadog, I can't type, my fingers were out of sync with my brain Photoshop defaults to 72 dpi, and the "Picture Info" menu item is where my info was taken. WIll There are several shareware programs that allow you to make a slideshow for earlier versions of windows, XP has it built in...

I have seat mounts comming from Charley Osborne as we speak! I am working on a video, but the new camera was back ordered at the time of the removal of the floors, maybe I will have to find some one close in-say Fla with need of a weekend of mig, tig, and plasma cutting-oh yea, we already have been there! Will