So gang, quite a successful and busy afternoon on the Z owning to glorious weather and a kind wife!
Spent an hour or so across the road at neighbour Mike's 4 car garage - with EVERY tool you need (he used to run a rally team and race seriously). His 3 phase lathe fashioned my 62mm GM 12si pulley to have the perfect offset for the Z alt.
Question is, do I zinc plate just the pulley or the fan as well!?
With a 950 idle I should now get 1100rpm at alternator. The guy who uprated it said it should be good for 40 amps at that rpm.
Next up was the paint to finish off but sadly I spotted rust I had previously missed. So the top of the rad panel went back to bare metal.
Datsun owners' essential kit ...
I managed another final coat of paint all round before the lacquer.
While it is 3000 times better than how it started, sadly the finish is more orange peely than I had hoped for but i did expect it TBH. So a session with some Farelca G3, G6 and a random action buffer to follow.
Strangely, there has been some sand or something being carried in the air. Here is a bit I had sprayed earlier - thank goodness it dried before this all settled! [emoji33]
End of day photo ....
For fun and curiosity, I sprayed my rather dull looking manifold with Pasticote "chrome" paint - which has worked great and stood the test of time / under bonnet heat on other stuff but it certainly is not a chrome finish.
Quite pleased with how the manifold came out. Still looks like rough Alu but much crisper ...
It should go nicely with my ceramic coated exhaust, manifold and heat shield ...
And yes that car is a tip and used for going to the tip mainly
As a matter of interest, I bought a set of Sealy impact sockets for c.£60 which I'm super pleased with. The PCV valve came off so easily with the impact wrench!
Got brave and with a head torch got under the car to replace the diff mount. Only to find the existing one is still whole and it's an absolute nightmare to undo it while under the car. So I will put it off to another day / year when I drop in the LSD at the same time.
Question wise ones - what the heck is this inordinately heavy chunk of metal for, just under the diff mount? It must weight at least 3kg and as far as I can see t serves no purpose!!!
Let's see if I can make good progress tomorrow too, but I suspect family duties will get in the way.