Looking excellent!
ThanksAmazing work, that looks fabulous!
Yes, I'm glad I decided to do them, they were in a pretty bad state and the disintegrated foam was awful.I gave my heater and blower units and the core for the project car a similar going over. They really do get pretty unpleasant over time with all the foam rotting away and muck buildup inside. It's worth doing rather than just giving the units a quick once over and then slapping them in.
Thanks. Anything satin black was done with a can, everything else was done with a compressor and an HVLP Spray Gun, not sure you could get such a good finish from a can. You can see the gun behind the propshaft in one of the photos. I use the same gun for primer and paint at the moment, I just change needle sizes.I love these photos! Everything looks so good. N00b question probably: do you spray with a compressor or just cans?
£5.5k in already and that doesn't include over £900 it cost me to get the shell there. Plus the repair work, strengthening work and smoothing I had already done on the front end.I guess to this point you've not spent much on the repair work, as its only been stripped?
Thats what I was thinking, but what car would it have to be in order to be able to use my UK 78 260Z parts?Might be worth ebaying your shell, warts and all, then get a LHD shell to convert, you'll still have repairs to do but it'll be a lot less than above?
I guess I'm just not meant to be doing such high level car projects.I 'feel' for you after all the expense and bad luck you've had (including the crash).
I guess a 280Z shell would be very close to this? can't be a 240 as then my fuel tank, intercooler, radiator, diff, front brakes, hubs, engine and gearbox mounts and a lot of my very good condition interior wont fit.I would try to get another shell from the US. You will never be happy with is one.