260Z Project - 260Z GT-R

Turn & Burn

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Looking great! From experience don’t weld you new rear wings without the door in place. The shut line of the wing moves back (springs) slightly when u cut the old wing out and then pulls about another 2mm as you do all the welding. You can end up with big door gaps. Use your door as a reference position.
 
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Rushingphil

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Its certainly a lot stronger now.



If you guys like the photos I'll keep posting updates. Its good for me to look back on and it might be useful to ones who are doing or thinking or doing a resto. Plus when you see parts like which are hidden it makes you think if you are doing a full restoration its probably worth cutting some inspection holes in such areas to make sure there is no hidden rust before you move on.

Yes please! The more photos the better :thumbs:
 

Ian

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Progress, yet more rust. Lots of cancer to remove:




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Quarters are fitting better now:



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Ian

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Hats off to you for all your dedication puts me to shame. Well done and it's all very inspiring.
To be honest I get so much motivation from knowing I'll be able to drive it again once done, and I really love driving it. I can't wait.

Plus I'm a bit OCD with these things.



Good progress, looking really good (& time consuming)!
Nice to see after such a while.

Thats 32 hours just from the last two updates. depends how the condition is on other side but could easily be 80 hours work just for the rear quarters and sills, its a scary thought given how much else would be left after thats done.
 

toopy

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Really enjoying seeing all these photos of the guts of the structure/bodywork, the fact the whole thing is a fetching bright blue makes it easy to see whats been cut out and how the repairs are let back in!

Lovely jubbly :D
 

candy red

Club Member
Great work Ian and some interning photos your really cracking on now did you have that rear arch /1/4 panel made for you ?
keep up the great work.:thumbs:

Derrick :)
 
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Ian

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Having an explore to see what is needed. As you will see, its quite a lot. Its scary how much work is needed.




You can see evidence of not so good work here:


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Not exactly tidy work is it:


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Rocker test fit:


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And the patchwork continues


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Its coming on, but still such a long way to go, what horrors are yet to be revealed.
 

Russell

Club Member
This is incredible work.

The scary thing is how great your car looked before you started digging into it.

Im sure that if I ever got into mine to that level there would be nothing left to weld to!
 

Ian

Club Member
Really, really interesting Thread. It will end up a great car but at what cost?
If you include restoration costs plus purchase price its probably no more than buying a top level really mint UK RHD example now. But this one will have all the modifications, reinforcement and details I want.


The scary thing is how great your car looked before you started digging into it.
Tell me about it, everyone who saw it described it as mint, and other than the few little areas I did know about I expected it to be at least fairly decent underneath. Makes you wonder how many cars out there that look mint are actually hiding sins underneath.
 

Rob Gaskin

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Rotisseries: when a long car is suspended at each end there must be a tendency for it to bow? If so I would imagine that outer panels should be test fitted and 'gapped' with the car on it's wheels are supported on it's chassis?

This is just a general question/observation and not aimed directly at this Thread. There are quite a few on here who use them.

Any issues?
 
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