'74 260z project

[morbias]

Realised I had a fair few pictures of my progress so far, figured I might as well post them up. Not really sure what order they're supposed to be in, so I'm just going to dump a load of pictures here.

 

[morbias]

 

[morbias]

Used a voltage regulator case for wiring for internally regulated alternator conversion:

 

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[Mr.G]

Amazing progress!! Your welding is top notch.

Remarkable transformation, keep the progress and pics up.

I remember finding the suspension a rewarding experience to do, not only from an aesthetic point of view of replacing/cleaning old for new but from the transformation the handling was from changing the old worn oem bushes to polyurethane.

 

[morbias]

Cheers George, learning this stuff as I go along. As for suspension - spindle pins. Couldn't take the struts to a press so spent two weeks with a club hammer. The elation when those damned things finally came out is impossible to describe!!

The project manager supervising proceedings:

 

[Wyn]

Thats a lot of hours worth there !

Keep up the good work n pics

 

[Ian]

Nice Work there.

 

[pmac]

The cat doesnt look very impressed!

 

[candy red]

Great Work and great fabrication too i know what you going though keep it up and keep the pics coming can't beat an interesting resto thread well done look forward to seeing end result

Derrick

 

[morbias]

Thanks for the kind words guys; I just want it to be over already, physically and mentally exhausted, totally skint and there's still so far to go!

Hey Pete, you think that cat's grumpy... meet Tard

lol

 

[andrew muir]

I am with you on the spindle pins, took one out but chickened out of the other, ended up using a lot of heat, brute force and ignorance.
Nice work and pics
I am just starting my rebuild I hope i don't find as much rust on mine.
I lot of good work has gone into yours and looks like it will be well sorted when its finished.

 

[moggy240]

a slide hammer is the best way to remove spindle pins which has less chance of damaging them.
nice work Morbias !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ian Patmore]

Yep, pull out the spindle pins, got a simple and easy puller made for the job.It is not rust that stops them coming out, it is they get ever so slightly bent.

Good work Morbias

 

[morbias]

I made a puller tool, two of them in fact - and broke both of them. Those spindle pins were in there good and proper! I kept the pins, as a reminder of my pain and suffering; maybe I will make a trophy out of them, mounted in a 'V' for victory, or maybe for 'f*** you spindle pins'.

Got the outer sill welded on today, need to take the door off to do the last few welds. The dogleg is next on the agenda, will need to reconstruct some of the inner wheel arch too.

 

[candy red]

Great job on the sills ,think the cat may be grumpy because it has arc eye after watching
you do all that welding :lol:

 

[Tim Jewitt]

Very impressive fabrication work.

 

[morbias]

I should point out that rear valance was supplied by Mike F, I only moved the bumper mounting points, I only wish I could make something like that!

The cat is probably grumpy because feeding time was delayed somewhat. It's not even my cat, it just appeared one day and decided to take ownership of the shed! A little annoying, I was planning to use the shed for spraying the panels, not sure where I'm going to do it now.

 

[morbias]

Replaced a bit of the wheel arch today, not as neat as could have been but nobody's going to see it. Everything above it doesn't matter as it's being cut out later for the flares. Also spent a couple of hours beating the living hell out of the dogleg replacement panel, none of the bends or curves matched up to the original so had to give it some serious hammer love.

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[pmac]

One of the few parts trhat didnt need welding.................................