What did you do to your Z this week?

M-j-b

M-j-b

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Albrecht said:
It is #918 'Grand Prix Orange', and - like #920 'Safari Gold' - it is difficult to photograph. Big differences between natural light and artificial light. Confuses my camera phone into making it look almost fluorescent.
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I get that totally, I ended up choosing 022 which is considerably different in the flesh to yours...

I had a blow out of -
Datsun 918 (middle)
Datsun 022 (left)
Porsche 116 (right)

Amazed how different they are.. yet in photos look similar!

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Mr Tenno

Mr Tenno

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I had this on mine before it got stripped off again:

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Which paint did you opt for Alan?
 
Rushingphil

Rushingphil

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Albrecht said:
Yesterday my 4/70 HLS30U project car's bodyshell came back to my matchbox-sized lockup garage.

Streeks Transport and Recovery Ltd https://www.streekstransport.co.uk/ (recommended!) picked it up from Fourways Engineering in one of their covered trailers and brought it back to me. Great service, and the extra care in dealing with a dolly-mounted bodyshell - handling like the proverbial shopping trolley - was much appreciated.

I'll start bolting parts onto it soon, but the first jobs will probably be firewall sound-deadener pad sections (ugh), tunnel jute (ugh) and re-fitting the original diamond vinyl trim (always a struggle). Tunnel trim will have the extra challenge of dealing with the RH to LH switched handbrake lever position, which will be interesting.

The paintwork is amazingly good. I just know I'm going to scratch it while working on it...

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I would be investing in a couple of hundred pounds and putting some decent garage floor tiles down - working on bare concrete is never a lot of fun :EXTRAeek:
 
Dale

Dale

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Albrecht said:
The paintwork is amazingly good. I just know I'm going to scratch it while working on it...
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Could you cover the paintwork in that low tack crash wrap or perhaps the white film that new pre-delivered cars have on them when they're being transported about?
 
Albrecht

Albrecht

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Dale said:
Could you cover the paintwork in that low tack crash wrap or perhaps the white film that new pre-delivered cars have on them when they're being transported about?
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I used blue flooring underlay and a decent quality cover to protect my white Fairlady 240ZG when I put it back together in the other garage. Cheap, and seems to work. Kuwa-12013.jpg
 
jonbills

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M-j-b said:
Why can I only see a transformers face :banghead:
I cant unsee it now!!!

Looks like a great job..
Hopefully you are not too high on those thinners!!
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Hmm, I couldn't see that until you mentioned it... now though :confused:

It looks OK from 6 ft, but I'm sure I'll have to do some wet & dry and compounding yet.
 
Rob Gaskin

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jonbills said:
Hmm, I couldn't see that until you mentioned it... now though :confused:

It looks OK from 6 ft, but I'm sure I'll have to do some wet & dry and compounding yet.
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It's 10 times better than it was.

Thinners - been there, done that in a single garage - not to be recommended.
 
arcdef

arcdef

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Swapping out some very tired (and potentially original?) Inner tie rods for some new replacements from techno toy tuning. Excited to see the improvement to steering after this! Question though, should I clean and re-grease the teeth on the rack?
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Thanks!
 
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