What did you do to your Z this week?

Matt Berry

Club Member
Just put a coat of clear over that epoxy and it's good to go. I love that chalky grey colour ...
There's a tit in a slammed A3 Audi that goes past our house in the village where we live whose car is that colour. Paint looks great ...
It’s not a bad colour at all to be fair. I’m still very much undecided about the final colour, it changes on a daily basis! I love how they look in orange and red but it’s too common. Lighter colours for me show the lines off better. The chalky/nardo grey is also now a popular choice so it’s put me off. White is too plain, safari gold crossed my mind but have since gone off that so doesn’t leave me with much of a choice :banghead:
 

uk66fastback

Club Member
You've now got the most difficult choice of all then ahead of you when restoring a car - particularly to non-original spec where the choice can be literally made for you ...
 

jonbills

Membership Secretary
Site Administrator
I've been repairing my drivers door.
A little welding where it had cracked.




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a little filling and painting (the masking tape roll is about the right radius for this bit of the door)

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and a little more painting and leave it for a week before compounding.

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Matt Berry

Club Member
I haven't even got the car apart and still undecided on what colour...I need to see a load of cars in the flesh

That’s the best way, although they have to be Z’s or of a similar shape, as a colour on one car might look good but then the same colour on a different car might not suit it
 

johnymd

Club Member
Picking a colour used to be really really hard for me but I’ve now found a solution. Pick any colour you like and then if you think of another colour then just build another car. Simple.

Just got this back from having a few panels matched....ish to the original roof, rear quarters and door paint. Anyone know the original Datsun code? Looks a lot like Porsche seal grey.

I’m already thinking of the next colour which will be green as that’s it’s factory colour for the next project.
 
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Matt Berry

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Picking a colour used to be really really hard for me but I’ve now found a solution. Pick any colour you like and then if you think of another colour then just build another car. Simple.

Just got this back from having a few panels matched....ish to the original roof, rear quarters and door paint. Anyone know the original Datsun code? Looks a lot like Porsche seal grey.

I’m already thinking of the next colour which will be green as that’s it’s factory colour for the next project.

Why have I never thought of this method! Pure genius, not sure the misses would approve of it though
 

Huw

Club Member
Three weeks to go before Donington and I thought I’d do some tinkering to keep my mind off things.

Fitted the rebuilt head I’ve refurbished ported and polished.

Spent fun hours setting up the new cam, thank goodness for a vernier cam sprocket.

Spent even more hours fitting the new exhaust header.

Changed the sump gasket, even less fun job.

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All ready for Donington now, oh MOT would be good
 
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richiep

Club Member
Another exciting post morning today - one I’ve been waiting for for some time. The Wats have arrived:

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15x8.5 et-6 and 15x9.5-19. Yummy.

Need a refurb due to light curbing and a few scratches but Dave Porter has his done recently by a place in Stockport for a very reasonable price and an exact colour match, so I will do the same.

Also:
Kameari 39mm port intake gasket:
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Parts Assist big valve set. These are 45mm intake, 36.5mm exhaust and can serve two purposes. They are the largest valve diameters you can fit with the standard L28 valve seats. Alternatively, they offer a slightly smaller (helpful in unshrouding) option for the 46/38 size race valve seats. They are also 118mm long, so suited to big cams (above 500 lift). They offer me another option when putting a stroker head together as an alternative to the 46/38 valves I have.
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Finally, the other yummy items: new reproduction JDM headlight covers. These are Japanese in origin, not the repros Romas in Lithuania is selling. TBH, I couldn’t justify the €680 plus post he wants for a set, and these were several hundred pounds less. Granted, the frames on these are plastic, not metal, but they fit great and you wouldn’t know from looking at them. The chrome is very nicely done. They are still in no way cheap either! These are for Dixie, but the red FairladyZ might end up with some too after offering them up for the photo below!
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johnymd

Club Member
With the silver car now all a similar colour I needed to match in the old side strip's. After trying a couple of places I found a very helpful wrapping company to sort it while I waited. Not a perfect match but then neither is the paint. Very happy with the look.
 

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Makesy

Club Member
Been off the grid a little while, but back in business now!

My Zstory exhaust arrived and looks fantastic.

Just waiting for my EZ-EFI kit to arrive from Zcardepot before fitting the whole lot together.

Tomorrow, my windscreen is being fitted and with any luck I may be on the road soon, though it's unlikely I'll be ready in time for Donnington :(

As an aside, I was out in California recently and picked up a few bits, including this from MSA...
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Should make a nice addition to the garage!
 
Another exciting post morning today - one I’ve been waiting for for some time. The Wats have arrived:

B4c6Frq.jpg

HoJdFuT.jpg

LRfdK7F.jpg

15x8.5 et-6 and 15x9.5-19. Yummy.

Need a refurb due to light curbing and a few scratches but Dave Porter has his done recently by a place in Stockport for a very reasonable price and an exact colour match, so I will do the same.

Also:
Kameari 39mm port intake gasket:
iMMqM3h.jpg

jEh1TSG.jpg

Parts Assist big valve set. These are 45mm intake, 36.5mm exhaust and can serve two purposes. They are the largest valve diameters you can fit with the standard L28 valve seats. Alternatively, they offer a slightly smaller (helpful in unshrouding) option for the 46/38 size race valve seats. They are also 118mm long, so suited to big cams (above 500 lift). They offer me another option when putting a stroker head together as an alternative to the 46/38 valves I have.
xRx6uyD.jpg

zJyjXM3.jpg

Finally, the other yummy items: new reproduction JDM headlight covers. These are Japanese in origin, not the repros Romas in Lithuania is selling. TBH, I couldn’t justify the €680 plus post he wants for a set, and these were several hundred pounds less. Granted, the frames on these are plastic, not metal, but they fit great and you wouldn’t know from looking at them. The chrome is very nicely done. They are still in no way cheap either! These are for Dixie, but the red FairladyZ might end up with some too after offering them up for the photo below!
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ChaWa56.jpg

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I’m jealous. Some nice bits
 

MaximG

Well-Known Forum User
I have a new least favourite job.

A while ago I decided to get some spare drive shafts, I stripped them down completely some time ago and got no further. So the last few days has had me cleaning the respective parts up and giving them a paint. Today I decided to put the two halves together. Oh my word what a total ball ache. I just can't see a simple way of putting them back together. For the un initiated the two halves slide in and out with the use of 4 sets of ball bearings and nylon cups as separators. You set the bearings and cups into grooves of the inner shaft with the aid of a liberal amount of grease. You then attempted to slide one half into the other and this is where the problems start (or at least for me anyway). As soon as you try to push it in, the bearings and cups slide agains the outer wall pushing them out of place and up the shaft. I had grease up to the eyeballs. It also doesn't help that I made a few rookie mistakes that I won't go into.

I will admit that the second went a lot smoother than the first after a steep learning curve, but all the same, an utter ball ache.

I still have the UJ's to come but that's next weekends job.
 

toopy

Club Member
I have a new least favourite job.

A while ago I decided to get some spare drive shafts, I stripped them down completely some time ago and got no further. So the last few days has had me cleaning the respective parts up and giving them a paint. Today I decided to put the two halves together. Oh my word what a total ball ache. I just can't see a simple way of putting them back together. For the un initiated the two halves slide in and out with the use of 4 sets of ball bearings and nylon cups as separators. You set the bearings and cups into grooves of the inner shaft with the aid of a liberal amount of grease. You then attempted to slide one half into the other and this is where the problems start (or at least for me anyway). As soon as you try to push it in, the bearings and cups slide agains the outer wall pushing them out of place and up the shaft. I had grease up to the eyeballs. It also doesn't help that I made a few rookie mistakes that I won't go into.

I will admit that the second went a lot smoother than the first after a steep learning curve, but all the same, an utter ball ache.

I still have the UJ's to come but that's next weekends job.

I've often looked at the Haynes manual exploded diagrams of the drive shafts, and thought, that looks like a right ball ache to reassemble! :confused::D
 
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