Z Update, side trim is off, primered. *Now with better writing, marginally

"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
04/11/2017 at 13:13 • Filed to: Z update, Datsun, 240Z, Body Work

All holes from the evil American dealer option side trim rivets are welded and prepped.*

*(I wonder what that sentence is like in German, one word? ...... Alle Löcher von den bösen amerikanischen Händler-Option Seitenverkleidungsnieten sind geschweißt und vorgedrungen..) .....Seitenverkleidungsnieten wow.....

Anyway so my friend welded up the holes, it’s all prepped, we are still looking for a couple parts. The driver side window parts are hard to find, they get the shit beat out of them and the passenger side parts are easy to find. Regulators are not made anymore, Z’s have a staggering amount of OEM and aftermarket support but not that part. I let him do things at his pace, I am busy with work myself so it works out for everyone. I do want it in time for nice weather! This car has come a long way, this car was probably pretty representative of what many Zs are like out there, or slightly better. This one was in a shed, the dog legs on these cars rot from the inside so you don’t know anything is wrong until it pops out the skin. By then it’s very bad. I had one leg that was showing signs, we just did both sides to kill it. I replaced the whole crossmember where the hatch closes, the tailgate, the right fender is gone now, it was rusting on the bottom, we patched it up before and since it was way below and tucked in I painted it and you couldn’t see much. But it’s all undercoated in there now, no more leaves to find under the cowl, I swear to fucking god every time I went in there I found more leaves!!! No more! The downside to all of this is I now have to park far away from everyone and possibly buy those magnetic door guards for when I leave it in more crowded lots! I will be even more of a lunatic... I love this thing though.

I think he’s getting OCD on this thing because he painted certain parts of it already and he just primered everything again! Last week, you can see the trim holes:

Reference, this is when we fixed the rear end, all behind the lights and deck:

Oh and I almost forgot, we ordered a Japanese bumper months ago and it hasn’t come yet, that one there is a bumper from my friend’s parts stock, he has several donor cars and piles of stuff.

DISCUSSION (4)

StudyStudyStudy > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
04/11/2017 at 17:23

I don’t think I could ever get my car painted. I would be too afraid of everyone in the parking lot after that.

Interesting you went with silver for the back panel, didn’t like black?

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > StudyStudyStudy
04/19/2017 at 16:49

That is the real color, paint code copied from a guy who went to Nissan to get it. They never painted them black, people couldn’t find the paint code for a long time or many just did whatever to them.

StudyStudyStudy > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
04/19/2017 at 17:41

Oh, that’s interesting. Most of the ones I have seen are black or body color.

Then again my group is not as focused on authenticity so maybe a case of monkey see monkey do.

Can’t wait to see it all done!

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > StudyStudyStudy
04/19/2017 at 18:05

Hopefully not too much longer, but we want to do it right. The old paint was faded, its going to be much brighter. I do like to preserve historical authenticity, I don’t think people should cut up classic cars to restomod them. The whole point of a classic is to experience it. If its a race car I like them to keep within what they wod have had, but I agree with Jay Leno with upgrading brakes, no reason to have shit drums, I have disks in the rear now. I did get a 5 speed from a slightly newer S30. Those rear panels are metal and easy to remove so at the first sign of corrosion I bet people just did the east thing. The code was unknown for years, a guy shot a laser off a car at the Nissan Museum and started selling cans from that, but I think it’s more well known now.