Wow, it's been ages since my last update. I can't find all my photos cause the missus has borrowed my camera, so these will do.
So I've finished welding up the engine bay, there was a few other random surprises as I stripped it back, so fixed all those along the way. I didn't end up doing any stitch welding as my welding isn't good enough to produce nice looking welds without having to touch them up
I don't think I'll be putting out enough power to really warrant it anyway.
Here is how the engine bay ended up looking after scraping all the paint off:
I've also removed the battery tray so I could fix a little bit of rust in it, I was tossing up whether to remove it and mount the battery in the rear (scoota's idea), but I'll think put the tray back in since it's now nice, straight and rust free.
Once I had all the crud off, I set about building some form of spray booth as it was easier to encase the Z rather than cover everything else in the shed. I was originally going to use one of those portable carports, but I wanted something wider so I just ended up building one:
After waiting for what seems like forever, we finally had a decent weekend where it wasn't raining, so I was able to whack down some etch primer. First go at spray painting and it hasn't turned out too bad so far.
It's great to finally have some visible progress, hopefully this week I'll have enough time to finish off a couple of spots that I missed so I can finally spray it black.
I was originally aiming to paint it the same orange as the Ford XR5 Turbo, which I think is similar, or the same, as Rev painted his orange Z, but there's another orange the blokes at the paint shop showed me which looks great. Either way, it's going to be orange with a black engine bay. I'm just deciding whether to paint the front airdam and rear spoiler orange or black.
and more thanks to Scoota and Dalee for the help and advice on painting / suspension / body work etc. so far.
