Hiroshima Screama

[Stivva]

Ok, The air dam is ordered and I am just about ready to prime the car for paint. I have to head to Sydney this weekend, so I doubt it will be done this week.

[Stivva]

Started fitting my autometer gauges today. Gonna fit them where the head unit would fit. Got the sender for the water temp in and trying to get the oil pressure sender in. Anyone Got anywhere they fit their senders in the block

[benny]

Looking Great Man.

Gonna be great when its finished!!

Ben

[Stivva]

Was doing some work on the engine last night, and the was removing the the thernastat cover off the housing. The old bolt snapped off and the the cover shattered. J guess it was just old so I will have to replace that. The water in the block did not seem to be circulating. Could the engine need a New pump, or Does itneed to reach a certain temp?

[Zedman240]

That's what the thermostat's job. Slowing or virtually stopping the flow of water till it reaches the temp printed on the thermostat itself. Once that temp is reached, it opens and lets the water flow through the engine to the radiator to be cooled, but when the temp of the water gets too cool, thermostat partially closes and slows the water to heat up again. If the engine runs too cool, it loses power and gets shyte fuel economy. Happened to my first 260Z; when I replaced the thermostat, was like chalk and cheese!

[Stivva]

Yeah, I understand that. My concern was that the water seemed to get fairly hot still with not much flow. What's the standard running temp on an l28?

[Zedman240]

Depends on your thermostat temp; Mines around 85ish degrees? sits just over half on the gauge. If you can get a infra-red non contact temp gun, aim at the thermostat housing or rad hose and check.

[Stivva]

I got all the Exterior lights working tonight. Found the temp gauge sender wire and started wiring new style terminals in for the connections.

[Stivva]

Got alot of the primer down today. I do need to rub it back a little to get it nice and smooth. But its great to see it one colour at last. I need to paint the back of the doors and hatch and get some colour on the door jams.

[Stivva]

Got the inside of the doors and hatch primed now. Going to go over the whole outside of the car again with a couple of layers of primer for consistency. I also mounted my new mirrors, which of course will have to come of for paint, but I needed the wholes in there before the paint goes on.

[Stivva]

I could use some help to align the hatch, its to far over on the passenger side and I cant move it across with the adjustment bolts.

[Sirpent]

Nice work Buddy, looking forward to seeing the finished product.

Cheers

John

[Stivva]

You and me both. Doing this in my spare time in between finding a new job. Unemployed as of Mid June. Need to finish it to a drivable stage in 3 weeks!

[Stivva]

Got a front chrome bar yesterday and grill. $86 bux from ebay. I don't know if the guy is  a member her, but thanks fella. Took the overriders off and rubber strips and polished the bar up. Came up very nice.

[Stivva]

Started to paint the engine bay. I am going with a satin black and will paint the grill in the same colour. I cleared out the passenger side of the bay and roughed it up and hit it with the satin. Also the radiator was removed and I am spraying the area where the hinges are too. I will empty out the drivers side of the bay and get that done tonight.