Gee260 Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 Hi just a brief description and a few photos of my build so far. any input and advice is greatly appreciated. I am planning a full nut and bolt resto on this girl which will be my third z . it will have with a rb25 neo. I am goin the 25 over the 26 for ease of installation but 26 would be nice ha. it will ride on full Arizona suspension/brakes. The car will be regency approved and road registered. (regency being Adelaides vehicle inspection depot). I have pre approval for the rb25 turbo engine, fully adjustable coil overs, 300mm brakes, 9.5x17 -20 rear wheels, 8.5x17 -10 front wheels. I bought the car as an unfinished project. It was. Put in a garage in 1987 by the previous owner to restore, he cut out all the rust at the time and welded in new panels, even unstiched the rear and put a whole new rear end on. All the interior was plastic wrapped and is in near perfect condition besides a small hairline crack in the dash and a small crack behind the choke lever on the centre console. He had purchased new doors, and a new hatch. Un fortunately he sold the indicator stalk and assembly other wise the car was complete. The car then sat from 1988 as the owner got married...... Hahahaha since then it has only developed minor surface rust. I have found only 2 small rust holes one under battery and the other in the fire wall into the wiper section, both no bigger than a 5c piece. The plan is to have a very stiff loud rough awesome handling zed ha with a blend of new racing whilst retaining the old zed. The interior will be all standard with front bucket seats, all new black face gagues, basic stereo, rear strut brace, steering wheel. The exterior will have front spoiler and moulded flares. Mark Rolston on this site has made a very close car to what i have always wanted to build mine like, and mine will be quite simular So far the car is stripped completely and I am 1/2 way through seam welding. Then I will replace the chassis with 60x60 box galv from cross member to rear sub frame, cut lower radiator support out and replace with box galv, build strut supports and other bracing. Then sand blasting and rust treatment Quote
PeterAllen Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 Looks good. A couple of suggestions if I may. Only stitch weld structural components, i.e. make sure you leave crumple zones on the extremities, otherwise any impact will be transmitted throughout the shell, rather than absorbed at the impact site, and may distort the whole thing. Stitch welded components can rarely be resurrected. Also, stress relieve the top plates on the Arizona struts otherwise they will distort when you weld them in (even with TIG) and you will have to hand file the tops flat. Quote
Gee260 Posted March 25, 2014 Author Posted March 25, 2014 Yea I will not be welding in front of struts or rear of struts. The camber tops will be welding in by my mates dad who is a fabricator so I will mention the distortion to him and hopefully he will know what to do ha. Do you think the will distort if I wend the mounting for my strut brace on after they are welded in? Quote
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