My Blue 260Z 2Seater

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The guards had a lot of damage once the paint & filler was removed, so we set about panel beating them straight,
before we reinstalled the rear guard brace.



  



 

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The 260Z's original front valance was munted - bent, dented and loaded with filler over 5mm thick.
I didn't have a spare available, so we canalized the mounts and made a new one: 





 

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With the repairs complete, we spent a week or so making the panels fit nicely adjusting the panel gaps to 5mm.
The body was then scuffed with 240g and given a fresh coat of 2k Epoxy.
After this it went off the to paint shop!

 

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Time for another update!

My painter was busy (he always is) but eventually he made progress, an in the space of a couple of weeks, it was in high build primer and the underbody in Nissan 305 LMB!









 

  

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My painter has now requested that we make the 260Z at least a rolling shell or drivable, so it's easy to move into paint booth.
So I had a chat with Daniel about the direction of the build, as I was not going to refit the dirty and rusty suspension to the freshly painted chassis.



We came to the decision to break the suspension down, have it media blasted and painted in 2k black.
ALL the fasteners, brackets, catch's etc were cleaned and wire wheeled, then sent off for electroplating.



 

The braking system can be upgraded later on by Daniel if he so wishes, but for the moment we had all the braking components rebuilt.

However Daniel DID want a suitably lowered ride height, so I purchased a set of Z31 Front Koni Yellows, and Lovells 30mm lowered rear springs.
The old Pedders 'Comfort Gas' inserts went in the bin!

 
A new rubber suspension bush kit will be installed.

Daniel had SW Motorsport rebuild the engine, with some tasty mods.
Stewart then shipped it down to us to install.
More on this later.

Edited 59 minutes ago by C.A.R.