CBR Jeff Posted September 25, 2016 Posted September 25, 2016 Polishing polishing polishing. You will have to just clear coat this. It will be a travesty to cover it in paint. Nice work John. Jeff Sirpent 1 Quote
Sirpent Posted September 25, 2016 Author Posted September 25, 2016 Polishing polishing polishing. You will have to just clear coat this. It will be a travesty to cover it in paint. Nice work John. Jeff No going down Kato's route with the KBS I'm afraid LOL Quote
Sirpent Posted December 7, 2018 Author Posted December 7, 2018 Greetings Thought Id chime in, had a rough last 12-18 months but pleased to say I'm above ground, seemed to have recovered and am back on the tools. Will hopefully be updating in the near future. Cheers John PeterAllen, gav240z, 260DET and 3 others 6 Quote
jpndave Posted December 7, 2018 Posted December 7, 2018 Yes, glad to hear you are doing better. I look forward to future posts. Sirpent 1 Quote
jeff43 Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 Excellent news, great to have you back John. Sirpent 1 Quote
CBR Jeff Posted December 11, 2018 Posted December 11, 2018 looking forward to some updates John. Life is a bumpy raod most of the time. Glad yours is smoothing out. Jeff Sirpent 1 Quote
Sirpent Posted December 23, 2018 Author Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) Ok so I’m back on the tools but no have some items surplus to my needs I imported the U.S. made Bad Dog 240Z rail extensions, masterfully made but due to the rear sway bar set up on my car I’d rather not hack and modify them so I’m going down the custom fabrication path instead Also left and right hand Rare Spares floor pans and rails, they sit fine but once again my manic state tells me to go custom pans and rails considering the tunnel mod So all in all around $850 worth of metal up for grabs as a complete fit out shipped for $750 Merry Christmas all PM if interested Edited December 23, 2018 by Sirpent Spelling Quote
Sirpent Posted January 19, 2019 Author Posted January 19, 2019 Ok So many will think me mad, no matter after much deliberation this was the way I decided to go. The replacement rails and floor just won’t do it for me as they are perfectly fine for a 240Z rests but not for this hybrid build, so it was back to the drawing board and that moment of no return as you start to cautiously cut away small portions of metal at a time working your way through what you imagined and what the shell will and won’t allow you too do. The 2mm RHS channel is 65x35 mm, a perfect match to the original width of the Z rail, so I needed to literally feel my way through the cut process to work out how to graft a new rail section to the original metal and then work out how to reinforce the lot with tailored gussets forward and aft at the end. this set up will allow me to run custom ribbed flat pans, the original 260 rails and pans had more dips and peaks than a Sydney north shore suburb, the replacements would never work properly. I took a pic of the perfectly good Z rail cut away sitting on the new rail section, the drivers side rail still on the car is even more of a basket case as far as profile than the passenger cut away. Anyhow, let’s see how I fair with this Frankensteinian graft in the weeks to come. Cheers John CBR Jeff, lightmaster240z and 260DET 3 Quote
CBR Jeff Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 Well John its good to see you making progress. Indulge me but are these rails going to be attached to the cradle you made, extra to the cradle or is this a modification? Im a bit slow but very interested :-) Jeff Quote
Sirpent Posted January 21, 2019 Author Posted January 21, 2019 4 minutes ago, CBR Jeff said: Well John its good to see you making progress. Indulge me but are these rails going to be attached to the cradle you made, extra to the cradle or is this a modification? Im a bit slow but very interested :-) Jeff Hi Jeff Replacements for the originals tied across the tunnel by the original reinforced gear box mount brace which have chassis bolt points now cheers John Quote
CBR Jeff Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 So its extra. Wow that is going to strong and stiff. Impressive. Jeff Quote
Sirpent Posted January 28, 2019 Author Posted January 28, 2019 So you go to crank up the mig after 18 months and it’s cactus ! So off to the store and its like the Gods are looking after you Bossweld reduced from $650 to $270, happy days, and this thing welds effortlessly So on with it, first rail front profiling done, later an inner and outer contoured reinforcement plate will be added to finish it off cheers John Quote
jeff43 Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 Very nice John, Good to see after 18 months, you haven't lost any of your skills! Sirpent and CBR Jeff 1 1 Quote
Sirpent Posted January 28, 2019 Author Posted January 28, 2019 Thanks Jeff Slowly, just pissed off I lost more than 2 hours due to the mig failure Quote
CBR Jeff Posted January 29, 2019 Posted January 29, 2019 I see it now! I was confused with last weeks post but now I have grasped what you are doing John. Nice. Hope you dont have any more lost time. Jeff Sirpent 1 Quote
Sirpent Posted February 2, 2019 Author Posted February 2, 2019 Well got back from Sydney this afternoon and managed to whip the passenger side rail into an almost final form i think this will start making more sense to readers now cheers John 11388572-E260-4D98-94F6-7F397D017659.MOV ric240z, CBR Jeff and 260DET 3 Quote
MaygZ Posted February 3, 2019 Posted February 3, 2019 John, she's going to be very ridged, but do you have an estimate of the final weight of your BMW light truck? MaygZ luvemfast 1 Quote
Sirpent Posted February 3, 2019 Author Posted February 3, 2019 1 hour ago, MaygZ said: John, she's going to be very ridged, but do you have an estimate of the final weight of your BMW light truck? MaygZ It’s actually an AMG truck lol around 1300kg each rail weighs in at around 4kg Quote
Sirpent Posted February 3, 2019 Author Posted February 3, 2019 1 hour ago, MaygZ said: John, she's going to be very ridged, but do you have an estimate of the final weight of your BMW light truck? MaygZ It’s actually an AMG truck lol around 1300kg each rail weighs in at around 4kg Quote
Sirpent Posted February 3, 2019 Author Posted February 3, 2019 1 hour ago, MaygZ said: John, she's going to be very ridged, but do you have an estimate of the final weight of your BMW light truck? MaygZ It’s actually an AMG truck lol around 1300kg each rail weighs in at around 4kg Quote
AndBir Posted February 3, 2019 Posted February 3, 2019 You could save all of this weight by using the Lizard Skin Ceramic Insulating spray on coating as a stone chip type coating instead of the much heavier acoustic coatings - it weighs almost nothing due to the microscopic ceramic sphere in the coating. Quote
Sirpent Posted February 3, 2019 Author Posted February 3, 2019 Thanks for the lead AndBit, will look into it but weight isn’t my concern as with the AMG V6 this thing will hopefully one day be pushing around 300kW and 500Nm through that T56 6 speed im after the driving experience not a track or drag car Quote
KatoKid Posted February 4, 2019 Posted February 4, 2019 17 hours ago, MaygZ said: John, she's going to be very ridged, but do you have an estimate of the final weight of your BMW light truck? MaygZ My BMW Light Truck came in at 1080 kg. CBR Jeff and ScottyD 1 1 Quote
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