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John, I can hardly bear to look at this thread. It brings back memories of the long, often frustrating hours one has to put in creating the foundations of a build. There is little visible on the final product to indicate the amount and nature of this work. What I can assure you of is that this quality work will reward you over and over again as the build progresses.

A good friend of mine uses the example of the Sistine Chapel - Everyone who enters immediately looks up at the ceiling and completely ignores the floor and walls, without which there'd be no ceiling.

Great work - carry on.

 

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Yes Peter

A glutton for self imposed punishment and pushing the boundaries is what it’s all about at this stage, but to be honest apart from some ill conceived parts which ended in the trash I wouldn’t change the path nor result so far

Just hope I can make it to the end

thanks Pete

cheers

John

 

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Some great fabrication here John.

From time to time I visit professional fabrication shops. They don’t go close to imparting the passion that you do. Peter mentioned the Sistine Chapel, exactly. Great work 

Jeff

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Love it when a proof of concept works out as well as you imagined and planned it

So first pan went in today on the passenger side and lined up nicely after I blended the reinforcement beads flat at each end to allow mating the pan to the forward and rear sheet metal.

cheers

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45 minutes ago, jeff43 said:

Nice work John!

you are powering along!

Keep up the good work!

Thanks Jeff

long way to go still but fulfilling 

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Well progress is slow but steady

Im certain these old Zeds were built using recycled Fosters cans from the 1970's, any how all good

Got the first pan trimmed in to the remaining floor sections with much slicing dicing and welding, the result? once prepped, sealed, coated and colored Im pretty sure it will look the goods,

Only just managed to sit the trimmed 2nd pan in place before sun down.

Until next week......

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Today’s effort 

Both pans now in including the rear tunnel plate, this was all done as one assy so as to make everything uniform and kept square in the process.

Next the tunnel will be formed then the pans and rear plate will be cut and trimmed to suit

A lot of fine tuning to be done with small mods and fabrication around the pans, plate etc but all in all happiness that this major structural work is coming to an end

Even had the first chance to place the AMG drivers seat in place and the smile was from ear to ear

Cheers

John

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Tunnel sections are still being mocked up so in the meanwhile focused my attention on fabricating the new seat rails.

basically because I’m dealing with a flat pan the seat rsils sandwich that pan to the new rails and lock in to each rail 

i have 2 options, slice them so I can notch in the tunnel or leave them and later install a series of rivet nuts so I can add an aluminum plate enclosing the tail shaft once installed to create a totally flat pan

i also received a new addition this week, integrated air and heating HVAC with full climate control, it’s about 25% smaller than the original Z set up so this is going to be an interesting mod once the tunnels in place and I can mount the dash to work out the hanger points and fresh air feed

till next week

John

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Sometimes you stand back and think, I could have done better, today was one of those days, so a bit more thought, polished up on my metal shaping and sliced and diced before playing geometry on a sheet of metal and then  “HAND BENDING” the tunnel !

A priceless day having reached a mile stone.

Cheers

John

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Not enough time today to finish the sheet metal patterns and then fabricate the piece so turned my attention to the ashtray insert which also reinforces the handbrake mount structurally 

was pretty pleased with myself until I realized somethings wrong, who can pick it?

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Jeff

Just like all the metal you had to deal with, this is more or less my end game with one last surprise to come for you all

Stay tuned

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