Photos of stripping a 260z

[Whittie]

Hey Guys,

 

When I pulled my car apart I took somewhere in the order of 4-500 photos of every single part of the car that I though was necessary and important to remember in order to be used for putting it back together again. Bolts, cables, suspension, seats, dash, (not motor or gearbox, I didn't pull that), bonnet, hatch, door locks, windows... etc.

 

The reason I'm telling you this is that I figured it might be useful for some people if they need specific photos of how a particular part or 2 might fit in the car. Perhaps you've pulled something out and can't remember how it went back in, what washers/nuts/bolts were used, any spacers, how wiring was run through the car. Anything.

 

Now, my car was molested a fair bit before I got started on it and given that no 2 zeds are the same, some parts will be different, however if you need a photo of something then just shoot and I'll put them up if lots of people want them or I can email them around if it's a peculiar piece.

 

Unfortunately there are 2.17Gb of photos, so putting them all up somewhere is not really possible unless someone can point me to a free service that will host that much data.

 

I found Microsoft Sky Drive, 25GB free space if I can put up with using a web interface as mapping a network drive won't let you copy JPEG's, only .doc .xls etc

 

Here are the pics, uploading slowly currently:

 

https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=a7c362341cee745b&resid=A7C362341CEE745B!103

[kobes]

If you burnt it to DVD I would not mind paying you a fair price for your time and effort to have a copy posted

[Whittie]

Turns out Microsoft offer 25GB of online storage.

 

It'll probably take all night but all the photos will go up eventually here:

 

https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=a7c362341cee745b&resid=A7C362341CEE745B!103

 

 

[gav240z]

Turns out Microsoft offer 25GB of online storage.

 

It'll probably take all night but all the photos will go up eventually here:

 

https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=a7c362341cee745b&resid=A7C362341CEE745B!103

 

 

 

Whatever works for you, but I use Google Picasa with Great Success. I do actually pay to upgrade my space I think by default picasa is only 1gb of storage but I pay like $20 a year and get 80GB. There is also a good upload utility for it.

 

If you want I could upload it to my own Picasa as a reference?

 

 

[FLEXZED]

Hey mate

 

i would be very interested in all the photos you have

 

let me know which way you go with it

 

Loui

 

[Whittie]

Photos are uploading slowly:

 

https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=a7c362341cee745b&resid=A7C362341CEE745B!103

 

Skydrive also took the liberty of resizing all the photos to 1600 pixels wide. So, each photo is now only about 500kb instead of 5Mb each, so that's OK i suppose. Not the super quality, but likely to be good enough.

 

If anyone has an issue with low image quality and needs a better shot of anything then I'll upload them all again in full res when I get home and don't have stupidly slow hotel WiFi connections to deal with.

 

Enjoy!!

[Roberto]

Good service whittie. I am sure many of us will find these pics useful.

[Bigfella]

Great work I'm sure I will be calling on that at some point.

 

[Mr Camouflage]

Whatever works for you, but I use Google Picasa with Great Success. I do actually pay to upgrade my space I think by default picasa is only 1gb of storage but I pay like $20 a year and get 80GB. There is also a good upload utility for it.

 

If you want I could upload it to my own Picasa as a reference?

 

You forgot to mention that you work for google

[NZeder]

Whatever works for you, but I use Google Picasa with Great Success. I do actually pay to upgrade my space I think by default picasa is only 1gb of storage but I pay like $20 a year and get 80GB. There is also a good upload utility for it.

 

If you want I could upload it to my own Picasa as a reference?

But does'nt picasa now own the copyright to your photo's as that is stated in the T&C of using the servie - I don't like that idea one bit.

[Whittie]

So I haven't heard anything from anyone, how are the photos?

 

If you need them larger I'm back home now. I think I'll keep them on Skydrive for now, it seems easy enough for me to use. How is it for you guys accessing the pics??

[handsandwhich]

Just had a quick look.

 

Looks easy enough to navigate and the thumbnailed pics are good so you don't have to load/look at every single pic.

 

Question: What was all that goop inside the rear quarters? Mine did have some black sound deadener/rust preventive, but that oily goop looks like it was just chucked in there straight from a bucket.

[Scoota G]

Question: What was all that goop inside the rear quarters? Mine did have some black sound deadener/rust preventive, but that oily goop looks like it was just chucked in there straight from a bucket.

Thats the same stuff they found on the Firewall of Lindy Chamberlin's Holden.

[Whittie]

Just had a quick look.

 

Looks easy enough to navigate and the thumbnailed pics are good so you don't have to load/look at every single pic.

 

Question: What was all that goop inside the rear quarters? Mine did have some black sound deadener/rust preventive, but that oily goop looks like it was just chucked in there straight from a bucket.

 

Awesome, thanks for the feedback.

 

That oily goop is some unknown oily goop.

 

I thought it was fish oil originally but I have been told it most certainly is not. I have no idea what it was, other than EVERYWHERE through the car, presumably for rust proofing and astronomically painful to remove. I mean literally everywhere. 30 years of gravity had also run its toll and it was pooling, most noticeably in those rear compartments. Every panel, nut, bolt, crevice, hidden compartment, the backside of every piece of plastic on the entire car was covered in it. The car also had 2 separate layers of tar for rust-proofing the underneath of the chassis. The only conclusion I can come to is that the original owner, an english chap, had it re-rust-proofed as an aftermarket option when he bought the car. It certainly saved the car from the crap heap, but it's been a real pain in the proverbial to remove.

[handsandwhich]

The only constructive criticism I would say is that it would be slightly easier to navigate if the two large folders "strip" and "final strip" were broken down into some more smaller folders with a better description of which area we are looking at, so you don't have to sift through so many pics to find the area you need.

 

Looked like that shell would have been better off being acid dipped to save a lot of hassle.

[Roberto]

Whittie, Did you take pics of engine bay and under dash?

[Whittie]

OK, I'll try and go through and sort them out. To be honest, I haven't even really looked at the photos myself yet!

 

I'll see what I can do about breaking things up into smaller sections and then upload them again. It'll make it easier for me when I  put the car back together anyways. Perhaps 'engine bay' 'wiring loom' 'rear section plastics' etc.

 

I was thinking acid dip but it's horrendously expensive and still won't get rid of all the oil, tar and goop. By the time I had removed all of that the panel beater worked out it would be cheaper for him to spend time sand blasting and cleaning rather than paying someone to acid bath it and then have to pay him to go around and repair all the damage that would have been done dipping it. I have been fully led by the panel beater in terms of doing the body work on this build for the lowest price possible. He's a good guy and I fully trust him, he also makes sound decisions.

[Whittie]

Whittie, Did you take pics of engine bay and under dash?

 

I didn't pull the motor so I don't have many, just pics for removing all the hoses, clips, wiring loom etc. The dash is also still in one piece from when I removed it, so I don't have the under dash pics I think you might be thinking of? Have a browse through the 'strip' pics, the interior ones and see if what you want comes up. The thing to keep in mind is I never intended for these pics to be used for this purpose. I bagged all the screws, nuts, bolts into little zip-lock bags and so that will help a lot to work out where stuff goes and then the photos were really just for the 'hard' or bizarre stuff. Stuff that I guessed I might not be able to replace even with all parts split into little bags. The dash is one example because it's really only 6-8 screws and the whole thing comes out, it was not a difficult job but then I have done it 2-3 times already.