Leaderboard

Hi peoples Been a while since i did an update so here goes....... began working on the drivers side rear quarter. unfortunately i made a mistake...... the previous owner of the car looked to have attempted a repair on this panel but never finished. i was able to get the panel smooth save for a single stretch that resulted in a small buckling in the panel. Here is where i made my mistake i decided to cut a small slot remove the streacted metal and relieve the stress in the panel, which worked very well. However my welding skills were not yet up to the challenge of fixing this slot...... it went bad...... the single weld become many as i chased my tail...... this then resulted in me cutting a bigger hole this is where i made mistake number 2 ..... i didn't cut enough out. i left some if my booga welding behind.... at first i thought i had fixed it but no i now began chasing cracks which ended in cutting more holes and more patches....... (don't worry i'm slowly learning my lesson) so now with all that "practice" i knew that the only way to fix it right was to cut the whole area out and fix it with one large, one piece, patch....... now understanding what i did wrong, what i needed to do to fix it and now having the skill enough to fix it the final repair came out pretty well even if it never should have been this way in the first place. But as i said, lessons were learned skills were developed and when i have to do it again to fix some places where i do have to cut areas out due to rust and not because i stuffed up, things will go much better. In fact they already are. The final result, the whole panel still in need a little smoothing out but also needs some work in other areas as well before i finish that process. Thats all for now but more soon Paul

Sorry Guys, No longer for sale. My conscience wont let me.. Model: 1976 260z 2 Seater

An update, and not before time. The plan when I purchased my Z was to spent the days when work was a bit slow in the shed tinkering. But the last two years have been fairly constant and hence I have not been able to spend the time I had hoped working on the car. Today (this week) was a bit different. I managed to condense 5 days’ work into 4 and spent today in the shed. Lots of sanding and stuffing around with door gaps that culminated in (as it was quire warm) another coat of primer on the doors and guards. Also on the list was to finish off the inner guards mud guards. The old original rubber flaps are no more and I was not excited by how Nissan originally mounted them. So I cut some rubber and made the new flaps. Made an aluminium plate with nut certs drilled the holes and mounted the rubber on the back side of the guard. It’s getting there. I’m just glad it’s a small car. I cannot imagine the effort involved with a high end body prep for a big Merican car… Old Rocky was a big help today supervising! He had his 13th birthday recently. Jeff

Hey Rob I have always been a collector of skills, im just adding more. Im using a TIG welder. Steep learning curve but im getting the hang of it. This is my first welder and i have never welded with anything else. I just keep melting metal till it looks right :p

Good effort. Such a sunny day today, I managed to get down to 3 layers of clothing ! Back to minus 4 tonight.

Jeff Yep came out ok in the end and yep ots still on the rotisserie, it will be there for quite some time longer. But things are speeding up as i learn more :)

Looks ok in the end Paul. The best way to learn is from our mistakes and believe me I have learnt a lot over the years.. As has been said before some of the worst things to repair are the man made ones. Guess the car is still on the rotisserie? Jeff

Greg, I bought one of the leather boots from Supercheap to replace my cracked original when I bought a new console, and had to modify it to fit as it doesn't work as is. The vinyl boots look to be the same design, so something to consider. I had to unpick the stitching on the bottom that holds the spring wire to get enough length to fit the hole in the Z console, and it was still a tight strech to get it to work..

Interior can be changed. Looks really cool, just need to put in hydronic heating.

Well look what's back, and with additional pictures this time. Hopefully @JDM-TOYdoesn't scare him off this time..... Lol https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com.au%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F273371117107

Bit of a plug for member @Neuby and his Youtube channel, good information here about ignition mods.

I heard some Tapping the other day.........