Sirpent

Photo's would be a good start as its hard to give a prognosis and course of action otherwise. Pitting as in paint blistering like acne spots?

That's dedication, one of the worst jobs one has to deal with and you knocked it over in an afternoon, doesn't it just kill you that it will all be going back on and covered in trim and carpet? Great job nevertheless

Jeff Short drive down the Hume, always welcome to drop in and check out my chicken sh*t welds LMAO I have to say though, I'm liking how its all come together, just cant wait for it to be welded up, media blasted and powder coated. Thanks Mate Cheers John

This weekends effort Diff is now nested with the chassis on the car, and all said clearances are great and looks like I got all the alignment and axle positioning spot on. Pardon the blue support RHS in the photo as its a temp support for the diff until the final 2 mounts are added. All that's left is to #1 Build the brackets for the last 2 rearward diff mounts #2 Drop the entire chassis out #3 Bolt in the motor/trans #4 Marry the entire chassis back into the body #5 Check clearances and adjust any sheet metal #6 Drop it all out again #7 Have all the final welding done #8 Ring the engineers to come out and cross my fingers Till next week John

Fantastic result and modification on the air box

Thanks Ric Looking forward to seeing the progress on your car also ;-)

OK, So one day a wek now devoted to the car and I intend sticking to it. Today, #1 Finished the second set of uprights for the passanger side diff mount. #2 Final alignment and welding of the brackets #3 The pretty mount circular access point I cut into one of the mounts didnt work, so Mr Grinder made short work of that. Will go back and linish it off to look half respectable later. #4 Did the final piece of surgery to the rear moustache bar cross member #5 Was very pleased to see the state of the inners once cut away, no rust and clearly the factory etch primer looked great #6 Slotted in the diff recess / reinforcement set up and it just slipped in and sat there happily Next week, chassis back on the car, then the rear diff cradle bits, followed by mounting the diff and finishing off the last of the diff mounts at the rear of the diff. Cheers John

David's gone very quiet.............. WE NEED UPDATES DAVID !

You silent achiever you ! Nice work Buddy

Awesomeness !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A quiet but progressive build.......... No wonder, it has a "Rust Whisperer'" a "L Series Whisperer' and a 'Mikuni Whisperer' all working on it.

Should provide some fun, whats the longer term plan Jeff?

Only half a day available this weekend to get some more done, and I managed to trim both diff mount plates down and make a start on the second passenger side mount. Now that I have it set at the same height and position relative to the LCA tube, I can measure up the 2 uprights and fabricate them next weekend. Cheers John

Yep that's what I'm looking at adding to my armoury this week

LMAO, believe it or not................. 1mm Hand grinder fibre discs followed by grinder disc followed by flapper disc after marking out the shape over masking tape. I take the plate, drill out the holes as required, then mask up the shape and draw the final shape on the piece. I need a bench grinder sanding disc which I am looking into at the moment because Im still not happy with the finish on the final items

Nice work Rudi ;-)

Yup I'm nuts, its confirmed, ripped into the old mounts today (Which happened to be Version 2) after securing the diff in its true position and fabricated the 1st of 4 new (Version 3) mounts which took me 6 hours. As I said, nuts, hopefully the next 3 don't take me 18 hours. Cheers John

Not every color works on the S30's, but this has to be one of the best !

Give the man a cigar !

OK, So new job, and a bit less time to work on the Zed, but stick with me, updates are coming, in the meanwhile, one of the benefits of working where I do is that I see a lot, and I mean a LOT of classic cars every day. And today was no different, well kinda not different because this rolled up............ so lets see who can guess what it is. There were only 150 built Its an all aluminium hand made job and the car in the pics is in its raw state These cars restored are fetching upwards of AUS $300K at the moment AND Its the fore runner to one of the most sort after 2 door coupes built in the 60's If you look close enough, you will pick up on the styling cues that crossed over to its "BAST*RD CHILD" and thats a big hint. Cheers John

Exceptionally well done Jeff 5* work

OK from daily updates back to weekly ones. This week I started a new role so gone are the days of being able to get up each day for 3 weeks and knock down the to do list. I bit the bullet and ordered 2 of the mounts I mentioned in my previous post and it was the Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrse of the century ! These are actually used on Land Rover Free Lander's as a single forward differential mount, I was planning to use 2 up front but after a bit of an eye ball fit up and placement today, there will now be 2 up front and 2 at the rear which will solve all my problems. The rubber bushes in these mounts can be pressed out and replaced, and the aluminium mounts are robust considering a single one is used on a diff up front, don't think I will have any issues with failures using 4 of them. Being Mothers Day this weekend, no work on the Zed this weekend, but I'm ordering 2 more of these mounts today so next weekend it full steam ahead. Cheers John

Looking great Peter, envy the fact that you have now been able to drive it, but also happy the days finally arrived ;-)

Like your work ;-)

Great to see progress again ;-)