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thanks mate i recon i'll track it down on monday

not at the moment... my mate is 3rd year at uni so he's flat out with assignments. All the foam and my headlight buckets are chilling in his garage, only another month and a half and there should be some major updates. only alil carving to go then its time for plaster

awesome, should have some tax coin back by then

mate did you end up going past the wreckers and finding out the model for the afm?

ebay is your friend

if this doesn't sell would you be willing to part it out? would looooove the dash+any black interior piece i could grab

very interested to find out what model it came off good find mate

have the a-pillar plastic trim? (both sides) should be right without the door trims thanks

Z caps in Australia http://cgi.ebay.com.au/MAG-WHEEL-RIM-CENTER-CAPS-DATSUN-240z-260z-280zx-/110673634478?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item19c4a9a4ae#ht_500wt_949 D caps http://cgi.ebay.com.au/MAG-WHEEL-RIM-CENTER-CAP-HUB-FIT-DATSUN-/110673633761?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item19c4a9a1e1#ht_500wt_949 Anyone know what badge this is off? http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250803245740#ht_840wt_698

thanks mike can i come past on sunday? your a life saver are the struts deer normally?

From the other day driving up to mt coother to see the lights turn off for earth hour my suspensions been playing up abit.. Keeps making a noise looks to me like somethings not connected but like everything with my car something probably just broke lol Here is my good left rear: and Heres the right: Would it be the coil, bushing, shocky thats given up? Sorry if i'm asking a stupid question, cheers in advance

shit that's cheap, Might give them a call up

Whats your address mate? I recon beer for rims sounds fair

Got the brake master cylinder still in it? what condition is the dash in? Does it have drivers+passengers armrests on the doors? if any of those i'll take it (depending on condition ) Cheers

Might be interested mate, how much would it cost to get up to brisbane 4115? cheers

cheers Carved out the bottom lip pretty much completely (now ready for plaster) Ran into a little problem.. Soo Ended up doing the fillets just under the headlight buckets (should be a more perfect mold of the underside of the buckets. the original that we made back in day one were pretty dodgy, learning experience ) Just for the hell of it my mate elliot put teeth on the z while i carved a s130 out of foam lol It looks pretty aggressive

Alil more progress (been distracted by work/new speakers/changing gaskets and all) The middle section of foam done ^^ The next boxed off section (will round it out a bit but rather have more then less to work with) Ended up cutting the bottom piece of foam into 4 pieces, Was a struggle putting a knife to it.. (emotionally not physically lol) Found out after it was cut that the original measurements were now wrong so changed the angle of the level just above the lip. Its now like And end of day Just need to do some carving now and then its time for plaster

got any 280 parts mate?

I needed to fix my windscreen anyway so the silicone didnt go to waste, Might take your advice mate haha

willing to sell just the plates?

if its just a few cracks cut them out until you get a \/ even shape, sand it a bit then put in some silicone+vinyl paint over the top, using a sponge gets a similar texture to the original vinyl. The silicone expands+contracts with the original vinyl. Lots of write ups about doing this, google is your friend. I just bought $12 of black sellys roof/tile silicone and will be fixing mine up over the next few days

jesus christ that car is amazing.. was going to make a post a hour ago but got distracted, Think i'll be needing a profile guage and some coke for tomorrow lol. Cardboard template saved the whole bottom piece of foam yesterday, without it we (me and elliot) would have made some big mistakes. Cheers for the advice Didn't get to much done today, Had a bit of a scare when the z refused to start. 6 new spark plugs, petrol filter and she feels much more powerful. repco has a 20% discount for racq members for this month Middle sections boxed off, Favourite picture by far. Shaved back the headlight bucket foam to be more even, took a template off the bottom and lined it up with the bottom section. Surprised that the taper actually met up with what was drawn up the other day. Still need to do alittle carving to get: / \ effect The bottom section can't quiet slide far enough back atm (the metal that holds the bumper/towing hook is in the way, will sort that out later with the glass) But other then that it all lines up And thats as far as we got until the sun disappeared.. more to come

Do plan on having a s30 style grill but will most likely end up making it from scratch just to get the curves right, nizm0zed your spot on. Will definitely use metal tabs that's a brilliant idea!! Thank you. How did the project turn out? symmetry is the biggest problem we're having at the moment (sure there will be more to come) Have you got any other tips for the later stages? There is basically no info on the net about what we're doing. face mask noted, for glassing will wear a mask+gloves. For the foam atm its just glasses+ear plugs and a vacuum to catch a small portion of the dust before it coats everything lol

All been thought about luvemfast just going to lay a few extra bits of glass under where i'd like to mount them (still deciding on what indicators to use) Would not know how to include brake ducts atm, going to do some google'ing now to see how it can be incorporated Cheers bigfella,stivva. The bumper i'd say would be the ugliest part of the car just because there aren't to many flaws (just my opinion lol) Tho the roof line leaves something to be desired Ok so because of the big night last night didn't get to much done today, The foam ballooned out of the cardboard skeleton and was 80mm bigger at some points so thanks to a kitchen knife set i bought at kmart for $8 i started carving away the excess (bread knife worked much better then any of the wooden saws I had acces to at my mates place) Did end up using a grinder, the sander did absolutely nothing to the foam. Test fit, Still had a lot of excess foam but just wanted to see how it lined up, The grill attached to the bumper arm support/towing hook points made it so the lip didn't really sit flush but just for a general idea. Late day test fit, Getting the lines fairly close at this point. Took awhile making the cardboard templates for the top and bottom again. Got confused about the angles the lip had to follow to meet up with the bumper line so a few dummy models were made up. Gets kind of confusing after awhile working without plans lol Actually looks really good now, Ran out of light so had to call it quits. Need to do a little more carving but it seems to be taking shape fairly nicely Will do more work tomorrow, hoping to complete the sections between the lip+headlight bucket foam

cheers sirpent you're deffinitely not alone , micky that was originally the plan until i found out it was $120(for the blue/yellow poly, normal would have been difficult to work with) a sheet comparing $16 a can, me+my mate worked it out that we'd prolly need 2 and a half sheets so the cans turned out to be alot cheaper. 4 down and probably 2/3 more cans to go and thanks mate should be better than even the photoshop