mikey

You want update? I giv you update muthabitches! Shits painted. Everything looks pink but I think/hope it's just my camera being gay. Fuel/brake/clutch lines (mostly) in. I'm using the 350z clutch master. Added another steering uni and rose joint to clear the exhaust/mounts The gearbox came with this relocation bracket which puts the shifter too far back. So I cut that shaft out between the two uni's and welded the unis together, then made another bracket. Bought a new airdam It'll look a little like this My goal is to have it ready for the Leadfoot cruise on Nov 3rd. I reckon it's touch and go. The plan is to put the engine in for reals tonight, start wiring this weekend. Send driveshaft away to get shortened (recommendations?), put everything back together and then finally drop it off at ttt to get the exhaust made. Shit it's a lot more fun putting a car back together than pulling it apart! ho ho

Nah, it's "Xenon" which is an American company I think. Come around whenev's. I'll probably be in the shed every day until Ha Hei!

Nice one Dave. Oh how I lol'd. This is what it _really_ is.

Anyone know a automotive paint store open weekends? Or anyone have some durepox harder they can spare?

Looking super sweet. Carry on.

So much win!

I'll have a spare seat if my car's running. Which is 50/50 I reckon. I'll be leaving from Auckland but happy to swing past the tron if that's where you are. / getting a bit far ahead of myself. Ho ho

Ok thanks guys. I'll high build the slut.

I think I'm doing it wrong. This is the current state of play, all holes filled. Started sanding the transitions from paint to steel but seems to take forever to get it smooth. Instead of this sanding, should I be giving a light skim of bog and sanding that? Some bits were gonna get a light bog anyhow, but I didn't think I'd need to bog everywhere I've stripped paint. OR should I remove all paint? Sanding sucks.

Entire day spend in the shed but not much to show for it.... It's ALMOST ready for paint, just needs sanding. Man, sanding sucks! Takes forever.

Ha ha. I even painted the fence after you left too!

I painted all my shit with 2pac Chris did some more weldy weld weld weld. I relocated the fuel reg. I put new brakes together They're R32 GTR brakes, the rotors are brand new curved-vane Wilwood rotors 296mm x 32mm which I got for a very reasonable price from Pedey. Last night represents the a turning point in the swap - there's no more stuff to take off the car - from now on I'll only be putting things back on. YAY! Rust under the drivers side guard is way better than the passengers side, so that's nice. If things go really well on Satuday I might have everything in primer. (Nothing ever goes that well now thou does it?)

Mate, all looking super sweet. I never thought of running harness in the guard, but makes sense now I see it. Tempted to do the same...

I hope so! Was just yarning to a pal about how awesome this will be.

I'd think pretty empty. Plus the new campground is fricken Massive.

Chipping away... Modified headers to clear firewall/framerail.

Good stuff on the tacho mod. I'll have to do this (hopefully) soon too. I only have a pic programmer thou so may end out rewriting the code.

^^ I know it looks like my car is being held up by a pile of old bricks, but I assure you it's not. Everything is prepped for paint, hopefully put primer down on Saturday morning.

A fucked pair of wire cutters.

In the past I've cut 4 small wheels out of one cut-off wheel for a grinder and drilled a little hole in the centres for the Dremmel. They don't need to be perfectly round, after a quick grind against something the become perfectly round pretty much straight away. Works really well. Edit: Like this:

Yeah, you've convinced me. I'll go for the hideously expensive non-industrual spec. I'd only ever regret it otherwise.

The guy at Autopaint told me "2K" is the marketing name for the high end 2-pack urethane and the lowerspec stuff is 2-pack but not "2K". Is that correct? *confused* Sounds like the lower spec stuff is still probably good enough for me though. Maybe I'll do my engine bay with it and depending on how that looks I can use it elsewhere.

I've got myself some epoxy primer and cheap black urethane for underbody parts which just leaves colour for the engine bay, guards and other bits and pieces. So how shit is the industrial spec urethane vs. the 2k? I'm not fussy when it comes to shine, but I want it to not fade or look totally flat. 2k is about twice the price of the industrial shit so.... I'm tempted to go budget spec.

I've heard of people using worn out old flap disks to do the same as those shinking disks.

Thanks Spence, this fred is full of good info. What's the go with underbody paints? People always say use POR15, but really? Seems mighty expensive and I've not seen panel beaters use it. They normally use the bumpy stuff don't they? What's good? And do I need to prep bare steel with something before epoxy primer? What's the brand of this cheap industrial paint you use? I'm keen to get some black for painting parts.