by next week all this rust will be spanking new steel + all being underseald and waxoild!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

qaulity mate, im lucky my uk zed wasnt half as bad as that, dont be afraid, its just a matter of welding it back up now

we keep coming across old patchwork plating underneath and in the floor thats failed miserably! i hope it goes better this time

you've not had much luck with that car have you mate

:( not really, at least i now know why i got it for a bargain basement price!!!

 

 

 

- also the rear quarters virtually fell out when i touched them - hence all the water in the floor wells and massive amounts of rust all over the place

Edited March 31, 200916 yr by alxlaw

what i`ve found with the rear bumper quarters is that if the light seals leak water pools in the wheel well and also if the car is parked at an angle eg a cambered road guess where it drains to instead of the well!

had some trouble with the gromet holding the front arch liner in place its the hole by the hicas solenoid waterv collects under the plastic pin and rusts through into your engine bay not anymore though as i filled mine in

 

p.s been there with you with the rust but its all worth it in the end matey

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=33557&referrerid=654

had some trouble with the gromet holding the front arch liner in place its the hole by the hicas solenoid waterv collects under the plastic pin and rusts through into your engine bay not anymore though as i filled mine in

 

p.s been there with you with the rust but its all worth it in the end matey

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=33557&referrerid=654

 

looks very familliar!! alot of hard work!!, going to go take some pics in a min the wings are off and the aivs have ben removed + the tie rods and discs are being done too as we speak - he works till about 10 every night at the moment wont be long, he said we're at the end of the rust discovery part now moving onto patching up lol!! daft bugger!

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is someone elses welding??? bin done before obviously!

 

 

 

new shocks from zworld on the way...

 

 

 

 

 

 

You're really going to town on that! Should be as good as new when you've finished :bow:

Good progress! Looking forward to seeing it all done... with be worth all the blood sweat and tears in the end... :)

Yep hat of to you sir.

Jesus! Never seen a JDM with that amount of rust on it! Good price to fix though!

 

So glad mine's completely rot free.

nice to see it being kept alive, rather than broken for parts.

You're really going to town on that! Should be as good as new when you've finished :bow:

 

 

Good progress! Looking forward to seeing it all done... with be worth all the blood sweat and tears in the end... :)

 

Jesus! Never seen a JDM with that amount of rust on it! Good price to fix though!

 

So glad mine's completely rot free.

 

nice to see it being kept alive, rather than broken for parts.

 

 

can't wait! its been so sunny today im gutted im driving around in a shitty little yarris...

 

i specifically baught a jdm to avoid this problem..... oh well was only £1400:headvswal

 

the price is due to the amount of work iv put his way - and i went to school with him - 40% of the tools he uses are mine anyway!

 

couldnt afford to buy another Z so its better to fix what you got! could never break it unless annihilated it into a wall then i guess id have no choice...

 

OMG imagine i crashed it after all this!!! id be devastated!! (touch wood):wack:

top work mate, hats off to ya

so the war is over halfway in progress - the mechanical work has come to an end....

list

 

adj tie rods

tt discs and callipers

braided brake lines

braided clutch lines

brand new slave cylinder

new front shocks and springs (gonna be replaced with coilovers when i get the cash together)

mt90 gear and diff oil

iridium plugs

front and rear hubsentric bolt on 20mm spacers

greenstuf front pads

oe - rear pads

2x full sils ripped out and replaced

most of the floor plan ripped out and replaced

new handbrake shoes and cable....omg!

2xpanel airfilters

oil filter

engine oil

heater matrix...omfg!!

steering rack was missing a bracket now fixed

rust in the boot ripped out and replaced

rear quarter glass refitted as the pikeys who had them out last just left them sat in without stickerflex.....

dot 5.1 clutch and brake fluid (massive difference)

the inside of the car (floor) painted black after all the welding)

outside plating painted black and shultzed (underseald) along with the entire underside and all 4 arches extensively covered lol!

 

rear arch

 

rear os sill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

full respray and the sideskirts shall be known as part 2 of the Japanese war on rust lol!!

aiv gone too

Make sure you get the rockgaurd smoothed on the rear bumper when it goes in for paint! :)

im having the lines around the whole car removed and smooth!! ordered the plastic strip above the boot today too as iv snapped mine, just need to find a pair of 275/40/r18's for the new alloys iv got to put on

 

oh and the black plether kit im undoubtably gonna ruin is to go in too....

Noooo don't do that. I've seen it done and it's not a nice look. The Z needs that recess to kick the back end up. Plus, do you really want all that filler in the doors?

ital be fibreglass, need to see some pics before i do suppose, thing is the skirts are being blended in to the bodywork so ill be loosing those lines anyway might as well get rid of the otheres

Each to their own. Not keen on that unless you're going wide arse. :)

rear strip thing iv ordered, what do i stick it down with?

HELOOOOOOO!! bin such a long time......the Z is due back any day now.... however... in june i bought this ->

 

 

 

 

 

naturally it blew up last week.......so im going to put an s14a sr20det redtop in it instead.........YEA I KNOW! lol!

 

i already have engine and everything required to fit, bar custom mounts and sorting the prop and GB out anyway - heres how its gonna work......

 

http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=815509

 

:)