So its finally happening after been off the road for well over a year the zed is on Target for its refurbishment.

 

Last year I started with doing all the underbody suspension stuff to make the ride more stable and after that

I decided I wanted to do a full strip down to the bare shell and start from scratch to create a show quality z32.

 

After much bad luck and many thousands of pounds wasted on rotted zeds i'm cracking on with the original plan.

 

So as a quick update i'll post some older picks followed over the next few weeks by an overall progress report.

 

Starting off with how she was when I first purchased her 3 years ago until the state she is now then showing the

strip down and all the bad luck I've had.

 

So here she is as I bought her :

 

 

 

Nice them Lee.

 

In an ideal world the dipped opening would be a perfect 75mm id but as you state it 'wanders' to 80mm in a place, it's not a problem for those 24 smd halos i have been using as they sit snuggly against at the rear but my next 2 x pairs i am doing i'll be using a diffuser in front, like your ccfl ones have built in, and like you will not be a totally perfect fit but it wont show.

 

Having looked at the 89 stock inserts they have much more sticking out at the top than Dave's do, a good cm or two more overang, so this is why gubbins (technical terminology) are slightly visible at the top.

 

Both areas that the carmad one can improve upon methinks !!

You only learn with experimenting.

 

One thing i would do differently is spray the interior of the carcus to black as i can

see the white in certain places at the bottom against the black glue i used.

 

I'm sticking with these for the now and i may redo them at a later date.

Well the OCD in me took over and I've decided to strip them down once more and do it proper.

 

First off each headlight stripped back to a carcass and primed in red.

 

That truly is OCD mate!!:yes:

I don't know how you guys get away with playing with your cars all the time!!:laugh:

True OCD would be the removal of those threaded bolts.......c'mon Lee if you're going to do a job, do it properly :tongue:.

That truly is OCD mate!!:yes:

I don't know how you guys get away with playing with your cars all the time!!:laugh:

 

thats why am single now and you can mess with cars when ever you want lol

True OCD would be the removal of those threaded bolts.......c'mon Lee if you're going to do a job, do it properly :tongue:.

 

Ah Lee!!! That's proper Sloppy!! :lol:

thats why am single now and you can mess with cars when ever you want lol

 

Ha!! At least you can spend time tinkering away. Keep the chin up matey!! There's days I'd love to be able to potter around the car doing bits but as its at the garage and I've the family to entertain it's a no go a lot of the time.

to be honest I never knew they came out.

 

True OCD would be the removal of those threaded bolts.......c'mon Lee if you're going to do a job, do it properly :tongue:.

Ah mate, don't beat yourself up about it, it's not the end of the world:rockon:

Discovered today what a washing line is really for :

 

Couple of small runs from over spraying them but wont matter too much after the insert are back in.

 

while I was doing the washing I thought i'd give the fan a cleanup too

 

 

 

Never mind the car parts !! That patio needs a good power washing !!:laugh:

Starting to put everything back together :

 

 

 

Outer part of the Inner lenses now painted :

 

 

And the finished look :

 

Good going there Lee! looks great

Put the fan assembly back together and the clutch part looked shite so I painted it too.

 

Put the fan assembly back together and the clutch part looked shite so I painted it too.

 

Ha! You have such a way with words!! You must be part Irish to have used that term!! :lol:

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Everything back together and looking much better.

 

Very nice Lee, you sound much happier, wouldn't put 240v through the halos for long though ;).

OCD is satisfied for now, that wee power pack is pushing out 12v which go to a voltage regulator

first so the halo's can run of 8 - 24v which is cool.

 

Very nice Lee, you sound much happier, wouldn't put 240v through the halos for long though ;).

Some great work!:thumbup1:

Worth checking that the paint on the Viscous coupling has not made the shaft movement sticky.

Be careful though, the internal mechanism is very delicate.

Headlights are now refitted (although not bolted up) and my zed is looking like a zed again (or is it a lamborghini) !! :)

 

Also fitted the r33 carbon canister but i'm having difficulty finding a host to fit the lower part of the canister.