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 :

 

 

 

Superb :thumbup1:

Superb :thumbup1:

 

Ditto!

What a hell of a day; as the west cost just had what seemed like 4 seasons in a few hours.

 

Started off nice and sunny this morning and I decided to start changing over my new brake disks

only for it to start puring down followed by a few thrashes of thunder too.

 

In less than 15 minutes it went from blue skys to dark grey clouds and no sun to be seen anywhere.

 

Caught off guard my zed what jacked up; wheel off and tools scattered all about the street.

 

I threw what I could into the zed then hid for cover :

 

30 minutes later I manged to get back out and secure the wheel after which the wife showed up

to help push the zed safely back in the garage.

 

One of the bad points until now is that when working on my zed I always need two folks to get

her back inside as the bugger is just far too heavy.

 

But today was the last straw so I bought a ratchet strap to help pull it back and secured it with

some bolts on the garage wall.

 

 

Great idea Lee [emoji106] good thinking. Be careful if that thing fails though, you don't want 1.6ton of pristinely prepared Z hurtling off down the road!

so after 4 hours of pouring rain and after 7pm the sun came out again so I decided to

head back to the garage and do some more work.

 

Good progress this time as managed to fit the new purple side pipes the my new z1 polished pipes :

 

 

its not a steep hill or anything just very rough ground which makes it hard to push the zed on.

 

Great idea Lee [emoji106] good thinking. Be careful if that thing fails though, you don't want 1.6ton of pristinely prepared Z hurtling off down the road!

put a bit of old carpet over that wall fitting...iff it pulls out the wall it will take your back window out or put a ding in your rear bumper

The bolts go all the way through the wall so the wall will come down first.

 

But thanks for the suggestion.

I was going to say to be careful the wall doesn't come down Lee, it would be soul crushing if anything bad happened to that car!!1

I'm loving the engine bay mate:drool::drool:

Well looks like another shite day.

 

Bought a caliper compressor tool which was totally wrong and in attempts to makeshift sone way to push the calipers back in to fit the new pads i dropped the whole bloody thing and it snapped the brake line.

 

 

So the question is, is the zcentre kit i see the only thing i need to fix this mess?

 

Or do i need to order new copper bits too which was what snapped?

What a day its been, started off bad with the brake pipe mishap but things went great for the rest of the day.

 

Completed the fuel rail pipe system, fitted the bumper support bar and then popped the bumper back on

followed by new signal looms and fitted the front fogs and indicators.

 

Repositioned the clips for the polished pipes so not as much of the bolts heads show and they don't block

the bonnet from closing properly.

 

 

 

Fitted the battery and setup the new loom ready to be crimped later on in the week.

 

Also fitted the front water pipes and viscous fan again

 

Theres a huge list of things still needing done by slowly it is getting smaller day by day.

 

As long as the weather holds out i'll be putting in a few hours at night after works over the next week.

 

Heres a few pictures before she was pushed back in to sleep.

 

 

 

 

 

I'll be adding some nice updates in here very shortly... :thumbup1:

Good man !

 

I'll be adding some nice updates in here very shortly... :thumbup1:

Four more clips arrived today so nipped to the garage and fitted them to the water pipes.

 

Ready for the coolant refill shortly.

 

 

Theres a huge list of things still needing done by slowly it is getting smaller day by day.

 

As long as the weather holds out i'll be putting in a few hours at night after works over the next week.

 

Heres a few pictures before she was pushed back in to sleep.

 

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Nice work Lee!1, do you own Herbie??

yeh,

 

That's the daily driver but it belongs to the wife !

 

It was at JAE last year but had to park it in the carpark after the first day as it was spotted, lol

 

 

Nice work Lee!1, do you own Herbie??

Ditto!

 

Ditto again.....

 

.....It's coming on nicely Lee...:bow:

UK Quarter glass getting fitted and when its set I'll attached the new trims :

 

Edited August 6, 201510 yr by JaiKai

Fantastic job,

 

I hope to see it some time in all its glory

Ignition issues now!

 

Tried to start her up and get power only at the ignition stage.

 

So looks like i have a wiring issue.

 

Anyone got a picture of the rear of the ignition to compare?

 

I think i have two wires round the wrong way.