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Isn't this illegal to drive on the roads? You can imagine the sun hitting this and blinding other drivers, causing loads of accidents........lol I can just see the claim forms..... Bloody elton john flashed me and caused me to crash...........lol

Dying to get on with the welding, but can't in case the little one wakes up and I need to pack up quickly.....lol I might try to pull the drivers seat and do the other side if he stay's asleep....... Aaaarggghhh.... too late, he's awake..... Well that was today's work done.......lol Right the wife is home and I am going to clean up the floorpan and get painting with hammerite....

Hi Steams, yes used a drill with wire brush on it.... then hoovered all the loose stuff out and then wiped with clean cloth.... lol Now I have found the rust.... It's gonna die...... lol Well at least disappear for a while.... I also just quickly cleaned up and sprayed the seat mountings and subframe..... on a mission before little one wakes up.....lol Letting kurust dry a bit then going to wipe the area's that are rust free, leaving the black where the rust was..... Once it is completely dry I will seal with hammerite smooth silver, unless anyone got something better I should use?

Right, finally my son is asleep....So I pulled the passenger seat out and found loads of surface rust and old welds from accident repair as expected....... I vacuumed out and cleaned the floorpan and then covered everything with Kurust to kill the rust off..... I am letting the rust treatment dry out before I get to work with some hammerite smooth silver to make sure that no rust returns for a while.... Then I test fitted my homemade floor bung... I made this from some 0.9mm steel formed between a 42mm core plug and a 38mm core plug, using a 36mm socket to press the shape into the steel.... then I flattened the plate round the indentation using a small hammer and trimmed to a circle.... This is the hole to fill.... This is what I came up with.... And fitted.... Now all I need to do is paint it and fix it in place......

Right I have purchased 2 cans of dinitrol with the wands and some rust remover from bilt hammer for my brake discs...... I have treated as much surface rust as possible with wire brush and then hammerite Kurust..... going to pull the interior later when my 1yr old is asleep for morning nap as car is outside lounge window and I can see and hear him from there.....lol I am going to get my 5 year old to help me and teach him how to use a ratchet and socket set.....lol Time he learn't how to strip a Z.....lol Then I can clean up, treat and paint the floorpan and sill's.....

Welcome Alan....... also looking forward to some pics.....

Erm.... just had maybe a silly thought........Could I permanently fit a length of pipe in the different sections of sill from front to rear, seal one end and put some kind of jets / holes along it's length to be able to spray this stuff in once a year? I could use something like a grease nipple or brake fluid bleed nipple to connect to and a compressor???

Cheers Joel.....:biggrin::thumbup:

I read about that somewhere.... I think it was a guy doing classic car work said it on a forum.... he swore by it and said the 2 together work well...... Got some reading to do tonight then......lol

Thanks for that, I will sit and have a look tonight......

I personally would prefer these...... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alpine-SXE-4625S-4x6-150W-speakers-/111124939829?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Other&hash=item19df900435 Very well known and usually great quality.... Never heard of the other BOSS audio.... guess they are named that to look like BOSE?? I have a pair of JBL 4x6 in the back of mine.........they sounded nice.....

Wow there are some stunning cars there..... Loads of TLC and hard work put into them.... Your car stands out so much there as being a stunning example of a Z car...... Superb Si it looks amazing...... I wish mine would look that good without having to hide the accident damage and bad bodywork with a bodykit.....lol

If Pete doesn't, I have a complete fuel rail with injectors from my old N/A..... ??

Thanks for the offer, I am going to try to butt weld the pieces in....:wacko:....so have made the replacement inner panels and cut them to exact sizes.... hopefully this will work.... If not I may be sending you a PM for the joggler and trying to overlap the joints....lol I have got a small compressor I use for spraying a few bits and pumping up my tyres when they get let down.....lol It is really weird, but I am enjoying doing this, quite therapeutic...... It's the actual welding looking nice that I am getting used to.... I can now make a weld that has good penetration without blowing a hole, I can tack weld and fill the holes I made previously, I can grind back the welds and plug weld.... It's the stitching between spot welds that I am going to work on later tonight......lol What's best to paint inside the sill sections with before welding each panel on? I was going for the Upol spray2 weld through, but also have some high zinc content plasticote spray that I was thinking about spraying into the sill as far up as I can???

I cut out the rot to this.... Looks like I can get away with just the rear qtr section as the rot stops before the join with the front sill section..... yay some good news...... lol It is a case of making section for the centre strengthening sill pieces with the flanged holes in them and a new rear quarter bottom piece, that is covered by the skirting kit anyway.... I am lucky it's covered, so if the welding isn't too pretty I can make it solid and sealed, paint it and then cover it.....lol It would be a lot easier if I had a shaped piece for the rear quarter from the swage line downwards.... That is a lovely offer and I may take you up on it.....especially If my attempts go pear shaped.....lol I am going to give it a go shaping a piece, as a friend is going to show me how to do it.... he built euro fighters before retiring..... so I called him and asked for some practical advice and lessons in fabrication.....lol He should be free this week sometime.... I may well be done by the time he is free.....lol So going to try to make and weld up the inner pieces so he can show me how to do the outer skin to close it all up.... And he can't mig weld.....lol Just having a few problems with 2 neighbours at the moment, being really nasty to my entire family.... so avoiding going out in my close and bumping into them as much as possible..... Tyres on my daily driver had sidewalls cut and new tyres let down every night for 3 weeks till someone told them we have a camera up, then it suddenly stopped..... Nasty comments made loudly from inside their houses, but they ignore me in the close..... makes doing the car being overlooked by them a bit awkward.... I don't like the conflict on my doorstep and am trying to ignore them.... But I will only take so much.....lol

Oh crap, he is feeling better......lol Just because they are letting you have some soup or gruel, don't think you can turn into a post whore........:whistling:

Well made the closing piece for the inner sill and tried to replicate redwine300's panel from his repair..... The pictures helped me loads..... I have cleaned the piece up with degreaser and sprayed with Upol weld 2 high zinc primer...... It's ok but may try to get a better flange on the hole as it still shows the tooling a bit.....

I thought he made outboard motors?..........lol

Fingers crossed for you Anthony.... Hope all goes well tonight..... Russ

That's great news..... Really glad you got this sorted....... and again Jeff and Mikey come through with some great help........ This is why getting someone with Z experience is so vital for us and there are a few knowledgeable and very helpful people on here.... Can't wait to see your Z at a meet sometime dave.....

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FFS.... ahh my ribs are aching now..... keeps visualising a Tarsier monkey and goat in the back seat and si just saying "See I bloody told ya!".....lol

Hi Ted, I got to meet up with shortz and Gibster during the week and do some more drooling over other peoples hard work....lol I can't believe how much time and effort Gibster has put into his Z..... It is absolutely amazing..... So much admiration for his work.... I do love shorts Z.... it sounds and looks so nice.... the interior looks superb in a black Z.... Hopefully I will get to see yours soon..... I am definitely suffering withdrawal symptoms.....lol Take care... Russ

Looking very nice........ can't wait to see it done.....JOHN.....:innocent: Russ

I would do but running out of funds.....lol I started by bending by hand round the former I made and then went to the shot filled hammer to help a bit..... I decided to try as few a cuts as possible and managed to get away with 2.... once I have tacked the cuts together at the ends I am going to try to shape it a bit better....lol Too late tonight and neighbours have young children in bed.....lol My 2 sleep through anything.... Thanks for the advice again ruishy1.......