Body & Paint
Discussions about bodywork and painting a Zcar.
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Hi Guys, Any preferred place to get a quality weather stripping. I need the Qtr panel, door and rear hatch ones. Also noticed the original front door weather stripping which sits around the sill plate etc. has a lot more harder material than the rubber ones we see online. Should I try to save some portion of the original one?
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I’m waxing the z today. The first time since I’ve owned it. I noticed lots of black comes off all the rubber trim. What’s the best thing to do to preserve all the rubber trim? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Whenever I do body work on a panel that has holes in it to accommodate the pins on the back of the emblems, I usually cover over then with body filler. Often times these holes are a starting point for rust. I usually cut the pins off the back of the badge and attach them to the body using 3M autobody trim tape. With the holes covered and the pins removed it's hard to determine the exact location of the badge. Attached is a template I made for proper location of the emblems on the rear hatch . You can print it off, cut it out, place it on the right rear corner of the hatch and mark the exact location of the badges. The dots on the template are the exact location of whe…
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I came upon a head-scratcher as I was prepping parts for blasting and painting for my May 1971 240Z. All the black suspension and drivetrain parts under the car look about the same, with a standard coat of semi-gloss/gloss paint. Except one part: the front diff support. This part seems to have the same thick undercoating we've seen before (directly on the metal and under the factory color coat overspray). Why would this one part get coated with this thick coating? (And no, it's not a dealer spray!) And the coating is on both top and bottom of the support! Here is a major run/drip of this stuff...on the TOP surface. I broke open t…
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Started a restoral process on my quarter windows and noticed that it seems the passenger window has the Nissan stamp "reversed". With all this PO has done wrong I'm wondering if he took two driver side pieces and made a passenger out of one of them. Or maybe the factory only had one version of the glass and flipped them on the passenger side for convenience.
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Could someone please post a picture of the proper placement of this glued on piece. Thanks
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I am trying to install the two door handles on a 72Z. The window glass keeps me from accessing the screws on the inside of the door that I would fasten the outer handle baffle (flat metal piece) to. The actual slot that the glass sits in appears to have 3 fasteners with nuts holding the glass in place. I'm wondering if it is feasible to loosen those nuts enough to lift the glass out of the slot so I can access the door handle from the inside then reinsert the glass. Clear as mud? Any comments are appreciated.
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After 8 years of fits and starts restoring "Buttercup", a 7/70 build date 240Z (#7032) it has come down to the interior, which was completely stripped and the old tar mat removed. While "Murdermat", "Fatmat", and the like are what are commonly used as upgrade/replacement--- I wanted the original deal--- as close to the factory fitment as possible. After lots of net searching I finally found what I thought would be as near the original asphaltic mat as I was apt to find. I bought the mat from AutoAtlanta FOR PORSCHE: WU890100, WU8 901 00 - READY TO SHIP - (WURTH FLOOR PAN TAR SOUND DEADENING INSULATING KIT) , a purveyor of restoration parts for Porsche autos: I us…
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Hi, My Z432 has an genuine option rear spoiler.But it is not periodically correct one. The one is for 1971 or later. Last month I have got a genuine earliest spoiler from Mr.Terashima. He is a hard core enthusiast , he has 2 Z432s and 1 Z432R. The earliest spoiler is a very,very rare to see.We sometimes see the ones but they are usually reproduction one.It is easy to distinguish, repro one does not have correct stud bolts nor brackets.Also we can see it from the outside, the 2 vertical ribs on the top face is a kind of short,lack of its length. My earliest spoiler needs to be restored,I want to do it myself. The later spoiler is improved so much in the forming…
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Anyone purchase these? https://www.ebay.com/itm/225705864766?hash=item348d1e2e3e:g:BPoAAOSwYS1kyxST&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4FRepm6NWcwx%2F2ELYKs1NgsOr2AYTjIDUnmb4nz7Rzm6RAqp6YAfpDCoHVZxLir8AMrP7RE%2F6UTAutWhbmw%2FPQhChV3pDkPeQzkkgDaLAxd%2BwKTyxaV0MdBm2TBNUiOnyKW1ag60E3MBfEEBfuAsmXrwwUDZ2AfeO5%2F2DGh5YpQk0Gh%2B5yWr%2FNSZnevEX9IE1gWjQzHmAublD8UxK7VMaN95BZlcSYongbxx4w53xP9QGbSp%2FL6mMTj8WFyYZK06S7yZFhZ9yI0UeWl4b%2FSB8YrN8MBQC5j4D9afHM2UTw55|tkp%3ABk9SR57AoZW3Yg Keith
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Hi Guys, 1977 280z. Paint shop broke my windshield on the reinstall so I am searching for a replacement. Where do you guys normally get your replacement glass from? A saw that Zstore has one for ~$500 delivered, ZCar has a Polycarbonate option for a little more, and JDM does a local pick up option for around $400 but CA only. Is that normal? And are there other places to look? Painter mentioned that he had some local distributors he is going to get some quotes from, but that he was skeptical. https://www.thezstore.com/product/4901/oem-quality-tinted-windshield-70-78-240z-260z-280z-coupe https://www.ebay.com/itm/304775098526?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=…
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Please, does anyone have instructions for attaching the '71 vintage AMCO front bumper bar to a 240Z? So far I've seen bars mounted on top of the rubber (vertically mounted) over rider strips. In this case is the embedded top bolt removed from the top of the rubber strip? I've also seen where a bottom portion of the rubber strip is removed so that the bumper bar would sit directly on the metal over rider, using the top bolt hole in the over rider to mount the bar. I believe that the fitment is critical so that the bar appears parallel to the road. I've seen a installation diagram for a '73 bar, but it's different from what I have.
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