78 280z Refresh-toration!

[MrChefur]

Hey again everyone!

After getting tons of help from the great people on this forum and making a lot of mistakes, my 78 280z is finally back on the road (legal this time!).

I'm gonna type up more when I get home, but here's some pictures to tide you over until then.

[siteunseen]

Looking good! Congratulations. 

[madkaw]

I have a valve just like that 

[MrChefur]

2 hours ago, siteunseen said:

Looking good! Congratulations. 

Thank you! Next on the list is rebuilding the rear end, since I've completely redone the front. After that is paint. I'll post pictures later, but the paint inside of the car is flawless and I'm gonna paint the outside to match.

1 hour ago, madkaw said:

I have a valve just like that 

It's a real pain, isn't it? Haha. I've got 8 of them on my bench now.

[rcb280z]

Refresh-toration. I like it, clever. 

You car looks really straight, body lines and all. Gaps and all look good.

[MrChefur]

15 hours ago, rcb280z said:

Refresh-toration. I like it, clever. 

You car looks really straight, body lines and all. Gaps and all look good.

Thank you! That's one of the reasons I picked this out of the 5 or 6 other Z cars I looked at. This one had the straightest body and least rust by far. I've yet to even find pitting, just surface rust. I scored on this thing.

Here's when I first got the car:

Yanking the motor and trans.

These two spots are the worst rust in the whole car by miles. Nothing else in the car comes close.

Paint on the bottom half of the car:

But time was not so kind to the top half:

Edited January 21, 2018 by MrChefur