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1976 280Z Restoration Project

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My buddy did that to his car above. The headlights still mount the same way as stock. He just welded the scoops on. No other changes required.

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Should have just bought the fenders off of  @zkars .... his we’re already done.

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Be sure and mount the hood before working on the buckets or fenders. Would hate to see you fix it and then have to redo it.

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For sure. This was just a quick mount and check. I have to get the doors stripped still too. The hood looks pretty good with it just sitting on the car.

I just noticed, but no heat shield for the intake manifold?

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It’s in progress. I am modifying the lower shield to adapt to the throttle cable linkage

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This side is much better!
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15 hours ago, Captain Obvious said:

Now is a good time to just weld the sugar scoops on and be done with that gap altogether.

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That is how Matsuo Designed it.

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I love the look.

My guess is the only reason they made the headlight scoops a separate piece is they just couldn't form one sheet into the shape they wanted. Either geometrically impossible, or too much stretching for the metal to handle. I suspect if they could have successfully made the fender / scoop one piece, they would have.

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More fun with doors. @zKars provided me with nice “looking” replacement doors for my beat up originals.
The first one (passenger side) was a disappointment with a lot of bondo and mashed panel metal.
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The original driver door was pretty bad too. Lots of welds and dents.
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The good news was that the replacement driver door from Jim was almost perfect!
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