Hey Duff, show us the vapor blaster, I have seen a valve cover that was vapor blasted and it looked amazing.

On 9/21/2017 at 6:40 PM, Mark Maras said:

 I gave up a 69 SS 396 Chevelle when I bought my first Z. A lack of raw acceleration was my first impression but I soon learned that a Z has all the power it needs, plus a little bit more, for the street. I found that the fun of rolling in and out of corners far out-weighed the fun of straight line speed. Plus, in stock form they're very reliable.

I went from a '72 camaro to a '76 280 and never went back to American heavy except an F-150 p/u to haul my mower. I swear the two doors on that camaro weighed as much as my whole 280! 

My Mom has a crown Victoria with heavy doors and everytime she rides in my Camry I have to bitch when she slams my doors. She's gonna bust out my windows! 

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3 hours ago, grannyknot said:

Hey Duff, show us the vapor blaster, I have seen a valve cover that was vapor blasted and it looked amazing.

Here it is.  It started off as a wet sand blasting unit from amazon. Basically hooked up a pressure washer to sand. It sort of worked.   

I took the pressure washer side off and added air.  Now air goes where the water went with a quick valve and a slurry of glass bead/ water goes where sand went. I need to test it.  

Bc are welded.  My buddy is professional welder and he did the tig welds for me.  

I screwed up and didn't add a drain for doing redkote. With the baffles and such it would have been too hard to drain.  So I had the shop put this in.  Now time to fix the powder and do the redkote.  2 steps forwarder and 1 step back. 

Hi, FYI here's another 1/71 Series I build (VIN: 18,859). A one owner bought new on May 13th, 1971 in Kitimat,BC,Canada. Total refurbishment(~6 year) started in 2007....Thanks to, 'Blue'

22 minutes ago, Dr. 240Z said:

Hi, FYI here's another 1/71 Series I build (VIN: 18,859). A one owner bought new on May 13th, 1971 in Kitimat,BC,Canada. Total refurbishment(~6 year) started in 2007....Thanks to, 'Blue'

Wow! I think I will keep the paint on this one for a while like this.  Maybe I will actually drive it:)

 

More gold! This time rear end bits and pieces.  Someone how they forgot a bolt in the box.  Now I have 1 single bolt not done.  

Seats came back today and I got them installed, I am beyond happy with the.  My friend that did the upholstery really made them perfect, he steamed and stretched them.   He said the fit couldn't have been more precise.  

I really dig the gold zinc and aluminum of the datsun world.  Looks so cool. 

Anyone know if synthetic 75/90w oil is fine for the diff?  Also the gasket has a green side and a dark grey side.  I assume dark grey is towards iron and green towards aluminum?  

That's what both of mine have, "all synthetic" according to the label. amazon.com has good prices on Red Line.

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