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Thanks Steve.......They are easy to restore......get some steel wool, a can of good quality spray paint in Chevy Orange, good primer and a lot of quality masking tape, and of course some quality stickers from Mike! He has all the other stickers needed to do radiators etc. etc.......and all those little details make a heck of a difference under the hood. You, Hardway, Motorman7 and many others on this forum can attest to that!

Another shot.....

Call Mike at Banzai Motors.....his stuff is the best!

My 1990 300ZX......no vacancy in a garage.

Patcon and Siteunseen.....you guys crack me up! I love my Gator....I mean really love it. The Canadians make a damned good Gator......I do use it for deer hunting....it goes anywhere!

Finally stopped.......

I'm a little late on this thread, but I'll throw in my two cents worth. Getting the dimples flat is the key. Then, I put a little sealant (and I mean a little) where the front and rear bearing caps meet the block.....especially where the rear seal sticks are.....that's it....no more sealant. Then, I like the cork (it conforms to any low or high spots).....keep the torque to factory specs and re torque to those specs every 2 or so weeks for a couple months. None of my five Z's leak a drop. I find the premium gasket that MSA sells is too hard to conform to the irregularities of a Z oil pan. IMHO

Charles....... 10 to 12 inches so far. The snow is like a blizzard as we speak.....expected to stop at 10 pm tonight. I was hoping we'd get through the winter snow -free. Are you guys getting any in S.C. ? Don't know how our Canuck friends get through their winters.....guess that they must be laughing at us!

Still snowing in Virginia.... IMG_0512.MOV

One thing to point out. If you plug the water outlet ( and I'm one that thinks you should) at the thermostat housing and on the other side of the block (close the carb water circuit), just remember one thing......until the thermostat opens, you have nowhere for water to circulate. This means that water is limited to circulating in the block only, trying to circulate through the radiator. The thermostat is a dam, waiting to open. If you get down on a cool engine before your thermostat opens, a high RPM water pump is pushing against resistance.....you can blow a freeze plug like a missile projectile ( ask me how I know this). Just be patient like you are supposed to......let your engine come to full temp with an open thermostat before any quick right foot jabs!

Sleepy Time.......at least till April.

I'm with you moelk .......my guess is that Stephen will end up painting it the same color as the car......just my intuition.

Sarah. Hope the best for you and your friend. Guy

HLS30.com.....Will Stokes posted on Hardway's restoration thread last week. First time in awhile. @JimmyZ and X-ray?

My wife had this made for my Z garage.......

Very nice Cliff.....looks clean!

Nice shots Jim.....I love Safari gold !

I bought my BRE type spoilers from MSA, then used wood clamps to clamp them to the front valence. I drilled 5 holes and bolted on with stainless steel bolts and large flat washers. I can't remember how many bolts were in the rear spoiler, but we used a thin rubber spacer (O ring) around each bolt to allow a small space for water to pass under the spoiler and seal the bolt hole water tight. Whatever you like is the right way as far as color for the spoilers.

The dealer added spoilers ( both front and rear) were BRE type to mimic Morton's Road Race of Champions class winner. I'm guessing it was owners option. Personally I like the rear spoiler painted the color of the car....the front spoiler a charcoal gray or black.

Jim......Zcarsource.com has those if you can't find one from a member here. Being from Arizona, the items I've purchased from them have been very rust free. Good luck.

Cliff....If you aligned the two bright links correctly to the cam sprocket mark and crank sprocket mark, you don't have to pull the front cover. Just turn the engine to TDC compression and redo the distributor shaft. You are 180 degrees out!

Took this one in Savannah......