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Is that your shop or someone elses?

Also you might want to think about attending Zcon in Oct, at least for a couple of days. Lots of fun, lots of fabulous cars and a number of CZC's members will be there too.

Have you approach any rebuilders on whether it is possible or not. If the factory welded it shut on assembly then re-welding it shut should be possible. I suspect that it is salvageable somehow. In any case don't dispose of it. Some one here might want to take a stab at fixing it. Can't make it any worse

You might want to take your street address out of your signature location, for some privacy I wondered about the possibility or rebuilding it too

Supply and demand. Some times you have to pay to play. There is no right or wrong in this equation. We don't have a right to own such fabulous cars or to keep them running. That is purely a personal responsibility. My 2 cents...

That's got potential. The body seems to be unmodified. Rust is the big enemy there. Check the rocker panels, qtrs, wheel wells, doglegs, floor boards, frame rails, rear hatch latch area above the tail lights and under the battery. Some areas are more serious than others. I would expect some rust but not too much...

Two of those cars have real promise The 79' was cheap but would need more pics and check for rust. The 82 ZXt looks like a lot of fun and looks pretty clean

I registered with BaT when it was still $800. Finished at $6,200 well outside of my reach, which is good. I didn't really need another project sitting around!

You're welcome. When the early cars started getting expensive that drove all the other cars up in price. I buy a good many cars off of online auctions and the pictures there are the same way. I always assume the car has twice as much wrong as you can see in the pictures. Sort of like the girl across the room, many of them look better at a distance too!

As an aside, you could also do a search for 280zx and it would provide the same graph so you could see what range the zx cars are trading for too

https://bringatrailer.com/datsun/280z/ This has sales data for the 280z. This does not mean you couldn't come across a deal on Craigslist. If you hold your cursor over the dot on the graph it will link through to the ad for each car, so you can see condition

Maybe it's longer, ie ncL-110

Yes, what he said. The fuel makes the rubber stiff. When you remove it from the tank it can shrink some. Some heat should help make it more pliable but gas fumes are really dangerous around heat guns and blow driers and they are heavier than air. You could always use some boiling water if you could figure out how to apply it to the bottom of the hose

If that's what it takes!

How long did it take to do that square foot?

I basically have an older version of the same gun. I had thought of upgrading but when we had Cody's car at the paint shop I asked the manager if my spraying would be any better with a higher end gun and he flat out told me no. He told me there were plenty of guys with high end guns that didn't lay paint down as well as what I had done. So that was encouraging. It's always amazing to me how many flaws that black can show up. As a word of caution, and I may have mentioned this earlier, many panels like the top of the fenders and the hatch flats are very thin. They need very light pressure to block out flat. If you push too hard they won't block out smooth Evidently someone that started a business near you ?

No worries! I am just wondering how that black eye would look with that beard? You could of course claim you tripped and hit your face on the lathe BTW we're getting close, so no stupidity before Atlanta! Take care of that back!!!

You will find this forum is pretty tolerant overall. Much more so than HybridZ. They do some really cool stuff at HybridZ and have come up with some really neat swaps that are efficient and cost friendly, but tolerant, not so much. If you know what you are looking for as far as color then don't just pic between these two cars. There are tons of ZX cars available. Don't be afraid to go out a little farther to look for cars. If you find one in a different state then maybe there is a member there close by that will look at it for you or you can post the ad and we can pick it over. Also I have owned a black Z wouldn't want another one, especially in Texas. Try this to widen your search www.searchtempest.com

Yeah, I didn't look that close. I did a search for conductive paint to find those. You may just have to look farther back in the search results. Might need to specify aerosol

They can be buffed with a string buff and plastic polish but the rpm's need to be 1800 or lower or you can melt the lens. The news lenses look good...

wheee! is of course building a sound booth!

Very interesting. It would be nice to find a product that performed well at this. I suspect many older pieces of glass could use some attention like this

BaT says that's a no reserve auction. So will it really sell for $800 if that's the final auction amount? Or will the seller cancel the auction at the last minute like they do on Ebay. I would give you $800 for that car all day long, even if it is half way across the country

I totally see the point of restoring it! I even considered it myself... I don't know about anybody else but I don't search over peoples cars at a car show to verify the numbers match. If the engine bay is period correct I suspect almost nobody would know if the engine number matched or not. If the engine bay plate is still in the car you would know what number motor you were looking for. You could even re-manufacture a block with the correct numbers as long as you disclosed the fact it was not the original motor, although future owners might not be that ethical.

They should never be replaced with standard wire jumpers! They should also be replaced with the proper amperage link if they do need replacing.