wheee!

Just realized the yellow in the reflection is me and my welding gloves holding the iPhone...

Engine side of shock tower repair. Note: double thickness metal was used to make the repair as strong or stronger than stock.

I am confident my repair is the same height as before, which fit the door before disassembly. Once I have the basic body filling done, I will hang all the panels and doors to test all the fits. I expect there will be some adjustments as I go. But thanks for the reminder!

... and because I live in Canada... I put a furnace in my shop before I started the car!

I have a brass block for places I can access the rear of the welding location. Most of the time it is blind welds that you will be doing and those take practice and patience. Sometimes you will blow through and then it becomes a lesson in "stitching" the hole closed.

Thanks for the pics!! I love that green... gives me encouragement to carry on! I like the air cleaner too!

But the army likes to send me into muddy fields at that time of year... if I'm not in Poland, Latvia, Ukraine or Mali by then... ... besides, i'd like to drive down to one in one of my Z's!

Let me get my pretty dress on first...

Wish I could attend one of these one day...

It was a lot of work coming up with a colour plan for the engine bay. A green car is not the easiest to work with in the engine bay so I decided to go bold. The valve cover chrome powder coated, cylinder head black, and the block red. Chrome powder coated oil pan, Red spark plug wires, chrome coated intake, black and red fittings everywhere. The engine bay will be painted body colour. Frame components powder coated satin black, red bushings. That's the plan anyways!...

I doubt it ... I will make sure any pinholes and errors are given a nice coat of Fiberglas filler as well. Not taking any chances on water entry on any of my welds.

Much work to do... this will get cleaned up before bodywork starts

Some crappy welding and grinding for your amusement...

Another package of goodies showed up! This will help finish the fuel rail setup nicely!

Bad Dog make the connector part you are talking about. Not just the frame rail caps. It is the easiest option but does require a pre fab purchase... If you checked out my thread recently, (post 967) Grannyknot gave me some advice on building my own connecting plates between the front frame rails and the floor pain rails.... This might work for you too!

Cool idea! (Inverse pun unintended)...

Www.Baddogparts.com He has what your looking for...!

Thanks Chas! Looking forward to each step as I go... How's the engine management system coming? .... I haven't forgotten about that either

Well done!

Try one of these...

Forum is boosting my post count with double posts

MSA kit

I was going to go cad but with the new engine scheme being chrome, red and black, I think stainless will look the best. Sent from my iPhone using Classic Zcar Club mobile

Forum is doing funky things again...

He has the MSA kit that extends the tabs on the transmission to create the throw height change, hence the short shifting. I have one in my 370Z