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Well done! Good layout, easy to navigate, and informative-makes me want to get off my butt and get my site back up to par! After the stones! Will

Mike, "Ok, I know. I was being sarcastic. They look like they were dug up somewhere" That works for me too! I knew they weren't yours, and I was just agreeing with you in a round about way! WillLOL

You know Mike, f I hadn't gotten such an outrageous deal on a killer glovebox recently, I still wouldn't have bought those "bodanker" carbs-no matter how bad they need a rebuild! Will

Welcome! Chime in, Read, but most of all, Enjoy! Will

It looks like your mounts are too high, loosen the three bolts holding the hinge to the body of the car, it will probably fall into place-do both sides, and don't forget to re-tighten them! Will

They are just different enough that a full cover for a '73 will not fit a '72 dash and vice versa-I actually have full covers for both because of a shipping problem from years ago with MSA...don't ask! I can get both of them out, and take pictures over the next week or so, if it will help! Will

Bill, Having to go is not the problem, going long enough is the problem!:stupid: Will

Fluid blasting! Ed, I hadn't thought of that, but even though I have a good supply of "media". I am not sure I could drink enough fast enough to keep a "steady Stream" let alone keep enough pressure behind it! Will

When did ebay start giving "NO Sence" scores ( roxy_margo_wd( 0 ) )? Must have been when the ZX became a "convertable/roadster"-somebody want to touch that one! For 15K (don't forget-reserve not met!)fly over to the states, pick one up after spending a week visiting. Have it shipped back to AU, and still have enough cash left over to do the whole thing a second time! Will Sir Sidney Phillips is probably the guy listing it on ebay-a legend in his own mind-I hope he knows how to cut grass!

What's loose in his upper paddock? At least I have pain and good drugs to be my excuses! Will

Thanks Carl, but I'm not sure "normal" and I belong in the same room, much less the same sentance! The frame rails are the same rh and lh drive, the important stuf is on the firewall, the dash, the pedal mounts, the streeling mounts, the master cyl... I have hardly ever seen a Z with a completely rotten firewall-and it is the main difference between the rh and lh cars. Even if the floor and rails are gone, replacements can be found. the firewall,and a decent donor car is all that is needed to do a changeover! As to 10 in the states-probably just to hype the sale! Will BTW-I will find out how kidneystones work as blast media-being that I have an endless supply!:stupid:

Use the search function in the forums, There is some DIY info there! Will

Carl, My reign is improving! I am still passing gravel(anyone with a fish-tank in need?), and feeling cranky, but I hope to be mostly up and around by Monday-I have a rotisserie, a car, some stuff from Zedd Findings, and they all need to get intimate this week! The car must be pretty damn close to through by November! Will

Cut the car at the front of the door openings, and again behind the front shock towers, (so you get the firewall,dash, and everything attatched to it) get the console,and fender vin plate, and you will have everything that would be hard to find! Then use the pieces to put one back together with a more sound car-maybe. Let the rest go to the rust god! Will

Sounds like you are using a conversion gun, not genuine HVLP . I would not expect a compressor made for 220V to do nearly the job it was capable of with 110V regardless of the amperage behind it. True HVLP guns are made to wourk with a turbine, not a compressor. A compressor is made to make pressure first, then volume, where as a turbine is made first for volume, then pressure. The system I use can put glass on metal and leave NOTHING in the way of orange peel-as long as the viscosity is used to set the gun up, and the proper painting technique is used. It really is all in the adjustment of the gun and the spraying technique. I have never used a conversion gun, but Apollo 1000 turbine and 5025 gun work so well, I don't need to try anything else. In terms of solids content, I have not found any difference in spraying either, as the gun is adjusted to the viscosity of the paint for each mix. The variables in the gun are matched to the variables in the paint, which compensate for the flow characteristics of the paint, allowing the gun to sray one viscosity just as well as another. Will

Does Sir Sydney come with it? For 19k something better come with it! Will

If you have your gun setup dead-on, and you have good technique, the exterior of a properly prepaired S30 can be well colored with one quart, but most people will use three to get plenty of thickness for taking care of oopses, and buffing out trash. A standard gun spews about 85% of the paint into the air as overspray, a good HVLP setup actually puts less than 30% into overspray. The secret with HVLP is to really get to know your gun, and its adjustments to deal with viscosity. Dial the gun in for the coating in it, and shoot the car properly three times before you paint it. I shoot the whole car with primer the last time using the same technique I will be spraying the color on. Sand out the primer. I shoot the whole car with clear laquer thinner just like I will paint it, and then after wiping it down, I shoot it again with thinner, resetting the gun each time. Then I mix up the paint, 3 quarts for a complete Inside and out repaint-two shoots, adjust the gun, shoot a test piece to verify the adjustments, and then I shoot the car. The better you know your gun, and the moves to paint a car, the more uniform your paint will be. I use this turbine, http://www.hvlp.com/turbines/model1000.htm with this gun, http://www.hvlp.com/turbineguns/a5025.htm , and have been very happy with them, I used to use an standard expensive Binks-it is a great gun, but just wasts too much paint-relative to HVLP. Will

My turn on the soapbox! As in most things, I think it is all about finding balance. Everyone needs a little bit of all of it. I want to expose my son to MOST things(albeit in limited and controlled doses) so that he will have the tools to deal with less controlled encounters in later life. A young lady I dated in college was home schooled and heartily protected by her parrents until she got to college, then she had no idea how to read a situation to see where it might lead-consequently she ended up where she didn't want all too often because she was brought up under someone elses protective eye, and never developed one of her own. One of the best lessons my parrents gave me was to ability to differentiate between right and wrong. When I do something stupid, I expect to be punished, but when I have done nothing wrong, I pitty the fool that tries to punish me wrongly. I think God gave us the tools of discipline to use, that is NOT to say ABUSE. There were times I deserved a spanking growing up. I don't believe any speach or form of abscence of reward(depravation) therapy would have gotten the point accross. I do not believe that spanking a child is right, but on occasion I do believe it is necessary. That may be looked on by some as a shortcoming, but I suppose a machiavellian point could be made that reinforces the fact that all we are doing now is trying, and the fruit of our attempts is too far off for more than a supposition as justification today. I see too many people taking advantage of the fact they identify a punishment as less offensive than the value of the infraction that will result in it. They did not learn respect for others growing up, and evidently fines and speaches(threapy) will not correct that now, but I bet pain would. Check the number of habitual speeders in any local. Fines, increased insurance rates, drivers ed(therapy)-none of it works for them. They have not realized that their ability to drive fast is not necessarly the issue, it is also the ability of other drivers to deal with their driving fast. All drivers must share the road, and that is a part of why the speed limits are enforced-a speeder is (among other things)dis-respecting every other driver on the road By acting out that "What I want is more important than what you want.". Any argument against that has only one answer, how many injurred or dead drivers believed what they were doing at the time of their accident was safe for everyone, and how many people doing nothing wrong did their disrespect hurt or kill? Ask those who lived, and what you invariably find is "it was an accident" No, you ment to disrespect the other drivers, you disconnected your actions from their possable consequence as a meaning-What is prescoius you will not normally risk, unless you were never tought the meaning of respect As a parrent, I see my ultimate duty as preparing my child for life without me. I must use all of the tools at my disposal as effectively as possable, and pass the ability to my child for his use. Please don't forget I will spend a large part of tomorrow having stones pulverized, and as such, I may not reply for a few days. Please also realize that I respect differing views, because without them I would be alone, and appear to always be right-and I do know better! Will

I wonder how much of this is the parents doing? As an expecting Father, I have seen my sister give ther three kids their own TVs, Gameboys, PS2s, and the like for the entirety of their lives. They just have to whine to get, and they know the routine well. My plan(and we all know about the best laid plans of Mice and Men...) is that there will be one set of this kind of stuf, it will be in the family room, and to use it, there will have to be agreement among those involved in the time alloted. Anybody who whines will be banished from further family exposure to their room(which will not be the vacation destinations that my sister has built for her Kids), but a decorated place to store the stuff I want them to have. My Dad did it this way, and I knew better than to ever disrespect him, I always knew his expectations, and I always knew he supported my decisions, but expected me to learn more from the bad ones. I am sure I will be challenged in this, but I see the way my sister is manipulated by her kids(and she is a school teacher whose students don't get their wool over her eyes), and I see the way she has taught them to walk all over her. I want to teach them better life lessons than that! Yes, I know, it is easy to say, hard to do, and I have no experience at either! Will

Carl, I have been told to spend as much time as I want on the Z until the end of OCt-4th of November, but that the car had better be done by then! But, between the stones, the move, and prepping the other house for rental, the Z just has been shelved more often than not. I have a plan, and starting with the recovery from Lithotripsy, I will spread the fire under my foot to my behind! (no Jalepenno or Hemmoroid jokes, please). "The Mood" is not the problem, the problem is where the stones end up when the urine stops-if they are not in the porcelin convenience, they are somewhere at least uncomfortable, usually painful, certianly unfavorable, and absolutely contrary to any mood other than doubling over in agony! they are without a doubt the most effective mood spoiler I have ever encountered(Fluffy Farm Animals not withstanding)! Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO. Will

Carl, I'd ask what they feed you guys out there in CaliFORNIa, but I am seriously afraid of the mental picture you would come up with and then somehow, post! I am a firm believer in abstenance until my wife tells me different! Will

Here is my answer, Take a little steel washer, add about a pinch of MIG wire, and an appropriate electric current! ! give the patch a few smacks with a hammer and a dolly and a brush of POR15, Walla~! No more hole, and a solid steel, rust-proof, perminent repair! Will You could use and follow the wisdom of Kats. Make a label the right size, have someone who was a prominent part of "Z history" sign it, and cover the hole with it! His answer is most appropriate in the few minutes before the car is to shown! Though obviously not the way he does things in the Norm!

Not yet, I went to the Dr. today, Lithotripsy on Thurs. I will probably get them this weekend-depending on pain! I'll PM when I have them ready. Had a guy at the Drs' office recognize me as having a 240Z, even with out the car, (Meperidine means I didn't do the driving)I got the stories, questions, and the interest-sure beats reading waiting-room magazine! He is going to check out the '72 next week-after we both pass(Please God!) some stones after ultrasonic immersion for our Kidneys on Thursday! Will

There are a bunch of ways to smooth the casting. A coarse and properly sized wire brush on a flex-shaft will do a good bit of the work if you go slow enough, and have a strong enough motor driving it. Then follow that with normal grit wheels in smaller and smaller grits. Sending it of to have it extrude honed will probably do the best job because the polishing is done in the direction of flow which also minimizes the turbulence of the features that are left by the process(read that "great job, big $"). Will

Mike is English, just not the Queens variety! In reality, he is a Peach! A Georgia Peach who obviously knows some history, and made up one hell of a glovebox! Thanks again MikeW! Will