After the Visit of the Bodyshop-guy i now have a goal again and that’s stripping the black car to bare shell to so i’ll be able to bring it to the bodyshop by the end of the year and have the chassis done in a year probably 😀 So i started to push things on the black chassis today: 1) Removed the starter motor so it will be easier to remove the engine (hopefully in 2 days :D) also wanted to remove the speedo-sensor but actually those damn screws were stuck, so i let them soak in WD40: 2) Next was the steering wheel: 3) and last but not least…

NEWS 🙂 Today i had the bodyshop guy here checking out my cars. The plan was to hear his thoughts and get a future plan for how it’s gonna be done. and that’s what happend: The very nice guy showed up and checked my cars thoroughly for about 1,5 hours and explaining me a lot of things and showing me alot of things i haven’t seen. also he explained about his previously owned JDM cars and the people he knows etc. Note that he doesn’t look very happy when i made a photo, but afterwords i explained about my blog and then he was happy agian 🙂 And here’s the…

Well after the never-ending winter with shit weather i somehow lost my motivation to get stuff done one the car, but this seems gone right now so i took two days off to get some things done (mostly gardening, but also some work on the cars :D) while we have some great weather 😀 1) I was a bit worried how my first chassis would look after a seriously wet and snowy winter (where they throw a lot of salts on streets right in front of the car…) so i uncovered it: and moved her in a better position, here you can see both of my fairladies: 2) then i…

Here we go, got some industrial paint stripper (most harmfull stuff i’ve ever worked with, i believe :D) and started to strip the kakimoto valve cover: 1) Before: 2) While applying: 3) After cleaning with water and dishwashing-brush: As you can see i need a second attempt to clear some small spots. Also got some Aluminum primer but still need to find the original dark blue wrinkle-paint which also should be able to clear the heat coming from the engine 🙂 anyway, i’m happy with my progress so far 🙂

Finally – An Update!!! 🙂 Haha, yeah we had the damnest longest winter since weather measurement (no joke!) and therefore we had snow and freezy temperatures until late march. anyway good news today: A Package from Japan arrived with a ultra-rare unicorn piece of Japanese racing history: A genuine forged Aluminum Kakimoto racing “3100” valve cover which i’ve been looking for almost a year now and when i almost gave up it popped up on Yahoo auctions so i just had to get it. don’t ask me what i paid for it, hahaha: The previous owner painted it in a wrong colour so i’ll have to redo that and also…