After:

And cleaned the engine mount bracket (That big front bar..) for easier sandblasting as well:

2) Disasembled everything:

3) and interchanged the two base mounts:

5) Fits perfectly!! even the 510 Plastic piece on the bottom-end fits perfect to the 240Z Base mount:

So these parts will get a proper sandblast and black powdercoating soon (And also will have to swap over that base mounting screw…)

Also got those old emblem-pins out. Now only need to replace the broken screws then it’s done

A little investigation at rs-watanabe and i figured out only 250 of these were ever made by watanabe around 1985 – so awesome i found a unused one

After 1,5 hours sanding by hand – one side done (still need to do the rear side, but don’t have any feeling in my arms anymore, so decided to quit ):

Sadly figured out it was broken and fixed once in the past, but not a too big problem:

1) Add Delfilr-chips and the parts you want to clean-up into the tumbler:

2) Add water (water 1:4 delfir chips ratio), and 2-3 drops dish washing fluid:

3) add a bit of random grease to one of the screws (this will give all the parts inside a thin grease cot which prevents it from immeadiatly starting to rust!, you will need to bath them in grease remover before giving the parts to the galvanizing-company!!)

4) Put lock on the tumbler, let it run

5) wait. have a beer meanwhile. check progress after about 8-12 hours

6) wait another 12 hours. have another beer if you want check again, and after totally 24 hours it should look like this: almost perfect:

7) Extra tip: be sure to not run the process in a garage with -15° Celsius. this will make the water freeze even when the machine is running

As you can see it needs new screws, a bit of sanding and new paint, but otherwise it’s in great condition

Sadly his Zed was underneath a winter-Pjama, so i wasn’t able to see much of it, but outside is the son’s latest Z-car project. A black 240Z. That needs some work to get the proper look again – typical swiss 70/80ies style Z with rear louvres, massive vented hood and widened fenders (steel job in this case) extra gauges and stuff. like the wheels, forgot to take a closer look at them…

Thanks Ruedi and his son for the short chat about the club and cars. Hope to see them soon again. And of course i will need to get a Z-club member as soon as my car is closer to a complete car

When cleaning my house lately i found an old drawing i made during my army-time at one of these boring hours. Must have been a few years ago i drew this. That was probably short after i fell in love with 240Z’s and planned to buy one in future

got inspired by inzane’s blog, probably i’ll highlight the textures too (like he did). kinda like it. but here’s the result for now – really like it! and the o-ring looks good, so no replacement needed

2) now back to my new favorite metal tool..
- this is how the taillight-cutouts looked about an hour ago – still a lot of “wrong” metal there from the attempt to add different taillights (some corvette kind of…), which some of the previous owners did..

now here’s my new favorite tool: FIBER DISKS so much fun and so fast to work with:

and here’s how the taillights looked after i used the disks:

Still needs much sanding and detailing to get it perfect, but at least i don’t have too much “wrong” metal there now and no sharp edges. great

also oredered some tools and stuff from around the world again, hope they arrive here soon