240Z: Valve cover painted, New Parts storage Space, more news :)

Update time (finally again :D). Yeah it has been a while, but im back and trying to posh the project with a slightly new timeline. I’ve set the goal to bring the body to the bodyshop next year istead of this year so i can save a bit more money and get it all done in one istead of doing it partially. this also gives me a bit of time to get some smaller parts restored. like this:
Got my Kakimoto Valve cover repainted and just picked it up at the industrial painter a few hours ago:

It’s DuPont Colour #RAL5005 (Signal blue), applied in a special technique to get this wrinkle-paint look which the Kakimoto valve cover originally has (mine came withe some rattle-can paint from the previous owner!!). They also added some special paste to make the finnish slightly more matte and remove some gloss – and i’m pretty damn happy with the result 🙂

I still have to block down the Highlighted textures and polish them to get Original look 🙂

This was the reference picture from the Kakimoto Drag machine i used. Colours slightly vary depending on the picutes, but i liked this one and i think i got really close to it:

Also i changed my heating system from Oil to gas. With the now removed huge oil-tank, and soon-to-be removed old heater i have a lot more space in my hobby-room which i just used to add some extra storage space for my Z-parts which i really need to keep me able to move around in my garage 🙂

Mhh, nice 🙂

Oh and that isn’t all. Have a lot of planning and stuff going on for restoring small parts. and i’m pretty exited about another package on the way from japan, containing a few damn rare parts for the ol’ Fairlady 🙂 You’ll see next week and hopefully some other updates this weekend 😉