Whoop Whoop! You know it’s gonna be a good day, when the UPS guy shows up with this: So What’s inside this long-awaited Japan-delivery? Let’s see: 1) Tomei Powered Cam wheel. Not really important yet for the build, but i wanted to secure a few parts which are out of production and only last stock: 2) Same for next item: A high flow L6 Oil pump by tomei powered: 3) and now to another Holy grail to come on this Car: A set of Ultra rare (many don’t even know these exist :D) Hayashi racing Aluminum rear brake drums 🙂 Many people don’t know but Hayashi racing (famous for their…

On we go, spent an hour with the mirror bases / Stakes again and some agressive industrial paint removere and a wire brush and finally all the paint is gone – ready for some new paint in the original Charcoal flat colour – Anybody has an input about the exact colour? oh and you guys asked for a picture of the Kakimoto underside – here it is:

Here we go! Could’nt wait to get the textures on the fresh painted valve cover sanded down, so started straight. 1) Added some protective tape and started with 240 grit sandpaper and a block: 2) first results visible. Because the 240grit paper leaves some scratches in the soft aluminum i changed to a much higher grit paper once the paint and primer was removed: 3) three hours later: DONE!! Absolutely love it! can’t be happier! Just need to polish the textures now and do a minor touch up, but nothing big.  Did i mention i love it?? 🙂 Update 2021: I found some old ads of the said Kakimoto valve…

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…

Well hello there 😀 People keep asking me what’s going on and you might have noticed i’m currently working hard on finishing my EK9 project. But anyway, this is what happend with the 240Z’s lately: First a friend told me about a great retored 240Z body in germany. took ma a while to get in touch with the owner: what looked to be a great deal first turned out to be an US-imported model with a weird badly executed widebody conversion with modifaight taillights (even worse than my white shell). so it’s useless to me. Too sad. Then found another car for a reasonable price which was sold in germany…