Seems like i do a little bit on my car every evening lately and that’s so much fun 🙂 1) Went to the local hardware store and picked up a few 10.8 grade bolts for installing my JDM three-five Pillowball mounts: Of course i had to install them directly after coming home. One more part instaleld on the front subframe 😀 2) Today i went to the Sandblasting / Powedercoating company to pick up my parts. The battery-mount and the Sparewheel-well only got a sandblast and primer so the bodyshop can weld them in and the painter paint them: The rest of them got powdercoated RAL9005, Satin black. I don’t…

Last few evenings i’ve been working on the assembly of the steering column. Started with the delivery of the freshly sandblasted and painted housing parts: The steering colum mount still had the old glue inside so i tried a few methods to clean it but figured out the “solvent cleaner” (which is actually an industrial grade label-sticker remover) works brillant compared to the dremel-and-wire-wheel method 😛 this was the result after wiping it a few times. see before picture above: Next was glueing the old and cleaned rubber insulators back in. they where still quite nice and soft and no new ones available so i decided to reuse them: I…

I knew my Parts will be back from the paintshop and powdercoating company soon so i wanted to make sure as much as possible is ready for assembly when the parts are here. So ever since i read about it on the internet. something i wanted to do is clean and refurbish the steering colum bearings.. Before (everything nasty and filled with old, dirty grease): Here i have one of them pulled apart and cleaned all the balls (30 total) and shells and the securing ring. I have a total of 4 bearings because two from each Steering colum from each car, in case you’re wondering. I reworked all four…

Today i had a super-productive day in my opinion 🙂 Had a day off from work so i thought i’d do as many things as possible. I have some big car related news (not this car) soon, so i want to complete a few things here. More to come. 1) However, the day started like this: Bought a cheap Jigsaw (see below) And went to the garage where Z Number one (the white one) is still standing around. The other one has a bad spare-wheel well so i wanted the bodyguy to weld this one into the other chassis: After 30 Minutes of cutting the well as nice as possible…

Currently i’m working in my little-basement-workshop almost daily trying to get all the small details right. So here’s an update on all the small things i did lately: 1) Zcarnut over at the JNC Forums pointed out that my Steering rack spacer was mounted the wrong way. After checking a few pictures i could confirm. Why you wonder? Because the drawing in the exploded-view and Manual is wrong. Damnit 😛 However i’ve corrected that now: 2) Added those washers that are mentioned in the manual as well but did not fit properly and were not installed on both cars originally. But somehow i like the look of these and think…

Have wanted to visit my Fairlady and Yves at the Bodyshop for a while, but sadly i never really found time. That until last thursday. Just wanted to talk about the “Master plan” regarding the chassis and see the work he did so far. As usual great work from what i can say. But i’ll let the pictures talk: So Far the front-right Corner almost is done… – Battery-tray area fixed (battery tray will be sandblasted, primered and welded back in soon) – New Rocker panels created from sheetmetal and replaced old ones. – Inner side sills repaired – Frame rail rebuilt and partially replaced with the NOS one i…