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240Z: Sand blasting vs glass bead blasting (Transmission back)
Last week i brought my transmission housing parts and some smaller bits to the local blasting company. The guy made a serious appearance and explained how Aluminum parts like these normally will be treated with class-triangles to break-up old paint and remove it. and then treated with glass-beads (pearls) to increase the surface density. He even told me he’s gonna paint the cast-iron parts with a clearcoat to prevent it from rust… This is how it looked before: Clearly old silver paint peeling off is visible: Today i picked it up. and the first thing i noticed how “raw” and rough everything looked. It reminded me of sandblasted items. Sand-blasting…
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PLACE: 25 Years Auto Mutzentäli (New NSX and Civic TypeR)
This weekend, the local Honda Garage “Auto Mutzentäli”, who’s in Charge of servicing my EK9 had it’s 25 Year celebration. Yesterday i got Invited for a dinner, but wasn’t able to attend, but today they had some Brunch and open doors show going on, so i thought let’s have a look. We were a bit early so they were not really open, however we were allowed to have alook around. First to see outside was the new civic typeR Turbo machine. While it for sure is an inpressive driving machine, think it has nothing in common with the “sleeper” feeling of a GolfR or my EK9. It used to be…
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240Z: Gear selector refresh welds by Cagedude
In my last post about the 240Z you could easy see how the gear selector was worn out and had some concave marks where the balls meet the selector. Since it’s a Cast iron item it’s a bit tricky to weld. And if you’ve been following me for a while you know there’s only one superhero for me when it comes to metal and welding: My buddy Stefan Schär – who own’s an awesome little collection of beautiful Nissan’s and Datsun’s by the way – So i sent him that thing to fix it: Before (Clearly some “holes” visible): After some pre-treatment and cleaning the holes got welded up: and…
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EK9: When problems solve them selves pt. II – Fresh paint
Lately problems on the EK9 seem to almost magically solve them selves 🙂 Like it happened with the windshield, another problem was solved again. A few weeks back one of the huge Garage-door return- / Counterweight-springs burst (a previous owner had installed a wrong one) and the part that flew away left an ugly scratch mark on my rear bumper of my EK9, which was parked close to the spring in the garage: I’ve wanted to repaint my rear bumper and rear lip already since long, because it had several scratches and paint-chips, and the rear lip had a bad fitment, but i thought it’s too expensive to have it…
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OTHER: The GT-R in front of my Office place
I’m not a big fan of Car-spotters and i’m neither a big fan of modern Tuning styles, with super-low cars and flashy colours that are purely for show purpose. However lately i discovered that any now and then a GT-R is standing in front of the building where i work. And i guess the Car did what it was intended – it grabbed my attention 🙂 Honestly it first looked like a widebody Liberty-walk car or something so i thought i grab my camera and have a closer look the next time it’s there. That was exactly what happened today. Upon closer inspection it wasn’t a widebody car, but a…
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PLACE: A Visit to the Mazda Classic Museum Frey in Augsburg
Over the last days, my job led me to visit the bavarian area of Germany by car. It was a 4,5 hour roadtrip each way and while planning my route, i figoured out i’m driving by Augsburg. Suddenly i remembered that lately there opened a Mazda museeum in Augsburg. So a bit of googling and a little detour on my way home and finally i was there: The building is a former Tram-depot in the middle of the city, beautifully restored and worth a visit itself. But inside is where all the glory is going on 🙂 Mr. Frey, who was one of the first to Import mazda to germany,…
