240Z: Small body rectifications and Door frames in

Today it’s all about the details. I finally found some time to work on the 240Z project again. I wanted to install the door frames but while looking at that area, i noticed the drip rails were a bit messy. Therwe was some surface rust in the unprotected areas and the rail itself was a bit bumpy.

So first i got out my trustworthy hammer and a piece of wood to straighten it

Nect i decided to whire-weel the entire area to remove the remaining surface rust and old primer which probably covered some more.

You can clearly see this area had some rust in the past, which is not uncommon:

After that i gave it a good shot of rust-protection chassis primer:

So now it’s straight, clean and protected.

Time to get back to what i had originally planned. quickly install the door frames.

Well for some reason, things didn’t really line-up. i quickly realized that one of the holes semed off, as there was no way to move the frame further in the direction of the hole. It even had an “extension” which seems to be done in the factory.

I didn’t really like it so i removed the exess metal and cleaned it (right foto doesn’t show the finished solution) plus added primer. Also not sure about that other nasty weld. i will clean it to calm down my OCD. Not even sure if it’s from factory or not. I don’t think so..
It’s barely visible when the door is installed but such things drive me crazy.

During the installation i also noticed that the upper door skin part didnt really seem to be straight:

Nothing a bit of directional force with a hammer can’t solve. (note these are just dummy door frames for alignment, i will use NOS ones so i don’t care if i sprayed primer on them *lol*)