So, my Carb guy started to work on the carbs and sends me regular updates. First  he dismantled everything. Some bolts were glued in by the previous owner and it was quite tricky to get them out: He checked and measured each individual component to see the state. As you can see some parts were bad, despite looking good. For e.g. this butterfly / throttle body shaft was bent and requires requires replacement One everything was dismantled, it was time for a a bath in the ultrasonic cleaner: The internals came out beautifully, but we realized that the jetting is wrong for the L24 engine on some of the carbs.…

One task of the body shop team is to clean the heater cores and pressure-test them (for leaks). So it was about time to remove them from my two heater modules. As you can see, the first one was quite rusty, and what you cant’t see is that that big middle plastic piece was molten in some areas, for whatever reason. There is plenty of surface rust inside, but nothing that can’t be fixed with a bit of sandblasting and some fresh layers of paint. Those springs and mechanical parts will be a bit more tricky to replace, but I’m sure there is a solution. Luckily, I have some parts…

Time for another long-overdue update: I’ve been busy working on many corners of my 240Z restoration project. Since it’s mostly small works here and there, I wanted to save the work until I have enough together for a proper update. I’m trying to use my time and money wisely, to ensure the car is ready to go to the body shop in August / September. So the first thing I did was to drill holes in my NOS fenders. Some might say this is blasphemy, but I need those to install my NOS fender mirrors, which I really want to put on this car: And then checked my NOS fender…