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KNOWLEDGE: Kobe Seiko wheels and history
Vintage Japanese works and aftermarket wheels are usually sought-after collectable items in the “JDM” or “Kyusha” community, and well documented. Websites like kyusha shoes show a lot of information, like available sizes, specifications, and old catalogue pages. Many people try to obtain these wheels to put them on their cars or on display. The rarer, the better. Some of these wheel manufacturers do still exist today and have started to re-issue vintage models for classic car owners. Despite all the hype, one name has remained largely under the radar of the collectors and fans: Kobe Seiko. Time to shed some light on the company, their history, their wheels, and specifically,…
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240Z: EVERYTHING is disassembled and organized
Today marks a big day in the Project. Well somehow. I have disassembled every single fastener on the car and its subunits. Well almost. I left some parts for the specialists. Mainly the Engine, the SU carbs, the Mikuni carbs (currently at a specialist), the Transmission (partially), Differential (partially) and the shafts. Other than that, every bolt, nut and washer that you can find on the car is removed and documented. I don’t want to show you everything (would be hundreds of photos) but just some examples: Blower assembly: Heater box flap control mechanism: Fresh air vent flaps: Horns As the housings needed a proper cleaning and re-plating, I even…
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240Z: Disassembly day 2
I’m having a bit of a good momentum, lately. So I’ve decided to take advantage and continue dismantling things. The reason I take everything apart atm, is that i plan to have all parts cleaned and zinc plated at once soon. So I have everything ready for assembly when the other parts are ready. It also gives me the opportunity to check all the various parts in stock. Go through my parts in the “random parts” boxes and sort them into the correct boxes, and so on. Some of the shown parts will only be spares, as I have new / restored parts in stock. but it’s always good to…
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240Z: Disassembly day 1
I spent more days digging through all my collected parst and boxes, and getting stuff organizied for the final phases of the project. And then realized that I still need to replate many of the original fasteners. Since I mostly have 2 or more pieces of each item, which I need, I decided it’s better to also disassemble the spare units and take loads of pictures. this will help me put everything back together later, but will also allo wme to have nice spare-parts ready or make one-out-of-two, and so on. So i spent the recent days disassembling loads of stuff: Like the master-VAC / Master brake cylinder and brake…