youngblood

I like the bed liner idea. I need paint on my 75 280. I don't have alot of money, i not good at preping perfict body pannels. I was thinking about doing the $50 rusto roll on job, or a flat black temporary paint job,and now i'm thinking about this bedliner idea. it just looks tuff, like a rat rod or something. I'm not all about the shiny paint and chrome. i like diving my car fast. I'd do it. sorry about the spelling

My car does this too. I'm trying to fix it but i don't know what to insulate may fuel rails with. i also think it could be the fuel pressure regulator. any thoughts?

Sorry it's not what i'm looking for. I'm really looking for one with new floor pans and mabye for some chasis renforcements. It's hard to tell if there's actualy rust until you rip up the sound deadening on the floor. thanks though

I want to by a 280z shell that has NO rust. New floor pans, frame rails and and the body work all done. I don't care about the paint as long as it has a coat of primer. I'd like if it had some reinforcements or a cage in it. I'm trying to build a budget street/track car but i don't have the skills or place to do all the metal and body work on the car I'm driving.

i also drilled some drainage holes in the bottom of the frame rails. and when i drilled the driver side frame rail that i had Finnish up a couple days before. a bunch of water drained out. i don't know where it came from because i tried to seal up all the seams before i welded it on.

so i finally finished up a couple days ago and i had to weld another wedge piece of washing machine in where there were the big gap was but it still looks alright. i drove my car around the block once i got it of stands and i could feel such a difference in how much stiffer my car was. even though i was only going about 20 mph when i went over speed bumps and up my driveway it felt so much different.

I'm thinking about putting in a pice of metal like this but it still wont be that strong because it's just washing machine metal.

i didn't weld this side on yet. it's just hangin

I kind of ran into a big problem just now with my passenger side frame rail. As you can see the floor pan has a curve to were the inside part of the frame is much taller than the outside. when i fit the bad dog up under there it fis up real nick on the outside but there is a huge gap on the inside. and then were the tale end of the frame rail fits up there is a huge gap. outside fits up real nice as you can see the inside and the tale end of the frame don't fit up quite so well. Has anyone who's done this before on a 280z ran into this problem and how the f#*k do i fix this problem?

so early today i finally got one rail on. the welds arn't perfect but it's stuck on there pretty darn good. Now I'm working on the other side i had to patch up some rust holes on the other side with some more washing machine metal. now i official have a hybrid z, part car, part washing machine.

To anyone who's ever done this on a 280z before i was wondering if i should drill a couple of hole in the bottom of the frame rails for drainage reasons. i tried to seal the hell out of the inside of the old frame rails to prevent moisture from getting in there but the original frame rails had some drain holes in them so i was thinking i should do the same with these.

yeah a tip for you guy who are going to do this. paint the underside of the frame rails with high heat paint because as we were welding, a lot of smoke was coming out from under the frame rails and i'm pretty sure it was the primer burning of from the heat.

We used a floor jack to push the bad dog up agaist the floor pan good and we got this side mostly welded up today before it got dark but it's not quited done. i still have alot of prep to do on the otherside but i'll keep yall updated on my progress. check out my sweet fort made today to protect us from the 95 degree sun

i also welded up the inside of the framerail seams for extra strangth. i painted the inside of the frame rails with rusto spray paint and the silver paint on the out side is weld-though primer.

Keep in mind i have no experience with metal work and for welding I've hired me good friend who just bought a bid miller mig welder. he's not really a profetional or anything but we're doing are best. I went and got some scrap metal from an broken washing machine and i had to cut out a maxi pad shaped peice of metal with my angle gringer and a cut off wheel. so now it seems like my car is part washing machine. view from the inside