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Hey guys, decided to take my try at making my own 240z restoration webpage and want some opinions on what you guys think. It's still rough and getting work and content up there but some stuff is up and available to look at. Anyway tell me what you think. http://www.nekid240z.com

hmm i might find my portable fluorescent light and try that... still need to make a drape cause of the hanging fluorescent lights in my garage.

lol the blue flames are JUST STICKERS!! that's the one I got... I thought they were airbrushed... but nooooo just stickers

I ended up getting the harbor freight helmet for 59 dollars... can't be happier! that thing works awesome. If there is anything I'd do to it to make it better... would be adding some type of drape over the back so light from behind you doesn't reflect off the inside.

haha hey!! seems like there are alot of z's in the dfw area I've personally met spotfitz and a few others... never got the chance to meet phantom tho

just curious what do you mean by pulse welding ? I have a miller 140 and it has no settings for pulse welding.... I could just be totally lost tho.. still learning alot of this welding stuff after just getting my 140

awesome thanks!! cause If we could get away with those benders that would save ALOT of money!! I know JM just bought a $400 dollar bender cause his harbor freight one would just krinkle all his tubing

mull I'm curious, how did you guys get away with that tube bender without krinkling the tubes ? that bender looks just like a harbor freight bender.. yet everyone on the board has had serious issue trying to bend small tubing with it, especially dom 1.5in .12 wall

well I got my mig and having a blast with it... my first project consisted of tearing apart some 1/8th steel rail and rewelding it and then I got the idea to make a ugly looking mace... I welded a crap ton of nuts to end and screwed in bolts! Then I took some angle iron and made a 5ftx3ft table that will have a concrete mosaic put in as the table itself. Later I bought some 22g sheetmetal to practice on and get a feel for welding thin metals and man, was I ever deluded on how my welding skills really are!! Lots and I mean lots of blow through. But I think I've gotten better. with a volt of 1.5 with 50 wire speed I'm able to lay 2in beads with out blow through. I had to set my HF autodarkening helm to nearly 9.5 din just to see the weld puddle good enough to determine if I'm about to blow through. My hands are not the steadiest but I'm slowly getting better at managing that weld puddle, but only time practicing will give me what I want. Now I can't wait till I can get an engine crane with leveler so I can finally get into replacing my frame rails

ouch spotfitz!!

didn't even hit here at all... clouds passed over us but no rain no winds... i'm kinda let down.

wow not bad!! well then seems when I get cash I'll be buying one of those benders

woot my miller 140 with cart will be here tomorrow!! 675 was not a bad price!!

I'm gunna have to source a good metal shop around texas, but I'll check it out first before I purchase online. Atm the shipping is like 110 bucks.

JM lemme know how you like that bender once your tubing arrives! I'd like to know if I should get one myself

tube bender: $400 (1.5 od tubing die) tubing: $450 (front chassis 1.5x.095x8' DOM, frame 2.5x.12 A36, frame rails 2.5x1.5x.12 A36 including shipping) http://www.onlinemetals.com s&w cage: $400 (8 point cage DOM) ? might build my own... who knows shop crane: $150 engine tilter: $50 2 dolly's: $40 4 1/2 cutoffs: $20 (lots of them) miter: $70 10in cutoff: $10 Total: $1590

oh damn that's a good point!! I had used dry ice for the interior... to bad I don't have a rotissery for it yet cause then I could just flip it and put dry ice on the bottom. Oh well... I'll try your method once I get down that road!

LOL! yea i've already removed all the interior tar and stuff... once I get my new flap disk for my angle grinder i'll get to work on removing the rest. Atm my biggest hurdle is getting the engine trans out asap so i can get to fully tearing apart my z! right now the z is just gutted interior wise and awaiting for the engine removal before I really get to work on fixing the frame rails and floor pans and then building the cage.

I see!! I'm use to the newer cars were the firewall is a large structrual point for the vehicals. Curious now... why don't more people use square tubing if it's cheaper and still possess the same strength as erw or dom tubing? not to mention you can get away without a tube bender for square just by cutting it and welding it to angles. Is it just because square isn't exactly best looking tubing for the car? or am I missing something? 74_5.0L_Z, thank you so much for showing me and explaining all about your front tube chassis! It now makes total sense. I assumed these cars were like the newer ones in that the firewall was a large structural point but I was absolutely wrong and would have made a very nasty mess had someone not explained that. Curious how have most of you lopped off the front end? sawzall? cut off? or something else? This is why I love hybridz! you guys rock!

lol here is the other user that also got me really intrested in a front tube chassis http://album.hybridz.org/showphoto.php?photo=2999&cat=500&ppuser=12636

yes you are one of my biggest reasons for wanting to do this!! seeing that much room in a z to work on the engine and how much more weight you save! not to mention how much more strength you've gained in both suspension and engine tie in! question for you tho, I'm not quite seeing where you are attaching the tube chassis to the structure points of the z! in the third picture I see a bar in the center look like it's going into the cabin possibly to connect to the roll cage inside ? and where is the bottom bar connecting to ? also why have a bar right next to the firewall ? isn't the firewall itself enough support in that area ?

ouch.. 400 bucks and can't bend larger than 1 5/8's!! Problem is justifying that purchase... I just can't see me bending that much tubing that would require me to pay an extra 400 bucks for it. I'm already going to be spending alot on DOM tubing and other random metals. If only someone had one locally that would rent it to me *wink* *wink*

sweet thanks!!! now to figure out a good bender for that tubing.. Pop I do remember reading those threads, and how someone used 2 threaded couplers to help aid the bender but from what I remember that didn't work well for small DOM tubing. But I don't remember them stating one that worked well for cheap tho. If I'm going to spend 300+ on a tube bender then it better do 3.5in tubing and below not just 2in and below, as I'll want to use it to make my exhaust.

So erw type tubing is not something you'd want for a front tube chassis? Is DOM tubing easily mig'able? or is there something I should know before attemting to mig weld dom tubing?

probably both, but i don't want a FULL cage. This isn't being built for serious racing or anything. This is just a project for me to learn on and to have fun. My reasoning on the tube chassis is, from what I've seen from others, means alot more strength tieing the engine & suspension to the body as well as alot more room to work with on working on the vehical. Yea I know that's alot more work required to do something of this sort, but I take this as a good chance to learn alot about my car and welding techniques.