Derek

The high fill primer is designed to be easy sanding. The rustolium primer is designed to be an adhesion promoter. I would go with a DTM primer like the one you posted or Turbo 2k primer from southern polyurethanes which is also roll able. http://www.southernpolyurethanes.com/Product%20lines.htm I'm no expert but this is how I would do it. Roll on a couple of thick coats of 2k primer, spray on a guide coat. hand block with 180 or use 180 on a 6" DA and hand block the body lines, then hit it with 320 to get rid of the scratches (might be over kill for the Rustoleum) then go for the Rustoleum. Derek

Hi Rick Yes I'm finally making it happen! I'm taking the whole week off to get as much done as I can. This isn't a show car so I'm prepared for quite a few compromises! Thanks for the tip on the screw holes. When are you guy's coming down for the shop tour? I hope to be blocking the primer this weekend so that would be a great time for a visit:eek: Derek

When it came time to start repairing the rust my 240Z body I was trying to figure the best way for me to make the repairs. I have a full metalworking shop including a tig, mig, and spot welder so I had a few options to play with. I had been using some pretty awesome adhesives on my foundry patterns and thought I would investigate it more. My theory on the adhesives was that it would be better in two ways. The first would be no metal fatigue from the weld and the second would be superior strength because of th increased contact area. I did some research on the web and found that panel adhesive is some pretty spectacular stuff. I found plenty of tests where the metal would tear before the adhesive would fail. I purchased some SEM 39747 panel adhesive and an application gun. Here's a shot of the first repair I did. This was not one I was looking forward to repairing. I decided that this was going to be a worst case test so I did a minimal of surface prep on the back side of the ¼ panel. I roughed up the galvanized a bit and laid a pretty good sized bead around the piece. I was able to wedge it in place from behind. On other repairs I ended up using tech screws to hold pieces while they cured. Here's a shot of the repair. Notice how easy it was to repair the section between the ¼ glass sill and the patch panel. I just filled the groove with panel adhesive. I let the panel cure over night and gave it a few shots with the palm of my hand. Man was it solid, It gave off a thud like it was a solid panel. I made this repair about six months ago and have periodically rapped it with a rubber hammer and it hasn't budged. Here's a repair I did this weekend. I'm splicing in a repair panel on the bottom of the ¼ panel. The black stuff is por-15 I made a backing plate out of the left over material I cut from the patch panel. I screwed the backing plate to the inside of the ¼ and then screwed the patch panel to it. I then disassembled the piece and got the adhesive gun ready. I reassembled everything but this time with adhesive on all of the contact areas. I made sure that I had a large enough bead so that it would create a water tight seal as well. I stripped the clamps and screws this morning and man am I happy with this repair. It was a whole lot easier than welding and has rigidity about it that you don't get with spot welding. I'm not sure of the long term effects of this but I read that BMW is using adhesives to hold on frame rails so they must be believers! Derek

This is in the ocala craigs list but the car is in orlando. He's asking $500.00 http://ocala.craigslist.org/car/499606408.html Derek

Great production value! What were you using for you camera mount. Something homemade or store bought? Derek

Man that sounds way cool. I would love to get a look at that. I think you should start a thread about your motor as a lot of people here (me included) would love to see it. I agree with you about the stainless galling but I'm not using it as a bearing surface. The problem with this manifold is getting a good fit between the butterfly and the tube. Since I can't machine inside the tubes very easily I'm going to cast in a machined piece of stainless tube so I have a known dimension for the butterfly. I have sealed bearings top and bottom for the throttle shafts. I'm a patternmaker by trade and plan on getting one of my foundries to do the castings for me. Again please post some shots of the motor!!! Derek

I'm sure I've almost fallen into "all talk" status by now but I really am trying to make this happen! I managed to get the core box completed for the front manifold. Now all I need to do is machine the throttle tube inserts, sand and paint the patterns and mount them to a board. This is both halves of the core box. Each half will be packed with a hardening sand. The two halves will then be glued together to form a completed sand core. The rectangular sections in the front and back are the prints. Prints are what locate the sand in the proper position inside the main mold. This is a closeup of where the stainless steel throttle tubes will go. they will be clamped in position in one half and sand will be packed inside it. on the other half of the core this section of sand will be removed. This will allow the aluminum to encapsulate the tubes. I hope! You can also see the sand that will form the vacuum passage between the tubes. The front tube (bottom screen) is the best compromise I could work out between having a tapered tube yet entering the port in a reasonable way. Soon my precious..... Derek

I'm much more impressed with the bicycleist. That took some real talent! Derek

por-15 Derek

Well the only place I could find pricing is Wolf Creek Racing. 3 BRAND NEW OLD STOCK 44MM CARBS, Box Stock, not modified.......................$1500.00 44/45 mm Mikuni Short triple sidedraft manifold for Z-car w/ linkage BRAND NEW NEVER USED................ $ 425.00 Intake Horns for 40’s & 44’s Carb sizes:50 mm $30 each or $ 115/set of 4 That's $2105.00 plus the air filters. So $1300.00 is a little high as a starting bid but I don't think it's too unreasonable. Derek

Just a heads up. I'm listing these for a friend. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=190175943236&rd=1 Thanks Derek

Well I paid 2500.00 for my 1973 240 and it was in perfect shape. But that was in 1981 so adjusted for inflation that's about $6000.00 . Now it's a basket case and not worth a plug nickel but it's on it's way back up again! Derek

Hi tbs Nice work! I have the nextengine scanner as well and I'm blown away at the quality I'm getting with my scans. I'm using it mostly on ornamental railing parts that are more organic in nature than engine parts. I may need to upgrade my computer though as it seems to take a while to do things like fuse and such. I upgraded to the pro version of the software so I can output iges surfaces to rhino and that was a big improvment. What are you running for a computer? Derek

Thanks for the compliments on the pics but it's really a case of the camera taking great shots. I bought a Nikon D50 DSLR when they first came out and and was just blown away by the quality of the shots compared to my more expensive (when I bought it) Olympus 3030. Up until now I've only used it to document my work. I tweaked the color saturation settings in the camera for these shots in order to give them a more vivid color. Yea it was great meeting you too Jeff. It's really great to see younger guys taking an interest in the early S30 cars. Yea the manifold does look sick I just wish it looked done!! I did leave the show re-energized (how could you not?) and hope to have the first casting done in the next few weeks. I can't remember the screen name of the guy who owns the dark blue Z but he is a Hybrid member. Maybe Jeff's memory is better than mine. Derek

Well I made the trek over to Daytona and I must say it was well worth the trip. There was some great looking cars there. The weather was a little moist to say the least. And I got to meet a few hybrid members as well. So all and all it was a great day. Here's 2 links to the pics I shot. I'm no photographer but the shots turned out ok. Derek http://www.flickr.com/gp/14460162@N07/or1o2e http://www.flickr.com/gp/14461168@N07/64598w

My guess is they got tacked really well during assembly and never got the final pass. They just broke too perfectly to have been full welded. Derek

Here's a link to The lnfo I received from them http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=125998 It's at the end De

Sounds great. I'm coming over on Tuesday for the car show. I need some inspiration and drooling over those cars should help. I'm bringing the patterns with me so If you want to check them out let me know. PM me and I'll give you my cell #. Derek

Will deliver to convention or will ship I'm listing this for a friend of mine. Triple Mikuni 44 carbs Intake manifold Velocity stacks K&N air filters Chrome fuel fittings for daisy chain arrangement as well as single inlet fittings Owners manual Carbs have been in storage for 10 years but are currently on a running car. ( he's removing them this weekend) $1300.00 firm Derek

No problem. Any of those friends in Ocala know anything about Meggasquirt Derek

Nothing good to update. My business picked up considerably which is a good thing for my finances but a bad thing for my extra curricular activities! I'm in the middle of a very large project that should leave me with enough time and money to finish the patterns and castings. Then comes the scary part. The EFI stuff. This is definitely not a dead project but it's going to take a lot longer (they always do) than I thought. See the trick to pulling off big projects is to under estimate your time by about 90 percent, otherwise these things would seem impossible. Thanks for the interest Derek

Anyone have any idea what the start times are for the events? I'm mostly interested in the car show. I looked here http://flza.com/agenda.htm but there are no times listed. Thanks Derek

Well at the rate I'm going on my patterns I'm sure you'll have me beat as well. Great work!!! Derek

Thanks Paul your timing is perfect. I was hosting my pictures on my earthlink account and I'm changing providers. I followed your instructions and it worked like a charm. Great work Derek

Well I managed to get a little more work done on the patterns. Unfortunately work keeps getting in the way. I hate when that happens. This is the top side of the front manifold. I switched from corian as the pattern material to urethane tooling board. It carves a lot faster than the corian and it's a lot easier to work with. This is a shot of the roughing cut with a 1/2†cutter. Here's a shot of the finished piece after about 12 hours of machining. The square blocks on top of the throttle shaft bosses are so I can locate the center of the boss for machining. After I have the manifold casting clamped in the mill I'll map out the location of each block with an edge finder and then use that data to program in the machine ops. At this point I'm going to finish up the core box for the front manifold and go ahead and cast and machine it. This way If I have to make some changes I'll only have to modify one pattern. Derek