The love of JDM

I wouldnt even want to know how a crash would go cause its alot of work from what it sounds what you have done and the avatar pic of your car looks sweet.

Very cool Sir, thank you for those pics anyhow. From the way you were talking it sounds like you are doing a FULL resto; like I, VERY NICE!

Oh wow thats pretty extensive and looks beefy. I'd like to keep the truck floor stock but maybe I can box in the fuel tank from underneith to the body or just something infront of the gas tank near the "roll pan" of the body.

Good laugh

Im a picture freak so no worries! After I get some more stuff done I'll make a progression thread. That is very true. I was supprised how much flex the roll of the body curve has but then again I will do some type of bracing as well. Do you have any pics of your bracing? I have an idea what I'd do on mine but always like to get ideas

Hey Arn, the harness seems fine, only things not working ATM is the headlights (I think they are blown) cause they are pluged up and BN fuse's and the clock doesnt work. Not sure why tho.. Do you have a fuse box cover by any chance?

Got the fuse box in working order, thanx to those who helped

I pulled the back bumper off today. The left side inner fender bolt was easy to get to but the right side was blocked by the gas tank, what a pain in the tail it was esp. with large hands but its what ever. It looks like it at some point in its life was tapped in the back end and put 2 small dips in the panel so I'll just drop the gas tank anyway for one to get it cleaned and re-sealed and then smooth out the panel and shave the holes. I already brushed on the rust inhibitor over the rust/surface areas and in 2 days time I'll start sanding down the body. But anyhow it looks pretty neat with out the bumper, thanx to everyone who posted who had their views.

Sweet cherry!

That was an interesting thread ^^ I suppose the fellow Alan knows his stuff.

Very cool, thank you NCchris. Looks like I'll be ordering from them soon.

Great post, thank you. That does help get an idea of what to do on the crash factor. LOL good thing I wasnt drinking some coffee when reading this... your car in the sig is very clean.

Wow, free running motor set Nice offer Stroked Z

Thank you for that view, very good to know to that with it removed wouldnt really be any different that if left on in a crash stand point on a 240z.

Read all 9 pages, great work and attention to detail. Glad you winged out the coolent issue as well. Take care of her, and the Ms; like someone earlier said.. shes a keeper.

Maybe, I mean Ive seen ones either exposed, finished smooth or a paint finish that is great but holes left. Maybe waiting for a bumper to be installed, or just left. Im just wondering what others were doing. For me, if I was to pull the bumper and not use one Id shave the holes, not a big deal for me because I work with metal and I dig the smooth look.

Thank you for that answer Jay, as well as the link to baddogparts. I checked that out and looks like good quality and fair price.

I was looking through photos of these cars and saw many that had the rear bumper removed. Some had the holes left un shaved and some were shaved. My question is this a personal choice or were you planning on putting it back on or shaved it to make it more smooth? The reason I ask is, I am in the process of restoring this car but at the same time un decided to make it fully stock or custom resto. I however do like the smoothed look after the bumper had been removed and holes shaved.

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Thank you for going to check that out. It sounds like the "fed" cars EPA, are more fun For a car being so old you still have to do testing or something that you had to do but now dont?

Very nice, wish I had one Right now Im just happy to have gotten it turned over but it needs carbs. tune, so 72' and 73's would be the same then?

If you can find that could you e-mail it to me or if not to much trouble take a picture of the fuse box and label each fuse in paint/photoshop program? Thanx in advance.

Thank you Jay, I'll do that, how were your pans and did you get frame rail sections also?

Well I looked through the sections that I thought the fuse's would be in (body electrical, body and general information) but didnt see anything.

Are the 73's and 72's in wiring the same? Just wondering because that link, when clicked says 240z 73' but anyhow my d/l rate on wireless is 900k + on normal days. Thanx for the help thus far. btw, I downloaded that zip. file 41.2mb in 1.5 min.