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5 hours ago, artishard116 said:

I see you had the same wonky (2+2?) higher floor pan/taller rail on the passenger’s side as I do. Currently working with John from bad dog to come up with a fix as my fab skills aren’t on your level. Awesome work!

 

 

1975 2 seater with what we call over here the Californian floor pans due to the provision of a bulge for the cat converter of the day and a very irregular metal pressing

 

check back when I have the pans this isn’t as hard as it looks

 

 

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That’s all she wrote for this long weekend

Added some additional gussets at the horse shoe and sat the rare spares pan in just to get an idea how all will sit with the new pans on order and am satisfied all will line up exceptionally well

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Love it when a proof of concept works out as well as you imagined and planned it

So first pan went in today on the passenger side and lined up nicely after I blended the reinforcement beads flat at each end to allow mating the pan to the forward and rear sheet metal.

 

cheers

 

John

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Well progress is slow but steady

Im certain these old Zeds were built using recycled Bud cans from the 1970's, any how all good

Got the first pan trimmed in to the remaining floor sections with much slicing dicing and welding, the result? once prepped, sealed, coated and colored Im pretty sure it will look the goods,

Only just managed to sit the trimmed 2nd pan in place before sun down.

Until next week......

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Today’s effort 

 

Both pans now in including the rear tunnel plate, this was all done as one assy so as to make everything uniform and kept square in the process.

Next the tunnel will be formed then the pans and rear plate will be cut and trimmed to suit

 

A lot of fine tuning to be done with small mods and fabrication around the pans, plate etc but all in all happiness that this major structural work is coming to an end

Even had the first chance to place the AMG drivers seat in place and the smile was from ear to ear

 

Cheers

 

John

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Tunnel sections are still being mocked up so in the meanwhile focused my attention on fabricating the new seat rails.

 

basically because I’m dealing with a flat pan the seat rsils sandwich that pan to the new rails and lock in to each rail 

i have 2 options, slice them so I can notch in the tunnel or leave them and later install a series of rivet nuts so I can add an aluminum plate enclosing the tail shaft once installed to create a totally flat pan

 

i also received a new addition this week, integrated air and heating HVAC with full climate control, it’s about 25% smaller than the original Z set up so this is going to be aninteresting mod once the tunnels in place and I can mount the dash to work out the hanger points and fresh air feed

 

Cheers

 

John

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Sometimes you stand back and think, I could have done better, today was one of those days, so a bit more thought, polished up on my metal shaping and sliced and diced before playing geometry on a sheet of metal and then  “HAND BENDING” the tunnel !

 

A priceless day having reached a mile stone.

 

Cheers

 

John

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6 hours ago, jpndave said:

John,

 

Keep up the good work! I enjoy following along on your progress. Very ingenuitive solutions you pull together for lots of this. 

 

I'm very interested to see how that HVAC turns out. 

 

Dave

 

Thanks Dave

 

yeah it’s a journey as you well know, sometimes it’s well mapped out and others you literally trip over what you’re looking for

 

if any of the info or ideas I post here helps another member out then I’ve done my duty

 

how goes your pony Dave ?

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On 4/24/2019 at 8:32 AM, Ironhead said:

Fantastic project and work.  Every aspect of your metalwork is so impressive.  Honestly, it almost looks like you could have just built a new Z from scratch!

 

Thanks buddy

 

but it gone the final step and now I’m truly over the hump ;)

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