Graves Z thread

i aquired a 1974 datsun 260z, grabbed it from orginal owner he had the car since 74, i even have the bill of sale from back then lol. the exterior isnt to bad its some primerd color which kinda blows. the interior is actually pretty good considering how old the car is. the car has 99k on it. right now im debating if i have the funds for this project and keeping it or selling it. theres some surface rust in the typical areas nothing to bad.

my plans are to get it running right. it currently leaks oil from the block somewhere uner the carb are, get the carbs synced, get it painted, get some new tires cus the ones it has now are weather checked. as for a future swap maybe an l28et or an sr20. maybe some fender flares and a front air dam that i like.

the first time i saw a datsun z and actually fell in love with them was when i was surfin the web and was looking for new animes to watch. and yeah you guessed it, i found wangan midnight. since that day i have fallen inlove with the z's. here are some pictures of how it looked when i first got it

so today i took off the front bumper and got me here


side shot



this is after both the shocks are off



front shot again after bumper and shock removal



good by to these bad boys



so i went to go remove the rear bumper and i found a few of these on the ground



i had sprayed the car the day before with some home defense but after seeing that many blk widows drop
i decided to whip out the home defense again and spray the **** out of my car again.

I especially like the spiders and the webs in it! Nice! lol

the other day i got of work and only had enough time to take of the left side skirt so here it is ( started to rain dammit)

so after waiting a day or two for the rain to go away i thought id take on a bit of a rust issue i have on the car here it is

spare wheel well



i scooped all the loose rust



this is what i had for my rust temperary fix and to stop it from spreading any more

( that jelly blows gonna have to sand at a later date)

here is the naval jelly at work



it started to get late so i finished up and sprayed it with some rustoleom rust stop primer to giht the rust a bit

found another one of these Butt holes dangling froma web a few days back it is dam big

so today after work i took advantage of the sunny weather and took of the rear bumper. i was timid at frst becuase of how man blks widows i had killed with that poison ( lol).



i was done wiping it done so i can just slap some primer for temporary rust protection here



primered






and i also took of the right hand side skirt and primerd the body




thats it for now ill keep you guys posted

Someone stole your radio!

nah that aint me

Update

i grabbed some tires for the car yesterday and was able to drive it a little.

fixed the gas leak at the fuel pump at . in process of fixing the oil leak . smoking seemed to go down afte ri added a quart of lucas oil leak stop. here are some more pictures.


here one of the new tires on the rims the ca came with




few picks of the fuel pump are, im not gonna lie i was pretty scared fuucking with it.






heres a snap shot of the hoses i took off, pretty crusty and StUfF





lost the picture of the new hoses lol

here i was taping of the hatch and the roof of the car so i can temperarly prevent further surface rust.







my phone died when i was dont painting so ill get some of that in the morning.

till next time

yo you should scale down the pictures, i cant load them they're so big and theres so many.

Lol get off dial up I can see them on my phone but I agree doesn't this have have an auto scale this other site I go to does

Crud if I'd stick my hand in all those spider webs....lol

Look's like it's coming together for you though bro, nice.

thanks man and yeah iw a slike StUfF dam spiders, but i after i changed that the car fired up easier

you sold it you Generic Non American Description

car has been sold thread closed