Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)

79_280zx · Post by **79_280zx** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:23 pm

Hi All

I have just brought a 1979 280zx today, I won't have it in the garage for a couple of weeks.
James (85_z31) will be giving me hand.

I look forward to posting here as the project goes.

85_Z31 · Post by **85_Z31** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:33 pm

Well Done Clare Fantastic purchase !

For those wondering its DJZ's 2+2 that he has done a lot of really great work on, I will let My awesome Z wife update you with details

torqued · Post by **torqued** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:01 pm

Well done guys/girls on your new addition . I bet you both are swimming with joy over the new bundle

DJZ · Post by **DJZ** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:09 pm

I'm a sad to see it go but I know it's going to a good home. This is what it looked like in about 2002:

Post by **Bartman** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:38 pm

ProZac · Post by **ProZac** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 10:43 pm

Whoa, looks suspiciously like someone's old Starion parked in the background.... I wonder who's that could be.....

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Looking forward to seeing this 2+2 bought back to former glory

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85_Z31 · Post by **85_Z31** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 11:25 am

Clare wasn't feeling to flash last night So i will sneak in here an update for her.

So after some further inspection of the car we decided to lift up the cowl panel to see what was underneath, turns out it was a good call as the folder section that links the strut tower supports to the body was quite rusty, and underneath the cowl was starting to get a lot of surface rust. So we can now treat that and it should never have any issues again

As it stands I think Clare has caught everything just at the right time where its easily repairable and there is plenty of good steel to work with.

Does anybody have any free time to tidy up the removed Cowl panel ?

It needs a new lip that sits along the windscreen, it needs each side sectioned back in about 150mm from each edge and a small amount of hammer and dolly work. I am quite happy to provide all the patch templates.

85_Z31 · Post by **85_Z31** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 12:56 pm

bit of an update for the Wife

She got the Cowl off a while back and its sat around since we didn't have acess to a welder for a while. So we borrowed the old mans mig to get a crack onto some of these jobs.

This is my First attempt at a real rust repair and I'm pretty happy with it considering the welder wasn't performing very well in todays 30deg conditions

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2 doors · Post by **2 doors** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:19 am

well done that man

looks like you have a bit of talent.

280zx_nz · Post by **280zx_nz** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:41 am

Very nice work man, looking forward to seeing some more progress.

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