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Norman521

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    Portland Or
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    1971 Pl521
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    Guitar, killing squirrels, woodworking

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  1. sorry i totally abandoned this thread lol. heres some current pics of the car, replaced the whole interior new rear hatch new wheels (Work Equip 01 1pice 14"s) engine pulled and bay cleaned / welded up/ painted. passenger floor cut out and replaced. entire body stripped to bare metal, some body work /patching etc. body temporarily painted, bed liner in the wheel wells. all in one summer while working full time! phew!! glad thats over with. and heres my other thread for the car http://nwdatsuns.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=331 BOOM! still think its a parts car guys??
  2. probably not this year i dont think i can put two cars on insurance, but next year for sure,... unless you can get a trailer =) but you will def see it soon. possibly 2 weeks? for sure in a month. anyway, turns out floor pans are not super expensive, ima grab a passenger side for now, I think i can save the driver side. plus i think i figured out why someone cut that hole in my dash, i lost the picture but i found someone who put a gague cluster right above the glovebox.
  3. its.... not great. i still havnt pulled the seats to take a closer look, but thats going to be the biggest chunk of rust removal ill have to do.
  4. those were all my thoughts exactly, in that order... except the nutralized by water part, i didnt know that...
  5. so, im at school and i dont have many tools with me, unfortunately. i also dont have much free time, but im getting done what i can. The whole car was covered with super nasty thick maroon paint that looks like it was burnt because its all bubbly and weird, luckily the guy who had it before me got a pretty serious amount of it off the roof, hood, and front fenders. but theirs still a lot to go. so ive been using a paint scraper, this is a terrible picture, there is no rust on the rear quarter except for a little on the wheel arches, its all smooth but the pain makes it look bad. ground down some of the rust on the trunk lid.... its pretty far gone, ill patch it up temporarilly untill i can get a replacement matting is coming up in the trunk, again the picture makes it look a thousand times worse than it is, im actually pretty releaved, i was expecting worse cleaned up the engine bay a little bit, everything had a layer of red paint dust. master cyl looks like it was recently replaced =) dash area cleaned up a little, still needs a cap tho. this is the kind of cap im looking at, but thats a ways out http://www.ebay.com/itm/1975-78-DATSUN-280Z-DASH-CAP-FULL-FACE-/121106706758?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item1c3285b146&vxp=mtr stainless finally seeing the light of day again sprayed some primer on the bare metal tire well is not bad... ive seen a lot worse. all in all, its not to bad, and its moving pretty fast. tho you may have noticed the lack of floor pan oics .... they.... well.... we'll just wait for the inevitable, dramatic, before / after shot... =)
  6. it would appear so. ill find one, i need to look for a junk yard here in corvallis.
  7. it looks worse than it is, not by much, but im not too worried about it, its not much worse off than my 521 was. hopefully ill get a chance to tear into it today and get a better assesment.
  8. we'll see, itl probably get some more stuff done to it before it goes up for sale. but yes, new Datsun is in the works =)
  9. Snagged a 1972 S30 for $900 today!! Ive been keeping my eyes out for a while and i finally pounced on one! The Bad quite a bit of rust... =( nothing beyond fixing tho. cracked windshield, (but im so used to my 521's nasty old cracked, chipped, delaminated windshield that 1 crack doesnt bother me for the time being) interior is..... not.... in the best condition rubber is mostly going to need replacing clutch is on its way out smokes a little. The Good round top SUs EL distributor runs/ drives pretty decently transmssion seems pretty solid wiring seems surprisingly intact and original. Riken mesh wheels =) good tags clean title the best part of all? its a 240z!!!! its going to be a serious project, but the thing i like about it is that its a 240 but its far from perfect so i wont feel like i have to restore it to a perfect original numbers matching sort of thing. OICS \/
  10. oh...my.... gosh... i love this that so much!
  11. So, working at a restaurant in a college town has its ups and downs. On the one hand, I hardly get any work at all during spring break. On the other hand, 5 day weekend!!! Sorry for the huge dump of a post but its been a HUGE project packed into just a few days. DAY 1 so instead of having fun I decided to do some battle with the Datsun owner’s worst enemy…. Rust. First day of the break I attacked the floorboards, moisture is leaking in from somewhere (probably windshield gasket, that’s getting changed pretty soon hopefully) =( So I stripped the interior and grabbed a sanding wheel for my angle grinder and went to town. The previous owners were….weird and glued down the carpet with like a gallon of epoxy so that was a pain and I couldn’t get rid of all of it, but at least I got rid of the rust. Hit it with rust neutralizing primer and a coat of Rustolium. It’s a bit dusty in the pic, but it turned out nice. Day 2 The second day I decided to go for the bed, frame didn’t look too terrible from underneath but I figured ill need it off at some point for paint and what not, so it would be worth my while to have new hardware to make it easy on myself. Bed bolts….. not fun. Took me about 5 hours to just get the 10 mounting bolts. By the time the bed was off it was time to call it a day. The rust looked MUCH worse from up top since that’s where all the moisture is sitting. The 2x4s are just to hold the tank up while I moved the truck. Close-up of the rust DAY 3 Next step was to get rid of all that rust! grinder/ cup brush/ primer/ paint. Pretty straight forward. paint!! Ill get the leafs and the axle another day. I just wanted to get the frame sealed to make things nice and clean and less miserable to work on further on down the road. Again just a weekend project not a total restoration thing for now. DAY 4 Bed. Coregated metal is sooo miserable to clean up. But I did the best I could. before pic with a little bit of cleaning I don’t have an after pic, still working on it a bit more. than this happened…. 42 year old brake line decided to finally give out. Nice…. Brake fluid Messed up my nice new paint job… oh well at least it didn’t happen while I was driving! And the bed was off to make the cleanup nice and easy! Always a bright side. Hopefully it’ll all be back together tomorrow. best part of the day, On the phone with Laecaon looking at the street, I see my bike riding past…. Hang up and I chase some lady stealing my Cannondale!!!! Long story short, she didn’t get far and I snagged it back. Lol, Now I’ll be a bit more paranoid about locking that sucker up than I already was haha. If she rode the other way or if I hadn’t been looking at the street, she would have been long gone. Thank God that worked out the way it did lol.
  12. Im at school in corvallis and i dont have the time/space/money/weather to do anything, so shes been sitting. luckily ive had a covered parking spot for the last month or so to get things all dried out. that said, heres a list of whats going to happen over the spring/summer; Floor pans need some lovin and a dash of plasti-dip New carpet New windshield (Laecaon already found one for me:D ) and gasket Paint and body work Interior business (door cards, dash cap, stereo, etc. Hopefully do a wire delete and batery re-location to the cab. Clean up the engine bay. And ofcourse some sort of crazy L20 build.
  13. finances permitting this is guna be a sweet motor.
  14. Norman521

    1970 521

    what size are those chevy ralleys? mine are 15x8 but they have a bit of poke.
  15. Skib certainly looks dapper in the background there
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