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8 inch fans and over pressure one way flapper valves will be on soon. The body of the shroud down by the damper clears pretty well. I feel the shrouded fans are probably necessary for those high altitude hot summer days with the AC blowing. We’ll see how this works!

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Back from door, hatch and hood alignment. Ready to finish up dash fabrication and a few other bits and go to paint.

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Great read. Car’s looking awesome.

Stripped off all the green metal protectant from patch panels so paint will adhere.

Messy job.
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Intake manifold is headed to ceramic coating so we cleaned it up a bit to remove casting warts and flash.


Also (just for fun)Took a few days of 240 building to blast around in other cars

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Also dashboard fab is underway!!

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Headers downpipes and manifolds cleaned up and ready for ceramic coating.

I apologize for the big pix. I post most of this stuff from my phone running around in the world and the app I use does a poor job of letting me pic my picture resolution. Thanks for your patience with the goofy image sizes.

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Dash fabrication in progress

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Very nice!

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The plan and some progress

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Cool upgraded cam oiler installed

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It has grub screws on the tube ends so you can clean it out if needed.

Steering wheel rehab completed.

It looks super nice in person!!!

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Boom! Damn. I love it.

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Edit. We are going to put little “angle spacers” behind the gauge faces to kick them up a bit toward the driver.

Such small photos tho :crying:

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Love the updates! Keep em coming :tup:

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Dash shots

2 in many more to go.

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The whole dash will be installed with rivnuts and button head hex screws so as to be removable (for follow on mods or just maintenance). Also that’s just cool and fun I think. Maybe cam locks.

Off to ceramic coating

1800 degree dark silver on the exhaust and intake manifolds and the long exhaust tube.

1800 degree black ceramic on the heat shield. (It might get some additional “gold foil” stuff on it if my carbs and intake manifold get too much heat soak coming off the exhaust manifold)

That’s a thing for another day.

Anyhow here’s a “before pic”. The shop is busy so…. Two weeks?

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Glovebox fab

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Look at those welds!! Good job Russ

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Dash fab (gauge cluster and glove box) continues

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The gauge trio sits too high for my eye. We’re going to mill it down a bit more flush.

For reference here is a “stockish “ look

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Ceramics done.

That should keep my carb/engine bay heat down quite a lot.

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My first car circa 1990 photo.

The days of vapor locking with my 1974 1/2 260z sure comes back to me now.

1977 or 1978. Can't see from just the picture.

Are those American Racing wheels???

Yup!!!! Cool right??

I had a set of those that were on my '77 280Z. Kept them in the attic of every place I lived for 35 years. Then, the last time we moved, I finally threw them out, a few years back.

77

I have a set of Shelby wheels for my 1975.

Those vintage AR wheels look really nice.

Yes, they do indeed. I kept mine decade after decade in the attic, but finally threw them out in the last move in 2018. DUMBASS!!!!!

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Zcon!

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Front end 4Runner big brake mod to fit 15 inch diameter wheels!!

-Custom hats by Ignite performance

-11.875 inch Rotors from Coleman racing (full floating)

-3rd Gen 4 runner Calipers

Custom brake mounting bracket by Ignite performance

Brake backing plate modified by Ignite performance to accept brake air duct for cooling.

Fits inside my 15 inch wheels for Vintage racing

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Slow progress getting sheet metal and finishing prep done. (Painting and bodywork with pros but slow going getting through it)

In the meantime my friends down at ignite Performance let me pitch in on some of the easy stiff doing a front end rebuild. (I plasma cut the old front end off the donor car and drilled out some spot welds.

Fun.
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