Hi Everyone! I'm Steve.
I'm trying to not make excuses, but...
I really need to make some progress on my 240Z project.
This project has been stopped dead for quite a while now.
I bought this car well over a year ago now...
and I just haven't had a lot of time to work on it.
After getting the car, I drove it just once...
after I got home I pulled the engine apart to clean it up...
and that is how it has sat since then!
This is such a nice car is deserves to be out on the road again!
Excuses won't complete this car...
so little by little I am determined to get it done!!
Way back when, I already cleaned up some of the parts....
I took all the rust off this header and painted it nice!
I didn't film the clean up of this, sorry...
I simply used a wire wheel to get the rust off and then used high heat paint to make it look nice again!
In order to really clean up an engine compartment, its best to disassemble everything.
Parts like this fuel delivery line are hard to clean on the car.
The manifold and carbs are much easier to deal with removed from the car.
I am going to rebuild and paint these carbs myself too!
The car is so nice but under the hood did not look good.
It was very original and in need of a clean up for sure!
This is the manifold and dual Hitachi carb assembly for the 240Z.
This assembly is immediately noticeable when opening the hood...
so it really needs to look good!!
With the assembly off the car we can make it look great!!!
It needs to be degreased first...
I will unbolt the carbs from the manifold...
With the carburetors removed, it will be even easier to clean up and paint too.
This is what the manifold looks like with the carbs.
I guess I can remove this pipe too...
but I'm gonna leave it for now.
These emission/smog (?) components sit on top of the manifold and I removed them too.
I'm pretty sure these are emission control related components...
Everything first needs a good degreasing.
then time for paint.
I used a brush/sponge and engine cleaner to get the oil and grease off...
the result is very nice!
But not nice enough.... painting will take care of that!
I masked it off like this in order to paint.
I probably should mask off the openings too...
Now its time to paint...
obviously I didn't want paint to go on the areas I masked off...
This is the factory air cleaner assembly...
This is the factory blue color.
I would leave it this color but honestly I don't like the way it looks...
That's why I decided to paint it black...
Not a normal black but something a little different...
Wrinkle Finish black.
This is the wrinkle black paint.
Not sure if this product is in Japan or not... Wrinkle Plus.
Its not a smooth finish, but more of a wrinkly/bumpy finish.
This is my first time using this product.
It can be used on a variety of parts like valve covers too...
I thought it would make this air clean box look really good!
Next, its time to clean up this nasty old radiator.
Look at the years of dead bugs!!!
What kind of bug is that???
Check out this guy!
This radiator looks horrible and needs a good clean up!
But first we gotta get the peeling paint off...
and then repaint.
This radiator cannot go back into the car looking like this.
Let's clean it up!
The peeling paint comes off really quickly and easily.
With this softer wire wheel its quick.
You gotta get the old paint off in order for the new paint to adhere well.
This is a nylon type "wire"wheel... its softer than a normal wheel.
The bristles are firm but softer than wire.
I found a great way to use this wheel on this radiator too!!
You don't want to apply much pressure, but...
if you go lightly over the surface...
The dead bugs start flying again!!!!!!
They're flying again!!!
DIY can be a lot of fun like this sometimes too!!!!
The process of cleaning up a radiator also means cleaning up all the crushed fins.
These crushed fins bother me...
But there is fairly easy way to correct this problem.
Get a wide set of tweezers.
With tweezers you can carefully fix the crushed fins.
Using the tweezers, you want to gently grab and straighten the crushed fin.
It takes time and patience but you need to gently pull and twist the crushed fin back into shape.
Watch how I'm doing it...
I'm gonna stop here but...
the process is pushing, pulling, twisting gently...
It's already much better, but to perfect it...
you need to grab the fin and pull straight up to flatten and straighten the fin.
Grab and pull...
Pulling is the key to straightening the fin.
It's never gonna be perfect, but it is much better than it was!
What do you think?
The more time I spend the better it will look.
But it's already much better than before.
Wow, the results are much better than it was.
It doesn't even look like the same radiator anymore...
The real bad places are still a little noticeable, but...
it's much better!!
Let's do the other side too.
This side isn't as bad but it has some issues too.
It does have some pretty bad spots....
It is worse than I thought...
It's bad, but if I spend about 20 minutes or so...
tweezers and
patience!
(20 minutes later) How does it look now?
Some areas are just too far gone to completely fix...
But in comparison to before...
its a lot better!!!!!
Now its time to paint!!
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