I ain't no welderLooks like the hard work fixing this up is rewarding you. I've always like the 350Zs.
When you see how badly these newer Z cars rust it makes me surprised mine wasn't worse than it was.
Not trying to be rude but realise it may come across that way, just trying to assess myself. If someone asks you can you weld do you say yes? I'm still in the learning process myself and have a long way still to go. But I have in my mind that I am not able to say yes until I can make not only functional welds but really neat ones also, not the level of the pro fabricators, but to a decent high standard. I'm just thinking because I am highly fussy and want perfection perhaps I am setting my bar too high, perhaps a level I may not reach. I am currently happy to weld things together for myself, but if asked can I weld I will not feel happy to say I can weld.
Yes, I haven't even got a far as trying to weld old steel. Still trying to make my clean steel welds look how I want. I would only be able to weld clean metal to clean metal I believe anyhow as I am using TIG so its more sensitive to cleanliness of the metal, probably would need a MIG also if I wanted to do anything short of full on perfect replacement panels. I do intend to also add a semi decent MIG to my toy shop at some point, many things to buy before that.
I am sure they are. This was one of my points, perhaps for now I should not worry about the prettiness of my welds, at least they are properly functional.
I'm sure I'd never be able to let myself near anything other than fixer upper cars, the civic or Z are unlikely to be touched by my torch, the mazda daily on the other hand, if it needs it I would give a go at.No way would I even contemplate taking the welder to anything fresher, let alone your zed!
I wouldn't let bad weather put you of doing a trackday at kirkistown. In the wet everything just happens at a slower speed, but it's more involving as you can get right up on the edge of grip more easily. I would much rather be floating about at 50mph Vs 80. Not that floating about is the goal, but you get my point.View attachment 338528View attachment 338529
Had an absolute blast with this at Kirkiston yesterday!! Performed really well and the only casualties were the rear pads and front wheel centre caps!
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And after yesterday
Gearbox is definitely whining more loudly and will need to look at it next!
But still really enjoying this yoke. And think going to book into next trackskills day (weather dependent)
Mondello is very slippery in the wet. Great fun.
