Using Technology to Protect and Restore my Nissan 300zx
today we're continuing working on the 240 cage we got smokes in here already getting at it he picked up a different welding gun or torch torch that way you can get some better angles at some of these hard to reach lines and where we left off in the last video is redoing the front top hats because the last ones were a little ugly and in an incorrect location but we have a special guest here Mr Marty with dingdong drift how's it going we're going to be preserving yet another piece of History he helped me scan the bowc front bumper and also the BX skirts that we have but as you guys know I have a TT front bumper with a bowex front lip so we're going to scan this as well before I destroy it because this thing's low and it's my daily so hopefully with the scan we'll be able to recreate it and possibly make a mold out of it maybe change the design a little bit if we want to oo that'd be cool yeah we can some flare to bigger wider whatever we want to do we could change it up make a custom BX is lip they this thing pretty spot on like this fitment is dialed in yeah but yeah there is some damage to it already I think it actually came with this to be honest so if you're ever like scanning car parts like bumpers and stuff I recommend having them on the car cuz it fits how it should right it fits how it should one more thing I'd like to do is make a distributor delete cap oh that's right cuz now we don't have to run our wires to each individual cylinder yeah so we're just going to make a little cap cuz the sensors in there are all work working still for the cam sensor is this just unscrew I've never taken this off before yeah maybe it should try to take it off yeah if you want to see it on my yeah check out yours yeah the last time we saw Marty's SC it was at night so we didn't really get a good look at it and we didn't look under the hood a little bit oh yeah that's right that's right if you guys don't know 3D printing has come a long way all of my cam covers here are 3D printed dude these look great as well as the idle air delete and the EGR Delete plates and there's one in the back here so these things are obviously in a lot of heat it's a V8 creates a lot of heat there's a bunch of radiator heat blowing into this stuff and this is only 1 and 1/2 mm thick and you can see it's now warping 3D printing is no longer printing Trinkets and toys we can print actual pieces functional parts that cleaned up the engine so much cuz aren't these kind of bulky Factory yeah Factory these come up to like here oh wow and then they also wrap around all the way to cover the original distributor wires cuz this car comes with uh two Distributors two one one on each cam damn so because I'm running the you know vag coils coil unplug yeah there you go the original covers wouldn't fit so you either have to chop it off and run it or I made new ones no this looks good you have plenty of room for activities even with a V8 in here yeah exactly that's wild yeah there's this little um round thing that I'm going to put in here is that one of them yinyang spinny boys yeah exactly theang yeah Shanghai spoolie boy yeah we're going to use one of those here that'd be cool right in the center dang cool man this thing looks wicked as you guys know or don't know he also 3D printed this widebody as well as the fenders what else honestly everything this whole car is 3D printed camera screens Dash floors center console that is a forged carbon shifter that's crazy I'm actually I got to wiggle it ergonomic feel you say yeah that's so funny so I'm working on a sunroof delete right now it's not finished Mr ding-dong has requested some white powder what do you need this for dude energy I forgot conformal spray the stuff that makes the matte finish like this is super shiny so the scanner is not able to pick it up at all okay um I could try to mess with the like color settings but I think what we're going to do instead oh will it stick is sneaking a little bit all right everyone this is Chef dingdong here oh that might not work oh [ __ ] that's perfect yeah that's what I'm saying why don't you just use that cuz I feel like it'll go away you have to be quick with it it doesn't evate oh it works no way scanning it works it's scanning you got so it looks like just sprinkling the flower directly onto the lip here is working just fine hey I think you got a little something on your nose there boss we're starting our scan over here now we have a fresh powder lay down how's it doing it's doing okay not getting too much detail it's not perfect but I think it's getting the red good see this the Red's perfect yeah look at that it's nice and matte with no gloss yeah oh that's perfect dude that's actually working out really well really perfect D take a sharpie and write scanning spray on it that's coming out crispy now yeah put in quotations though that actually worked yeah it works great we're missing a little piece there but it doesn't really matter it's mostly flat wow I'll be able to dude that's good that's a good skin yeah it's decent green I'm going to just take some pictures of this back stuff here just to see how it wraps around and how far it goes underneath and all that preserving history one scan at a time put that on a t-shirt yeah preserving history mhm one skin at a time preserve these nuts got to love Phillips inside an engine bay never ever Strip This screw was already loose that's good that's probably not good no it's perfect this one was loose too oh nice there's really only two oh they're held do you just need this base scan then I don't think we even need this how does this come off right because the only thing you need is the cam sensor which is in here somewhere yeah what's going on smokes making a lot of noise just hitting stuff oh this just slides off Perfect come off oh yeah this is just held on with that oh cool does this need to come off it's taking everything off no I think that's a part of it there is a screw in there there is yeah in the middle yep up on top oh you're trying to lift the bars up again all right these are all done now yeah good stuff man those are some tight spots yeah they got really tight especially cuz we don't we couldn't cut the holes cuz I didn't want to grind all this out yeah hold on let me get let me get in a better position all right all quick little scan yeah how's it looking pretty good that looks wild oh yeah that's the manif F should be yeah it's pretty Shin oh so it's got to be like this way yeah there we go so we got the distributor I guess cap and not cap scanned the internals of the distributor yeah and then the cap is up here yeah it' be cool nice flat piece instead of this humongous look strange yeah so that'll be nice cool man appreciate it yeah we're scanning one additional piece on the 3 ZX if you're part of the Z Community this may be a benefit to you this piece that goes right above the battery here always breaks where is it at this is what mine looks like and it's supposed to be like double the length I'm not going to put it in this way it will affect the scan but it's supposed to cover all the way up to around here and it goes over the battery so we're going to try and scan the surface and maybe come up with something as a solution see you Mr dingdong bye drive safe thank you for your help y wow quiet right nice what's up Devon wish my [Music] car that is the so the cage kits cages are known to be tight as you can see we are honestly probably touching all these corners but we did have to jack up the cage inside the car that way we can get it over these humps and whatnot but this is working tremendously well moving the cage where we need it lower in the Jack there we go that's the right speed this side is a little hovery I bet you if I once uh oh yeah we need to put the base plate in the front I'm sure that'll help it we can get this Jack out of here now it looks so odd in the center of the car that's weird let's try the dash bar out uh I think we have to go underneath that there's so many wires in the way oh looks like we have to delete it well n dude just just cut it I'm serious you had to cut like probably it's of no you still have defrost yeah but I have no blower motor not yet yeah I might just delete it I only wanted to keep this box because you know when you're on your cool down lap you can put your heat blast to full you get that additional cooling M that's what I'm saying you're going to eliminate that you're not rear rad you just get a bigger uh reservoir for your coolant I don't even think you have a coolant reservoir tank do you no so yeah you get a four or five gallon Reservoir in the rear rear She's Tight oh so it does fit with the Box all right yeah it does fit it's got this Loop in there it Lally fits perfectly with that wow I think I might still take out the heater core clean things up a bit we haven't popped This Hood in months let's see if the engine's still in it sweet so since we're eliminating our heater core box I've decided we're going to continue this looping until I can figure out where I need to block off the hoses here couple fittings here that combine shorter hoses into longer hoses so we're going to just combine them that way there's one port that comes off the back of the head area here maybe it's the block then there's one that comes out under the thermostat so realistically there's a hose going from here all the way around to the heater core so it's a pretty long heater core line that we can finally eliminate we ended up getting the 240 coolant hose figured out but I wanted to try and fit on some spacers here not usually a fan of spacers but we might need to run them for now because like we mentioned in the last video our wheels are kind of sunk in in the front it's not horrible but it's probably one of my biggest pet peeves I want to be able to see this outer lip at least flush with the Fender so it looks like we need bare minimum 5 mil there's already I think a five on there so I have these here bolt on and slide on so I think there's extended studs on there this might be 10 mil how thick do you think that is I don't really do millimeters but I don't know half in you're one of them standard guys huh yep half inch well that's plenty of threads how do we feel about that sorry is it too much no it's just right that's perfect so since we know the other wheel fits perfectly while I have this one off I'll show you we have a 17 by9 BR wheel but the offset is plus 25 generally that fits okayish so basically the lower the number the more the wheel will stick out and since we know this is a 15 mil by the way I just measured it since we know the 15 mil actually makes it look better we need to subtract 15 from the total offset so since this is a 25 minus 15 we need a 17x 9 + 10 that's how you figure it out hope that made sense always dude that looks way better you never know what half an inch can do what Che out man I'm so hyped we finally got this thing sitting right oh it's so good fitment is perfect I think I might try and find some 18s for the front I have two new things to put on the Nissan Gloria I'll give you the first clue the temp plate is missing and the second one is OEM floor mats I really like the fact that they say Grand Turismo it's pretty sweet that it matches the trim I've noticed a lot of '90s Nissans will just say the car name for example like it would say Gloria or 300ZX but I think it's pretty cool if they put the trim the floor mats currently in the Gloria are just red I don't think these are Factory at all but they did add a cool contrast to the interior but I've been kind of building this as an oem car not even OEM Plus at this point so I figured the factory floor mats would be the best option as for the license plate a lot of you guys gave me some great suggestions but I had a friend messag me an idea and I couldn't resist well what do you guys think Gizzy it's fitting Gloria Gizzy I don't know now you get two plates here and for some reason they started adding this little label to both plates place sticker here on rear plate but like you can't take that off so if you have that on the front you have this ugly logo here but the question is do I want to do the fold style license plate or do I want to put it in the stock hooks I also don't have a frame for this so I don't exactly want to scratch all the paint in here I have to try and make some kind of buffer for now oh they're kind of like velcro to the carpet it's a weird material that actually grips it interesting oh yeah that's sweet right next to the Gloria oh yes and it actually still has that factory hook thank God I love when they do that think can just make sure it stays in place doesn't move around and you're getting in and out sweet even the passenger sides say gr Turismo and then when we go to the back it doesn't actually say anything right now but if you notice we have one piece left and strangely enough this goes over the center of that train tump right here all right yeah that's pretty sweet it's kind of crazy to see a floor mat in the center though I guess there is actually a seat belt here so it makes sense that include a floor mat for the center I don't know who's going to be sitting in here like this for the sake of protecting the paint on the trunk I think I am going to do the bend style so I'm going to take it over here to my metal folding press you just slide it in as much as you want then we'll fold it up sweet now let's install our sticker ah it's crooked it's got a rough idea of how this will look oh you know what I forgot the license plate holes don't line up on Japanese cars there it is there there it is there we're going to have to do some Drilling right through the new sticker sweet see how we did I'm going to put these rubber washers in between the trunk and the plate just so there's a little buffer zone don't want this thing rattling around and again scratching up all this [Music] paint oh yeah that's sick now there are some differences with this new plate last year when I registered the 300 ZX with the 240 ZX X plate it has this indent for where the sticker is supposed to go versus this new strange laminated label not to mention it looks like the border is darker on the new plate and this one is just all silver I guess and the Illinois logo is darker just a few minor differences now there are a couple examples of why I always get the EA plates EA stands for expanded antique versus just the regular antique so you can drive it longer throughout the year there's no mileage restrictions and it's like $60 a a year to renew it versus a regular plate like for example the Integra for some reason I don't have antique plates on that it's like 150 or 160 a year just for this sticker and on top of that every car that's 96 and newer has to do emissions testing here if you're within a certain range near Chicago which we are actually in that zone now the Z is a 96 so technically it would need emissions but since I have these expanded antique plates it's exempt that's a loophole that not even the DMV knows cuz when I tried to register it they're like oh you need to pass admissions I'm like no I don't it's exempt sometimes you got to do the research and find out for yourself because not everyone's on your side especially with avoiding emissions and all they do for emissions is just plug in a scan tool and see if you have a check engine light now obviously the Z would not pass because it has a Ka in it but they don't insert anything into your exhaust or check for fumes it's really only to see if you have a check engine light which is kind of interesting is that really an emissions check anyone want these red floor mats well since we modified the car I guess that gives us an excuse to go on a test drive no but really I just need an excuse to take the car out to get some tacos I think it's time that we put on the rear wheels again and if you missed out on what happened when I got these faces rechrome at the chrome shop one of them started chipping immediately there a couple spots just flaking off and and once Chrome starts flaking that's the end of it so I ended up taking this face apart and I was going to drop it off of the shop and get it redone but he said he's leaving leaving on vacation for 6 weeks I think what I'm going to do instead is take off the front wheels take off one of the faces that are not chipped put it on the rear wheel because we know that these are built in the right spec they fit the car and then we can rebuild the fronts while all that is apart but before I take apart the fronts I want to jack it up take off the wheels put a spacer on that way I can see exactly how much I need to add to the outer lip we've been doing some guessing about it but nothing works better than actually test fitting a spacer and mounting it on the car and you can see when you look straight down the car the top lip of the wheel is sunk in not ideal I have a feeling it's only going to need like 15 mm so I'm going to slap these on and see how it looks this is always an important thing to check when you're installing spacers on the car you want to make sure that in between the lug holes there is an open space because sometimes there'll be flat and it'll hit the studs that are on your Hub already and that could damage these or the wheel luckily there is a gap here so the studs will fit no problem already that looks way better I will say the tire is a little too meaty but that's okay oh yeah see that's perfect A good rule of thumb for me is when you look straight down on the fender you want to be able to see the upper lip and we can looks good fits way better it's crazy what a difference 15 mm makes that's the same space we had to put on the front of the Z as well now yeah I could just run spacers but honestly I don't want to they're three-piece Wheels you might as well rebuild them in the right spec that kind of defeats the whole purpose of having three-piece Wheels now that we've confirmed we need to add an additional 1/ in or 15 mil same spec to the outer lips in the front I'm going to put that face that is not cracked onto this wheel lipin barrel combo and then I put this chipped face onto that front wheel since we know we have to rebuild it anyways and I'll just wait till the guy gets back from vacation cuz I would rather have these wheels on the car than just laying around so to start us off looks like we need a couple 10 12.10 and same with the back all the hardware is removed from the face in between the lip and the barrel now I need to use a mallet to try and get it off of the outer lip here so this is a good example this recessed lip houses the outer lip of the wheel and the inner barrel you can see that it's flush right here so give it a few waxs I will also say I deflated this tire so it's not going to be pressing apart our seal in the middle got the face out but unfortunately I heard some cracking sounds which means most likely that seal in between this lip and Barrel just split the fronts were a lot tighter of a fit than the rear this was on there pretty good I have a feeling this is not going to hold there anymore so this officially needs to be rebuilt which kind of sucks because I was hoping they just run these for now but in the meantime we can put this good non- chipped face onto that other wheel well well well well at least we can put these rears back on it does kind of suck that the lip and barrels split on the front that's all right I guess it forces me to order those outer lips sooner than expected what's up Mr Tim hello a few videos ago we determined that there was some weird clicking sound coming from the left rear and now that we have the wheel off we can kind of inspect what's going on here looks like this tab is supposed to stick out on the brake pad Hardware but look at this one it's kind of smooshed in I'm wondering if that warped it enough to hit the rotor or something I do see a lighter rust Ridge here so maybe it's grinding just the edge oh that's kind of bare metal there I don't know either way I'm going to try and pull it out and see if that makes a difference but while I'm in here I'm noticing these brake pads have like maybe 3 mil left so I need to do some brakes soon where to find brake pads for this thing oh yeah good to be back what do we think yeah no that's really it's really stupid good I want to see if these Chrome johnes will fit on the front I just put the those Ras on the front as a placeholder this is the wheel that came off of the left rear and a lot of you guys were commenting about maybe there's a pebble stuck in the tire well there is let's I'm going to leave it there let's see if the sound moves to the front Okay good idea I'm kind of curious let's check our clearance oh we got plenty of room well maybe not plenty but enough all right let's see how this fits with it on the ground I don't want it to rub the fenders too much oh that's not bad wow the fitment is actually great in the front ni sweet yeah I guess we'll run that till I get some lips for the other Wheels to rebuild so was it staggered 18 17 rear before yeah it was opposite stagger before you couldn't really tell for some reason but now you can tell you can definitely tell the rear is talking honestly I'm not in front the rear so good that I forgot how good this was in the back best yeah it's sweet it's going to settle some more too after driving oh definitely all right test drive part two let's see if that sound went away is it the front I'm pretty sure it is damn yep dude it's that PE it's the front it's that Pebble are you sure it's not the back it's the front no way yeah 100% all right let's pick out the pebble and then and then try again I told him I was like I don't know he's like I'm pretty sure it's The Brak Hardware all right I'm picking it out right now it's so loud and obvious oh there it is yeah you can see it yeah and there's like w like a bunch of dust around it oh yeah I'm putting this in my pocket I can't believe somebody clocked that in the comments they probably experienced it that's too funny it's still there it's the wheel I don't know man are you sure it's not the rear dude it's the front dude it's a a th% the front you can tell camera okay yeah R yeah rear is silent it's the front dude it must be something with that tire then it's something with that tire or the wheel yeah you haven't been here in a while with this car you see anything literally nothing dude it's so weird like nothing concerning at all it's got to be the tire bro look how cooked this tire is it is pretty cooked oh my God that's what I'm saying maybe it's like the belt slapping internally it really could be oh I love the plate dude right Gizzy you could really couldn't tell before for some reason but now it's the most obvious thing ever yeah you can see the Gap in the front there 100% they do the rear fitment now Bonkers well that's going to end today's video if you can do me a favor make sure that YouTube didn't automatically unsubscribe you I've been hearing that that's been happening to some people we're going to start the next video here soon so see you shortly the problem that I'm used to you the feeling I don't want to lose the only I think about exactly what I dream about I'm you
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