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So the shell of the Zs is still quite good (for a 24 year old car with no rustproofing) but it really needs to be taken in hand.
If I delivered it to a body shop for attention over the winter, I'm talking complete strip down, shot blast shell, de rust, primer paint, what sort of money might I be looking at?
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Oct 10, 2005 10:06:45 GMT
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Probably not much change from several £k. If you do the stripdown yourself, and a lot of the donkey work (ie body prep etc between the welding and the paint), then that should reduce the cost a lot. However, if you're going to all this cost & effort, then imho it's worth doing the paint properly too.
To put in perspective, the going rate for replacing the floor, sills & rear bulkhead on a Spridget is about £2k; that's just the panels & welding not including paint....
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Oct 10, 2005 11:19:08 GMT
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shot blasting the shell risks warping the panels. I don't know how thick they are on your Zs though.
As said, if you can do the strip down yourself you are saving a decent wedge of cash. For a real nice respray (prep and paint) you could easily be talking £2k.
Plus any bodywork or rust treatment beforehand.
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Oct 10, 2005 11:22:13 GMT
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;D ;D
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Oct 10, 2005 11:34:12 GMT
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Basically, it's going to cost more than you think. Terrible shame not to do it right if the car is stripped down, and there's bound to be more rot than you think.
This is why I'm selling the 180B to ScrapingScrap - I'm in awe of what some of the people here are doing themselves, but as soon as you start paying someone else.....
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Oct 10, 2005 11:48:30 GMT
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Indeed. That's why plan B involves buying a much newer 104 Style Z from ebay France (with help from Mr B.) Being much more recent the shell (identical) will have proper modern rust proofing on it. With the car currently on 300 euro's it's certainly cheap. Stripping it out should be easy as I don't intend to reuse anything. Reshelling the ZS's mechanicals into it would be fine and a good excuse to fit all the fancy bits that it needs (wide front track, rear discs etc) I recon this will work out much cheaper than fixing the old shell to the same standard as the Style Z shell would be in.
Sigh...if I was young free and single I'd just pop down the bank, borrow 5K and blow the lot on the car, sadly every penny the car eats is one that the wife and kids don't! :-(
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Last Edit: Oct 10, 2005 11:50:31 GMT by Shortcut
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Oct 10, 2005 11:56:50 GMT
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sadly every penny the car eats is one that the wife and kids don't! :-( Same story here! Reshell plan sounds good, that way you're not taking stuff off, storing it, then trying to remember how it all went back together only to realise you've lost something, mice have eaten interior in the loft etc etc. Only downside, as was pointed out to me last week, is that you have to strip the car down very thoroughly if you're going for a colour change.
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Oct 10, 2005 13:42:55 GMT
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Yes, even when the shell is stripped I would have to go with the car changing to the colour of the new shell or still cough p for a decent respray!
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Oct 10, 2005 16:52:02 GMT
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Best way is to get it blasted but make sure who ever does it only blasts the interior,underside and door/window shuts etc. don't have the large flimsey panels blasted as you risk warping them (and it will keep cost down) (say max£200 )
Buys some stripper and a orbital sander and clean the rest down yourself (easy)
Buy/hire a cheap spray gun and compresser and put a coat of etch primer on it If you don't feel up to doing filler send it off and get that done
Stone chip and seal the underside yourself (easy)
Send off to get painted
Gonna cost a bit for painting but theres loads of jobs you can do yourself to keep the cost down.
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