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Paul Workman · 03-15-2014

It's been a very long, cold, cold winter and I'd hoped to be father along with the restoration of the Z by now. But! Some progress!

She needs to have the bumper horns tweaked a little. I took it to a frame shop before the snow flew (and flew and flew....) and asked that I be there when they pulled the horns down, cuz I wanted to bring it into line with shims. That didn't happen. "We brought it into spec according to (the sheet). Fine. But the pieces don't quite fit right, and there's no shims to take out; still too high.

So, there's that to do first. But I'm encouraged. I was able to install the "new" radiator, and warm her fully up, first time since June 2 of last year. I had a lifter hang up at first, but soon as she warmed up a little it quieted down to her "sewing machine" sound. Can't tell ya how good that sounded to my ears! Blip the throttle and ZERO hesitation, just ZOOM-ZOOM before settling down to purring again. Fans came on, no problems topping off the coolant, no worse for the wear, I hope!

Hopefully I'll get the last bit of tweaking on the bumper frame horns done in the next couple weeks and then get really serious about putting her back together and painted. Can't wait for the Mountain Run to Bowling Green!

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Paul Workman Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri Posts: 6,493	The Phoenix! It's been a very long, cold, cold winter and I'd hoped to be father along with the restoration of the Z by now. But! Some progress! She needs to have the bumper horns tweaked a little. I took it to a frame shop before the snow flew (and flew and flew....) and asked that I be there when they pulled the horns down, cuz I wanted to bring it into line with shims. That didn't happen. "We brought it into spec according to (the sheet). Fine. But the pieces don't quite fit right, and there's no shims to take out; still too high. So, there's that to do first. But I'm encouraged. I was able to install the "new" radiator, and warm her fully up, first time since June 2 of last year. I had a lifter hang up at first, but soon as she warmed up a little it quieted down to her "sewing machine" sound. Can't tell ya how good that sounded to my ears! Blip the throttle and ZERO hesitation, just ZOOM-ZOOM before settling down to purring again. Fans came on, no problems topping off the coolant, no worse for the wear, I hope! Hopefully I'll get the last bit of tweaking on the bumper frame horns done in the next couple weeks and then get really serious about putting her back together and painted. Can't wait for the Mountain Run to Bowling Green! __________________ Good carz, good food, good friendz = the best of timez! 90 #1202 "FBI" top end ported & relieved Cam timing by "Pete the Greek" Sans secondaries Chip & dyno tuning by Haibeck Automotive SW headers, X-pipe, MF muffs Former Secretary, ZR-1 Net Registry Last edited by Paul Workman; 03-16-2014 at 07:54 AM.