Seraphic

I'm thinking about getting the nose panel, rear wiper, and (when my j-spec fascia comes in) the license plate holder shaved. When I get this done, how exactly do they do this ? like for ie. the rear wiper. also, someone mentioned to me shaving off the door handles, tho im not understanding how a body place is going to do that.

RPS13_GZ32

Usually when working with sheet metal, such as the hatch, its usually best to weld a piece of metal in place of the hole, sand so that its pretty flush w/ the surface, then fill with body filler and smooth over any inconsistencies. However, when working with plastics, urethane and fiberglass its best to use fiberglass w/ resin, build it up one layer at a time, sand to the level you want, then fill the pits in the fiberglass w/ body filler. When you’re sanding out the filler, make sure to use some fine sandpaper as not to scratch it or the metal up. And have patience, if you've never done this before, it could take a while to get it to look how you want.

As for the doors, they usually either french em, which is just removing the lines around the handle so it looks like a piece of the door, or they remove em entirely, weld a metal plate inside the hole and fill em out, and replace the handles w/ door poppers and usually its a good idea to get a remote door lock kit cause theirs no door locks anymore.

EDIT: If working on plastics or urethane, be especially careful not to scratch it up when sanding, deep scratches especially in urethane are a bitch to fix, or at least i've come to learn, there may be some easy fixes but Ive never found any.

Seraphic

thanks for info, lol, i dont think im up for the work tho. im going to check around some body shops

ZXDude90

I will be doing the same thing before my car gets painted. I think the car looks so much cleaner without the rear wiper.

My Fairlady Z

**** son, just take a razor and some shaving cream and go at her. Remember, top to bottom, not to fast. You will do just fine..

ZXDude90

Or just slather it with some Nair.

Tha_Cray_Z_Jatt

i got my rear wipers taken out and shaved, it looks a hell of a lot cleaner. but when the rear window is foged up...it makes me miss my wiper even though it goes away in about 5 mins from the defroster so its ok, but yea, it looks a LOT better without the wiper

Seraphic

think you could post some pics ??

ZXDude90

Here's what it would look like with your car. Antenna is shaved as well.

Seraphic

thanks ZX, damn... that looks very slick. ill add shaving the atenna to my list ^.^

SHWAZ300

Zxdude that is one of the cleanest Z's i have seen. Props

bardabe

yup ZX I'll give yah MAD Props

ZXDude90

That's not my car, just a pic I have saved on my comp. I'm about to order my wheels and then I will start on the paint/body work. Hopefully it won't cost too much to do the shaving.

Seraphic

ooo what kinda wheels ZX ?

ZXDude90

Blitz type 03. 18x8 18x9 https://www.zdriver.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11769
Check bottom of thread. Coz says he can get them for $2500 which is good for those wheels. They are 3k as per Blitz's website.

RPS13_GZ32

damn, nice z, i think i too will have to add that to my list, i never considered it until now, thanks for the idea.

Seraphic

lol, 2500 will get ya a nice paint job.

SHWAZ300

My friends going to Penn College of Technology next semester, and what he told me is they have and advanced laith coarse where you learn how to make rims. Anf if you want you can pay them for the metal and make your own rims. I think i wanna pay him and design my own, that would be freaking AWSOME. Also it would be a fraction of the cost.

My Fairlady Z

I don't think I would go for that, I wouldn't trust the structural integrity of them.

bardabe

Me either dude. Just go buy some rims.

RPS13_GZ32

I dont see why not... after all, thats how most rims are made and if these students are learning how to make em, id be a little more confident in knowing that their being trained to do it right then someone who may or may not have the experience *assuming you go w/ some other shop instead of purchasing some from a respectable company*. With that knowledge fresh in their minds I think itd be just as safe as going to a shop, after all, some of those students are doing that so that they can get employed doing it in a shop, so may as well take advantage of the opprotunity while you still have it....or at least I would.

But id wait until hes almost done w/ the course so that he knows what to do and what not to do, also see if his instructor can help him design a stable rim that wont fall apart on you.

CanyonCarver

Not exactly. There's a little more engineering and science that goes into a wheel than just turning a chunk of aluminum on a lathe. You could make a really heavy wheel that you wouldn't have to worry about cracking, but once you start whittling away and try approaching the fine balance between weight and strength you, have to know alot of factors. You wouldn't want a flaw in your aluminum material to cause a problem when hard on the brakes at 80 mph entering a corner on some mountain road. Most raw aluminum material in the sizes needed to make a wheel is cast and not billet. Most every wheel design created today has had a finite element analysis (fem) done on it. This is where dynamic loads are applied to the design in a digital model to verify the design integrity. A forged wheel is by far the strongest of designs. Todays modern centrifugal casting technology is almost as strong, or as strong as machining from billet, which again, if you can get billet material in the size you'd need, you'll pay alot of money for it. Calculate the weight and multiply by approx. $10 / pound.

If you're all show and no go, then by all means make your wheels. Just be careful.

b300z

sorry, kinda late post...but
dude, those are awesome...and expensive.
huge lip

but id still like to get the hyper 5zrs

ZXDude90

I got Coz to go ahead and order them for me. I was going to get SSR competitions but the Blitz are so damn sexy