Here are the latest happenings with the Behemoth RB28 monster.  As most of you know the car came back from paint a few weeks ago and now we have all of the suspension removed and being prepped for powder coating.  Every single part has been removed from the body and will be restored or customized as needed.  The struts will soon be shortened and the coil-overs installed.  The struts will then be sent out along with the rest of the suspension and bracketry to be powder coated high-gloss black.

Besides powder coating, all of the hardware for THE ENTIRE CAR has been labeled and sorted and will soon be going out to be freshly zinc plated.  All hardware that is too corroded to be restored into perfect condition is set to be replaced.

While these parts are out getting fixed up, we at ZCG will be organizing and setting up our final game plan for the installation of the interior.  We will also be preparing the underbody for the final undercoating which we will be doing at the shop.  The undercoating that we use is topnotch and will definitely stand up to the abuse this car will surely see on and off the track.

The more we plan ahead the quicker the amazing project will be finished, and that is the ultimate goal.  We want this car in the hands of it’s loving owner as soon as possible

REMEMBER: These are the BEFORE pictures.  You won’t believe how different the underside of the this care is going to look in a few short weeks.  Enjoy the pictures here of the dissassembly of the car, and I will have more photos of the freshly restored parts in a few weeks.

G35 engine swaps galore with happy GT-R ending!! (read the entire story)

Z Car Garage is a special place for a lot of us because that is where we get to fulfill our automotive fantasies.  In some cases we get to knock our two birds with one stone, I’ll explain…

When the customer who owns the Athens Blue G35 you see here came to us a few years ago in a quest for more power we were happy to help.  The first phase included an APS twin turbo kit along with a host of other suspension and cosmetic changes.  It made good power and he was happy for awhile.  Then he wanted more.

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This upscale event took place back on June 28th and once again it did not disappoint.  This year we were invited to participate in a ‘Then and Now” display.  We brought a friends 240z to be positioned across from a new 370z.  One of the most amazing cars of the show though was right next to our Z.

In front of our friend Glen’s new R35 GT-R there was an 1973 Skyline GT-R (also known as the “Ken and Mary” Skyline) in near original condition with 40K miles on it.  According to the importer of the car, it has not undergone any form of restoration and has been in climate controlled storage for most of it’s life.  The reason that this second generation GT-R is so special is that they made only 197 of them, total in the world.  They are rare and extremely expensive.  GT-R Wikipedia (2nd Gen. skip)

A few other highlights of the show included a one of the most original and un-restored Mazda Cozmos known to exist, vast vintage police vehicle display, as well as a plethora of vintage and historic race cars.  I was also pleased to see beautiful examples of almost every model of Porsche ever produced, there were some beautiful cars with great racing heritage.

I encourage all of you to join us at next years show.  The people are nice and the cars are even better.  I hope you like the few pictures I have included here.

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A few weeks ago you may remember that we stripped the interior out of Kurtzee, the blue RB project, and mid last week it returned.  OUR FABRICATION PEOPLE ROCK!!  The chassis has be stiffened in all the right places to handle the power of the new RB25DET.  All parts of the new cage structure have been tucked away and as tightly to the factory bodywork as possible so that it will not interfere with the driver in anyway, these cars need to have the functionality of a daily driver to be a success in our eyes.

The next step for this project is a trip off to the paint shop to have the cage covered and for the engine bay to be smoothed over and finished.  This should be completed in the next few weeks and then the car will begin final assembly at the shop.  Ill have some more photos when it’s at paint.

I hope you all had a great fourth of July weekend, MotoGP at Laguna Seca was amazing.  Thanks to all who came.  ZCG

With the Behemoth back in our hands, the time has come to focus on getting the Kurtzee RB build up to speed.  The freshly powder-coated coilovers have now been fitted to the car to make it a roller once again so that we can carry on with the chassis stiffening.  We were really excited to see this car back on the ground after sitting by the wayside for some time, now is the big push!!

The chassis will be modified along the same lines as the Behemoth build so that the nearly forty year old body doesn’t destroy itself the first time we step on the “fun” pedal.  It will also allow us to remove the bolt-in roll bar that was previously installed.  The new setup will help provide a more solid feel in the entire car on the street and on the track, oh man these cars are going to be a handful!!

To prep the car for the cage/stiffening we needed to remove every part of the interior.  This isn’t a difficult task but it can be time consuming because you really need to make sure everything is handled properly to prevent damage and labeled accurately to ensure that the re-installation goes smoothly.

I should have some photos in a week or so when it gets out of the fabrication phase.  The car will then be stripped down even further and sent off to William’s Auto Body to have the engine bay cleaned up and resprayed to perfection.  As with all the RB builds that we do, all the holes and parts that are no longer used with the new engine will be removed or smoothed to provide the cleanest engine bay possible.

As you read a week ago HERE, we recently received all the parts for the ZCG Big Brake Kit that has been a few years in the dreaming/engineering phase and I am happy to report that all of the custom CnC’d brackets have been given a beautiful black anodized finish.  We can’t thank Ken over at Roost Billet Products enough for donating so much of his time and hard work for this project, the quality is amazing and rest assured it doesn’t get any better than this for a 240z.

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