Hiya MadMech..        I was just wondering about you the other day.  Glad to see all the news looks good.   Keep us posted on the 280.  I miss those days  :-)

This is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful news. Welcome back madmechanic

Thank you all for the warm welcome (back) and well wishes!

I will be sure to keep you all updated on the progress of the 280ZX. Right now the engine is almost completely torn apart. There is a considerable amount of carbon buildup on the pistons and valves as well as some old junky oil buildup in many oil passages, so the block is going to need a good cleaning.

Those are some impressive cars you have and skills to restore them.

I once had a muscle car 45 years ago. 

1971 Ford Torino Cobra Jet.  Looked almost exactly like the one below. 

While I was at class at the University of Detroit, I had it stolen...........while parked on a 6 lane busy street.  They wanted the mag rims/tires. The previous day, Sunday, I spent the afternoon waxing it up nice.

They smashed it up going into an abandoned garage in the ghetto, where they took off the rims/tires. 

The insurance company totaled it and sold it back to me at 20%. I put on some cheap tires/rims(looked funny compared to the ones that had been on there-my friends called them "bike tires") and drove it with the one side smashed up for a year.

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Congrats to the newly weds too!

Hi

Congrats on your ability to restore cars

Here in Canada our worst enemy is salt corrosion on body parts and chassis of trucks

Never the less I take our car and truck to be detailed once a yr

They come back spot less on the interior and also get a wax job

Not much is done on under body parts and nobody can afford the hoist etc 

However, we do have some garages that will spray some kind of an oil solution on the underside of the vechicle

You being from CA may not worry very much about rust, but our older vechicles suffer from "rust cancer" as we call it

Newer trucks are using more rust protection body parts [I think] [aluminum maybe???]

My question

Is the oil spray job as good a protection as we can afford in our climate with salt and ice on the vechicle, or is the oil spray job a waste of money. We got factory rust protection on our car when purchased but the truck was bought used with no factory protection

I wash the salt off as best I can but I can't crawl under in a car wash facility

Any tips on protecting my vechicles both inside and out side from salt and dirt, other than what we do with an annual detail and spraying oil solution on underside once a yr.

The car does not get the oil treatment as it has factory protection.

I hate to see the rust build up on the truck chassis but can't do much as we don't have a hoist

I think rust, salt etc is a part of canada

I know what you mean about the salt Wayne!

Growing up in Detroit, almost every car more than a few years old had major rust.

They made massive improvements to protect the body so rust is not nearly as bad today.

When I was 18, I took my first trip out of state on Spring Break during my senior year in high school. 

Daytona Beach Florida. The most amazing thing was to see all the cars with NO RUST.

And the roads weren't all torn up from the freezing and thawing that causes so much damage farther north.  

Hi Mike

Was it the car or you that attracted your wife

Just kidding

Really cool car Mike

Anybody would have wanted a car like that one

I really like the racing paint job combination of colours

wglassfo,

Regarding your questions about underbody anti-rust treatments, it's interesting timing that you brought this up.

You are correct, being in California, rust typically isn't a big issue for cars out here. We don't salt our roads (well, we might salt them up in the Sierra-Nevada mountains during heavy snow). Cars in California just aren't affected by body cancer like many other states and places.

Now, back to your question. I will start by saying I am no expert on anti-rust treatments. I have some experience with treating existing rust (POR-15 is an excellent product for treating existing rust by the way).

However, I sometimes watch a YouTube channel called ProjectFarm. The host can be somewhat annoying to listen to but he did an entire episode on anti-rust treatments, some of which sound very much like your oil based treatment you were describing. I'd recommend you watch his video to get some ideas.

You can find the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWHF4NoNVk

Hope you find this information useful!

Mike,

I have to say I'm VERY jealous that you had an early 70's Torino. I have really liked those cars and they are extremely rare to find these days.

In all the years I have been going to car shows I think I have seen 1 Torino.

Very sorry to hear about the fate of your car.

Dad was was an industrial engineer for Ford. I remember his telling me how they changed the cars to make them much better resistant to rust but don't recall the details.