repair panels I wish they made

[St.stephen]

I really wish someone made a weld in replacement battery box already. I am so tired of having to repair underneath the battery tray on every Z car i have owned by fabricating something out of sheet metal. It would be nice to just be able to buy a replacement.

Also, a replacement set of frame rail cradles (directly in front of the toe boards) would be wonderful too!!

[2ManyZs]

Complete front inner fender panels would be nice too, not only to repair the rust out above the frame rails, but for those cars that have been hit in the front. Also the structural member that runs along the top of the inner fender back to the firewall. Front strut towers would be a help too.......plenty of them have been patched in a lot of cars over the years....

[St.stephen]

2manyz's...

Now you're talking! That would be sooo much easier. I have no problem welding the cars back together, but sometimes I feel like I am part of the A-team having to fabricate much of what has rotted away in those areas.

I got lucky on my 260 only needing floors, small patch on the lower corner of the rad support, inner fender wells, battery tray, behind the dash on the left corner of where the wiper motor sits and toe boards.

The 280 I jsut acquired is another story. I have to repatch everything that the previous owner patched and then he let it sit outside for 7 years because he refused to listen to me and replace the harness. He just painted over the patched areas and never rust proofed them. so the floors are now mere dust particles on my driveway.

[Cuong Nguyen]

I wish they made:

1) complete new body shells available from Nissan (hanging panels and all!!)

2) new runs of 240Z cars (not rebuilt ones from the North American project - not that I wouldn't have one of those - but fresh off the production line ones!!

3) people not as greedy and zed crazy as me

[Dave Sommers]

I would settle for the same basic thing that 2many wants, formed sections of the inner fenders. I am going to have to make replacement sections for the metal just above the front Xmember Mine just showed the typical rust thru spot where all the inner panel is doubled up above the frame rail. Not going to be fun.

[smg1404]

But they should be a modern version of the original, that will never rust. Say made from composits, like carbon fiber , and titanium.. I like it,, Bring the whole assembly in at about 700Kg..

Coooooooool,,,, I want it .

[Mr Camouflage]

How about a tubular chassis you can bolt the suspension to, drop in the engine and trans, and hang the pannels and glass on, wack in the interior and away you go.

[St.stephen]

You know it;s not fair. A guy I work with just bought a 48 willys and is in need of restoration. I was helping him check out some online sites for parts and body panels, and for the jeeps you can buy an ENTIRE new body ready to prime and bolt to the frame for around 2200 bucks depending on the model.

If that was only so for the Z. The one thing that I can say is that the Z car is what taught me how to weld.

[2ManyZs]

YUp, it's easy to make a body for a vehicle with a frame, uni-body cars are kinda SOL there.

There used to be a complete tube frame made for a Z, I think Arizona Z car made it primarily to build race cars. They still offer control arms and such made from chrome-moly tubing, tad expensive for a street car though...

[St.stephen]

is that the place selling the molds for the fiberglass panels?