August 19, 201311 yr comment_430049 Is the fenders you ordered Nissans?You made a wise choice in avoiding the fender repair. Those patch panels would have eaten a ton of time and would have been extremely hard to make look good.I'd be suspicious of the fit of aftermarket fenders Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 19, 201311 yr Author comment_430050 Is the fenders you ordered Nissans?You made a wise choice in avoiding the fender repair. Those patch panels would have eaten a ton of time and would have been extremely hard to make look good.I'd be suspicious of the fit of aftermarket fendersI ordered them from Black Dragon Auto. Nissan wanted $770 something out the door and Black Dragon was $500 something. They come in today, I'll let you know how they look and if they are OEM. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 19, 201311 yr Author comment_430051 Is the fenders you ordered Nissans?You made a wise choice in avoiding the fender repair. Those patch panels would have eaten a ton of time and would have been extremely hard to make look good.I'd be suspicious of the fit of aftermarket fendersI ordered them from Black Dragon Auto. Nissan wanted $770 something out the door and Black Dragon was $500 something. They come in today, I'll let you know how they look and if they are OEM. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 19, 201311 yr comment_430053 That air cleaner looks brilliant. Did you sand blast it before painting it? The colour looks pretty close on the photo'sYour making good progress.Chas Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 19, 201311 yr comment_430054 Since you're on a time-budget, you should know that you probably won't get those Tokicos anytime soon unless you found a place that had them in stock. Tokico's distributor went out of business so there haven't been any new shocks delivered to the US for a while now, AFAIK. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 19, 201311 yr Author comment_430055 That air cleaner looks brilliant. Did you sand blast it before painting it? The colour looks pretty close on the photo'sYour making good progress.ChasIt was sand blasted before the paint. The sand blaster has been running pretty constant so far. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 19, 201311 yr Author comment_430062 Since you're on a time-budget, you should know that you probably won't get those Tokicos anytime soon unless you found a place that had them in stock. Tokico's distributor went out of business so there haven't been any new shocks delivered to the US for a while now, AFAIK.I got them off Amazon which said they had 8 left. Hopefully the website wasn't lying. If it was, I'm not sure what I'll do. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 19, 201311 yr Author comment_430070 Got the fenders in today. Don't have a chance to check them out, but my Dad sent me a picture. He said they look great. No OEM Nissan sticker on them, so I'm assuming they are aftermarket.<a href="http://s254.photobucket.com/user/taillonml/media/ResizedImage951376945489712.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh101/taillonml/ResizedImage951376945489712.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo ResizedImage951376945489712.jpg"/></a> Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 19, 201311 yr comment_430071 Just an FYI, I bought original NISSAN front fenders and the brackets did not match, these were even covered in NISSAN wrapping. Point being, no matter where the panels come from there will be the need for fittment. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 20, 201311 yr Author comment_430077 Just an FYI, I bought original NISSAN front fenders and the brackets did not match, these were even covered in NISSAN wrapping. Point being, no matter where the panels come from there will be the need for fittment.Yeah, I'm a little concerned on how they'll actually bolt up. Hopefully I'll get them mocked up soon to see how they fit. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 20, 201311 yr Author comment_430078 Tonight I ordered black seat skins with the embroidered "Z" on the head rest with matching e-brake/ shift boot. I'm switching the interior to black so here's the first step. Making progress!!! Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
August 21, 201311 yr Author comment_430166 Got the battery tray cut out and removed the remaining tray that's pictured. Hopefully get it too my sheet metal guy in the next 2 days to see what he can do. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/47115-280z-full-restore-in-5-months-hopefully/?&page=3#findComment-430166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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