On 12/14/2023 at 1:52 PM, CanTechZ said:

On my 7/70 there was no jute in this area. The vinyl was glued directly to the painted steel.

Ditto for my 5/70.

Update on the pieces I ordered off Ebay. So what I received are two pieces of rubber maybe a 1/4" thick. They are not very compressible. I don't think I will be using them. I am planning on getting some reproductions from 240zrubber

 

So a couple of weeks ago, I worked on the trim for the windshield. I had a couple of sets to choose from, but not all of them were perfect

So I buffed this corner but you can still see some light scratching in it. So I sanded at 1000 grit and rebuffed

Now they look like this

Original condition, I first cleaned with lacquer thinner

I had this damage from disassembly. It got distorted trying to pull it out of the old seal

So some light dolly, hammer and punch work. Then block sand and buff

After my first try, I went back and used a little courser grit, worked my way up and rebuffed

So I had this dent to deal with. Started with dollies and punches

Gets you to here

Then block sanding. A little piece of wood square block. I started with 600 grit. Then 800, 1000, 1200, 1500

Then jeweler's rouge

 

This is where I ended up. It all looks good unless you get really close

 

 

Edited January 7, 20241 yr by Patcon

Beautiful! That's a nicer finish than it had when it came off the line.  I'm going to have to pull the SS trim out of storage and have another go at it.

Bear in mind. The paper dulls reall really fast because the trim is so hard! Especially the finer grits

Also remember this trim is exceedingly thin! So the closer you can dolly it the better. It's not some thick trim off a 70s Detroit beast. There are limits to how much you can sand with the course stuff!

You'll know you're getting really thin if it turns blue easily when buffing

Edited January 7, 20241 yr by Patcon

  On 1/7/2024 at 3:38 AM, Patcon said:

Also remember this trim is exceedingly thin!

Like the chrome on a 1979 280zx bumper! 0,68mm?  I had to polish that after a lot (!!) of hammering.. took some afternoons as it is very very hard, high chromium stainless..  But yours came out great!

What are the differences in the automatic center console and a manual center console?

How does the edge of the manual center console compare around the shifter?

Mine is a 280 of course and there weren’t any differences when I ordered a new console from Nissan when I made the conversion. 

I was not sure if all the extra material that holds the auto shifter was there on the manual console? Or whether the manual had that but didn't have the notches where the auto shifter slid through?

The Auto shifter holes mounting are different on two positions. I believe I had to add two mounting locations for the trim plate towards the rear of the console. You may or may not have to enlarge the tunnel. The original manual trans dimples were there and just hard to drill and affix fasteners.

My 240Z (12/70 build)  has none of what is shown for the auto shifter.  The shifter hole is just a straight hole with rounded corners, no slots for the metal strip, etc.  No holes to mount the auto shifter parts or the feed though for the lamp wiring either.  Looking at it again it looks like the shape of that area around the shifter is slightly different also.