Are there after market battery brackeys

[7tooZ]

Helping s friend with a 280z. We need to repair the battery holder and related panels. Are there patch panels available anywhere?

 

 

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[heyitsrama]

Not that I know of, your best bet is to find one in a junk yard and cut it out, there is a guy on hybrid Z who is parting out a 260z, should be the same.

Some people go in and match the curvature of the panel, but then just relocate the battery into rear of the car.

[7tooZ]

Tkz. Found one one on Zcardepot but still looking for others. Zcarsource shows they have used ones???


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[heyitsrama]

They might have them? They still asking for a grip for the panel?

[webdawg1]

Check out the following Ebay link...and made out of stainless steel as well...woo hoo

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Datsun-240Z-260Z-280Z-70-78-Battery-Tray-Area-Repair-Panel-Sheet-Metal-1391F/223164173569?hash=item33f59f0d01:g:~4EAAOSw4vJaqwdd

[kunzma]

MSA now carries them.  Look under the new items.

[siteunseen]

3 hours ago, kunzma said:

MSA now carries them.  Look under the new items.

Appreciate that!  I think I'll have to get one.

https://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/classic01a/12-4251ki

[Patcon]

Finally someone makes the actual battery tray replacement!!!! But you're gonna have to "pay to play"...

[Patcon]

Now we need the stamping under the battery tray area that is always toast too.

[siteunseen]

6 minutes ago, Patcon said:

Now we need the stamping under the battery tray area that is always toast too.

https://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/classic01a/30-7211

[Patcon]

5 minutes ago, siteunseen said:

https://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/classic01a/30-7211

I am referring to the section of the inner fender that is always toast and is a compound shape

[Namerow]

I mentioned this recently in another thread, but no one came through to confirm/deny or expand on it:  There were reports some years ago that a section of a Z front fender has a contour that replicates the under-battery section of the inner fender.

Unfortunately, I don't recall that suggestion being accompanied by pictures to show how it was done (or whether it was done). Even if true, Z front fenders don't grow on trees these days, so it would probably amount to a difficult or expensive solution (or both).  However...

The general concept is interesting.  Perhaps a re-pop or scrap front fender from a more pedestrian donor vehicle would serve equally well?  It would need to be a vehicle (car or pickup truck) with a similar, rounded styling.  However, I think you'd only be able to size up the feasibility of this approach by cutting out the Z inner fender repair area and then eye-balling the shape, hoping that it would ring a bell:  'You know, that looks a lot like the crown of the front fender from a 1986 Ford Taurus'.

A DIY alternative would be to take a fibreglass cast from the repair area and then do some tree-stump/sandbag tin bashing, using the cast as a shape reference.