Curious to hear how they fit. Did you buy Harrington’s brackets with the bumpers? 

I haven't fitted them yet.  It'll be a couple weeks.  I didn't buy the brackets as I'll use my originals.

 

I’m retrofitting my 280. I understand there are rubber insulators at certain mounting points. 

I'm not sure, but I don't recall seeing any rubber insulators when I took them off my 240Z, nor do I see them in the FSM

I didn't want that metal on my paint either so I went to Lowes and bought something similar to these. The rear bumper side mounts and the front bumper sides are all I remember needing the rubber. 

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-2-Pack-1-in-Rubber-Washer/3130433

  On 7/14/2020 at 1:05 AM, Yarb said:

I’m retrofitting my 280. I understand there are rubber insulators at certain mounting points. 

I noticed the need for spacers on the front bumper: https://fiddlingwithzcars.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/installing-the-front-bumper/

After reading your post SteveJ, I beginning to think that special brackets are needed for the 78 280 conversion.

I made my own brackets for front and rear, so spacers weren't necessary. But like siteunseen, I didn't want anything rubbing directly on the paint, so I cut up a bike tire tube and used that on the rear on the bracket and side mounts.

  On 7/14/2020 at 3:54 PM, Yarb said:

After reading your post SteveJ, I beginning to think that special brackets are needed for the 78 280 conversion.

You'll need brackets like this for the front: https://zcardepot.com/products/front-bumper-conversion-bracket-set-ss-280z-to-240z

For the rear: https://zcardepot.com/collections/exterior/products/rear-bumper-bracket-conversion-280z-to-240z?_pos=1&_sid=2131235fb&_ss=r

You'll probably also need to drop the tank to remove the stock bumper mounts.

Thanks, already removed the old bumper and brackets. I need to remove that rear valance. Bought the spot weld tool from ZCD . The bottom welds look like there’s ample access, the upper not so much. Any tips on that we’ll appreciated. Hate to destroy it taking it off the car.

You're talking about what Nissan called the "sight shield" right? It's been years since I took mine off, but I seem to recall having to bend it upwards quite a bit to get a spot weld cutter in there. Mine had been in a collision, so I wasn't trying to preserve it or anything, but I think it'd be tough to take it off without doing at least a little damage. 

Edited July 14, 20204 yr by charliekwin

Do you know if there is a license plate delete option for the front bumper?