76Datsun280z

We had a local tire dealer do it for us (Les Schwab). They ordered in the parts, all AC Delco, and they installed them. I think the total cost was around $500 including installation and everything or so?, but I'd have to ask my dad to be sure on that because I can't quite remember to be honest.

Well we dropped it off at the shop this evening. We're going to have them not only fix the wiring problem, but go over the wiring in the car and fix up some of the corroted wires and connections which it seems to have a lot of.

If I were you, I'd keep the red car! That's pretty special to have such a low mileage car and such. My 280 is pretty much stock other than the air dam on it, the wheels and the paint will be a different shade of silver and I'll pretty much keep it that way I think.

Ditto, I like what you had to say Jeff, I agree with you 100% on that

Priming the Western Wheels, getting them ready for paint All the wheels lined up primed waiting for paint Waiting for a hood Blowing off the dust from a day of sanding

For fun today, I pulled some old pictures out of my 280z that I thought you guys might enjoy seeing. Some are of the first day we brought it home, some are of the work in progress and there's a few random ones in there too. The quality of these photo's are really bad because they are a picture of a picture. Enjoy-- The Ebay auction for it, one it for $500 and was ten hours away Loading it onto the U-Haul dauly Listening to her fire up for the very first time, ran horribly though and hardly had enough power to get up onto the trailer, had to get a small run at it Finally got her home after ten hours of driving later, you can see the front end damage that it had The next day, the work begins by cleaning her all out, notice the orginal silver paint

Thanks for the info, my dad is going to make an appointment tomarrow to take it in and have it looked at. We took the altenator off and had it tested, and it's charging fine.

I'm not real big into 2+2 Z's, but I hardly hear of them spoken of on here and see them in the gallery and was kind of curious how many of you own one?

Well guys, there's more to it on the electrical issue that I didn't already know about until today. When we had the rust fixed on my car, the body man of coarse had to take the battery out to do the repair work. When we got there to pick it up, we were a little early and he hadn't of put the battery back in the car yet. So, my dad put the battery back in and mistakenly put the battery connectors on the wrong terminals!:stupid: I guess it was only for a second, then he realized what he had done and then swapped them to the right terminal. When I went to start it this morning for school, the Optima jell battery was completely dead and just gave a click. We think that this mistake toasted the voltage regualtor, so we ordered a new which comes in tommarow. Since jell battery's are a lot stronger, I believe this is why I made it home from the body shop without it running out of juice. Hopefully replacing the voltage regulator will be the problem of this electrical issue, but we're crossing our fingers that it is. Also, before we ordered the regulator, we compared a few prices and each store carried the same different style of regulator that wasn't already in the car. This is what was in the car which doesn't appear to be the correct one? The one that each store carried was slightly longer in length, but had the same connector, but looks like it will fit fine. -Austen. One that was already in the car, it is fairly new This here is the one that we ordered, there is obviously a difference there

Thanks Enrique, I really appreciate the help and suggestions, I will print off your responses and talk to my dad about it. Taking the fender off sounds like a good idea. It would have to be a weekend job because I need to drive pretty much every day, but I'll talk to my dad about it and see what we can do. Thanks again! -Austen.

We have done that with our air hose and tried to clean out as much crud as we could under there.

Thanks, sounds like they will do pretty good!