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You have the choice: Cheap and work hard at finding them at the pick n pull, ebay, craigslist and friendly members here, or just buy them from Nissan, MSA or black dragon. What panels do you need?

old thread, but my fiance just met Mary Mcgee today! She still rides motorcycles!!!!

Finally got the seat belt brackets bolted down, no big deal. Also I have the front floor section loosely fitted: This has not been easy at all. The area under the heater console needs to be cut way back in order to slide the carpet forward, Care must be used to not cut to much at first, it can be easy to mistakenly cut to far to one side or the other. It's been a fight to try to get the left and right foot areas to sit right, It almost looked like there was not enough carpet on the far passenger side and the heal pad seams to close to the transmission tunnel. I have almost considered splitting the carpet in two under the center console but I am holding off on that idea for now. It seems the more time spent pushing the carpet around the better it fits.

Nice car. I love the color and the year. Buy it now is to rich for me, but I think it is worth it. I looks pretty rust free.

Again not much progress. I have been doing some back breaking work lately so it's a little difficult to get much done at the end of the day. Snaps for brake boot: The rear floor section is now back in the car. I ran my speaker wire and spray glued the rear tranny tunnel area. Tomorrow I will reinstall the seat belt brackets. and post another picture or two.

Blue beat me to it. Yellow teflon.

Work has been slow, mostly trying to find the time to do this and not rush the installation. The hatch carpet came with two holes pre cut to help locate the screws for the deck trim. This was nice of them but I still needed to shift the carpet around to make it line up best. I then brought out the soldering iron and melted the rest of the holes and bolted the sill down. When I was satisfide with the placement I spray glued the vertical portion in place thou it may still need a little adjustment. The rear floor area I pushed around a little more until I was satisfide with it's location and melted holes for the rear seat bolts and the outer seat belt bracket bolts.I then pinned down the carpet with the bolts. It still will need a little adjusting hear and there also. At this point I was satisfide with the inner seat belt slots. I removed the carpet and brought it inside to sew the old rubber trim piece on. I used thick nylon thread with a hook needle. It was not easy at all as I am not very good at sewing. So far I have one side done, taking me about 3 hours. Anyhow It actually turned out pretty good considering my lack of semester skills. More to come.

These pics don't really show much as the fit is loose right now, I think a little spray glue and fine adjustment will help.

I still have my old 77 console that opens from the side sitting in the basement, I just cant seem to throw anything away including the old door panels, they were in good shape other than the speaker holes the P.O. hacked into them. Progress has been slow today on the carpet. Had to work early this morning, a floor transfer for a rock show, some band called the XX. I have the rear cargo carpet in place and the rear floor peice loosely fitted. The fit on this kit is not perfect but with some pushing around and patients I think it will turn out pretty good. I will post a few pics when the sun stops glaring on the car.

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started with removing the seats and found the usuall (spare change, but no french fries to munch on): You can see how poor the installation was from the P.O. check this out: He actually left some of the originl carpet in and glued over it. This may be a good thing as I may reuse the rubber slots for the seat belts. Also I may be able to use the rear peice he left behind for referance. cut outs for the Boston speakers that I have been using that the P.O. installed: I probably will not put them back, it's a shame though, those speakers sounded really good. And I found this, I was wondering why there used to be only one window crank when I got the car: Anyhow that's it for now. I am a little concered about rust. I see no evedence of rust through but it's there. Also any suggestions on new e-brake boot snaps?

first off: Download the Factory service Manual. The Chilton's Manual had very limited info on the EFI system. Quick guess: try to track down the fuel cutoff for youre 75 I think it is different then my 77 (located in the AFM).

Thanks for the first tip. And yes I will take pictures. There is not much info out there for the 280z carpets.

I dig the stripe. Black on yellow looks great.

The carpet kit was waiting for me on the front porch when I got home from work. I will document my installation progress over the next few days. My first impression is: well I am not super impressed, but I am not discouraged ether. I think the more carfull I am installing it the better the outcome will be. For starters I have simply laid the cargo area carpet in the car to help flatten it out, so far it fits pretty good. One question though, The cargo area carpet extends down the front shelf behind the seats. Should I cut this into two peices or fold it? Any tips would be great before I start.

Clutch replacement sounds like the thing to do. Your clutch is not disengaging all of the way. the sound from the transmission may be caused by a bad pilot bushing, could be the throwout bearing. Reverse is a higher gear and may be harder to force with a slipping clutch. Edit: just a thought a bad throwout bearing could cause both the grinding noise and the lack of clutch disengagement. still you need to look inside the bell housing.

Chins up!

My first suggestion is to check all vacuum hoses. I know it's not much help, but a start.

Thanks for all of the suggestion. I have finally decided on a kit (I am not going to sew my own, learning curve and time). I thought long about what to get and was close to ordering a kit from Datsun spirit but I really wanted something closer to what the "280"z had stock, not sectional. I went with MSA's molded kit, even though I have heard some bad things about the molded kit not fitting just right. There is so little info about replacing carpets in Zs, even more so for the 280 z owners. So I will try to post pictures and progress posts after the kit arrives.

The exact thing happened to me, including the puff of smoke. I took the contact assembly apart and it disintegrated. All I can say say is that I lucked out on ebay. and bought a whole new switch.

Will it not go into gear with the engine running? Can you shift when the engine it not running? could be a bad clutch cylinder or the tranny is sticking. More common is a cylider is not working.

I have spotted a copper, I think a 75 z driving around here in Seattle. Once east on Pike st. and another time heading up Boren. Nice car.

Happy to here you are loosing the hood scoopy thingy.

Good advice. Easier and cheaper than a new engine (or worse bad used engine).

thanks, Looking forword to the fall driving.