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I might be mistaken sorry, is this an overlay or an actual original complete brushed cluster surround?

Not trying to low ball but based on the price of buying these new from Rubber Soul + postage and the scratched cluster cover, Would you consider $250?

Some nice progress. Hey so I was cleaning up on the weekend and found those tags you were after, the original Datsun tags. I have them spare from my old 240K that was scrapped. Only thing is the numbers wont match..

Carbs, triples. I've been playing with so many ideas but I really want to keep the car true to the JDM models. I'll break the trimming costs down once I have the final invoice.

I picked up a LD28 crank too. I've been playing with the idea of building a L28 Stroker. I sent the crank away to be linished and tested. Came back all good. Standard size and nice and straight. I'm goign to have a chat with Peter Mcdonnell about an engine build to try an get an idea of what's available and put together a budget, and maybe sell a kidney.

He's VERY particular which is great, he knows I'm pretty picky too but he's doing a fantastic job. I'd highly recommend him to anyone looking to get work done. He'll be doing the entire car, new roof lining, parcel shelf, carpet etc.

I called in to Oztrim to drop off my other door trims for butchering. I decided using them would be easier than trying to find replacement chrome. Alan had pretty much finished the back seats and has sewn together the covers for the door trims. They haven't been fitted to the actual cards yet though. The seats look amazing, I'm super impressed. Even though the fabrics are different the overall look is factory. This is the base of the back seat. It's pretty much finished but Alan wasn't quite happy with the overall fit so he's going to add some more padding. Looks pretty nice though. This is one of the door skins ready to be fitted to the backing board.

Yeah I'd say so. He has owned, and owns a nice 240k 4 door at the moment. He was recommended to me by Kid-k, he's got some door trims there at the moment too. I like the fact he takes the time to get all the little details right.

Thanks guys. I called into the motor trimmers this morning to drop in the rear seats. Alan had completed one of the rear panels and it looks awesome, hard to see in these crappy pictures though sorry. Alan sourced some 3mm dense rubber to fit behind the vinyl to replicate the original depth around the stitched areas. Without it the panels would have looked too one dimensional and the stitched detail would not be as visible. One problem we've found is that the bright work on the top of the passenger door is damaged, it looks etched. I'm need to track down a replacement from and old door panel...could be tough!

Going full GTR style with the entire car so no carpet or door badges. I was down at the trimmers last week and saw what he's done already. Looks awesome. I'm dropping my rear seats down this week so I'll take some more pics for you.

It's actually high fill I called into the auto trimmers last week and dropped off my door skins. The original interior is in really poor condition and it's blue anyhow so it all has to go. I've had a lot of trouble finding fabric to match the original vinyl but I think the pattern I've chosen should look pretty good once the whole car is trimmed. These are the fabrics I've chosen. The most difficultly part of the door trims to replicate is going to be the plastic chrome trim. The entire door skins are multi layered and when they are made, layers of vinyl including the plastic bright work are ultrasonicly welded together.....pretty much impossible to replicate. The new trims is going to be sewn so I need to come up with a way to remake the chrome trim. At this stage I'm thinking I'll take a cast of the existing chrome work and then remake the strips using some kind of resin. I'll cast some threads into the strips to fix them though the door skins. Once they are make I'll send to them away to be chrome plated and then make and spray them.

Thanks for the compliments guys. We finished off the pillar covers yesterday. Even though I cleaned the pieces down with Prepsol and rubbed them back, the rear pieces had some problems with the finish and there was still some slight bows where they rear pieces has been heated back into shape. I rubbed back the high fill and bogged up the problem spots them prepared them for painting again. The final finish isn't true to the original pieces but I'm still quite impressed with the overall look.

Yep in 100%. I'll take one of each

Fitted the lights etc back into the bumpers, man they look nice! Time to bubble wrap and put them away.

Oh nice, they look great! arse end looks awesome too mate

Hahaha, WTF?

Nice! It does look 240K related, that car in the picture looks like the concept C110.

Oh...of course, my mistake

Haha, I just came to post this too. What a laugh.

Just on this, what manual boxes fit L28 engines? Do any of the RB series fit?

Nice!

Yup that's them.

I picked up the gaskets from Yahoo Japan, you might be thinking of Rubber Soul?

Not a bad idea mate, I'll check it out. I might spray them first and see how they look, I figure I can wrap them after if they don't look right. I finally received the gaskets I've been waiting on from Japan for the parker/indicators. I've been keen to get these back together so I can fit them back into the bumper. I didn't realise how bad the old gaskets were until I put them side by side. The old set had shrunk quite considerably. The lights have come up pretty good I'll fit them back into the bumpers soon and take some more snaps.

You can pick up replica tags from Japan, Nissan ones of course though, not Datsun. I'm going to try and get some when we're over there next year. I can grab a few if you're interested.