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I had on my first Z lost the washers on the drives side and I do not remember that much of an aliment issue. Until I took the door apart and the roller that clips on the top of the door broke then it was bad. it was funny the other side was missing the roller that clips on no problem with good washers until you reached over 45 mph. The combo of missing both parts makes it not work well. I had another part so that was how I repaired it and the old one from the car is my extra. I just went down and looked at my extra window parts. You might want to check the auto part store I remember at one time they sold a window repair kit with similar parts. They had a pin that screwed together that the rollers connected to (make sure to use some lock-tight on the scew). If they still sell it you just need to drill out the old pin. Good luck I do not think you have many other options.

It is oriented wood fiber in a resin. I have not been able to determine the wood, the color hints to me that it maybe teak

Big welding tip, keep some scrap metal around and warmup by welding your scrap together, and getting the settings right. I can weld with the pros after 45 min to hour of warming up. Who knows maybe you can sell the scrap as art one day. Helicoils can work well I have been able to not use any on my Z. I did use them on my old tuck do to the factory cross threading some things on the block and starter. Trick to using them that found was to use a punch and punch the material in opposite sides of the coil so it can't twist anymore then tap the coil to make sure their is no pinch points. Just be careful using the punch because the metal your smashing together normally has different hardness and your part can suffer more than the coil

Use penetrating oil hit it several times for the next day or two and see if yo can twist it out. next drill the tap out. I weld a new nut to the panel the replace the bolt. This way it all matches. I would not use a self tapping screw

Why not look at some of the hidden radios on the market and mount it under the seat. Some of the new units can link to a smart phone to run the radio. I'd use the antenna in the car already and add a magnetic interference shield to improve the radio reception

Have you checked the valve lashing, timing, and made sure all the emissions parts are working. All these would case what you explained.

The best system I've seen is from Isis (link bellow with link to episode that I learned about the company). I know you can also get something from painless wire, and Edelbrock. I think you will find a lot of companies that have products for this. You were also mentioning other systems like the lights going out, a lot of times the connectors are worn out the connector blocks. You can get new blades for the connectors, and replace the old ones this helped me out big time. ISIS Intelligent Multiplex System - Automotive Wiring Harnesses, Car Wire Harness, Engine Wiring Harness, Auto Wiring Harness, Truck Wiring Harness, Car Wiring Kits TGG 803 ? Super Wiring | Two Guys Garage

The reason I ask about the harness is you can get a good updated harness the works well for the Chevy V8 even ones that use a box in the enine bay and you run the wires into one box.

Steve the yellow when I looked at my schematics threw me off, but just check the 260Z manual and their it is.

That wire harness looks like a mess. Why are you not installing new wire and build a new harness?

It would be nice to have a post of restoring a 280Z antenna on the site also.

Don't worry about braking the plastic rod I came up a way to replace it. However you need to clean the unit out they get nasty inside. In fact the antenna runs smother once you replace the line (I think the line gets old and stiff over time and when going up it can't straiten anymore. Here is the link to the forum on replacing the line. http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/electrical-s30/42445-antenna-mast-plastic-string-replacement.html

The one to the left looks correct. The one to the right looks to be aftermarket, unless it is for a 280Z. I have parts for the one on the left the right maybe.

If you can't find that kit look at whipple for the supercharger they have a unit that would work nice plus you can get it veined for you CFM and pressure rates.

Blue I think I saw that car in Prospect Park. This car is very rare to find in this quality, I hope you enjoy it can be a fun car.

If it is hard, I'd take out the rack take it apart and pack with new grease. The other thing is if stuff got in around a boot from a crack or something it can be between the teeth, it would not take much sand or something small to cause this problem or damage the rack

How hard is the greese in the rack you might need to clean it out.

The antenna allows water to flow down the plastic mast to a drain on the bottom well that gets gonked up. This can cause the shaft to snap. On my first Z I'd spray a little penetrating oil in the antenna to help prevent this after I rebuilt it.

Clean it if the antenna, if plastic shaft broke I came up with a way to use heavy trimmer sting to fix it. I posted the information on this site this year

Did you look at the pictures I added they might help. Also I might be interested in a trade for the rear section from the rounded one to the more canister like ones for the rear a picture would help.

Things like that rake a day next time one hour

Well that's why it surprises me what you get produced, I't seems things just get harder to make anymore. Well maybe in the future we could use a 3d printer http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?&p=3d+printer&vid=1165720551549&dt=1308860281&l=0&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D1165720551549%26id%3D43b2a76f715ea3b59e2f4b535e4f0bc2%26bid%3DO%252fKTPgD3FraUSw%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%252fwatch%253fv%253dZboxMsSz5Aw&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fv%2FZboxMsSz5Aw%26autoplay%3D1&tit=3D+Printer&sigr=11f0a4tn3&newfp=1&surl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZboxMsSz5Aw&sigs=11alv1en0

I know their was a lot of bends in those hoses and that's why it was expensive to reproduce. The ashtray would be 7 parts if I'm thinking correctly the tray, lid, handle, chrome ring, the metal ashing plate, and one or two springs. I wonder how many would go for a fake plate that looked like it from the outside most people now days don't need an ashtray and I would not want to ash in a tray that expensive anyways. This would cut it down to 2-3 parts: plate, chrome ring and maybe the handle (don't know if could be easily molded as one).

Wow that's a pretty penny, at least I would fell good about the quality since your involved. esprist I was thinking about some products that I thought you might get involved with one is the 70/71 ashtrays, and the antenna mounting parts. Have you looked into them?

The problem with white and pictures is they can look whiter than they are. In 24 Ounces's pictures the panels actually look too white it's hard to tell if they were dyed or not, because pictures can give a bright white look to the off white. I will tell you Datsun did use a color trick with the seats, they were a little brighter white than the panels making the interior look whiter than it was. Some other things about the materials to make the seat covers that I have found taking my seat to shops and talking to companies that make the covers. for my current Z that are in black. I only mention this since you sound like you care about accuracy. You'll find that some the vinyl patterns will not match well the back the the seat they match pretty well, the front of the seat well the center section they can't get close to it I can spot that difference from 20' and the sides of the front of the seats somewhat match OK, at least enough that it's hard to tell. The piping well they seem to be able to get that 1/2 correct the smaller piping in the seats is not made any more so they use the same size. The vents are very close to the originals, the guy from Seatz stated he found them used on an industrial product unrelated to cars, and it seems everyone uses that same vent. I'm not very well impressed with the replacement covers my self. The covers out their seem to fit very well and I wonder if Japan has the correct materials for the seats, if so the seats could be made more accurately.