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Centre Console differences
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SeanDezart
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Presumably the seller can send you a photo and you compare it with that which you have..............lazy b*m !
Aceman
Well-Known Forum User
Cool - thought so!
I think our series 1 centre console is ok, but useful to know there's an option for replacement if not! Trying to resolve cracks in the dash first though, and that just isn't fun!!
And those ashtray/lighter flip lids are just a nightmare! They go for $300+ in the US on ebay on occasions! Madness!!
I think our series 1 centre console is ok, but useful to know there's an option for replacement if not! Trying to resolve cracks in the dash first though, and that just isn't fun!!
And those ashtray/lighter flip lids are just a nightmare! They go for $300+ in the US on ebay on occasions! Madness!!
neil240z
Club Member
I may be lucky enough to be the owner of one of the ones in question dear Mike?
just took this photo on my lunch break
richiep
Club Member
My car is one of the "inbetween" models if you could call it that - an early-mid 71 car with the round 1/4 panel vents but originally the "series 1" centre console. When I bought it, it was fitted with the later 71-73 style console that had been bodged to fit. That remains on the car still but I have an earlier console that I am reconditioning to fit. Unfortunately, I am missing the elusive ashtray/lighter/fusebox lid and the switch panel...
Albrecht
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Richard,
All this "Series 1", "Series 2" stuff is an American invention, applied for convenience after the fact. Nissan themselves never used those terms for the cars concerned, and - as I think you probably already know - it certainly doesn't apply to the Japanese market models.
I might be able to help you with your search for the early ( 'Zenki' ) ashtray lid / lighter housing / fusebox lid and the switch panel / choke / hand throttle cover. I have some spares in storage.
All this "Series 1", "Series 2" stuff is an American invention, applied for convenience after the fact. Nissan themselves never used those terms for the cars concerned, and - as I think you probably already know - it certainly doesn't apply to the Japanese market models.
I might be able to help you with your search for the early ( 'Zenki' ) ashtray lid / lighter housing / fusebox lid and the switch panel / choke / hand throttle cover. I have some spares in storage.
Albrecht
Well-Known Forum User
Your 'customer' still owes me a console which was agreed to be traded for parts I supplied for his car ( which I presume are still attached to it now it has been sold ).
Still, what comes around goes around I guess.......
Aceman
Well-Known Forum User
Craigs list (or whatever it's called) in the US and Canada..
Especially if you find someone breaking an earlier car, you can grab bits quite cheap unless they are forum members and think it's worth more than it probably is!!
morbias
Well-Known Forum User
or Datsun Z & ZX Parts, Datsun 240Z 260Z 280Z 280ZX Nissan 300ZX Parts, they can get you pretty much any part but at a price
IbanezDan51
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Pretty sure I have those but unfortunately my "series 1" centre console had been hacked up at the front. No idea why, some idiots about.
Pondo
Club Member
Reviving an old thread I know.......
my car is an 11/71, someone has fitted a dogleg gear stick at some point and when I change this back to a straight it catches on the console. I know some of the parts on my car are also found on the earlier cars and got me wondering if the consoles differ where the gear lever is?
Albrecht
Well-Known Forum User
As an 11/71 production dated car it would have been originally fitted with an 'A' series transmission (likely an F4W71-A if a North American market model, or an FS5C71-A if a 'rest of the world' model) and these cars had different tunnel pressings than the Jan.'72-up production models. Putting a 'B'-series transmission into a car that was originally fitted with an 'A' series transmission can lead to interference problems.
What transmission is in the car now? I'm presuming 'A' series because those are the ones that had 'straight' sticks.
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Pondo
Club Member
Tbh I don’t know.
That’s very interesting, yes mine is an American market model so I would think you are spot on with it having a B series transmission. Thanks that saves time wondering what might not be quite right. I’ll put the dogleg stick back on until I put in an S14 transmission.
Albrecht
Well-Known Forum User
Reading this back, I think it might be worth clarifying the "straight stick" and "dogleg stick" terminology.
Usually the "straight stick" term refers to the *literally* straight gear levers used with an F4W71-A or FS5C71-A type gearbox. These were attached to the linkage - damped with a pair of cone-shaped rubber bushes - with a self-locking nut on the threaded end:
Usually the "bent stick"/"dogleg stick" term refers to the various types of levers used with the F4W71-B, FS5W71-B, FS5C71-B and F5C71-B transmissions, which attached to the linkage using a pivot and fulcrum design, the pivot being a bushed clevis pin:
So, the two types are - fundamentally - not interchangeable.
*Curve ball (there's always a catch!)... Some competition-related use included a bent straight stick; a version of the straight stick which brought it closer to hand for a reclined driving position, sometimes seen in 432-Rs, early Works rally cars and Works circuit race cars. For example:
