My '76 280z project

[Robbie J]

what size are your rear wheels, I'm worried my flares aren't big enough. Looking good BTW

 

[Dave B]

what size are your rear wheels, I'm worried my flares aren't big enough. Looking good BTW

Rears are 10.5 x 15 -37et
I kind of wished I’d gone for the same up front, but wanted to keep the tyre a bit skinnier for ease of steering. So will prob have to run spacers on the fronts


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[uk66fastback]

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That's a great pic from lowdown! I've got a similar one of my old fastback just before it went to paint - all ready to go bar the front wings ...

 

[Rob Gaskin]

It's coming on nicely Dave, well done. How did you prevent yourself from posting sooner?

 

[Dave B]

It's coming on nicely Dave, well done. How did you prevent yourself from posting sooner?

I’ll be honest Rob, I’ve been mainly sticking to Facebook. I’ll keep up to date on here though now [emoji41]


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[Ian]

Starting to look great. Keep it up, and please keep on updating here.

 

[datsfun]

Rears are 10.5 x 15 -37et
I kind of wished I’d gone for the same up front, but wanted to keep the tyre a bit skinnier for ease of steering. So will prob have to run spacers on the fronts

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Dave, if the wheels are Atara's then rears are 15x10.5 ET-32 and fronts 15x9 ET-13

 

[Pondo]

What colour is that Dave, looks great.

 

[peter_s]

Incredible workmanship! Beautiful colour as well!

 

[Bazzateer]

Looks a bit like the Ford Focus ST yellow from a few years back?

 

[Dave B]

So, bit of an update, she is due to go off for paint this month hopefully, but I’ve had a last minute change of plan regarding which side I will be driving from lol.
Picked up a mint RHD 260z dash this weekend, along with heater box, steering rack, wiper linkage and pedal box. Plus bulkhead conversation panels are on there way too. So bit of extra work to do before paint now

 

[Dave B]

Made a start this weekend, stripped the battery tray and a few brackets stripped out. Got the bulkhead panel lined up, and test mounted the dash and pedal box. The air intake for the heater needs moving to the other side, plus the pedal box wouldn’t fit as the upper section sits lower on that side so had to chop some of it out to clear.
In short, there’s more work than I anticipated to do the swap, but I think I’ve got my head round it mostly

 

[moggy240]

Don't forget about the accelerator pedal aswell.

 

[Dave B]

Don't forget about the accelerator pedal aswell. View attachment 41571

Will do mate, Still got to move the brackets for that across from the other side, along with the reinforcing plate for e steering column.
I’m going to use a cable for the throttle so not bothered with the linkage bracket on the bulkhead

 

[Dave B]

Well, mechanically she’s now a right hand drive.
I don’t have the brackets for the rhd accelerator pedal so had to chop the end off the original pedal with its bracket and spring and use that, and make one for the left hand side (used part of a sliding bolt from b and q for the ‘U’ section, , mounted on half of what was the throttle linkage bracket, fits and works a treat lol.
I’ve removed the strengthening plate from the left hand side of the bulkhead, relocated the air inlet for the heater, and chopped out the under wiper cowl section for the top of the pedal box. I’m going to let the bodyshop fabricate a new section for that, and replace the left side of the bulkhead With the new panel as I want it to look decent.

 

[Dave B]

Been bolting bits on ready for the car getting collected to go for paint. Got a small job out the way, the clips that hold the inspection lids down were dissolved during the chemical strip.
Tried some tool clips but they weren’t too clever. Solution I came up with was glue some small but strong neodymium magnets to the lids instead. They seem to work nicely