What parts would you like to see made?

SeanDezart

Well-Known Forum User
So what are you saying - it's a stupid suggestion?

What loom are you going to use in your bright shiny car with lots of new parts? Still original headlight wiring i.e. earths from the switch and taking full current? Old oxidised black wiring with corroded connectors.

Are you just asking for suggestions that an engineering company can make?

Most people can't afford them.

Those that can take their loom to a wiring guy and collect it all new whilst others leave that in-house where their car is being restored.

People's desires now are so varied - Efi, extra Ipod conections, specilist this and that, PAS etc,e tc and all for a tiny RHD market ?

C'mon - way too specialised imho.
 

SacCyclone

Club Member
Choke knob for 73-74 240's and 260's.

They re-pop them for 70-72 but not later.

Need to find a 3D printer guy and pump out a few dozen.
 

Pete

Well-Known Forum User
Choke knob for 73-74 240's and 260's.

They re-pop them for 70-72 but not later.

Need to find a 3D printer guy and pump out a few dozen.

I have yet to see a 3d printed component from an 'affordable, non industrial' printer that would even come close to the quality or finish of a production part.
 

Nmd14

Club Member
Tie downs for spare wheel

Bumpers - I know they are available but seem rather overpriced

Door cards
 

Rob Gaskin

Treasurer
Staff member
Site Administrator
I'd like some simple to fit headlamp mountings - I hate having to remove a wheel to change a bulb !

I thought of this type of arrangement for a competition car. A chrome ring could be fitted to tidy it up.:
 

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SeanDezart

Well-Known Forum User
Not bad - it would be so much easier to acces the light bowls from the front.

At the risk of upsetting you-know-who, I think Nissan effed up that engineering design bit !
 

STEVE BURNS

Club Member
I know my memory is beginning to fade but I am sure when talking to Kevin Bristow when he was restoring his works car that he showed me some sort of quick release system that had been fitted to the car to change the bulbs whilst on a rally
 

Albrecht

Well-Known Forum User
I know my memory is beginning to fade but I am sure when talking to Kevin Bristow when he was restoring his works car that he showed me some sort of quick release system that had been fitted to the car to change the bulbs whilst on a rally

The Nissan works team engineers simply widened the holes in the headlamp housing 'sugar scoops' so that the whole headlamp assembly could be removed from the front of the car. It made it much easier - and, more importantly, quicker - to change a unit after any rally stage damage.

They did the same thing at the back of the car, relieving the tail light garnish around the lamp units and screwing the complete units in from the rear, allowing the whole thing to be taken out without access to the inside of the car.

Neither of which do a lot for looks on a road car...
 

Albrecht

Well-Known Forum User
So why did Nissan make it so complicated ?

Toshiba bulbs. 10 year life.

Who changed their own bulbs anyway? Nissan dealer would do it for you for nothing in Japan. In fact they used to change them all before every 'sha-ken' test, working or not. Good for industry.
 

SeanDezart

Well-Known Forum User
Logical :) !

Brings it all into reality...I was watching some Youtube 'Nissan history film' the other night :

1968 : 1 million cars made
1972 : 2 million cars made of which 700,000 were exported

That's a lot of JDM cars !

And we're still told by US-orientated sites that the USA was the most important market.
 
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