I was curious if it would be possible to graft a front end from an early Z onto my 280ZX? I'm probably going to try it one way or another but I thought I should check and see if anyone had already tried it. Most likely I'll get the subtle Z fenders, hood, and air dam that should give me most of the parts. Is there anything else you would recommend that I look into? Thanks in advance.

You might want to look into metal fabrication. Seriously, your trying to match body pannels that don't match. Like putting VW fenders on a Porche. It can be done but your going to have to do some fabricating. Do a good job and people will say WOW. Do a bad job and people will laugh. Do some measuring first to give you an idea of what your going to have to do.

Good luck.

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Pimp my ride, Chop, Cut, Rebuild? Why would you want to do this?

You beat me to it, I was wondering Why as well.

Well for one, I like the look of the early Z front end better than the ZX. and for two because the only good looking fender flares I can find are for the early Z. and for three I would have gotten an early Z if not for the fact that this one bascially fell into my lap. I was counting on doing major body mods anyways, I just thought I'd throw my thoughts out to the universe(or at least the www) before I acctually do it.

Not a bad idea i guees. Im kinda curiouse to see what it would look like.

Do a good job and people will say WOW. Do a bad job and people will laugh.

I'll laugh, good job or bad job.

Now, I'll go back to fitting that 59 T'Bird Dashboard into my classsic 240Z.

I'm with you on that one, Carl. If you want the look of a Z front end buy a Z. If the ZX fell in your lap drive it like it is rather than spending money to do something that might not be do-able in which case you'd be wasting money that you'd never be able to recoup. The body lines are different. A Z is a Z and a ZX is .... well whatever it is. It's like my 810, if it hadn't basically fallen into my lap, I probably wouldn't have it. But I'm not going to put a Skyline front end on it.

Well my car needs a whole new front clip so I figured I throw in a bit of extra work and some readily available parts to make something totally unique. But I'll wait till I have some time to go over the car with a fine tooth comb before I make any big decisions. You did answer my question though so thank you.

My last comment on this: ZX parts are also readily available, junkyards are full of them, and they bolt on.

Okay, I'll go hide in my corner for a while until I get another hairbrained idea... Thanks for the help