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1976 280Z Restoration Project


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There is these guys, they are just over the mountains from you and hard to beat the price.

Well that's weird, the forum won't let me post a link. I'll try typing it out,

hotrodlouvers.com or Fergie's Custom Louvers

I'm heading to the Okanagan in a couple weeks too!

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i agree w/getting them punched in - should be cheap and it will look nicer with so much less work. check around the custom body shops, i'd talk to the local rice-racer kids who have their cars lowered to near dragging and tailpipes big enough to fit their heads in, they'll know where to go. it's a pretty common piece of tooling.

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The cost is negligible for punching them in really... $1.50 a louver!  It boils down to location and time. If he can do it while I'm down on vacation in couple weeks, I'll punch them in instead!

I'm not afraid of welding them in, but punching would be much better.

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Just realized how messed up my front crossmember/lower rad support really is....

 

The nose support is completely gone and the horn mounts non-existent. I am thinking I should find a donor crossmember to replace mine as mine is already bent up. The only real dented piece on the car.... I knew something was up based on the horn positions in this pic!

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I think they changed somewhere mid 1976. You have the early units with the mounting bracket with two bolts. The later version had a strip with one mounting bolt.

I took a photo of my spares. The photo has the 240Z type on the left and center. Later type on the right. The earlier 280Z would be similar to the 240Z but then bent at right angles so the horns are verticle.

Chas

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You are exactly correct. I have a question Chas: do the horns have a paper gasket between both sides of the thin steel vibration plate? Mine were completely gone when I disassembled... just a corroded mess.

And can I just make new ones or do I have to replace them with a factory gasket?

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