dutchzcarguy

This past week, lots of sanding was been done… my favorite hobby... NOT!! Giving me trouble with my shoulder.. eating pain pills for breakfast.. But somebody has to do it. Paint was already ordered and now we are discussing who is painter haha.. me or "them"? I sprayed over a 100 cans and used a prof. paintergun a few times.. I think.. if i can do the inside doors and hood in a perfect way i'm the painter of my own car!! (It can't be THAT hard...? the only thing you have to look after is putting paint everywhere and at the same thickness.. HAHAHA...) some pic's of the progress.. Doors.. Rear hatch.. Hood.. Difference in sanded and not sanded.. clearly to see.. Here a pic of the workshop.. all kinds of zx stuff. Front of the car is done and the roof also.. I think paint this month.. at least the colorcoat in the edges (post of the doors and hood etc.) and inner side.

The only thing i can tell, if you don't overhaul the complete set of flattops... you WILL keep on adjusting the idle over and over until you really get sick of it! There is no good (cheap) way to let flattops do theire job right!!! The better advice is get yourself some roundtops! It's the easiest fix!

Yep i do say it: your blind ? look at the under hood light and then at the fan.. the fan is clearly a off color white IVORY.... koekebakker.. ?

Bart, The Original color of the fan is a off white .. a little yellow? color.. The Original airfilter on my early '71 is just as my 1972 (orig. dutch car but is gone..) a flap-less type.. Who says it needs a flap for the summer/winter setting? they came much later. (or is something else, another flap intended?)

Not much done this last week.. Putting cables in place with new tape, cleaning stuff and waiting for the body guy to finish the car for paint.

Richard, don't give a price for your parts.. let 'm start bidding… 25 dollar for a type 1 steeringwheel is A JOKE! that one is going overhere (in Europe) for over 400 euro!!

Here a copy (from my thread about my 280zx restoration) of the "last word" about my opinion of a company like OC Carpets.com...……….. A last word for the supplier of the carpetting.. OC Carpets… Yes i had to check your work, i did check if al the parts were in the box, and they were there. I could 2,5 years ago... not see that the actually 2 front parts were the wrong (2 seater) carpet parts! (see pic's in my story 280zx slick roof, 4-5 inches to short.) THIS Is the fault of OC CARPETS, If i were them i sended an excuse and the right ones against the packing/shipping costs.. NO... they send me a mail with you can get 15% discount on the right carpets.. YOU made the mistake not me!!!! I would - As a firm - be very ASHAMED FOR SUCH BAD WORK!! AND SEND THE RIGHT CARPETS FOR THE SHIPPING COSTS! But no it's as Bart sayd, we want money!! that's what we want!! Customer go f... yourself… Do you think i'm going to do another order there? of course NOT!! EVER!

Almost 2,5 year ago i bought a set of complete carpetting for my restauration 280zx 1979.. After a lot of waiting for my first painter to paint my car.. i had to pick my car up and do it all myself.. now i test fitted the carpet but they are the wrong ones!!!.. i can imagine that i'm a bit late with the reaction to say that they delivered the wrong ones. But the only reaction they gave me is that i can get a 15 % discount on the right set of front (l&r) parts! They should be ashamed! Is this customer service?? yes i know i was a bit late but they sended me the totally wrong front parts! Never again OC Carpets.com for me!

A last word for the supplier of the carpetting.. OC Carpets… Yes i had to check your work, i did check if al the parts were in the box, and they were there. I could 2,5 years ago... not see that the actually 2 front parts were the wrong (2 seater) carpet parts! THIS Is the fault of OC CARPETS, If i were them i sended an excuse and the right ones against the packing/shipping costs.. NO... they send me a mail with you can get 15% discount on the right carpets.. YOU made the mistake not me!!!! I would - As a firm - be very ASHAMED FOR SUCH BAD WORK!! AND SEND THE RIGHT CARPETS FOR THE SHIPPING COSTS! But no it's as Bart sayd, we want money!! that's what we want!! Customer go f... yourself… Do you think i'm going to do another order there? of course NOT!! EVER!

It's Gone with the wind! ? As the bodyshop guy only works 2 days a week i started with the carpets and stuff like the dash.. It's all in now, and the radio and separate Original cassette player is working again (after a service, some cleaning and grease..) The much lighter blue ashtray springs out but this is the Original dash.. It is Original Clarion radio and next to it a Original Hitachi cass.player! Very funny and really 1979 stuff. The radio has it's own mono! speaker in the middle upon the dashboard. The cass player has it's own amp and 2 (stereo) speakers besides the rear seats! View of the new carpetting.. Behind those pedals.. rear seat.. Picture of the speedo, did you know that the first delivered 280zx's had a 210 km speedo? the car could go faster than that! and the later 280's became a 250km/h speedo! Good clean Panelling stuff on the next pic's.. Some parts of the front window chrome.. (actually it's Stainless steel with a high amount of chrome in it.. it's the best stuff one can have, it never rusts!) It is still unpolished, i thaught i wait with that till it's on the car again, there are people here they wished they had done that too! (you can get very curly parts when polishing such thin parts ? ) Some really nice tower covers for in the rear! In a few weeks i hope to paint my own car! then i can install the rest of the inner parts (in door and window openings.) I took also a last look into my dash clock.. and saw that it needs a new gear.. It has 60 teeth (That are in very bad state.) and 15 on the smaller one.. Don't think i can ever get me one somewere.. if you know where i can get one let me know! thanks! Here a pic. It's a 18 mm diameter and 1 and 2 mm in tottal 3mm thick wheel.

After cleaning the battery poles put some special grease for that on them.. Solenoid can be a bad contact, clean it.. after you have taken it apart you'll see if you have to get a new one and what kind. succes!

I've got a kent-moore j25400 analyzer, does anyone know how a j25400-36 extension looks like or has one? i've got 2! j25400-13 extensions.. one i can sell or trade for a j25400-36 (that i could use for my 1979 280zx s130) (Maybe i can convert a j25400-13 into a j25400-36?) It's not neccessary but nice to have such equipment.

Hihi.. just curious.. you blew the 25A because now it's a 30A fuse (green) ??

Hello Guys! I think we are getting somewhere... This pic i got from oc carpets, they are the 2+2 carpets they sayd and.. i think thats the case.. Now i made a video of mine ( so you can see it all) some sugar and milk to keep the measuring lint on it's place hahaha… (if it's bad engish… f it!) 20200212_120210.mp4 I sended OC Carpets the video and i think they can only conclude they made a mistake… does not matter, only proves they are people to.. i'm excited what the answer is going to be! I would agree to send the 2 peaces back for the longer ones.. don't know what it costs but it was not my fault.. ican't help it that my former painter fu***-up and took so long, the warranty is gone after 2 years but i need the right set of carpets.. the ones i got are brand new but the wrong ones.. Oh let it please go right for ones! ( just kidding, but this aquire went wrong..)

Thanks Cliff! But i think the problem will be adressed.. Today i got a mail and i sended one back with measurements and the adress of this thread! I also said sorry for my short fused behaviour.. Here are the pic's that, to me, explain why they don't fit.. The 16-17 inches should be around 20-22 inches somewhere.. I'm not going to measure it the difference is clear… Yesterday i came at my car and discovered that there was a dent in my brand new hood.. someone careless left the vacuumcleaner under the car and the lift was not on lock.. it went down slowly and hit the handlebar of the vacuumcleaner.. grrr… more work.... ?

The number for what i bought was the #4586 on their website https://www.ocautocarpets.com/catalog/auto-carpets/1979/Nissan/MjgwWlg%3D/

I looked at the invoice and the sticker pic just a few posts back but no.. Can't figure it out yet.. on the invoice it says: 1 unit EA description is : 2012 nissan flooring passenger A I can't find that number 2012 anywhere in the shop listings.. I'm sure i bought a 2+2 complete set for the car, it surprised me they do all the carpets exept the (very simple square) trunk cover! (you know, that peace that hangs on a single hook ) I was just a little bit kidding, about getting angry.. Much to soon for that.. i think i get/hear a solution today or so.

Hello, Yours is a 280z 1978? I'm still not sure what color my 280zx 1979 is i thaught it's #510 sky blue metallic also but i can't find the paint color number on my car.. what do you guys think? see pic. Thanks in advance! Mart

HAHAHAHA ? Not yet.. NOT yet!! Cliff!! L.O.L. Thanks for chipping in.. I'll wait for their answer on my explaination, Do you (OR ANYONE) know of any brand car that made a different size car for different continents.. I SURE DON'T …. As we say OVER HERE IN THE Netherlands: go fool the cat!! (dutch.. MAAK DAT DE KAT WIJS! )

Zed head, here the label from the box.. (blanked my adress..) Auto custom carpets from alabama

Oh Man! It gets even funny-er! Look at my pictures! The new ones are laying on the OLD ONES!!!! !!!! in all the pic's!! People who follow my restaurations here at home... they are .. to say the least.. "surprised" that an american firm just tells me.. my car is altered the carpet is fine, my car is the problem! I'm not far from getting very angry now… ?

Hahaha…. Today i got a funny mail from The USA.. from OC Carpets.com I ordered a set of 2+2 280zx blue carpets in sept. 2017 for my car but they don't fit! Here some pic's! So i sended them some pic's and explained that i was testfitting these last Friday.. Also sayd it's a euro version 280zx 1979 2+2.. i think they sended me a 2 seater carpet set but they said in a first reaction it was'nt.. It's made for a 2+2 and i would have A LONGER VERSION CAR!! ? HAHAHAHA… ??? i'm shure the US and EURO version 2+2 cars have the same length! SO i told them to give me a better solution than just to say my car is a special version! (I'm a special version maybe… i am 6 foot 4 ! ?) Are there more people here that ordered a carpet from them? i'm interested what your experience is with this company? I'm convinced they solve this problem.. if not i'll make a new topic here about the way they work and do business! With al the shippingcosts and the stupidly high taxes i payd over 400 euro for this set so i expect it to be fitting my car! TO BE CONTINUED!

WOW.... yeah it can take some time.. in the 80's i once made me a plotter.. i made it including the full set of letters,numbers and all signs like #$%^&* and so on.. it took a lot of Hex coding then…. and that was on a commodore 64.. can you imagine… ?

Like Whee is restoring a 280z i'm restoring a 280zx.. and i do also a lot of work myself. just the fine bodywork i leave to a specialist, he's doing this for over 50 years now! so he is an older guy but very good at it. ( the shell is strait as an Arrow.. haha) I'm considering to do the paintwork myself also in a pro booth.. (then i don't have to pay a painter..) I have kept record of all the working hours (from everyone who worked on it) and i can tell you they are going in the direction of a Thousand hours.. Ones (25+) years ago i did a 240z that was rusted away and it did take over 3000 hours to restore .. but then i counted every hour, also when i was sitting behind a computer to look for parts or tech info and so on.. Also it was my first restore and you have to learn a lot. If one asks himself is it worth to restore a 240z? The answer should be:No.. unless it's a special model or has a interesting past.. or you'r just crazy about the model!! ?