Making Room For Aftermarket Seats In The Datsun 280z
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2025
- Datsun 280Zs are unable to fit a lot of aftermarket seats due to the catalytic converter hump. In this video, I remove the cat hump to widen the space for the driver's seat, install new seat mounts so we can fit a wider range of seats, and some other miscellaneous projects.
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You've become a regular Fabricatasaurus Rex...... right on. Great job 👍👍🍺🍺
I've definitely done plenty of it on this car 😆
Love watching your videos. I'm doing a Triumph TR6 restomod, but putting the mechanicals from a BMW 135 in it. Home Built By Howard if you care to watch. I'm just a bit behind where you are.
I'll check it out!
Genious idea with the rivnuts
Definitely better with the through bolts. Good job
For sure
Great job mate. Really impressed with your patience and motivation.
Thanks a lot!
Coming together quckly ,
Looking at that transmission tunnel I would try to get some kind of stiffening similar to the one you removed. You could use several along the tunnel to provide the stiffening that you removed.
I think it'll be fine. There's not really any strength there anyway and with my new trans crossmember bolting directly to the frame rails it doesn't really need any strength.
Woo keep em coming!
Nice bit of work
Thanks 👍
Great video!!!!
Thanks!!
This explains so damn much. I sat in my new 77 280Z for the first time and was like "Something feels wrong" compared to when I sat in a 71 240Z, and now I know why. I wonder if I can buy early 240Z cross-bars and weld those in after removing the bump in the transmission tunnel like you did.
Klassic Fab sells the 240z style seat mounts. The floors are a bit different so they probably won't drop in but I'm sure they could be made to work. Just a little fabrication!
@@BLOKgarage Sounds like a good opportunity for me to create a product for others in my situation where they want a better seating position in a 280.
Thank you for the video. It couldn't have come at a better timing as my seats just arrived, too.
If I wanted my seat to rise as you moved forward, couldn't I set my rear seat mount lower than the front?
My idea was to have my seat position where I need it, which is low/ rear, and have my wife seat position higher as she moves forward.
Thank you
Yeah you could definitely do that. You could also build your mounts flat then add spacers to the front so you have adjustability in the future.
would it have been possible to just cut the seat mounts at the top put some angle iron there over it and use that as the lower point?
Actually yeah I could've done something like that. Maybe trim the top off both at the right height and use flat bar to make a new top.
Hi Brian. Did you find your tail lights? But, we didn't see you taking off the roof? Have you got footages?
I haven't gotten any 240z taillights yet. I'll be finishing the roof video soon, I'm just waiting for something to come in before I weld the roof on.
@@BLOKgarage Ok. Can't wait to see this.
@@BLOKgarage your new sunroof?😂
Never