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That car is clean!

Looking for a faceplate for the original radio that has the vertical Antenna slot on the right side (up and down).

i guess I will start calling around to see if anyone does that in these parts. Now if you get it balanced like that, and you remove the wheel, do you have to make sure it goes back on in the same position since its balancing everything? And the brake rotor also?

The weights are inside of the wheels, stick on. I think it does it on acceleration and deceleration at that speed, under load, clutch in, or in neutral.

Thanks for the links and suggestions. I haven't even heard of a road force balancer, but I will check around. These are used wheels with new 200 Treadwear tires (rivals). I guess I will start with the driveline angle and go on from there. I'm just worried I'm going to have to end up sending every rotating piece out to be checked for balance. This is the 1st car I've had that had this problem, so not sure what the best plan of attack should be

How did you find out the rotor was warped? Just spun it and checked for runout?

Its 80 and up. I'm not sure how up it goes because I didn't get too too high over 80, but it still was there, the same amount. It didn't get worse or better. The wheels are from a G 35 that someone gave me. They didn't seem to have any noticeable bends, dents or scratches on them, but I guess you never know. Thanks Kiyet, but I have 5 lug wheels, so not sure if they would work.

I went on a few hours car drive today with a group of about 20 cars. Only 1 other Datsun , which is pictured below, some kind of special crazy high hp car. Anyway the vibration was irritating my wife which in turn made to be sure to REALLY irritate me about the car shaking, so I really need to try to solve this.

First thing is my car is a 78 280 with an LS1, T56, infiniti Q45 R200, with all Johns Cars and TTT mounts. I had bad vibration at 70+ mph. I rotated the tires and the vibration moved around with the wheels, so I called the shop that mounted them and said I think the balance is off, can you check and fix them? Since I had them mounted several months ago they wanted to charge me again even though it's only been a few hundred miles driven on them. When I had them mounted, I even asked them if I could take it back if I had any problems as I wouldn't have the car driveable for several months. Of course the lady at the counter gave me the oh sure, no problem, but when it came time to deliver she didn't remember that and couldn't find any record of me in the computer. I said screw you guys and brought it elsewhere, and these guys came and said these tires are way off. they ran it twice for me, and said they are all perfect now. I got it out and now the vibration is around 80. The new balancing took over half the vibration out and it moved it up in speed some. At this point I'm going to trust these guys have them properly balanced and move on down the line trying to figure out what's vibrating. My questions are: What kind of driveline angles should I have? Has anyone had any issues with the balance on the driveshaft from Johns Cars? Do CV shafts have to have a certain angle and is there such thing as balancing them? What about brake rotors, any such thing as balancing those? Anywhere else I should look? The vibration is there whether in gear, neutral, or with the clutch depressed and in gear.

Does it just have stock suspension?

It may be better to get a used MSA one as someone probably did all the repairing to it so it will fit correctly already.

Or put a large washer inside the insulator same size as the bearing instead of shaving the insulator (or a few).

I used a unibit to drill it out for my Koni's.

http://www.lt1swap.com/wiringharness.htm You can go here and see what wires it needs to run. Very easy to follow. All my harness cost me was a roll of solder and some heat shrink tube.

I have Vitaloni Californias with the convex lenses. While these look close to the original 280 mirrors, they have about the same size small lens as the 280 mirror did. The convex helps widen out the view some, but it's still small compared to mirrors on modern cars. That's where the problem lies. For a mirror to fit the car proportionally, it will have a small lens. The ones with a larger lens that have a good field of view don't fit the looks of the car. So basically your choice is a good looking mirror with a not very good view or a goofy looking mirror with a good view.

It was right over $400 for everything he covered and he supplied the material.

I took it to a local shop, along with the old door skin and asked him to make it look as close as possible.

Yeah but only on the drivers side. Gonna try to do the passenger side tomorrow evening. Also got the 240Z turn signals installed and wired up. How's your floor coming?

I am seeing the light at the end of the current tunnel. I am chipping away at the interior. I repainted the panels with SEM vinyl dye and got the door panels, a pillars, dog legs, headliner and hatch panel covered with street suede.

Or if someone would charge the same prices as the other vendors but the parts actually fit. I'm sure once word got out about better quality everyone would buy from said vendor.

Light probably doesn't have friction to contend with.

Did you have the big bumper on the back when this happened?

http://www.moog-suspension-parts.com/Universal_Inner_Tie_Rods.asp Does anyone have an inner tie rod off the car they can get the thread size and pitch, length, etc. from for a 240 rack and 280 rack? Maybe we can get lucky and moog will have something that will work or work with very little machining.

THE pistonheads forum does them over in EUROPE every year. Seems like they set up all the routes, hotels and everything. http://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonheads/pistonheads-tours--viking-2013/27459 If I would win the lottery I would be in.

Can you measure from where you sit on the seat(where the seat bottom meets the seat back) vertically plumb to the roof with the seat all the way back? I see people put seats in but they put them in so high someone over 6' wouldn't be able to drive the car without their head being in the roof. I like those sparcos and would like to use them if I can fit in the car with a helmet on. Also did you get rid of the stock seatbelt?