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i could use this same design to attach my front mounts on my s2k seats... good work, how much would you sell a pair for if you where to sell?? just a thought
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^ that totally an Epic fail of the year... take that crap to a wheel and tire shop they could have gotten it out, they did for mine at Big Brand tires.
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first placed the seats in my car, the rear bracket on the rails were adding some hieght on the seats... when i cut them off it made is a lot shorter. the spacer didnt really add much height. their only a 1/4" think. sorry not much detail right now but i will maybe make a write up later for you guys!
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^as you can tell the rear mount had to have a hole drilled to through the rail to secure the seat in place. The problem with this is that it will limit how far you can adjust (slide back) the seat back... I'm only 5'8'' so this works for me, people over 6 foot will probably have some issues with room.
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aright just an update!
got the seats installed with no problem, took me about a day to think about and about 2 hours at Osh...
here is the finish product, all done by hand no welding required!!!!
took off the rear brackets and drilled a new hole to connect the cross-member mount that will connect to the existing mounts in the floor pans.
cross member cut out and drilled
spacers for the mounts
front mount
rear mount
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mine what all brittle and came off by hand... i have linex as a new sealent, sound deadening and coat on the floor of my car.
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gotcha, i've seem them already... i've looked in the seat swap thread, and few thread on zcar.com... not one goes into real detail about how they came about installing the seats. I took some measurements of the car it looks like i will be making some custom brakets for the rear mounts on the seats. I'm going the "no welding" route, bolting a custom mount to the rear mounts on the seats, then bolting it together to the car. I looks like i'm going to have to cut out the rear mounts on the seats to attach my fabricated ones.
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seal in the MC... like stated. happened to me a few times with cars
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that burnt orange Z is making me change my mind of wire mesh wheels. nice post
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Ok, so I scored and awesome deal on some S2K seats from a friend that did a swap. They were in perfect condition and I had the money for it. I know the s2k seat swap has been done before in a 240z, but not much info on the install. Seems like it's one of the harder seat installs
Some of the issues that i searched that came up:
-Transmission tunnel is too wide for the seat on driver side
-s2k mounts too wide for 240z mount holes
-The rails on both seats, have a rail that is longer than the other
-Seat install seems to sit higher than original
There are probably more issues that i've missed but these seem to be the ones that came up. I know custom fab work has to be done, but if anyone has any experience with this install i would greatly appreciate it.
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my car is still on jack stands but once i have it on the ground i will let you know... my buddy has a Z and its about sitting with a 3 in drop... no scrapping of any sort. his is exhaust is kinda low and it gets close, just adjusting the hanger will make it better.
i wouldnt go past 4 in. thats a little over kill
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unfortunately i had the wheesl taken off, I just finished with the rear brakes, moving on to the front. when i do get them on, i'll post some pics
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totally agree, i just meant the Japanese Domestic Market, always keeps all the good stuff in their home court, us here in North America we get the left overs. I see it a lot with honda, mazda, nissan, whatever....
sorry to be off topic, but i'll be definitely looking for a good sway bar... thanks guys
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thanks man, i will be looking for area tomorrow on my car.
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^not much... your gonna mess with some "travel" issues with your struts
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^thanks john
Because its not needed unless you drive real hard....look at JohnC seup......not mild.so your telling me that a early 240z is not for driving "hard???" and a later 240z and above that were equipped with a sway bar are meant be to ran the crap out of???
^of course its not mild, I was pertaining more to why did the early 240z's were not equipped with a sway bar but have the mounts for a sway bar???... it just makes sense that we should have one, right? what's it gonna hurt anyway? like what HS30-H said, we just got shafted from the good stuff...
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exactly??? i dont understand it, why make the mount area for the sway but not include one?
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thanks for the info guys, ok so this leads me to this question?
my plans for the car is making it a weekend driver for now. I currently have shortened struts and the Ground Control kit on the car and is lowered about 3.5". I would love to take this car to autox someday but not now. Would you think a rear sway is in order or just leave it how it is? seems as if the rear sway bar doesnt have a noticeable difference in handling with your guys' experience?
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amazing....
i can only wish, i can be doing that with my restoration, just beautiful.
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Yes you can. I have a 12/70, and a PO upgraded the front bar and put on a rear bar. From what I can tell from being under it the other day, there are two solid chunks of metal that bolt (?) to the underside, and the sway bar is mounted to those. The two chunks of metal (per mount) looked to be about, guessing, 1.5" long, and 3/4" wide/thick.
do you have a pic of your set up?
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Early Z's were not equiped with sway bars from the factory. If I recall, the 260Z was the first to get it.
Mongo
cool, i tried reading in the Haynes Manual but nothing explained about the missing sway bar???
Is is possible to swap a 260 sway bar into an early 240??? I wasnt quite sure where the mounts would be on the body of the car? i know that the control arms have the mount holes for the sway bar? would it work?
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So I am currently rebuilding my 71 240z from the ground up... I'm currently working on the rear suspension and placing everything back together. I noticed on my car that it wasn't equipped with a rear sway bar???? I never noticed this when I was removing the rear suspension from my car? I took a look at my Haynes manual and found that indeed that the s30 was equipped with a rear sway bar? The new bushing kit that i ordered included new bushings and end links for a rear sway bar also????
Has anybody ran into this issue before??? This car has been in my family for about ten years sitting out in the from yard. My dad never touched the car and left it to me to restore when I got older. I recently took over the restoration about year ago and is about half done. I noticed this when getting my car back from the paint shop.
My car is an early model Z, it was built in November 1970, but was sold in 71' if that helps. Thanks in advance guys!
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yeah progressive springs are meant to NOT to be handled with, if you love your s30, save some money and buy a good set of springs that will bring your car lower, or go the Ground Control route with shorten struts, my $0.02...
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how is the swede on there? i was thinking of getting one from this guy too? i'm torn between the swede and leather?