is this a fairlady rack?

[Guest mescalinedreamz]

the top is a regular lhd 280z rack, i been having a hard time deciding if its a 240z fairlady rack or whatever it is. The wrappings say genuine nissan and the number on the rack says 1422405 Thanks for any help, im going to be selling this so i need to know what its for.[/img]

[HS30-H]

Got a spare front crossmember laying around anywhere? If you have, just lay the rack in the crossmember - in the configuration that it would be in for an RHD car - and you will be able to see whether it fits or not.

 

The crossmembers on first-generation cars are identical year-for-year whether they are LHD or RHD, as they have 'dimples' in the crossmember ( to give clearance for the lower steering column u/j ) on BOTH sides.

 

Therefore an RHD rack should fit onto an LHD crossmember and vice-versa.

 

If it does not fit, then you at least will know that its not for a first-generation car.

 

I'm going to try and attach some photos of two spare RHD racks that I have in my garage. One is from my 1970 Fairlady Z-L and the other is from my 1972 Fairlady ZG, but they are similar to all other RHD models, including UK and Australian market cars.

 

http://alansphotos.fotopic.net/p3492693.html

http://alansphotos.fotopic.net/p3492694.html

http://alansphotos.fotopic.net/p3492692.html

 

edit: Sorry - can't get 'em to link properly, so its a cut-and-paste job if you want to see them.......

[Guest mescalinedreamz]

well as you can see in the pic is that the bushings are in closer to one another, they measure about 7 inches away from each other, compared to about 10 inches from the regular, so what does this rack goto?