carpet – the DAILY DATSUN

Yesterday I started to tear down the 280z.
In about 2.5 hrs, I had the car just about 80% done before it can go to the painter.

Carpet: out.
Seats: gone.
Passenger door: stripped.
Center console: removed.
Passenger side door trim / seal: off.

Just need to remove the driver side door / trim, all the lights, and most importantly the windows…
And I need to make more room in the garage to store all this.

We’ll let the pics do the talking.

with the door paneling off, i was able to grease up the sticky door locks. NO MORE CRAWLING THROUGH THE BACK HATCH TO UNLOCK THE DOORS! :]

Like a well worn couch, it’s amazing what you’ll find after 35yrs…

… a nasty 400W amp under the driver seat (that’s probably 400W PMP (max rating) haha, so more like 100W).

And i’m now $0.39 richer. Oldest coin here though is 1983 (the quarter).

Pulled the trigger on some new carpet!

Motorsport Auto (MSA) has 280z molded carpet on sale right now for $240!
They’re manufactured by AAC, and right off the bat they look and feel great.
This kit includes the passenger area, area under the seat, and the rear trunk area (no shock towers or wheel wells). This is fine because i don’t like having carpeted towers / wells.
The carpet is a short, cut-pile carpet with sewn edges (where needed), and a very nice thickness. It even includes some carpet padding in most areas (again, where needed).

Since carpet pics on their site / internet are seriously lacking, here’s some for viewing pleasure, and a look at things to come.

Check out the sewn edges and ~1/4″ thick carpet pad.

Note the padding goes around most of the areas of carpet, even up over the center console / transmission housing area.

Passenger carpet piece

Close up of the foot pad

Carpet piece for under the seats

Carpet piece for the behind the seats, up over the luggage bar, and throughout the trunk deck. The 280z is going to look great with the new carpet!

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