Hi - Introduction

[silverz]

Hi,

My name is Peter and I have a 73 240Z. I live in the NT. The Z is fairly original hasn't been changed much over the years. I have just had the seats reupholstered however and if anyone can tell me if the latch to let the seat back go forward should be on the side near the doors or in the middle I would apreciate it. On mine they were in the middle next to the console when I got it, but this doesnt look right to me. Looking forward to hearing from other Z owners.

 

Peter

[mikedoeslife]

Hey Pete, welcome to VicZCar!  Would love to see some pics of your car

 

Can't help you with that question myself, but I'm pretty sure someone will jump on it soon enough haha.

[Toecutter]

Welecome Peter,

 

Mine are on the outside near the doors. I'm guessing your left seat should be on the right and vise versa with the right seat. They come out real easy just undo the four bolts under the seats and swap em around, should take more than 20minutes.

 

Cheers,

Sulio

[silverz]

Thanks for the welcome guys,

Yes Sulio that's what I thought someone has swapped them around at some stage. I have them out now as I tok them out for reupholstering and I will put the back in tommorow. I can't wait to hit the streets again, it's great on the open roads up here - even though there is a 130kph speed limit on the Highway now.

[matt drago]

Hey Peter,

 

The lever should be on the outside as Sulio said.  A common thing to do was to swap the seats when the vinyls cracked.  As the driver seat is more commonly used than the passenger seat, the driver seat would have been damaged before the passenger side.

 

Out of interest, as I just had my seats upholstered, what vinyls did you use?  And what did you do for the metal vents?

 

Cheers,

 

Matt Drago

[silverz]

Thanks Matt. I put the seats back in taday in the positions you told me. The upholsterer used red vinyl, it's not exactly the same as original but a good colour match and he matched the stiching. he reckoned he couldn't reuse the vents so he put round eyelets in with mesh under, which is not the preffered outcome but I got the vents back from him. The problem is I neeeded the seats done for NT rego and as I have to go away for two months at the end of this week I needed it completed ASAP. You also don't have a great selection of Tradesmen in the NT. The seats look great though.

 

Regards

Peter

 

[sco_aus]

Welcome Peter.  I lived (posted in Army) up in Darwin for a few years, I know what you mean with worthy tradesmen

So its true, they did put a speed limit on the highway, that would make for a very long boring trip back to the east.

Are there any roads without speed limits now?

[silverz]

I'm not by any means having a go at the tradesmen up here,  I am very happy with any work I have had done. What I mean is you have to go with what the people available tell you is possible, when I got told the vents couldn't go back in I had to accept that, you don't have as many options as in other larger places. As for parts, everything has to be ordered in, with the internet these days I guess it's not so bad.

 

Like I said my seats look great and I would definately recommend the guy that did them.

 

I would definately recommend the Mechanic that did some work for me too.

 

As for speed limits - yes there are speed limits on all roads - other than parts of the Stuart Hwy and I think the Arnhem Hwy which is 130kph all the rest are 110kph max.

130kph is sensible in my book especially when you have to pass Road Trains, don't want to take too long to get past them.

 

Regards Peter

[matt drago]

yeah, the old vents cannot be re-used as they are punched/pressed into the vinyl.  Sounds like he did the same for your seats as my upholsterer did for mine.

 

Glad to hear that you didn't find a hidden supply of vents just after I had mine finished using the eyelets

[silverz]

Matt,

 

Sad as it is we both didn't get the old vents reused as we would have liked , at least it appears both our Motor Trimmers are singing of the same song sheet. As I have said I didn't have the choices here I wold have had in a major city but am more than happy with the job Andy the Motor Trimmer/Upholsterer did on my seats.

 

Regards

Peter

[JP240z]

yeah, same thing got done with my seats, sounds pretty standard.