How To Replace 260z Floor Pans

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How to replace 260z floor pans.

We show how to make floor pan removal easier with tips and tricks on removing the panel. If the car needs that much chassis work go big and fix everything. I trimmed my new floors then laid them over the old ones and marked out a cut line. How to remove replace floor pans.

Plus depending on the amount of rust you might have to add to the panels. If you use lap joins you ll just encourage rust. However in this case we decided to fabricate replacement sections to preserve as much of the original 280zx floor as possible. Floor pan replacement is not an easy job.

Here s a list of what ll be available for a 1974 260z 2t2 inner lower rear quarter panels. I don t understand why you would need to reshape the new floors. Full floor pan vs partial floor pan. Lower rear quarter panels.

After stripping the car down to the bone it become apparent things are worse than expected. We also show the tools we used to make the job easier. See how easy it is to replace a floorpan and how to do it the first time with no mistakes. In this episode of hands on cars kevin shows us how to remove the rusty old floor pans on the 1978 chevy camaro z28 zed sled project car and fit new replacement metal.

If you think the floor pans are going drop right in and fit right guess again. If you re replacing both floor pans in a s30 you might as well pull the entire driveline and suspension off the car and then put the car on a rotisserie. Whitehead performance carries 280zx replacement floor pans and frame rails. Not much left of the original driver floor pan.

I ll post pics and prices in the next couple of days. You re already stripping the interior to the pans. I think the above statement of close to 40 hours for a diy er is a good estimate. Here s what a datsun 280zx floor pan looks like after we were finished.

The pans will have to be worked to follow the contour of tunnel. Curiously replacing the full floor pan is actually less work than doing two partial panels. If you replace left and right side partial panels and leave the original tunnel intact you re welding about ten more feet of sheet metal versus replacing the whole floor.