Would love one of the original metal ones or even one of the round 'S' badges.

I remember years ago someone in Australia was selling a billet version of the flying S badge on ebay all the time. But I haven't seen them for years and have only seen a couple of the genuine ones for sale in Aus over the last 15 years.

Bprojects sell a plastic version of this badge, but am I right in believing the original ones were cast metal?

Can you give us some detail of your build, (e.g. engine, trans, brakes, engine mods, body mods, factory ECU or aftermarket).
Depending on what you’ve added/removed or modified you may find one particular engineer more accomodating than another. Although under the new VASS system they weeded out some of the more ‘flexible’ engineers so they will all be fairly close in their requirements.

Expect 2 or 3 inspections, the vehicle to be weighed, a braking test, a noise level test and if your unlucky a full EPA test (IM240 emissions test) which could add another $1500 or so to the bill.

Well I've located some NOS chrome trims with weatherstrip attached. So won't have to stick new rubbers to my old trim after all.

If I was to do it, my plan was to use either Permatex Super Weatherstrip Adhesive or Sikaflex-Auto+ Adhesive and also see if I could push some heavy duty staples through the existing holes left by the original staples.

Thanks for your input DD. There are several places in Australia that sell just the rubber strip including Datsport and Scott’s Old Auto Rubber.

To use these you need to remove the staples and old rubber strips from the chrome trim and re-attach the new rubber strips to the chrome. I was just trying to find out how others had done this, as most people don’t have the stapling equipment to go through steel to replicate the factory attachment method..

My preference would be to order the part from Nissan which comes with the rubber weatherstrip already attached. So far I’ve been told they are Discontinued. I know Bprojects sell them, but their prices are to high for me to justify. I’ll do a little further searching and if I can’t find the complete parts I’ll order in the rubber strips.

Will do Ziggy.

I did find this on Youtube for Z's and 510's. Not quite the same, but they use rivets to replace the original staples in their kit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOhVwokT93w

Found the ‘Senco Medium Crown Clinch Staplers’ and they look like they would be the correct tool for the job. But, way to pricey for a one time job. I wonder if some of the auto upholsterers would have such a tool.

I’m going to see if I can buy the trim piece with the rubber already attached. Failing that I’ll have a go at attaching some new rubbers to my old trim pieces.

Yes was considering something like that. Or maybe some small rivets.

I couldn’t really bend the original staples with a screwdriver when I tried to remove them, so I assume they were strong enough to pierce through the steel trim piece. Curious to know if these are a special staple and what sort of stapler would be used to shoot them in. I do own an electric staple gun, but I doubt the staples I have would shoot through steel...although maybe it could.

I recently replaced the inner door glass belt seals and noticed that the outer ones were looking a bit sad.

Pulled off the chrome trim along the door glass ledge and had a look at the belt seal. It’s attached by 5 heavy duty staples. I’ve managed to remove a couple of them and will continue on...but I’m really not sure how to go about stapling the new seals on.

Can anybody shed some light on how they’ve done it?

Yes that’s right. So place the large retaining washer on the rod followed by a rubber bushing. Then poke that through the bracket hole and put the second bushing, large washer and nut on the other side of the bracket.