General Discussions - Non 300ZX

Cant believe it, for probably the 4th time this year already I am ill again!! (no sarky comments about my mental state please!!) I HATE being ill....... :nono: Had to leave work early today, thought I was gonna pass out so had to go into the spare office, drink coffee and have a choccy bar (as recommended by my boss) and thta really seemed to give me some energy.....but I was still really shaken so I got to go home. Drove the zed 50 miles home without going above 0+/-psi, thats how slow I went!!!! Bin home, had a kip, dont feel 100% typing this now but I feel better for the kip.......had the doc ring me, says its more than likely some viral infection rather…

I dont care i like it and the ladies like it :D and its only my daily driver and i can always say "my other cars a zed" :p

Anyone know of any companies that can store a car while the owner is out of the country for a few years?

... THREE Lamborghini Murcielargos!! :eek: One in Heysham, and 2 on the M6, all yellow.... but only one zed :bow: How exclusive are we! :D:D One was parked up at the power station end of Heysham Road near Morecambe - you seen this one Kirbz? I wanna race one! :hyper:

My mate want to by a Mitsibushi 300GT, rather than a Z32. WHat do you guys think of them, do you know any specs on them versus the Z32

Does anybody have any pics of a Z32 with HID lights (with them on in the dark) ? Ive searched but cant find any. I recently purchased a import and my headlights have this white/xenon type glow. They dont look like normal Z lights. I also have a pair of bright white lights arround the number plate (front). Similar to fog lights but a whiteish glow. They come on when the main light's are on.

Just had a before and after dyno run at Thor with my new ECU. I posted the graphs in the Dyno forum. He said 182 at the wheels with the stock ECU and 190 at the wheels with the chipped ECU. Is this OK? What should I do next?? And nobody say buy a TT. I have agonised long and hard over NA/TT but I have enjoyed doing the little bits to the car that I have so far. OK it might not be huge power, but I have noticed the differences as I got the exhaust, induction and now ECU and I feel quite proud of it.

:shock: In 3 years I have spent :shock: £8k on the car and its hardly modded. :shock: and im about to spend another £9k by October. :shock: It better be worth it in the long run : :hyper:

Well the idea was my Z was going to be an everyday car but as I have been completly bitten by the bug in the space of a week and before long my car will have a body kit, funky wheels and a whole lot more boost I dont think its really sensible for turning up at a customers office with, (rumbling exhausts will get nothing but frowns I think, I have already become public enemy no. 1 with all the staff at my boys school, wait till the miserable old cows see the finished article, :rofl: ) So the shopping list has been narrowed down to either an Alfa 156 2.5l or a 200sx s14, budget is 6k tops, I should get an decent alfa for that but whats the deal with the s14's are they…

Was thinking about this the other day... All us auto owners will know what happens - you're pootling along at 50 or whatever, see an overtaking opportunity so plant your accelerator down. The revs rise rapidly for half a second or so, the car kicks down a couple of gears, then BAMMMM!! Full boost :mac1: whooooooooooooooosh. I think that short period whilst the revs fly up is something to do with the torque converter, am I right? So the car isnt actually in drive whilst the turbos are winding up right? This probably explains why autoboxs are considered to be weaker - downshift tends to happen under full boost with the the throttle applied, whereas…

Wow, first time on here in what seems like ages (8 days & counting!) :cry: Been busy painting everything in our new house, so not had a chance to come back to my parents house to log on. Anyway, on my way to B&Q yesterday, thinking I must have the quickest car on our estate, then I notice some bloke around the corner from me was polishing his car - a Rosso Red Ferrari 360 Modena :shock: Lucky bugger, I'll have to get to know him & blag a ride off him sometime :hyper:

Now we're talking !!! http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/other/1062560599/1062560599ss.htm

Dave, have you managed to post the ecu and discs to me yet. just wanted to get them fitted before billing. regards Marcus

http://www.speeding.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Spoilers.html Goto the second one down.

Anyone know of a dyno tuner in this neck of the woods?

Alright Jay, I saw you last night at the Reading Jap meet. Exhaust is now fixed, as I said the company hadn't tightened the bolts up!!!! If your interested my e-mail is chris.clayton4@ntlworld.com

Thor have said I can have an hour on the dyno at Billing to set my car up :D Hopefully I'll be able to get the fuel controller fitted in time so they can tweak it just right. What sort of power do you guys think I can expect with this lot and how much boost? Stock Internals Garrett T28 Turbo's Forge Motorsport T2 Adjustable Actuators Nismo 555cc Injectors HKS Super Fire Iridium Racing Plugs Custom Mapped ECU for 555cc Injectors and Dual-POP Intake ASP Lightened Underdrive Crank Pulley TurboXS Type H-RFL Blow-Off Valves Pace Side-Mount Intercoolers Mocal Racing Oil Cooler Ported & Polished Exhaust Manifolds A'PEXi Power Intakes (x2) …

After months of hard work the fridge is finally done and in time for Billing too :dance: Big thank you's to Mac for getting me great prices on the parts, Peter from PPS for getting me all the paint and other stuff, My mate Dave and all the others here who have given me the encouragement to see it through. Cheers Paul

I'm looking for a small laptop, Basically with a functional keyboard and also a full version of XP, I need it for SSH, browsing and outlook e-mail. must have a PCMIA slot for my GSM/GPRS/wireless card/three internet cards :)

I want to publicly state that Smithies products are Top Quality. I know I have had hassle fitting them and in asking for advice it has caused some confusion as to the quality of the product and has led to bad feeling. There is a need to adjust some things which isnt much of a problem. Unfortunatly my SWB seems to have other ideas and further modification is required. This is not the fault of the product but my bloody car, its not the 1st time things could not be fitted without some thought. I would however like to bring to everyones attention that the stock rad is crap and the hose connection is weak. Apparently quite a lot of people have had these break. Be Car…

bought this Z, was sold last week,looks very nice, http://www.awesomeautos.co.uk/ Tony

to disconect the air bags on a mazda 323f i know its not a 300 but they dont seem to have a site running anymore my girlfreind is pregnant and we need to disconect the air bags thanks alot steve

Hope you have a great Day :hyper: P.S. Happy anniversary for tomorrow as well ;) Discalmer: the picture above is a link to Hamsterhideout.com. This image has not been copied or altered in anyway

Just been reading an amusing thread over on 300club, so thought Id start one over here basically, what was your reaction when you 1st drove a 'stage 3' or more Z? I myself went from stock, to 15psi, Zcentre downs, intake and Drager cat back, and I cried with fear, 2nd time i punched it i cried with delight :) Then went hunting lol :)

One side of the undertray dropped on my daily driver (mysteriously not long after it had been in a main dealer)... Anyway, took it into Kwit-Fit Saturday morning because I had the Z jacked up, and I was buggered if I was taking all that down to sort the other car out... ...so he sticks it on his ramp, has one look at it, comes back in reception and tells me it's all well shagged and it was strictly a main dealer job, and it's all got wedged cos I've been driving around like that etc (which I haven't.) So just now I go outside, I jack the front up, I have a look under there and I find two missing bolts. Well, screws actually, with Torx connectors on (German …