General Discussions - 300ZX Related

.. with low light levels or you think its a custom colour? my zed doesnt look this nice at night :tongue: and it looks too reddy red redness to be the cherry red? either way.. even for a non red fan, it floats my boat!

I was woken at 2:00am this morning by the sound of someone beeping a car horn on and off non stop. Look out my bedroom window and its coming from my Z:mac1:took me 10 mins to disconnect the battery and woke the whole street up :slap:. It wasn't a continuous BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP it was more like beeep beeeeeep beep beeeeeeeeep beeep beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep on and off like someone was sitting in it!!!! The car is either haunted or there's something else wrong with it!! Could it be the horn relay???( I disconnected the centre steering wheel cover so I know its nothing to do with that) Any advice please...... or do I call "Ghostbusters":duffer:

Some pics of todays meet: Some of the pic's of the 2 Zeds there

Hello all Just bought my first zed and love it!!! its a uk model 1994 twin turbo automatic i absolutely love the car but i used to own a 200sx which had 260bhp and to be honest that felt alot faster i was wandering if that would seem normal my old car being faster, i dont believe the car has been serviced in a while would this help that much??

Been having a think about turbo access recently, and has anyone considered installing access panels in the inner arches, so if you need access to that area, the engine doesn need dropped out :smash: If i had a decent enough space to work in, i would give this a go. Just curious if anyone has thought about/ tried this before ?

saw a silver zed going south on the M40 30 miles from the M25 just before oxford services. i was in the inside lane in a blue c5 towing a silver zed on a trailer. (you were in the outside lane)

im sure most of you already know this car as petes21st and UNO and john-e-retro have all owned it. my son was looking for a project zed so he bought this zed today with his own money. (he is only 14). he is very interested in zeds and knows much more about them than me. (most of the mechanical advice on the forums from me is actually my son:rofl:)

had a lucky call today drove to yorkshire to deliver my other halfs valentine card as was in hospital after 5 on friday which is about 250 miles from my home drove back this morning as i was about 5mins from my house i decieded to check oil leval as just had to new turbos and think i have a piston ring faulty ,i pulled into the pullin on a449 at newport opened the bonnet and there was flames at the back of the engine ,there was a woman selling burgers if she hadn`t got an extinguster my car would have gone up in flames ,all i could think of was the amount of money i spend and what i would get from insurance ,so had a look and it was wires to the auto box had come free and…

Hi there can anyone help? im new to the zx world having just bought my first one last month. its a 94 TT uk model. it has just started playing up in the last 2 days but its only a tempremental problem for now! basicly its not shifting up properly through all the gears unless ur carrying speed and basicly take ur foot off the throtle completly. the gear changes are also quite jerky. i also notice that only when cold reverse gear will wrk for a couple of seconds the seem to lose drive, not completly but u have to pick the revs right up to get it to move. the box has been reconditiond but this was a couple of yrs bk but i have recept for £1200 for this. just before the probl…

hi has any one out there Refurbished there seats. as mine have lots of scratches and wear on them was told you can buy a type of paint that sprayes on and they come up looking like new thanks

I've been thinking about getting a larger radiator with a lower operating nismo thermostat for a while.. any of you guys done this and is there any problems in doing this?? Also I have a Import Auto, so I have heard I will need to get an auto oil cooler if i change my rad.. why is this?.. how does the normal radiator affect the auto oil cooler?.. and I have also heard that the jap import has a smaller oil cooler than the english one? why is this? finally, is the fan on the ZX a Viscous which works constantly on the radiator, because if I was to get a newer radiator, i.e. a Koyo.. I am not sure if I would be able to keep the stock front fan in place, and might have …

My Z is an Auto and when I pull away in drive for a split second it makes a noise like a similar noise to what a binding brake disc would make.. like a scraping grinding, it isn't a bad noise but annoying all the same, it isn't affecting the car.. yet.. but when it goes into 2nd the noise goes. I put it into 1st gear to find out for sure it was the 1st gear on the auto box which is making the noise and it deffinately is.. Could someone please give me some advise as to what this noise could be, many thanks!

was recently on youtube watching some videos of the 300zx, as you do. Came across quite a few that had funny noises from the engine, seemed like engine knocking. Was just wondering what is the consiquences of this? cheers

Got my Z back from Darren at D2 yesterday after having an engine swap (due to valve damage) and a manual conversion. And what a fantastic job he's done... must say any doubts i had about ditching the autobox were soon lost during the drive home :nana2: Such a massive difference... im very chuffed with the Z now... and to show my appreciation iv started making her a treat: 50sq foot of leather off ebay for 80 quid and a 3 pack of high temp leather upholstery spray glue for 15... :cool: Naturally il be getting the seats done professionally Rich

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Looking into brake options right now. Does anyone have the wilwood brake kits (calipers) fitted and what are they like? cheers

Hi folks ive just run a test on my ECU and its come up with code 21 fault which is ignition signal fault. Has anyone had this before and where do i go next to start finding the fault. Its on a Z32 TT. Thanks in advance Marty

Hi all I took a punt on ebay and bought a momo gear knob that came off an MGF it fits just fine and has the same pattern for the gearbox on the top of the knob! Result! Ron

Sold the zed today to a very nice bloke, he was here all day took the car for a few test drives, had a long talk, went through the paperwork, sorted the cash. All round good sale :hyper: Had a phone call about an hour ago, on his way home to leeds the water temp rose and steam appeared! :mad: Sounds like the heater pipes as it sounds like its from the back of the engine. Typical eh? :headvswal How bad does this look? :wack:

I had a set of wheels that used to be on my zed cluttering up the place so got them out to clean em and whack em on ebay. When my dad saw em tho he asked what i'd get for em and said he'd like em instead! So today i took his stock purple (yes i did say purple lol) wheels off and fitted these for him instead. I've gotta say WOW what a difference! I think they look good on a silver car anyway but the change from the purple ones is incredible!!! BEFORE AFTER

bought it cheap off of ebay as i needed the manual box for my conversion and it has a few other bits that i will be nicking off of it:tongue: may well be breaking it over a period of time so notify if you would like anything. it has recaro buckets in the front and ask about any other parts and i will tell you iff it has them. wheels and gearbox are taken. it took me 7 hours of driving today to get it home:(

Heading towards Notts past Goulders 11pm ish I was in my mate Laguna tho.

doh i pulled the pipe of off the sensor while cleaning the car

Found some coil-overs, they were listed as Tein monoflex. when I asked what they came with this is what was said A: Its not the new kit, it was second hand, it doesnt come with the pillow ball upper mounts, these are the lower end of the scale coilovers. they are complete except for the c spanners, however i have ordered a set, and when they arrive will be forwarded to the winning bidder. Anyone know which ones they are as they, as they aint the ones I thought they were. I thought they were the top line ones:(

since iv had the car the gear changes have been awful clunky sometimes it just wont go in and never easy occasionally it was ok like when changing really slowly but sometimes even then its clunks in, the worst is when your gunning it through the gears it will horrendously crunch thru 3rd and 4th, its done 85k km and 10k miles - also the clutch ALWAYS smells when it comes to a stop i thought id fixed it when i adjusted the clutch pedal and it kinda felt a bit better les clunky however i think iv just been lying to myself lol! what should i do? buy a new box? buy a new clutch? change the box oil? is this a common fault? cant find anything on this problem