General Discussions - 300ZX Related

can anyone that knows owt about setting these things up help me - the following settings used to give me about 15psi, but since ive had the engine tweaked (timing, a/f ratio corrected etc.) the same settings are giving me 12psi. with my setup i'm looking to aim for 17psi, but can someone suggest what the settings should be for 15, 16, and 17? or is it a matter of driving to my personal test track and having a (very careful) play? set: 75 gain: 14 start: 9.10 cheers

This looks like a nice sleeper, Would be nice to know 'what' turbos is has rather than just aftermarket ones. http://www.wrc-sales.co.uk/bradford/?mf=4&p=2 What do you think? Rob

Anybody got a picture of the indicator flasher unit where it is fitted Please :bow::bow::bow:Need to splice in a buzzer as I'm deaf lol.

As above, very tidy example, met the owner and pointed him in the direction of this site, so hopefully he will join. Gave him my number so he can attend meets with us. His name is Sam.

Anyone know why I cannot join via Paid Subscriptions? When I try and go through paypal I just get an error message?

Hi all, can anyone help? My Autobox has been playing up for a while with gear changes under static load and constant revs. It's quite tempramental playing up more in the wet. I've checked TPS and that seems ok and tried disconnecting ECU but its still playing up. I am planning on changing oil but not got around to it yet. While I was driving last night, the car started jumping. It wasn't the engine as it didn't do it in neutral, only in 'D'. I had to drive it under '1' and '2' all th way home while it was playing up. But after maybe 30secs, it would calm down though I couldn't get it to shift up once I reched lower revs and think I may have lost 3rd gear? W…

I'm thinking about putting my car on ebay with a starting price of £100 but a reserve of £8.5k. How much it is going to cost me to advertise this with a reserve for a 7 day auction ? I very much doubt it will meet the reserve, but I'm very interested to see what Joe public thinks it's worth. Maybe we should have a sweep stake before I do it. On a 7 day auction... I recon it will get to £4,800 Place your bets now !!!

Was randomly browsing on that well known online auction site, and i found my wheels. i nearly had a heart attack at the price the guy is selling them for! :shock:think im

Heres what i should be saving in weight so far. front front number replaced with sticker. - 300g fog lights removed - 3kg hicas solenoid removed - 3kg rear hicas rack removed - 5kg under bonnet clutch bleed point removed - 1kg egr removed - 2kg prvr removed - 1kg Aiv removed - 3kg under plenum water bypass - 1 kg carbon canister removed - 3kg lighter pistons - 1kg lighter rods - 1kg lighter steering wheel :D - 3kg lightweight flywheel - 7kg removed all the crappy stock filter box air ducts etc - 5kg cruise control - 1kg Front Total - 40.3kg Tein coilovers with aluminum top mounts (random guess) - 5kg rear rear…

hey guys just a quick one. has anybody tries these seat retrim kit jobbies they seem fairly good value and the pics look ok ( but they wouldnt put a crap one on would they ! ) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEAT-COVERS-NISSAN-180SX-300ZX-200SX-SKYLINE-ALMERA-S15_W0QQitemZ290290115880QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item290290115880&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 are they easy to fit any feed back would be cool as at the mo i cant afford to waste 275 quid on a bag of sh!$e! ( the joys of redundancy lol ) cheers

I have an oil pressure and oil temp gauge and also a water temp gauge, my mate got ready to start fitting them but before he did he realized that i needed other parts to fit them to the car, can someone give me an idea on what i will need, pics and websites would be a great help. Thanks

Hi all, has anyone ever seen a skyline straight six in a 300ZX? Im toying with the idea and would like to know if its a futile idea... many thanks.

As titled :D We were driving with a zed on a trailer

This might be a helpfull topic for people who want to build Tomei solid lifters and solid lifter profile cams. I've been working on these for a while and found several problems on the way that made the setup very difficult, and therefore worth explaining. I'm Dutch so please don't mind my spelling:slap: I'll start with some general info on these cams. The Tomei procam solid lifter cams are considered the best for the vg30, ca18 and rb20. This is cause the stock hydraulic valve lifters are replaced by lightweight (about 40% less weight) solid lifters. The weight reduction allows for a faster opening and closing rate and therefore more lift overall over the openin…

Seeing as I'm really not very good on the whole body/paintwork sort of thing, can someone advise me on the preparing and then painting of my standard throttle cable cover, please. How to prepare it, what paint to use (gloss black) and how to paint the Nissan letters a different colour from the rest of the cover ...an idiot's guide really :D Thanks in advance - Andy

lights on this car seems loads more efficient than my other it's a series 2 vs a series 1 if that makes a difference but this one actually lights the road up pretty well. How can I tell if they are HID's ? :confused::bow:

I fitted new speakers last year, but I want something more meaty. Looking at getting some Alpine component speakers. Only question I have is, how much space is there behind the door? The depth of the speakers I am after is 59mm. Will the window clear this when wound down? I am NOT looking to build pods or anything. I want these to be hidden away nice and descretely. http://www.online-caraudio.co.uk/shop/speakers/alpine/alpine-spr-17s-446310.html Also, where do you guys hide their crossovers?

While getting the car going noticed the fan (origanal plastic one )had loads of large splits in the plastic any one no the cause its not been hit or any thing going to replace it just wonderd why

Saw you this evening at about 5.40 coming up to the M1/M62 junction. NMice looking zed too. Anyone on here?

Well sooner than expected I decided to bring the new project home to Lutterworth. Slick Pete gave me a day of his life to help out (thank you buddy, much appreciated!). We started off about 10am and got back to ashby after dropping all the parts off at Lutterworth about 7pm. I've spent today moving everything around and tidying up as well as putting the original wheels back on and setting the panels up. Spacing is a bugger but I think I'm just about there, just the bottom of the panels to drill and bolt up and they're done. I also sorted out all the electrics on the car to get everything working, even the brake lights work now! I've also nicked a few bit…

Took the Zed to my garage ( Tesco`s covered car park ! ) to try to change the front pads but failed at the first hurdle . I couldn`t loosen the large " nut " in the centre of the Rays VolkRacing wheels . Tried a bit of tapping but didn`t wanna damage it . Is there anywhere I can get a tool for this ?

My son has just bought the crashed na zed from john-e-retro and i need to get it from oxford to me . Anyone able to help. or recomend someone. Thanks all

got lots of papers with my Z all the mots and bills also a letter from the guy whos car it was in japan it was he company car and when he came to england he had it sent here not bad bit of history also have three bills of sale one has 750 two months later it sold for 2000 then when for 5000 two year after that show the ups and down of car prices

I thought id treat it to new plugs, as looked old sooty and tired, removed plugs inserted new ones, started it and it ran but there were flicking tick tick noises, like the noise you woul hear on a ht lead that was shorting out but no sparks to be seen or anything so iturned it off, i checked as best i could nothing was out of place or wrong, all seemed ok, so started it again and was running on 3 cylinders, and engine sounded weird, then it dropped to 2 cyls i wiggled the wiring loom that supplies the coils and injectors and it went to 3/4 cyls then dropped to maybe one then chucked it and now wont start at all HELP! ive tried another ptu, no good, mines a series 2 anyw…

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220311397799&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DWatching anyone tried or had them? my original ones are like 20 years old and tatty. car has been sorn off the road now doing a few bits and bats before it comes back on. they need replacing. and they seem quite cheap??? 2fast2cool does some quality parts so hoping they'd be ok?? i would get some hard pipes but no ££££ :)