General Discussions - 300ZX Related

My car went in for an MOT today. It passed (phew), but on driving back I switched on the aircon and was promptly blasted with hot air. It was working fine on the way TO the test centre. The only strange thing I notice is that it looks like they disconnected the battery. Not sure why they would need to do this, but the temp on aircon was showing 10 degrees (default) and time was wrong. Anyone got any ideas whether this might be the cause, or what else might be? In this weather I'm getting a serious case of Betty Swollocks.

Im currently sorting out insurance quotes and confused.com have confused me. They cannot find the reg of the car to find its details presumably due to it being an import. My car is a 1990 TT Manual and the options available to me are '300zx Non Turbo', '300zx Turbo Coupe' (90-94) or '300zx Twin Turbo Hatchback' (89-98)and a few others. Now i didnt know there was coupes and hatcbacks and iv searched google images and cant find a difference, also I assume that '300zx turbo coupe' must mean twin turbo mustn't it? Anyway iv had quotes on both and for '300zx Turbo Coupe' it was half the price of '300zx twin turbo hatchback'. Can I just put that mine is…

help!! found a fuel leak in my tank!!! any suggestions??? it looks like a little rust blister, gonna try liquid metal but if that don't work, anyone know where i can get my hands on a 2nd hand tank on the cheap? ta. 9ball!!! :)

i'm after the F150 engine mounts for a 89 model which work for the zed...does anyone know a source in the UK? cheers

Nice looking Zed with tops out, i was in the wife's BMW as it's a little hard to get 3 sets of golf clubs in the boot of a Zed! :wack:

Is there anyone on this forum running one of these Methanol setups? http://www.z1motorsports.com/product_info.php?products_id=1538&osCsid=12c7b3cbf2e45e436f55e1f8c9566544 I know the fiat coupe members used this alot on their turbo cars.

First time I've seen a Z on the road for real in ages, didn't have time to see the plate or recognise the driver as I was southbound.

Would the ECU store why it has done this? I was on the motorway, pulling hard in 4th gear and it reverted to safety mode for some reason. It was quite a hot day, but I had a tank of fresh V-Power in it. I really don't know why it would go into safety boost. It does it VERY occasionally (every few weeks or so). So it is a very intermittent problem and hard to trace. Anyway, I gets off the motorway, go down a DC and het stuck behind a car doing 50. So I pass him, and so does the Z4 behind me :D We wait at the lights, him on the left, me on right. He has his top down and his beautiful lady has her long blonde hair flapping all over the place in the li…

Can't seam to get my dash to look right. I don't want it shiny!!! But i seam to get a white residue with autoglym interior shampoo so i tried my leather treatment from my seats on it and still no luck!!!! What do you use to keep the dash looking new??

Hi guys, I've got a bit of a head scratcher ! My drivers side hid has started to stobe, so far i have. replaced the ballast replaced the hid bulb Yesterday i swapped the relays over but this didnt make any difference. Interestingly though i decided to run the live from my battery to the hid unit and it was fine problem solved, any suggestions on where the prob could be ? thanks people

...please folks are there any alternatives to the hard thin water coolant pipes running off the tubs as i got a couple of pinholes and thought there maybe something less likely to pinhole in the future also when struggling to remove the blasted egr nut on the passenger tub manifold (so i could blank it off) some swarf dropped into the manifold...what can i flush / clean with (carb cleaner...WD40...plus gas?)..i guess a few particles may find their way into the tub but dont want to bugger the tub by using the wrong cleaning method i thank you chris

i decided to enter the drag racing at the meet in bishopscourt today, their timing equiptment was not working properly and everyone only got one run timed mine was supposedly 16.32 HOWEVER in the 4 runs i did all against skylines, (2 r32 gtst, i r34 gtst, and 1 r33gtr) over the 1/4 mile i beat them all by a good bit, not bad for an old granny and her 17 year old z, im so fooking happy:hyper:

Hi Twitty :cool:got an email off Simon who was at MFN tonight saying your Email dosent work and can you contact him Bud.

Not sure if it was was actually you or a spec of dust on my mirror but it moved once I left the A66:tongue:

i have developed a rattle that come from behind the timing belt cover at very low revs as in 1000rpm, the car is running spot on but its concerning me cos the cambelt has just been done, i cant really say its been fit wrong cos duffman done it so it must be right, does anyone have any thoughts. Regards, Chris.

At the junction of tooting bec today around 2.30ish? We saw each other and honked/waved. Not seen you around before...very nice looking Zed!

Fitted a Carbing front brace,read all about them but very suprised how much stiffer the front end feels and more feedback through the steering,i would recommend it !!

On my way home from leeds this lunch time and came up against a z4 on the M1, looked as though he wanted to test the speed so away we went, to cut a long story short, the zed hammered the z4 over and over, blasted away from him for about a mile or two, then slowed down to let him catch up, then gave him another chance, and he got battered again, so much fun, he came off the m1 at the same junction an pulled up along side me at the lights and commented on how well it looked and how well it went round bends where he had to brake, and he wasnt expecting to get blown away so many times.:bow::bow::bow:

Parents seen blue 300ZX same colour as mine on a M plate around filton around in the afternoon / evening time

Hey, Was in Bideford this week and see a red one parked up with 300zx.co.uk sitckers in the windows and what looked like split rims. Anyone on here?

Thanks to Joelyp for photo shopping ths idea almost ayear ago!!!!! I have finally got round to doing it. I wanted to tidy up the rear and see if I could make the rear look wider by making it less fussy. The reverse lights and fogs still shine through (Just about!!) What do you think??? Andy

hi can someone plz enlighten me on taking the heater matrix out i was told yu can take it out without taking the dashboard out if so how ? i looked and shit myself it aint goin in that gap......:rolleyes:

Hi people, I have just taken out and checked 2 of my spark plugs and found that they are BOSCH PLATIN FR7DP1X and I'm assuming the other 4 are the same and thay look ok. I did a search on this site with no results. So my question is, are these plugs any good or should I bin them and get proper ones ? CheerZ Paul

Has any one still got the mould for this bumper or anything like it i belive its a trust copy .thanks.:cool:

We have coming up soon on ebay, the following parts........... Front mount intercooler 99 spec front bumper and light 99 spec rear spoiler, with tailgate I just wondered if this was andy z i know hes not a trader anymore but i wasnt sure if this was him or not it mentions supercar parts on his ad.