General Discussions - 300ZX Related

hi all, when i got my Z there was quite severe cracking of the outside lense of the rear lights, i figured it must be age so i fitted a good secondhand pair, now i have come to get it out again i notice the offside rear light is as bad again!! an ideas anyone? can the outside plastic lense be bought and replaced seperatley? i dont fancy forking out for the whole lot again. need a cart load of other bits too bit i will stich them in the Wanted section Thanks

Hi All, Slotted my engine back in and got it running. Not running well though. I suspect I have a big boost leak somewhere. Can't pressurise the system enough to find out where - so it must be substantial. I'm sure it's a leak in the turbo / IC circuit having ruled anything after the throttle bodies out. The reason for my post is to see if anyone can suggest anything obvious that I may have overlooked when reinstalling the engine. I've removed the stock recircs and capped off the hardpipes at 4 points, although admittedly I could do with a better solution than I am currently using for this, does anyone make a kit for plugging these annoying orifices? Stock …

Hi all, Could anyone or anyones give me there expert advice on my engine spec so far! Im looking to buy the last of the parts from Z1 very shortley but not 100% sure if im buying the right parts suited to my spec. My engine spec so far is: Ported & polished heads , Ported & polished inlet plenum, Ported & polished inlet manifold, JWT 400+ agressive race cams, JWT heavy duty vtc springs, Wiseco pistons 88.5 slight over bore, Eagle conrods, ACL Race spec bearings & shells, Cometic 1.0mm multi layer metal head gaskets, Z1 Re-build kit, ARP Head & Main stud kit, Unorthodox lightened crank pulley, Greddy kevl…

As above i am thinking of putting a boost controller on the Z she is a 94 lwb tt jap import and has only done 55000 miles do i need to get the compression check before i go a head.The car is running on stock internals and tubs only mods are induction kit and hks ssqs.Also if i fit what else should i do i havs got a jd chip to put in and thats all.

Hey guys, after nearly 2 years of muppets wrecking my engine i've finally got my car back... My mechanic has replaced the oil pump, water pump etc. He says that the car is making 2 bar of pressure whether the engine is hot or cold, Anybody got any ideas what the problem is now:( Is it just a new pressure sensor?? Thanks.. Richie

Ive now finally got my zed back on the road thanks to andy p and a new ecu but i still have a slight hesitation when pulling away if you give it more revs its fine. But pulling away normally it will try to die so can any one help me at all buy pluging in a conzult in and having a look at things thanks chris

if you open the bonnet the head on the right has bent valves can this head be removed with taking the engine out

Hicas light comes on after aprox 10-15 min of motorway driving.Have checked and topped up power steering fluid but still happening.At low speeds,town work it stays off. Has anyone any ideas please.

Is there any way of removing the passenger door card with the window up? i think the motor is knackerd and dont know what to do, ive got a spare to replace it with....but need to get the card off.....cheers jay

yes that was me in the blue saxo jon ;) car looked GOOD:dance::dance: great day for riding round with the roofs off, would have done the same if didnt have the sprog with me.:( dan.:D

Got a strange noise under acceleration, its a kind of creak or mettalic rattle and is getting more constant and now i can hear it when not booting it. Could it be a turbo part?? or something else come loose? Got no smoke at all from the Zorst.

well out yesterday parked up in the garden went indoors had a cupper went to check the oil and stuff and saw a flipping great crack in the screen it did not happen while i was out anyhow phoned national screens and they are coming to do it Saturday seem to think seeing a thread on here about needing new strips because the old one is bonded to the screen?anyhow national said I would not need them because on the computer it said it didn't :wack:can anyone shed some light on this?

Does anyone have any idea what this is for? I've been going through the parts i removed from my old Z but i cannot remember where this came from :mac1:

Hi all, I need to get myself a boost gauge to replace the stock one so that I can look at getting some boost jets stuck in without blowing up my Zed... I've been looking at these AC-Autotechnic ones (cos they look purty...): S7 Invision Gauges Anyone come across these before? Also, I'm hoping to mount my boost gauge (and oil pressure and water temp when I get them) in my spare DIN slot with something like this: 2" DIN Slot Pod Again, does anyone have any experience with these? Comments? Cheerz!

for comin up on saturday and getting my baby back on the road.. huge thanks guys ;)

After having the Zed off the road for 3 years. I don't remember the brakes being that lame. I want to do a full rebuild of my calipers as I supect that after 3 years of not being used they have got themselves into a sticky situation. Any links to rebuild kits and some instructions on how to do it ? Many thanks.

I have had people knocking at teh door, leaving messages, stopping me yada yada. Is that for sale? Its been tehre months mate, you selling it? Whats wrong with it? Ill buy it off ya for parts. So once and for all My Zed is not, never will be for sale.

Saw loads of you in a big field...looked great but who where you all:confused: LOL, Only joking of course it was Z008:rofl::tongue:And they all looked great:bow:

Hello everybody,i'm french and i've a 1996 300zx Twin turbo car (the last 300zx in europe)...I'd decided to offer at my car the stage III (but is harder to do it with a 1996 car the ecu is different (16 bits isn't it ?) that the 1990-1994 300zx tt) then i decided to contact ash spec... In the first time there was a mistake because they sold to me a eprom for a 1990-1994 300 zx tt... In a second time,i must add more money to buy a Ecu in stage III for my 1996 (16 bits) 300zx then i've received it but my car wasn't run good (grazes,smoke...). In a third time i send back the ecu to ash (with my money) and after two weeks i received it again. I was very happy to try i…

Can anyone tell me which other nissan wheels will fit a 300zx? I just want to fit some wheels onto a car I am selling, so that I can remove the Nismo wheels from it. The car is a cat 'c' write off, and I need to sell it, but want the wheels off. It doesn't matter what wheels I put on, because someone will probably only be buying it for the engine/box/suspension etc anyway, not to put back on the road.

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was it you?:duffer:

ok after sorting my boost pipe probs took car for a long run today approx 280miles up through the highlands and glens with the company of another zed,3 supras and a lexus running a mixture of a road cruising and b road ragging and open road lunacy near the end of the run i was noticing what sounded like low level pinking when in overdrive low rev just feathering throttle, then when flooed to overtake a coach got loud pinking which i am assuming is det but zed didnt go into safety mode and continued to boost as normal, zed has a mines ecu, hks mushroom, decatt (although has 4 silencers then the back boxes) running at 1 bar of boost ,any thoughts on this could it…

Anyone tell me where the fuse is for the radio? Is it one of the two fuse boxes in the engine bay?

Well after all the hard work to get the car back to working from it's sorry state (until I take the engine out for the new one) all I had to do was wait for the paperwork from the DVLA. Yesterday it turned up so got my tax and put all the bits back together and gave her a good clean. Today I headed out with her for my 1st proper drive in a ZX. IT WAS GREAT!:dance: What a drive, turned a lot of heads, so comfy and goes well to but didn't push it to hard tho;) The car is looking quite nice now so hopefully see you at Japfest with her next week!