General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Ok, so i've been nervouse with my very fickle car since upping the boost and keeping an eye. I was sure it was leaking water after using it but its been wet all the times i've used it. Anywhoo, i used it this evening. Had a REALLY nasty smell in the cockpit so got out and theres water pissing from the passenger side of the engine bay. Theres a metal elbow facing the ground coming from the fire wall?? Is that an overflow? It's only leaking with the heater on??? Tracked the smell down to the front end and the elec fan motor in front of the rad was blown up!!! it had an obstruction and wouldn't turn, so its burnt it's self out. Are the two related as…

Ive finally got a Zed (10 days ago), and i was very happy with it until i got it serviced a few days ago. Today i started up the car and its now making a ticking/tapping sound; its not very loud but it defo wasnt present before. Prior to the service the car just purred even from a cold start and drove very well, very smooth and very fast! (ive had other fast cars before), it was imported from Japan approx 1 year ago, seems to be standard other than a turbo timer, needle on standard boost gauge goes to the far left when accelerator isnt pressed, on flooring it the needle goes to the second to top marking about 10psi (although i know alot of people on this forum say that th…

Guys, Ive decided on the exhaust im going to get, but im unsure of the following Should i go for 2.5 inch diameter pipes or the 3 inch diameter? (talking about the actual pipe sections as opposed to the tail pipes) Obviously im going to have to go for the 3 inch de cats with suitable downpipes, but is there such a thing as having too little back pressure in the system? This is the rough engine spec i intend to be running to match the exhaust: Z1 side mounts Nismo 555's (for a '95 car which i think are running 610cc's) JD ecu K&N intake and probably Profec boost controller at around 15-16 psi mark aquamist water injection And prob a…

One down one to go. What do you all think?

Not long had a new clutch, on hard acceleration, I can smell the clutch burning smell when I stop, is this ok or cant the clutch handle the extra power, she's running around 350bhp.

On the A30 tonight 7ish heading towards Hartley Wintney. I was in my MR2 tubby. Rich

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hi i have recently bought my first zed and after a month of ownership my autobox has gone up the swanny i have been quoted from a company for manual conversion called SWZ PERFORMANCE just need to know if anyone has dealt with this company and how they got on? THANKS

Hi, Does anyone have any idea what can be used to put a skim over my Stillen front bumper? The problem is for some reason the top part (that runs under the headlights and nose panel) has gone wavey/warped :( Cheers Vijay

Saw a red zed today on Sussex Road in Southport at about 4.15pm. Gave you a wave, i was in a Blue Toyota Hilux. You waved back with a look like - who the hell is that nut job! :rofl: Anyway i own a Grey Zed and my dad has a Silver one, we have both seen you a couple of times in the past :) Who are you? :)

anyone going to squires (sherburn) tonight ???

Yep you nearly lost me, driving the whole way back to london, get home and this.. I was driving on this for 356 miles, now i have to go and get some new ones ASAP, £101 per tyre,toyos...

was sitting waiting to get across junction at ditton monday at about 4.45 spotted a blue zed going up a20 towards larkfield malling way didnt get a reg number.

Hi, If you are going to Z008 and live near me, could you do me a favour and pick up some lights from smithy please?

Might sound a dumb question.. Can anyone tell me if a 'standard' bonnet on a zed is supposed to be metal or fiberglass/GRP/ Other/ please? Thanks!!

Hey guy's.. What's the average price you would expect to pay for a new set of spark plugs (twin turbo) ? I've been told they are £10.00+ per plug :eek: Thanks!!

I'm thinking of selling the Zed to finance a new project car. It's a 95 TT Auto - standard except for: Apexi SS Exhause Apexi Induction Kit HKS Oil Cooler Sparco Hose Tien Super Street Suspension Tien EDFC Aftermarket Alloys - Granz Impul and a full respray in a pearlesant two tone, blue/green flip colour. The car has 88Km on the clock 3.5K of which is in miles...so aprox 56K miles in total. From checking Auto Trader, Ebay, and Japanese importers I hae an idea what the standard car would be worth... I wouldn't be prepared to give it away and need enough to finance an RX-7 Twin Turbo... Any ideas what I should advertise it at? r…

Andyduff any ideas?-------------- Zed starts fine ,no problem ticks over fine although does hunt slightly ,no problem otherwise,drive to lights about 500yds ,stop---tickover lumpy like a plug is misfiring or something---drive on no problem---- 11 miles, stop everything fine still hunts slightly but not lumpy.It would appear that once the engine has warmed up the problem lumpy thing goes away.The misfiring thing only happens when the car has been parked outside in the evenings NOT after the car has been in the garage.Have checked the usual things ,plug top wiring connections etc all SEEM ok.Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. :bow: Chaz :headvswal

Just traded my z in for a new vectra SRI, and it's soooooooooo fast!!!

great day start in the morn and dont stop driveing till night :dance:

Hello all been having this problem with the zeds idle, on tick over the revs are up and down like a lumpy cam nearly stalling doesent jump up past 1000rpm. But when you stick it in drive I accelerate normally and the engine holds back so give it more gas but still the same? then the turbos start doing all the work, It gets worse if engines cold then its a nightmare! smells of fuel too! I know the yellow connector on the metal water pipe, the wires are a blueish colour so need to chop them and rewire, could this be the main problem for idle? or maybe MAF sensor?? cheers in advance!

Went to Pelham Place boot sale at M20/M25 junction round about. A Dark grey Z parked one car over next to me in the ar park. Sitting in the car with my door open, distracted for a moment and the driver of the grey Z got in to their car and drove off. Only ever see 3 Z's most disappointed he never spoke to me.

well folks was @ the z meet in waterford @ the weekend great day untill this happened ,,,,, smoke started comeing out behind driver side of engine and when i drove it there was rattle out of tappets ,put half ltr of oil in and then no noise , this noise came back after a another few miles so pulled over and waited 3 hours for mancanic to come he decovered there was no water in rad so filled up wit water and test drove came back and water was leakin from rad cap , so thanks to chewie he gave me his cap 2 get us home ,car drove perfect all the 2 hours home ,so when i got up this mornin i decovered water leak under the back of engine (only driping) so toped up w…

i can get them at trade price through a guy who is a uk distributor of tein , any idea of the trade price of tein coilovers????

I've been looking at this :- http://www.ttzd.com/tech/pcvtech.html and I still don't know what the actual valve is :confused: My PCV's and hoses were replaced around a year or so ago (can't remember exaclty when LOL it may well have been longer than that :nelson:) cheerZ Duffer's :bow:. The reason I ask is I'm getting some smoke on idle after a run and it's been getting gradually worse and was wondering if the new valves/hoses have become blocked and could be cleaned ? I'm hoping it's not my turbo seals :eek: :x: CheerZ Paul