General Discussions - 300ZX Related

you buy a car from a trader with 6 months warranty... a week or so after the purchase you find that the engine is actually buggered and a new one is needed... the car is booked in to a garage to be repaired but because of awaiting the availability of another engine the car is in the garage for a long period of time... when i do eventually get it back there will be next to fook all left of the warranty period so if the new engine causes any probs i would have to fit the bill... so basically since purchasing the car iv hardly driven it and had to seek permission from the person i bought it from to join the z parade at silverstone. any advice welcome :)

Just wondered if they affect the bulb warning panel on the dash, and if they are any good at all? Also vaguely remember a thread on the brake light bulbs that flash when you touch the brakes but can't find it, can someone give me a pointer?

As many of you may be aware, Andy was issued with a temporary one month ban last Wednesday for continuing to post anti-club and anti-committee comments on the board. Andy has requested I post the following statement from himself In light of Andy's apology, the Committee has decided to lift his ban. Andy is fully aware of the Club's AUP and understands he's on his last chance. As far as the Committee is concerned, this matter is now closed. Thanks Steve-300ZX Membership Secretary

another 3 weeks now before me and my mate attack my Z and take the engine out. still trying to get used to all the Zed'isms and things i should do, here is what i am going to do so far 1 - Have tubs rebuit, inc 360 bearings and staggered oil seals 2 - replace all water and oild hoses at the back of the engine 3 - change cambelt whilst its out does this sound ok or are there other things i should be doing? i found small metal tubes in the vac line to the wastegates are these boost jets? should i leave em in there or take em out? what about things like boost jets, controllers, vac guages? turbo timers? should i be doing any of this while its ou…

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had my car rolling roaded today and it put out 356.9@ the flywheel with around 385ftlb torque, i was hoping for closer to 400bhp as i have seen better figures with less mods, i was going to upgrade to 555's so i could run more boost but was told i cant run anymore than 1bar(which im already running) without causing det, would upgrading to 555's give a performance increase or is it just for peace of mind ie knowing there will be sufficient fuel for 1bar boost? if i want to run more than 1 bar i will have to upgrade the pistons and if im upgrading the pistons i might aswell uprgade the con rods aswell and so on and so on to make labour costs more effective, how much would i…

If so, I bring you a little bit of relief. Just spoke to Martyn, the garage is not flooded as it is on higher ground, so your car is not under water, although I did have muchos funos winding Andy Line up on the phone just now saying that our cars were actually underwater... I was going to take it further with the residue in the water will cause all his gold plating to irode and rust, but I couldn't lower myself to that level. :duffer:

has anybody fitted this to their Z? i do quarter mile runs every couple of months and was thinking about fitting launch control, anybody any ideas how much it would cost to do and how i do it? :confused:

:( Got my zed stranded on a flooded road last night. spluttered popped and cut out in about a foot of water. :headvswal I have a mushroom air filter fitted and think it's probably pulled water into the engine. Managed to get towed out and parked it up to dry. all electrics seem fine but engine wont turn... I think engine may have seized but what do you guy think? any ideas? any idea how much I would be looking at for a replacement engine? anyone want the car for spares or repair? It's a '91 Jap spec TT auto

Just thought i'd say happy 40th to lindsey and redzed! Many happy returns :duffer: :duffer: And happy 37th to mc300zx and 23rd to zx_devil :D :D :D :D

My manager just came in and said one of the guys at Blue Square (?) owns a reddy orange zed with a personalised plate? They've just been for a meeting there and recognised what car it was. Apparently it has a fairlady badge on the back? Who's is that then? :D

A few of you already know which car i was planning on buying but i didn't want to say anything till i knew the other car was a definate sale first. Well Jimjitsu is selling up his NA and i couldn't help but jump at the chance to own this fine machine :D Always had a major thing for this car form day one :) I'm sooo excited! :hyper:

On the left side head, there is a water outlet on the rear of the head, does anyone know where this goes to? And what pipe goes on it.... Also, there are 8 springloaded washers,where do these go? ALSO!!!! there are 2 short head bolts, where do these go? :headvswal

Following on from my massive success on the rev limiter post lmao, I'm wondering about one of these. I remember talking to Jay about them and he thought that the way they limited the RPM was a bit ropey, but we didn't decide in the end whether to try one. Anyway, I'm looking at adapting a secondary rev limiter to make a FTS kit. I'm guessing if the Bee-r works ok as a rev limiter, just have a microswitch on the clutch pedal connecting the positive circuit to the rev limiter so it kicks in when you clutch it. Any thoughts? And has anyone actually used one? Cheers!

I have just brought a set of samco silicon top and bottom rad hoses to replace my leaky standard rubber ones. I have an aftermarket water temp gauge that used to have the sensor going into the top hose (hot water out of engine). As the samco top hoses has quite a pronounced bend in the top pipe (presumably for thermal expansion or turbulent mixing purposes) it would have been impossible to fit the adaptor holding the temp sensor into this pipe because it would not fit properly and be leaky. I fitted it to the bottom hoses instead as this has big straight lengths which makes it easy to fit. i realised i would have to figure out the temp drop through the rad (whi…

I've just put the zed (orange n/a) on ebay with no reserve and started the bidding at 99p! it reached £1500 last time but didn't meet the reserve. i need to sell it now so im taking the risk!! :nelson: :confused:

Mark, Tried to reply to your PM but your inbox is full mate. Ta, Tom

Anybody got a list of what is tested at MOT? Got mine soon and want to give it a good check over myself first :)

Hi All, Got in this morning after the torrential rain and the boost gauge is reading 14 psi all the time. Any ideas??. Cheers.

Just picked up a brand new AEM EMS for 940 USD on EBAY :D :hyper: I've been looking around the web for articles on zeds tuned with the AEM but could not find any ... Anyone got any links to any ?

i have Question for yay bud .....!!!!! for the AGM .... ...

did anyone manage to survive and swim away from santapod to tell the story?

Ok just replaced ratiator, will fit separate oil cooler when i get the chance later. Presume there is no need to bleed the autobox that circulates through the rad, made sure I didnt loose much if any fluid when changing rad, will check the levels as per manual when i warm the car up next. Dead easy and quick job cant belive nissan wanted 2 hrs labour when it only took me an hour. :nono:

Not for my car but for another member on here. He needs a new rear as it cannot be repaired. The rim size 17x10. Does anyone have a suggestions as where to source one from please? The pics are from when gruntpa had them on his car.

saw a black z on the roundabout at donington on sunday.did you go to the gp race