General Discussions - 300ZX Related

ah well i couldnt put it off any longer ...... the grinder came out tonight and it went to work on the bubbling paint and rust on the front wing and rear quarter just need to sort out both areas round the door handles and she's off to paint next week for the repsray im tired covered in filler dust and have burn marks on my leg but at least theres light at the end of the tunnel......hopefully she should be done in 2 weeks and i can say bye bye to the nasty respray blowover its had and hello to the proper colour

I am using the turborevs boost controller and and am getting half a second of boost spike between 3rd and 4th gear which hits 16.5 psi, is this half a second dangerous or not? or would i need a longer spike to cause problems? cheers

Hi all, I am looking to get into 300zx ownership. I would apreciate your advice and opinions on a couple of cars i was going to look at. One in the for sale section "Awesome pearl white 300zxtt " and another on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270127500998&category=18238&sspagename=rvi:1:1v_buy After reading up on the FAQ's on what to look for i was going to look for a manual but most seem to be auto's, i have read about the poss issues with the auto box's which put me off at forst but please feel free to talk me round. Any advice help or opinions good or bad would be greatly apreciated

Hello! Does anyone know where I can get some new hose from, the ones that you would normally insert the boost jet into as i've nicked mine when trying to sqeeze my old ones out with some plyers! :slap: Many thanks peeps! ;) Red hose would be nice too if available but not fussy!

Yellow zed, no idea on year na/tt but it did have a large aftermarket wing on the back, and possible the 4 pot lights?? Dont know was half asleep Was parked on a road side, but visable from main road through harrogate :)

i dont know if anyone has seen this, but i think it is the nicest example of an extreme 300zx i have ever come accross... http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_1787/article.html?popularArticle

Having recently taken my Car to a Japanese 300zx specialist in Cardiff, it seems to have developed some interesting characteristics. Start her this evening as the battery is dead (was off to halfrauds to get a new one) and there was a good awful ticking noise from behind the glove box. Took it off to have a look a could see that a piece of metal appears to be trying to move and some sort of box it was attached to. Any ideas what this is and how I can stop the incescent ticking? I think I'll be going further afield for anything on this car from now on. Regards Paul

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=81345&highlight=oil+filter+valve+return found this old thread where Old Zed says some aftermarket oil filters dont have a non-return valves. Do blueprint filters have this valve does anyone know? What brand of filters do have the NRV and how much do they cost?

As above, Has anyone made up ducts to keep the brakes cool? If so, how did you go about it? let's see some pictures...

I this is the third time i have seen this 300zx parked near dentex in botley road Rownhams(North Badds). Anyone from here? looks tidy :D

I have a mate whos also a mechanic and used to work with me in a Garage! His son owns a 300zx and has just installed 740cc injectors still using a 370cc tuned jwt eprom but he has divided his air intake so one side has the AFM on plus filter and the other side has just a filter on (no AFM)? He told me this is possible and is running fine? even though the balance bar is still connected? Apparently and i suppose it makes sense up to a degree, the afm only reads one side of the intake so the 740cc injectors squirt the right amount of fuel! is this really possible? He is running a aftermarket walbro high flow pump too? I know alot about different injection systems a…

can anyone tell me where the torque converter is and how easy it is to change thanx

By croxton train station? Very very nice ZED and i love the MK2 aswell :D

I have just looked at a mates 93 LWB TT as he complained that the CD head unit was U/S no sound and was going to Halfords for a new one! Having swopped over with a known working unit there is still not a whisper. Is their another amp? If so where is it? Does it have a fuse? If so where? My own 1990 NA LWB runabout has sounds but pretty crap by todays standards. Has replacement speakers of reasonable standard and Sony head unit. I assume this has another amp also. A readable/ printable wiring diagram would also usefull.

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/video.php?illustration=110 Is it worth it??.

does anybody have a n/a they dont use everyday? my TT has been off the road that long, i've sold every car i had, and im driving the n/a daily. i was wondering if anybody had one as a weekend car. its nearly as bad on fuel than the TT, 100 miles to £20!

so how did you do it boys did you splice into the original connector? wire for wire and then tee the fuel supply in tank? and make it so you can just drop the two pumps into the tank? sounds like a good way to do it as im finding external pumps a bit noisey and they make me nervous

Theres a funny noise :) Im completely new to turbo's/turbo'd cars so I dont know what they are ment to sound like etc But when accelerating in low revs for exmaple 20 to 25 in 3rd gear, or 30 to 35 in 4th gear there seems to be a funny noise coming from the engine (i think?) like a whirring, i wanna say raspy yet rattly? I could nail the car from 10 to 50 or whatever in second and the noise wont be there. Cheers in advance Pete.

Have a good day fella's. :duffer: :duffer:

this will sound so daft ..... but after driving my zed for a while i get a smell coming into the car through the air vents and it smells like " celery " ive checked all over inside the engine bay and can find nothing ive even had all the air pipes out under the dash ive taken it to a couple of garages last week and the description of the smell ranges from fruit to the illegal green smokey stuff.............im totally baffled by this ( this is no joke ) anyone else got a similar problem and before anyone says its not B.S cheers in advance matty

We are in the process of setting up a newsletter for the membership, and I was wondering if anyone was having any special deals we could put in there? Also, if anyone has any interesting information, articles they may think might be of interest, it would be usefull. Thanks for taking the time to read this guys. Neil

hi peeps was wdndering if its possible to have the mirrors on my zed fold in when i switch the ignition off and fold out when i switch ignition on if so any ideas how to do it cheers peeps matty

Was up santa pod this weekend and noticed an out of control muppet behind the wheel of a black 300 tt drifting around the wet and muddy campsite. Was this muppet you?

waved and flashed but no response

Well TBH I expected she would. I haven't started the car since November last year, I had to jump start her yes but turned the key and she fired up. Plus no apparent leaks from radiator. On the down side my heater and windscreen wipers are temporarily out but that's more than likely down to Gaz and Neil when they removed the carputer! Only joking guys, but possibily just a loose wire under the dash. I will have a look another day. Next get her MOT'd and somebody may buy her!