General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Trying to replace the misserable bulb holder in the 3rd brakelight which sits behind the perspex panel. Nissan for some reason put a wierd bulb holder behind them which has bulbs facing at different angles, so you get areas which look really dim on it. Those that have them know what I mean. Because of the size restrictions and the bulb angles, replacing the stock bulbs with LEDs can't be done. BUT, I've been pointed in the general direction of a company called clearcorners.com over in the states. Has anyone used them before? Apparently, they can remanufacture your existing bulb holders and turn the strip into an LED array. http://www.clearcorners.…

Been advised that this is a great firm that offer a while u wait service on ZX prop shafts, they also tend to keep the centre bearings in stock so no need to worry about that and they replace the UJ's with serviceable ones... Will be taking a prop shaft to these guys next week and will advise on cost / service etc... web link as below :) http://www.reco-prop.com/

Was on my way home from work going the other way (not in my Z), you were heading in the Felixstowe direction. Gaz

AS some of you will know i'm after a front bumper, really like the twinz 1 but think it might take too long to sort out and really need to think about getting the car sprayed, so looking for another one, luke has just added the 3 veiside to his range but was looking for other suppliers to compare prices,so does anybody know where to get one from? any help greatly recieved Neil

Water lines were completely clogged!! :rolleyes: Badly and so were the bolts and Turbo water channels :cry: Worst of all Both Turbo Housing's will not budge at all even after soaking in WD all night and after heating and i had a housing bolt shear off and the other ones are too tight and keep slipping :cry:

...town centre on saturday 2nd at around 4:30pm, you were driving around the 1 way system past pizza hut, i was walking from blockbusters where i pointed, waved, shouted and prolly looked a general psycho! you had 5 lady passengers and a spoke wheel... no hold on, you had 5 spoke wheels and a lady passenger :wack:

Hello there my fine fellows. Wanting to replace my coil packs. Remember a guy on here once who said he had loads of 'em, brand new, ready to ship. Done a search under 'Coil Packs', d'ya think I can find him? Noooooooo!! Any ideas who this might have been chaps? (and chapettes.)

cover a standing mile in under 30sec? Be even better if it was closer to 25sec.. Im planning something (none zed related) and just wondered if this could be done... would even an F1 car be pushing the 20sec standing mile? Cheers guys n gals

Around a week or so ago i put my accelerated hard causing my zed to shoot the dip stick out and spray oil everywere. Also to cause a vast amount of bluish smoke to come from exhaust. When i say vast, its BAD!!!!! After speaking to various people it was decided that psv valves may be blocked. I changed them. No difference. First the smoke was oil and now its just smoke from unburnt fuel. I first thought piston rings gone but now its running on 5 cyl. Looking at the plugs one was wet with fuel. Could this be the dreaded burnt out valve or is there other things to check. cheers all :cry:

Iv been talking to a mate of mine for a while now about Nitrous oxide and its kinda got me swaying towards getting it fitted..........iv been told a wet kit is the best one to go for....... Who here has one on a Manual Twin Turbo and what kinda kit and performance increase did they find.............how bad can it be for my engine? Any information will be helpful.........or even better experiences using the stuff Cheers Fas

Hi, planning to remove the plenum on my uk tt for polishing et etc...easy enuff to do or is there more to it? Mark

Did anyone bought a car through Bonsaicars ever? how are they? any good reputation about them? what would you say about them? spoke to them not long ago about buying a 300ZX 96,97 model deep purple metallic and they seem pretty nice and work fair and honest from what I realize.... anyone agree´s with me? would be helpful to know. thanx as always my Z Bros :cool: :)

It has often crossed my mind to sell the zed, but i woundnt know what to let it go for. So with your zed in the condition its in now, how much would you sell it for. Being realistic I havnt seen this posted before but if it has sorry.

Afternoon all, Iv'e been searching round for the Ecu harness wiring this afternoon so far i have found all the pinouts i need but got 2 different diagrams showing 2 different ground wires.can anyone confirm wheather pinout(E) is the ground or the pinout above it with red arrow pointing to it. I dont want to connnect switch on n it go pop so any help would be great thanks. :nana2:

Come on guys who's going Cybernut would like us to have a club stand. I've got club hand outs and boards almost completed for the club stand as well. It's gonna be a great day and a chance for us to meet up and show off the Zed and promote the 300zx club. :dance: :dance: :dance: :nana2: Get your names down now. :) Details in the South East section

what oil goes in a TT uk spec???? I was going to out in 10-40 or 0-40

I'm going to have an ECU upgrade from ZEDWOULD and would to know if this will damage the life span of the engine.

I have planes for changing the original cooler on my Zed to a larger one, to achieve lower oil temp while driving on hot days and track... Is there any problems of mounting a too big cooler? My goal for the next summer is 550hp, and therefore a bigger cooler... Kind regards Kenneth

Due to the number of times people ask in this section "where is this connector or that connector etc" would it not be an idea to copy it to this forum and make it sticky?

This may be a daft question but where is the backup battery normally located in a car alarm siren, is it in the siren unit itself? If so, are they usually replaceable or are they a rechargeable non-serviceable fixed unit? I can't see how I can open the siren unit on my Scorpion alarm as it appears sealed. Cheers.

Hi all.. Noticed some hesitation/stutter under heavy load around about 5k revs onwards over the past couple of weeks and i think its getting worse. I've got it into my head that its the spark plugs for some reason, i dont know when they were last changed anyway so will need to get them done i think.. I had had it in my n/a MR2 and i think that turned out to be the Rotor Arm, Dizzy Cap and spark plugs..could that be the same problem as my 300 TT? '90 Auto? Thanks Ed

Saw a black H reg 300zx parked near to the Talking Heads pub in Southampton. It was dark, and couldnt see much else. Was on Sunday night about 11pm.

My recon prop arrived this morning and I'm about to book the Zed in at the same place that recently sorted out my suspension/wheel alignment. These guys are supposed to be the best local performance car people, specialising in fast japanese but particularly evo's and supras. They are also authorised Tein dealers. Whilst changing my brakes last weekend I had a look at my front shocks (tein). Now, according to the garage in question. The front shocks are adjusted as high as they'll go (they even sugested the suspension could be the wrong ones for the car) yet you cannot get your hand in between the tyre and wheelarch. Anyhow, looking at the shock, the height …

hi there,ive decided to de-cat my z the cheap way by smashing the insides out of them(tempory). cat back is off the car and ive removed the clips but they wont seperate from the downpipes???have i missed something?? also,i was wonderin what the other pipes are that branch out of the downpipes?? thanks in advance

Some Millers CFS 10/60 fully sytn cheapish. Demontweeks is £56 delivered. Yikes From Millers direct its the same. Seems a bit expensive to me, anyone know a cheaper place? Thanks