General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Going down the A617 past rainworth towards newark about 5mins ago, whos is it? :confused: You dont see many around but ive seen this one twice in the last week. Must live somewhere around here. Pretty sure its the same red one as i saw last time, looks standard from the back and front.

has any one got any photos of them i.e fixing points etc and the size maybe a part number the reason i ask is at work we have a large number of gold brembos which come off a 85-1990 f1 car lol. and thinking about fitting them to a zed . thanks

Hi folks, just picked up my Z from having a major service and just thought I'd try and get an idea how well I did pricewise. My Mechanic (he's like a greasy pet lol) is a private garage but he worked for nissan for 15 years and ids fairly well Z experienced. The job was... oil, oil filter, sparkplugs, air filter, cambelt, air-con belt, pas belt and alternator belt, and front brake pads.... always keeps all the old bits to show me what he's done... £200 labour , £211 parts, inc VAT. total £411 inc vat. I reckon thats ok... what do you guys think?

im going 2 buy new alloys with tyres but im not sure what 2 buy between 19in team dynamics drifz with avon f1 tyres at £1025 with nuts and balanced or 18in ultralite 755's with toyo or falken tyres and nuts and balanced at about £12 to £1300. what would be the best mix and match and 4 money reasons would i be better off paying more at the start 4 the 18's or less 4 the 19's and then prob more l8r 4 bigger tyres. have standard 300zx with no mod's and prob wont get wider arches at front or back, many thanks 4 helpin me with this puzzler. :headvswal

Hi people, I've got a bit of a situation here. My Z was low on oil so I top her up with a fully synthetic 5W40. Its the same one that was in before and never gave me any problems up until I topped her up. Once I topped the oil, started her after a couple of minutes on idle, I started getting slight blue smoke. Then once it was fully warmed, I revved it and it gave out loads of smoke and its been like that since. Now its ok on idle, no smoke or anything but once I rev it hard it always gives out loads of smoke. Now im thinking (well hoping) that I have maybe over filled it with oil. Any suggestions????

Hello, I have just joined this forum as I've bought an M-Reg 300zx Fairlady. Love the car but I'm having a few problems with the gearbox. 1st, 3rd and 5th gears seem to be OK but 2nd, 4th and Reverse are 'noisy'. Crunchy would sound too harsh in this instance. I've just had a new clutch fitted which is fine but discovered this problem shortly after. I really hope that this isn't going to need a new gearbox but am expecting the worst. I really need to find a specialist who can check this out for me and was hoping you guys might be able to point me in the direction of a few contacts. Thanks Steve :)

Looked at the history for my car today, and have just noticed that it has been covering 2000 miles a year since 1998, and only covered under 1000 miles in the last year, prior to me owning it (I had done 500 miles in 2 weeks, but only at 600 miles for 3 weeks now!) Therefore the car has done 15k since 1998...is this some kind of record?!? Anyway, my question is this: From looking at the history, the last cam belt change was in 1998 when the car was on 80k and the car is now on 95k. I know cambelts should be changed every 60k or 5 years (roughly) but this car has only covered 15k in 8 years, should I change it?

Hi folks,just bought a 300zx fair lady none turbo,shes ah beauty! So ! howmush bhp do they produce? and how offen do you survice them?the dealer said to me that he gave it a full survice for me, only to find out that all he did was just the oil and filter.As it an import shall i just go ahead and survice it?ididnt get any survice history with it.your advice is mostly appriciated. :bow:

Is there anyone local (ish) that can lend me a boost leak detector and instructions on how to use it please ? CheerZ Paul

I've bought a kit to convert my auto to a manual. I can find quite a few lists of parts that are needed but nothing that explains how to do the conversion. Are there any step by step instructions out there?

Did you get the CAS in the post ok mate? Just wondered :bow:

Yo yo and thrice yo My jap import zed was lowered. But when i got it it didnt not have the camber sorted accordingly. I have since sorted this for the front with adjustable upper suspension links. But the rear tyres still has a rather excessive negative camber. Ive read that the rear camber can be tweaked a little. But is this little enough to correct camber if the car is lowered to 5" of the ground. If not what gubbings do i need to get to have good control over the rear tyres camber. I have replaced the bloody awfull Bridgestone X-Grid tyres on the front with some uber Falken 451's now its the rear tyres turn but i need to sort the camber first. Onc…

Saw a white one today heading towards Gloucester on the A40. It was about 5pm near the Kings Head in Birdswood.

Fitting this at the weekend.. any tips off anyone that has done this before? Thanks andy

Hey dude's I've got that good old crunching into 4th problem. After searching it seems the recommendation is change the gearbox oil to redline mt90 BUT, how long should this fix it for? Basically if I'm gonna have to get it refurbed I might as well just do it now & roughly how much will a refurb set me back?

Silver zed at halford car park in rochdale at 10 am, look like somebody was doin some wiring inside the car. I was goin past in wagon wheels look nice on it aswell.

Just been to halfords to get a spray can and quoted AJ4 G thats on my bonnet plate thing. They arnt sure what one it is as theres a few AJ4 G's, so can anyone give me more info. Its a 1992 JDM. Thanks

im trying to drain the coolant out of the radiator and the engine and i have yet to find a draincock on the radiator or any on the engine block. the manual has a picture of one on the lower right corner of the radiator but i havnt seen it and the manual has no picture for the engine. anyone know what it should look like or where the plugs should be? i have a 1987 300zx any help would be amazing

As it says in the title. Engine balance bars! How many variations are there.? Ie Is Auto/manual same/different?? Is TT/NA same/different.??

Have tried cleaning the IAA out with wd40 and adjusted the screw on the side of it but it doesn't seem to change the idle speed, am I doing something wrong or does it mean the IAA is not working properly? cheers

I was just wondering what the bhp, top speed and 0-60mph are on a unmodded 300ZX TT? what is the difference between UK and JDM because of compression ratio and manual and auto? Also, what gains are made in the above with the easy mods of better induction, uprated exhust and chipping?

What does BUMP mean ? I've noticed it in a few threads now where people have not received answers.

Standard catalyst converters are very restrictive and seriously limits performance. Many people have blown their turbos due to decatting! I cant see how decatting can be the sole cause of this. I would like to find out how many people have 1. Decatted & blown stock turbos, running standard boost 2. Decatted & blown stock turbos, running between 0.7 bar & 1 bar boost 3. Decatted & blown stock turbos, running over 1 bar boost 4. Decatted & no problems, running standard boost 5. Decatted & no problems, running between 0.7 bar & 1 bar boost 6. Decatted & no problems, running over 1 bar boost

Hi Gents :) Hope someone can throw some light my way, just got my two recon tubbs uprated with 360 bearings and a step gap seal, put these on the engine and dropped the lump back in a couple of days ago. Primed the tubbs, then started her, let her tick over for 5 mins to warm up, when i turned her off i got back under car and looked up and noticed that the passenger side tubb was very slightly leakin oil, from where the centre housing meets the exhaust housing, i checked the oil feed and return and both dry, even rang the people who did them for me and they couldnt under why!! They said if it was leakin there it would be gettin into the exhaust housing cau…

I need help - i have a late 1989 Z32 300ZX V6 Non turbo swb which seems to be under the weather a bit. It seems to have an intermitant loss of power which feels almost like a bad misfire. Once the engine is above 3000rpm it clears until i change gear and the revs are back below 3000rpm again. it seems to come and go but the engine managment light does not illuminate when it is running rough, the cat temprature light does come on if you try to drive up hills below 3000rpm when it is running rough which says to me that it must still be sending fuel into the cylinders. i have treid the obvious like plugs, fuel filter etc but nothing seems to make a difference. Any ideas ? Th…