General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Hello everyone, does anyone have any idea of the best place, in the uk, to get a replacement compressor or even just the magnetic clutch kit for an earlier r12 system compressor? Z1 motorsports in states have some cheap components but the shipping totally ruins the deal and its hard communicating with them as they seem unreliable or unwilling to assist us blighters! MY compressor and system is sound, just the clutch mechanism windings have failed, so a rebuild or rewind is also possible if anyone can give me a contact please? thank you in anticipation Shrew

Has any1 recently bought new PCV valves? the reason i want to know is to find out the correct functioning of them... should the internal spring push the valve up and seal around the housing or should it just rattle around inside under normal conditions? I have just bought new ones from MJP as 1 of mine was a little rattly, but the 2 new ones i have received also rattle about! :confused:

guys, my new power steering hose is due to arrive on friday, so the car will be back on the road. hurrah!! what fluid should i be using in the power steering system, just your average-joe ATF? or do nissan have some wonder fluid i should be using?

Hi guys and gals, I need a local specialist if possible (I'm in Kent) to work on my 300 ZX ASAP please. I need my propshaft coupling done, a service and a general check over to identify any gotchas. Yours in anticipation..

Still need to get my oil leak sorted guys, please can you let me know when I can bring her back. You did a good job on my engine rebuild and the engine drives sweetly enough, but once you had done the final oil change and i had the 4k rev limit removed it has started to drip oil, and I don't like to drive it too much while it is like that - which means I get no fun in this great weather. I completely understand you have been busy with holiday, house move, premises move and the Nurburgring trip, but now your all settled down can you pm me a date or give me a call. Cheers Steve

What reason would there be for the large turbo hoses [x4] into induction blowing off the end of the induction, only one at the moment. I just fitted stronger hose clips but to frightened to drive in all this rain to test it :eek: Car is running on 11---16psi!! Dave

Need to clean the len's as my lights are rubbish, how easy is it to take the lights out

Does anyone know if there are anymore UK suppliers of bodykits for the Z32 besides 300zxstyling, Petrol Heads and the Zcentre ? Cheers

speedo is stuck all the way round now into the 7 on the boost.this happend after a race with a r6 and it was stuck at 120 then shot round to over 180 .after i stooped the car got back in it and the speedo went all the way round and its stuck ,. any ideas to mend this ???

I'm about to paint my throttle body cover and I want to ask people who have painted thiers if they used normal paint or high temp paint? Is normal paint and laquer up to it?

hi zmates i was looking through the website last week i came across some very interesting mods for kitting out the boot with ICE, am toying with the idea myself but can i find the section, can i hell any ideas thanks big mo

Is there a diffrence between the 2 rads na/tt auto?

Went out for a drive and no.1 cylinder burnt off all the oil and was dry. Did a dry compression test on the front 4 cylinders, couldnt be arsed to do that back ones. Not sure if I managed to get the tester tight enough as the metal shaft wasnt long enough, so had to do it up by twisting the rubber hose. Anyway, all the front 4 showed 135psi, which is a bit low isnt it? But atleast they are all consistant so maybe the rings are ok. Didnt do it wet, guess you need some thick oil? BTW, didnt have throttle opened when doing it??!?!?!

forgive my ignorance, but how do you attach an image to a post in this forum. thx for the help :bow:

Well first zed was spotted in weoly castle in brummy about 1 30 ish tues afternoon , was parked up near big roundabout where all the shops are looked fairly standard with private plate. Second spotted this a few times in same place must work near by just outside centre of leeds i think outside a audio store and theres what looks like a jap importers/breakers on same road, anyhow zed was silver with distictive decals up the side.

Hijacked another thread with this earlier but thought I'd put it seperately. Does anyone know what sort of price a car trailor would go for. Obviously it would have to take a low slung performance car (zed/rx7). Also any advice on what type I should look for, and is it possible to tow with a decent car or would I need a 4*4? Thanks Dave

Has anyone fitter one of these in their Zed? I reckon it would be well worthwhile. I've got one in the rx7 (seem to be standard upgrade for rx7 people to sort fueling ,etc). I absolutely swear by it. Its got everything on screen: intake air temp, coolant temp, inj duty, knock sensor, speed, the lot. IMO its much better than having millions of dials and screens everywhere blocking your view. In particular the a pillar pod which I find annoying. If you consider you spend £130 on a greddy/defi gauge times four (egi temp, boost, air temp, water temp) plus fitting and extra sensors it is just as much as the £500 odd squids for the apexi FC and a setup session.

im thinking of getting my suspension sorted, i was all set to get the KYB AGX/eibach combo, but im now thinking of getting some TEIN hieght adjustable shocks and springs. what i want to know is. 1) how much does the KYB/eibach combo lower the car 2) how much hassle are hieght adjustable shocks, ie: taking the wheels off measuring the hieght of each spring etc. 3) anyone recommend any of the above or tell me if there crap or recomend any other suspension. cheers si

Hello Does any one know where the other end of this pipe attaches to? Its the red pipe in the pics. One end is attached to a T-piece and the other is just hanging there. It sucks in air when I rev the engine. Ive looked in all the service manuals but cant find any info. Thanks!

How can i reduce a picture allready on my computer to add to my sig? Have tried a few times but the presant size is 640x640!!!! Dave

Just caught the back of it as it went down bell street in St a's. Was black with a big spoiler and multi-spoke wheels. Tried to catch up but traffic was too heavy.

Well the lock isn't broken but the key mechanism is. i.e. I can't open or lock the door using my key. Anyways does anyone know of any mobile company who could come and fix it in the wolverhampton area. Or where would you usually get this problem fixed? My lock has been dodgy since I had the car. sometimes to lock it by turning clockwise I had to go a little anti-clockwise first. Also some of you may know I had an engineer who couldn't attach the toad alarm to my central locking since he couldn't fit a solenoid in the drivers door. So if you know of a company who could both fix the lock as well as attach my alarm to the central locking that would be most exc…

I just found out I have this induction kit fitted, is it a recommended one for the 300zx vs HKS and Apexi?

...Chomp the positive cable down a lil more then fit a 4guage cable extender then run 4gauge audio cable to the positive on the battery?? What happened was the clamp was too loose and broken so i cut it off and fitted a gold car audio but it was just a little too short so i couldn't clamp the battery in place and the cable comes out of the clamp as the battery is pulled right over to the left and moves slightly. Which means it just dies once in a while and i have to connect it back up which could be dangerous i guess. Haha on a Friday night in Norwich i was driving past riverside, loads people and cops everywhere as you could imagine being Friday night, it died …

hi zmates will any member from the club be going to the japanese nostalgia weekend at billing aquadrome northampton on 15-16 july, havnt seen anything about in the events section and was wondering if the z club will be there. regards big mo