General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Ok , for some days I have had a bad middle silencer with the baffles going in it, now i think this will be affecting backpressure causing sluggish boost which it appears to be true. but now i have another problem, I am getting smoke on engine start up and revving, I took the car for some hard full throttle runs and the smoke clears up and the car runs fine but boost is down from 12.5 psi to 11 psi, I have put the boost drop down to the extra backpressure having a effect on the tubs as surely there would of been smoke on boost if the tub seals had gone, the smoke on start up seems to smells like it is running rich, the car has a nistek chip from andy and i have heard these…

Hi guys, i need a new front bumper as mine is cracked due to being lowered and ****y speedbumps. Anyway, I would like to buy a bumper that will utilise all the original front lighting (fogs etc) so i dont have to buy new lights too. Can any of you reccomend one? I will prob get from the z centre if any of theres will do this... cheers. :bow:

Hi all just thinking of giving my new bumper a spray on my own, happy with the spraying just want some advice on the prep work i need to do its a fibreglass bumper any help please.

Red zed goin into natwich thurs about 11.30 ish had 300 in numberplate aftermarket spoiler mid level, i was in blue wagon in front of ya stucking me thumb up like a derranged plonker!

Mine arrived today in the post :dance: :dance: Il be fitting it tomorrow, but i was wondering if anyone had got a link to a website with a guide i could follow ? Smithy mentioned it, but id really like to get on a fit it tomorrow, so guessing he wont have chance to get back to me until at least monday now. Any advice as ive not swapped discs/pads before? Cheers all

had a problem with my aftermarket central locking, traced it down to the power supply ( its not getting any ) strange thing is it has a supply from what is the fuel pump relay supply(large orange wire in the relay plug), this worried me cause i thought the car wouldnt run with a dead supply , starts and runs fine. checked the fuel pump fuse in the engine bay and have discovered that the fuse has been linked with a piece of wire. How is the power suplied to the relay is it through the fuse first or is it relay first , and how is the car running if the relay isnt powering up? Appreciate any help with this folks

okay i posted befor about how i can hear my starter just spin but not starting the motor up, so i went out and got a new remenufactured starter and that still did not work, went to get the (new) starter tested and it disingages and ingauges fine.. so what is the probelm im having i know i have teeth on the flywheel and if the motor is hot and i have been driveing for a while and i go back to start it up it wil start (thats with the old starter) i installed the new one and when it did not work just took it back.... im lost i have no idea whats wrong i have to push the bitch everymoring to get her running.. any one have any ideas?

the carts he was building that looked awsome !! did he finish any and did he start selling them ?? maybe john dixon , manta or friday know ??

Has anyone ever removed the chrome trim forom their 309's? As my chrome is knackered and shows this weekend I was gonna remove it but am scared with what I'll be left with on wheel? Wondering whether I'll be able to clean up the alloy itself or just leave chrome trim on and grin and bear it

Had a scary experience last week; I was having a great drive through the peak district until my brakes did something weird. I had to brake for a junction but when I pressed the pedal, it went really hard and I couldn't stop the car. Luckily nothing was coming! I was pressing as hard as I could and the car was hardly slowing down. The strange thing is, the brakes were fine again afterwards and have been ever since. I wasn't really thrashing the car and I certainly wasn't working the brakes very hard so what could have happened? I had only just had new brake discs and pads fitted and they seemed to work well before the incident. I have read on here that the pisto…

Has anyone got any experience replacing the bush in the rear hub assy that the HICAS arms connect to? Also, any idea where they can be sourced from as all the bush kits I have seen have purely been for suspension components and not for the HICAS assembly. I'm not 100% sure if its a bush or a ball joint though... Thanks Gareth

Drivers window has never worked, just took out motor and got it working :dance: Unfortunately a coiled spring fell out, I assume it's some kind of stop or tensioner do any of you kind folks happen to know where it goes?

After many weeks of pondering; shall i sell the Zed; I went for a run in it last night and that's the best way to put the thought of selling right back :wack: from the wife 'you have to sell it' she bleets. What to do ?? I am going to take it to JAE next month and may just put a for sale sign on her and see what happens..... But then i will drive it home and i will be grinning like the ' Cheshire Cat' when i get home....and the whole thing will go full circle. It's not as if she costs me much; she(touch wood) has not let me down since we took her out in a storm on the way back from Wilts and flooded the induction system :mad: . We have changed t…

Anyone tried those new Mintex Pads?????? Advertised all over the place now...

What's this for? It's the one just in front of the fuel tank. I can't see it does any heat shielding or anything. Maybe a stone guard for the tank? Is it ok to junk it?

Tried to flash back, but fumbled the light controls :o

using optimax from empty - put £35 in - around town - 96 miles before light comes back on. Same again but 87 miles Anyone else getting poor fuel economy

Going down the oxford road about 9pm last night, looked very clean, Nice car. I was in the grey one waving.

Right this is probably posted somewhere so sorry if it is How do you identy what series/gen your car is. Mine is a 1991 and I was told its to do with the seats being eletric, but I have racing seats in mine Anyone want to tell em the major differences (I know the newer ones had no VVT and a dif ecu (16 or 32bit)

Sorry guys to bring subject up again, so have a drink or 3 on me :duffer: cheers! Hopefully now your all sutably intoxicated -ish i can hit you with my question: Do you think removing the cats and replacing them with down pipes with mini silencers as like the ones luke sells will reduce or illiminate turbo seals blowing, and will these still give a signifcant increase in power? Going for this option seems the most viable to me as i want to de-cat but am unsure as to totally de-cat due to the on going split decissions. Car is '91 J reg UK manual TT Turbos are stock second hand units so dont know true history of them but seem strong. cheers. carl

Burf2000- was that you?!

Has any one got the zed centre frog eyed gauge pods[abflug copies] with 60mm gauges fitted i was told they were designed to fit 52mm but can be modded to fit 60mm .Ive got a couple of HKS gauges to fit any pics with 60s thanks taff.

see three zeds in the space of 10 minutes today 1st was a white/ maybe silver near bromley town center at around 740 pm this evening 2nd was black on the a222 near chislehurst golf course 10 minutes later 3rd was yellow about 15 seconds after the black zed heading in the same direction

Just trailing import companies, whats the model number for the tt and the na? cant fully read japanese lol which is GZ32? Cheers guys (newbie here so cut me some slack :) )

Been looking at the kazzama hicas lock kit at driftworks £87 .But just looked on the z centre site and they claim there hicas lock kit is diffrent for swb and lwb is this the same for all hicas lock kits mine is a swb 2 seater thanks taff.