General Discussions - 300ZX Related

I've had what I believe to be possible PTU failure symptons lately..so went to remove PTU today and swap it with the one of my Wifes NA......but when I removed one of the big block connectors on my PTU some of the pins from the PTU snapped inside the connector and the rest looked pretty corroded :headvswal :headvswal Its the Connector that plugs into the Left hand side of the PTU when standing at front of car facing engine bay. I tried to follow the harness to see where it went, but it started raining heavily. Where does the harness go to, can I unplug it from wherever it goes to and replace that whole harness easily ?

looking for broken pipe to see where my water leak is from the washer system, put on 4 poster couldnt find anything, but!!!!!!!!! found this!!!!! oil.. lots of it.. and what seems to be a broken cable to what seems like the oil pressure sender on the left turbo side of the car.. so now its off to ztech.. fookin ell.. im gonna dread this!! and i still didnt find that fookin water leak!! wouldnt leeak for anything damn thing.. so its a full service and what ever else now! wierd thing is there is no oil anywhere on my drive i would expect there to be some somewhere if its a bad leak.. but nothing!!

Second grovelling request..is there anyone in the North West with conzult or consult so i can try to find out if there is an electrical problem with my car? Please??? Pretty please?? I'll supply biscuits tea coffe or even some whiskey and mince pies!!

Hey guys, Hope you all had a very merry xmas and a happy new year. Hope fully 2006 will bring us all a wallet pain free motoring experience!! Not me - shes on the blink already!! Dunno how many of you have been follwing this one but i've had my NA popping on the left bank for about a YEAR!! Recently we discovered an error code from the ecu pointing at the ptu - replaced it..but now I've got popping ALL the time not justwhen she's cold as she was before and a complete lack of power - foot on the floor and theres hardly any reaction at all from her. And to add to it, now i don't just have a lumpy engine i have a nasty little annoying fookin tappin at the back of …

It was you, Attlee way on monday going towards the pork pie island. cheerz, mickey

Ok, i cant seem to get to the front lights to take the bulbs out, does anyone know an easy way to do it as i cant get my hands in :( Also im still not possitive which bulbs to get, legrath said it was H3 bulbs but when i went to halfords they were saying its something else and with me not being able to get the bulbs out to check i was stuck Someone help me please :D

Been sent this. Now I think the front bumper is an OE 99spec with Stillen extension? The rear and sides Stillen too? horrid mirrors though!!!!

Happily driving along when I notice a constant reading of 25psi on my oil pressure guage (its an aftermarket one not the often faulty original equipment one) whilst cruising along. Going on what ive been told the reading should be between 30-60 on a warm engine and it usually sits at 50 most of the time obviously up a bit when I accellerate with aggression. I pulled over to look under bonnet and there is a fair amount of oil splatted in the top right corner over the battery, fuel filter, the hoses there, and the underside of the bonnet. Its not absolutely everywhere but you can see that its squirted quite a bit. I was only round the corner from home so did drive home, whi…

On the climate control pannel what dose amb stand for as i've had the digital reading at -23 Thanks john

I need to sell my zed to raise some cash and I just wondered if anyone could give me a rough idea of how much they think it might be worth. It's a '93 series 2 Uk spec TT Auto in white, completely standard,leather is in excellent condition,interior immaculate,history,reconditioned turbo's by turboforce,Preston, that are now as brand new, some rust on back of the sills but nothing too major. The main problem is that the car is running but keeps overheating and due to my financial situation I simply cannot afford to spend any cash fixing it. There are photo's in my rides section if anyone wants to look. I'd really appreciate any info you guys could give me! :D

Hi Guys......audio isn't really my thing but I 've a problem and it's driving me nuts....... I had, in the car a sony head unit, all channels feeding out on rca jacks to an amp in the boot.....then to the speakers :hyper: this worked brilliantly no noise and good sound reproduction. The wife has bought me a new head unit for christmas......usb in, cd player and memory card etc.....seems a good piece of kit TBH.....but no rca outputs, so went to local car audio shop and got some pre amp rca converters as advised by them, installed into the car and followed all directions to the letter. when the engine is running every dog in town can hear my motor cause I've now got a ver…

hi!! :D saw you coming the opposite way at the traffic lights by blockbuster. i was in my silver TT and my dad was in front in his silver NA. your car looks lovely in black mate!! :bow:

I have Kakimoto exhausts one each side they have few holes in them and the insides (bafils?) are totalled looks like a birds nest inside. Would i be loosing much power from this and make the car run abit rough? When i get these replaced is it worth getting x pipes aswell as i've heard they are good on non turbo cars but on a turbo not worth it. Just need some more info on this really.

i'm having some new turbos fitted towards the end of the month, is it worth getting my original ones reconditioned to sell? how much are they worth? they will have all paper work to say tested and recons.

Hi Guyz Back end of my Z has been wobbling around for some time now and there is a little play in the back wheels (was mentioned at last MOT). So Ive decided that i am going to do some work to stiffen her up abit. Here's what I have got planned so far: * Remove HICAS (because I want to, end of story :nelson: ) * Replace all shocks & springs (KYB's uprated non-adj & Eibach Springs) What else could be causing the wobble that i can replace bearing in mind everything is stock at the mo?

Hi Guys, For a while now the horn has been working on and off, but today was going down the road and it came on by itself and was on continously! I pulled the relay out and left her in the pub car park....when i came out the drivers side main beam was on, but only on on that side! I got home and turned the engine off and the drivers side main beam was flickering on and off and i could hear the relay in the fuse box tapping away. I decided to put the horn relay back in and now when i beep the horn the drivers side main beam flashes as well!! Anyone had this? Also my windscreen washers dont work either, so im wondering whether i need to replace some of t…

As above. I have fitted a Top hose hard pipe kit the other day and it wouldn't work. I wouldn't give a reading. So today i thoght to have a look and wonderd if it was an earthing problem. So i decided to take a wire from the pipe to body. This then gave me a reading. I thought great, thats the problem. :hyper: . So i fitted an earth to the sender. This then sent my reading to show full temp constantly(going straight to earth). Has anyone else had this problem. I have solved it at the moment by attaching my wire to body and having a crimp connection on the other,tucked in under the silicone piping :headvswal. Any ideas lads LOL ;)

At about 1pm near Sainsburys, saw you pull into layby. K300***, grey Z.

After searching the internet I am getting conflicting answers so I am asking those in the know.

I'm hoping someone else out there has seen this and can point me quickly to a solution. I've searched all the prior posts and havent seen anything that occurs NOT right away. The story: So I'm driving along happy and the HICAS light comes on. No problem, top off the pwr steering, right! Shortly thereafter the ANTILOCK light comes on and I lose power steering, hmmm, this is a new one. Well, I'm running so I'll get it checked out tomorrow. Go to start the car up the next day and it almost doesn't. Like it's turning over but no fuel. Finally starts rough. Shop says my battery is dead ( been 3 years & not used often) and my alternator is gone. Eh, ok,…

how hard is it to replace the bulbs in these and what bulbs do i need to get as lights gone out tonight :headvswal

guys just did a ecu check got code 22 but its not listed plz help because zed wont start cheerz.

hi about 1840 a white 300zx was going down regent street, was it you?

My zed pops a lot from the exhausts when you accellerate and come off throttle, obviously more so the harder you accellerate / the further up the rev range you go. For example, if you accellerate briskly in third gear up to around 5,000rpm and come off throttle, as the revs come down you generally get 4 or 5 pops from the exhausts. Id say its more prominent now the weather is colder. Personally I was quite happy with it as I was (still am I think) of the opinion that this was fairly normal for a car of this nature and with the spec that it has. But today I took my brother, a NA owner for three years, out for a drive today and he thinks that it shouldnt be doing it as much…

Hi, can anyone confirm that aftermarket zed alloys will fit a 200sx s13/s14, PCD 5+114.3 OFFSET +35/42MM CENTRE BORE 66MM/66.1, are these dimensions for all wheels for zed even if they are aftermarket ?? also does anyone know roughly courier costs for 4 wheels+tyres, happy new year everyone cheerz.