General Discussions - 300ZX Related

my car already has a nice big auto oil cooler installed, but the hoses that connected to the original cooler in the end tank are still there, one big long hose looped round to both connectors on the rad, can I chuck this away? or does it need to stay connected like this? Cheers Dave

Guys Just wondering if anyone can help with the following: - when car is sat at idle, it goes in a cycle. Every 10 secs or so the revs dip slightly, the dashboard lights get a little brighter momentarily and there is a relay/motor type click/whir from the drivers door. The revs then pick up again for the next 10 secs. Not investigated the click/whir yet, but just wondered if anyone had any ideas. - got an aftermarket steering wheel fitted, and been having the hicas problem (drive for 5 mins, hicas light comes on and steering goes heavy until ignition off) ever since. Invested in a Conzult (thanks Danny). The steering angle was reading 430 or something …

Anyone tell me what the problems are with these fitting to our cars????

All IT guys, I just need a laptop to boot into a command prompt. I know I need a command.com file but what should it contain and where can I get one? I have two partitions on the drive: C: D: and the XP setup files are on D: so I just need the laptop to boot into C: and then I can explore to the D: and run the setup file. Any ideas?

All, Does anyone have a copy of the 3 seutp disks that I can loan for a little project I have. If some one can email me them zipped i would be hugely appreciative..... :bow: I need to use the unformat command to retrieve some crucial data!! Thanks.... :duffer:

am going to remove standard fan soon and replace with electric. Question: Does anyone know the best water temperture the car should be running? ie: so i can set electric fan sensor to try and hold the right temperture, and if needed change thermostat to 62c instead of 76.5c, looked at service manual but doesn't say what running temp should be. If standard stat opens at 76.5c running temp would be 76.5 or just over? Any advice much appreciated

dont mean to sound like a total novice , but what is a grounding kit for ??

Forgot to mention in previous post. need an experianced nissan driver as i recon there is something just not quite right about the steering or suspensin at front end. It could be me , zedworld looked over and said all was ok but i am an ex rep that did 100,000 miles a year plus for 10 years and i recon there is someting just not quite right. Anyone near north wales that could meet would be great if you could take her ofr a spin and enlighten me with your knowledge and ideas. :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

Still keeps turning of and on, usually when a little damp but sometimes stopping the car and atarting it again sorts it out. ?? new ecu and checked oer by geoff at zedworld but still doing it. any ideas chaps

Have a performance Toyo rad. and was thinking... The standard fan on the engine, dont that create a loss of power in getting it to go round? And is there any reason I couldnt remove it and add a electric fan instead?

Evening All I have fitted a pair of Apexi dump valves this afternoon and noticed, once the intake T was off, that the pipes going down to the compressors had a thin black residue inside them. The care has an HKS 'mushroom' air filter, which was looking very black and shi**y indeed! What is the best way / best stuff to use to wash one of these things out, if at all? I had noticed a bit of a black residue in the throttle bodies too when I removed the pipes for cleaning, when I was in fact expecting black carbon deposits. I was worried the turbos might be on the way out but I am a bit more relieved now as the same oily stuff is upstream of the turbos too. Chee…

Hey, Been checking out other people's rides on here. I have to say the engine looks awsome with the hard pipes in! I've got my APexi Induction kit and grounding kit on the way thanks to Getgreddy and Pete Shrimp. Next I want to get some hard pipes in there. How do I get hold off these? Has anyone heard of a place called Motoscope in Northallerton, north Yorkshire? That's the nearest place to me that seem to specialise in performance cars. Just wondering if they might be able to do it for me! Cheers Jon

Whilst its all taken apart, (rad out, coolant hoses + water pump off) should I flush the engine through with fresh water (from a hose pipe) the clear out all the rust and gunk and other crud thats in there?

Since the cold wheather started she seems to have been occassionaly running a little erratically until fully warmed up. Feels like a couple of cyclinders not firing, but I'm not expert. The fuel consumption has also significantly gone up. Anyone got any ideas ?

Been a silly sod and managed to spill about a tea cup's worth of coolant onto the cam belt where it wraps around the crank, immediatly rinsed it off with copious ammounts of fresh water, will I be ok or is it new cam belt time (again) only done about 5000 on this belt... Cheers Dave

Just finished taking off all the cack to get to the water pump and..... its absolutely fine, 100% perfect, not a hint of damge, seems to be completly mint... NUTS.... strange as I had every symptom of a pump failure.... Oh well time to start putting it back together... Anybody got a link to an exploded diagram of the pulleys and belts (so I can reference where everything goes back!! rather than just from memory! :D ) also where the little key thingie goes in the crank for the under drive pulley, mine was missing so ryan sent me a new one (little semi circle thing) cant work out where it goes though.... :slap: Cheers Dave

OK, so the high level spoiler has got really boring now, and I want to smooth the rear ( ;) ). What kind of total price would you expect to pay for this work to be done? Cheers, Brian.

I have a leak from the front of the car, its dripping out from behind the front lower pulley, I thought it was the crank seal but after changing this at weekend realise its not, my next thought is that it is either the oil pump gasket or the regulator/relief valve seals. Can I remove the oil pump with collection pipe without removing the sump or do I have to remove the sump, has anyone on here done an oil pump exchange with the engine in? Any help is much appreciated-

Can anyone help? I am looking for the mixture screw, does anyone know where it is? I was told it is down near to the battery on the passenger side, is this correct. I cant see it. :headvswal

Hi, I'm a new 300zxtt owner (bought it on thursday) and I've got an odd problem with the steering. The car feels fine (most of the time) when cornering in either direction, but when driving straight, or turning very slightly it is very hard to keep the car going in the same direction. When going straight, the wheel tries to force itself either to the left or to the right. When turning slightly, it is easy to turn the car into the turn, but it is very "heavy" when turning back to straight. The car has been lowered (far too low in my oppinion) on Koni adjustables and is running on 18's (235 wide). Im guessing this is due to camber angles? I'…

Popped to Borth, and on the way there spotted a nice 14A parked up at the side of the road. Looking in my mirrors, I SWEAR I saw a 300ZX peaking it's nose out behind it (hidden, lower down in a garage) sure enough on the way back I stopped and had a look. Lovely blue G*** WGW..... I stopped to take a photo, but some women over the road said the owner didn't like people looking at it. so I sarpered before a big scary Welshman came out to beat me! :mac1: Anyone here?

a silver import coming from long eaton in to castle donington, i tryed to wave as you over took, but i droped me kfc :cry: , anyone on here an local to that area?

:hurl: Hi Folks, New to the site and hoping that one of you has the answer, or at least some advice on my problem? Since dropping the suspension and fitting bigger wheels, it has become apparent that there is a serious geometry problem on the front wheels. This has been addressed initially by having to insert shims to try and achieve sufficient camber. That was a set of tyres ago, and the car is still scrubbing away quite merrily on the inside of the tread. A company in Colchester who specialise in racing conversions etc have indicated that it might require some new parts allowing the adjustment to be brought into line correctly. So, would like to have any work…

300 n/a 1991 auto has had problems with selecting gear at too high revs also the engine tends to surge between 1500 to 2500 revs on light throttle when you give more revs this tends to dissapear have changed tps and temp sensor but no fix any ideas

Did anyone see this man?