General Discussions - 300ZX Related

About to do a winter service, what oil would people recommend for the months November - May on an engine that has done 113,000 mile, 50,000 on a new short engine. 10w40? And I did have a quick search :)

does anybody know of a supplier of "wings west" rear wings Mid height , the same as fitted on Dave W,s motor ?? i have tried most places and no joy , no word from Chris at GReddy and i dont think the ones in the zcentre are the same type help guys i have money burning a big hole in my pocket.. and before you ask... NO!! ...donations to worthy beer drinking causes will not be helped... Steve

Ordered some mats to be made up at Kish in Sunderland. Copying shape from my nasty jap ones and transfering the nice little metal plaque across. Going to pick them up at lunchtime. Will post pics if anyone is interested. I guess quite a few of you will already be familiar with their work, he works closely with Peter @ PPS apparently. Wish I had the cash to get the full interior done!! David

When the Auto box changes gear how long should it take to select it's gear and continue to acelerate. My Auto box seems hesitate some what and is quite noticable. Cheers

Currently cleaning & replacing bulbs in my headlights due to MOT failure :mad: Just need to check: When you switch onto high beam, should the low beam bulb remain on?? I'm sure someone told me it should! BTW, it's a 90 jspec Rich

I'm about to take out my mines ECU and replace it with a custom map from SE - does anyone out there know how to tell the specification of the ECU i.e. what size injectors it was designed for. I'm thinking about selling it but i need to make sure i know what exactly it is. Regards, alex

I was having major trouble keeping z on the road while accelerating due to a lack of traction, i have today stuck a set of goodyear F1s on to the rear, only managed to get my foot down once on the way back, overtaking in 3rd, it seemed to grip??? and it was wet!!,( normally it would fishtail even in fourth on same stretch)anyone else got these tyres ?

drove car 50miles to work today, sweet as ever, switched off engine & tried to restart but it wouldnt fire. eventually called out breakdown.he said engine flooded & managed to start it by taking out fuel pump fuse, turning engine over & then quickly puttin fuse in. car ran rough to start hesitating when accelerating but after bout 20 miles seemed fine. went out again tonight (to pub),started and ran fine but then wouldn't start again to come home. used same method as b4 to eventualy start it(took bloody long time), same as b4 hesitant on acceleration but fine apart from that. any ideas on this please, was meant to b taking Z cross channel on saturday, m…

i am gonna fit me blitz DV's tomorrow, cheers smithy and macca. but do i dissconnect the original recirc valves or leave them connected, how do you disconnect the originals? if this is to be done :rolleyes:

any idea on what could be the cause of this fellas?? cheers jaz p.s. only run Super or Optimax....

Bit of a longshot this, but does anyone know the ITC dipswitch settings to set it up on a 300zx?

Hi all! Today I went from Folkestone to Dover max miles 10. First 2 miles town, 6 miles dual carrageway max MPH 70, last two miles in town. Switch off engine. Steam or smoke rising from near side under the bonnet & windscreen on the out side. Lifted bonnet quick look, it looked like steam/smoke coming up from back & below engine on inside past the battery. Could not see FA too many pipes & wires! Return to car and drove back! Looked under bonnet, check matrix hoses, not a drop of liquid anywhere! No smoke nowt! WTF is going on, or any ideas what it can be! Why cant we have more space under the bonnet! TT auto UK 91 Arthur :confused:

What do i need to do to my car if i want to remove the cats. Do i need to do something to the ECU ? can any one help

Does anyone recondition standard zed gearknobs. Mine is starting to wear on the top where the number are. Thanks, Stu.

Whilst driving home late the other night the temperature gauge needle was doing a merry dance from just under half to 0. :confused: :confused: At the time the temp outside was 3 degrees :( What could be causing this and what should I look for ???? Any help guys....... Cheers, Deano. :)

Just done some ferreting around in my car to try and find out what's been done to it by the previous Japanese owner. The ECU is a Hi-Tech ROM from Power House Amuse. Anyone know anything about this - is it any good? Unfortunately the Power House Amuse website is entirely in Japanese so I can't make head nor tail of it! I've managed to find some english instructions for the HKS EVC-IV controller, which I'll need to try and calibrate (or see if it is properly calibrated) and the Endless Function B6 coilovers (which seem to have settings ranging from very hard to extremely hard!) How do I find out if the turbos etc are standard, can't actually figure out how t…

can anyone tell me who is the best person or dealer to get poly bushes for my front end from.

Hi A while back I was getting the old heavy steering/speedo failure/HICAS & ABS lights on, usually when wet and/or cold. I jacked the car up the other week, wiggled, squeezed and blitzed the Speed Sensor with WD40. This solved the heavy steering and failing speedo :) But for 5 or so minutes each morning until the car warms up the HICAS and ABS lights stay lit :confused: No other symptoms. A couple of times going round a bend quickly they have both lit momentarily - but that sounds like its low fluid? But why would low fluid being indicated stop indicating when the car is up to temperature? :confused: Cheers for any input :) Pete

When the car is cold and you start it up the RPMs should go somewhere around 1800 and then drop slowly as the car heats up until RPMS goes up to normal. Around 700-800 Thats how my car used to be. Now it goes up to 1800 and then drops down immidiately. Sometimes it stays up to 600 and sometimes it shuts down. When it gets hot its fine. What might be the problem?

Hi, does anyone know where I can get one of these thingies and how much it will cost? Ta. (PS - Smithy - thanks for the image!)

Hi y'all Since we're about to take my freshly-repaired Zed to La Belle France for a week of looning about, I thought it might be nice to be able to see where we were going in the dark. I've tried 85w bulbs before (£23 per pair from the US) but got seduced by the claims about PIAA Superwhite. http://www.piaa.co.uk So I tried a pair. Write up on 55w OEM vs 85w US vs 55w PIAA Being J-spec and needing H3C (unless I solder stuff or fiddle with the loom) the choices are limited. But gee - it's got bright out there (Well, for more than £20 per bulb, it bloody well should be!)

hate winter weather my heating system is crap why? is it a z thing or can it be fixed hardly warm and even then it only decides to blow after about 3 miles up road first mornin of frost like driving around in a freezer apart from air in the heater matrix or blocked is there anything else that could be adjusted also it only blows out the middle vents when at about 25 degrees readout, put it up to 40 and it all goes to windscreen eh

raced a suit in a e55 amg whatever that is today it seemed quite quick but not quick enough so i blasted past him on a dual carrigeway at a theoretical 130:D couldent tell if he was going for it but when i went sideways around an island he seemed to bottle it:rofl: i think this has finaly knackerd me clutch though. it was makin a terrible stink all the way home:dance: :dance: :dance:

I am just wondering if anyone has had expericence in buying CD players, Amps etc from the US. I have been looking at a wensite over there and the prices seem silly. They have an amp on it that I bought a few years back in a shop locally for £460 and they have it on special offer at £160! Does anyone have any idea if I would have to apy duty if I got a friend to bring it into the UK with them as it would be a gift. I know if I was to do it mail order from the company over there then I would need to pay duty on it. Any idea what percentage this is? Many thanks, Justin:)

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