General Discussions - 300ZX Related

my headlights are very bad put new bulbs in no better have to drive on fuul beams still crap think there might be a prob with the column switch any ideas 91 tt manual stock

Can anyone out there please tell me why I cannot shift from park.Is there a microswitch somewhere on the brake pedal/near the brake pedal that may have gone up the swanny.I can only release the gear leaver by using the little leaver on front of the gear leaver........if you see what I mean!!!!!!!!:o

I've run my na for over 3 years - first owner outside of Japan - and it's never been in a garage. So, it's never been tuned whilst in my ownership. So the question is, how do I know it's running at peak performance? It goes ok, returns good mpg figures - or not if you drive it hard, just passed the emissions test of the MOT with flying colours (thanks Lymon), and I change the filters annually, oil twice a year, plugs twice since I've owned it and that's about it. What do I have to do to make sure that it's performing as it should - without taking it to one of our friendly specialists... ...any thoughts would be appreciated. cheerz Jack

Hi i have a 1990 Twin Turbo Automatic 300zx and yesterday the timing belt snapped! Does anyone have any advice or address of any url's that would tell me what to do next?

i have heard mixed things about them.. is it good or bad to have a t timer on a 300zx?

I'm getting a new RPS Clutch soon, along with a new rear main seal and a SGP Racing bearing. I was thinking of taking a couple of days off work to have a go myself cos i'd rather not take it to a garage seeing as i've never done a zed clutch and i wan't to see what its like to do. Do i need any special tools at all? Or can a well stocked garage with the usual kind of assortment of tools do? Seeing as i'm not changing the flywheel would i need to get the old one skimmed before i put the new clutch on? Anything else i'm blissfully unaware of:confused: Thanks, Stuart.

Hi all, The part circled is the n/s coupling of the rear steering rack, in the ctr of the car. It seems my 20 minuets at Silverstone wore the bugger out. Is it serviceable? Who (appart from Nissan) sells them, will i need another 4 wheel computer track done & is it a bitch of a job? All & any help appreciated. harve

Here they are people. Apologies for the delay.

hi will this fit a 300zxtt if so what else will i need to get to fit or will it fit straight on? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2438067885 steve

My guage has ceased to function, any idea's? Where are the senders located - on the manifold, somewhere?

Im in need of some help. I posted a while back that my Z needed PCV's. well, they were done today at zworld and seem to have calmed the smoking a little, but...... 1. It is blowing out the dipstick virtually everytime it sees good positive boost, 2. It is smoking blue under medium-hard acceleration and they seems to be dumping the leaked oil on the manifold under braking or off throttle/bends. 3. It has a very lumpy tickover. HELP!!!!! has anyone ever had this prob? Is it turbo's? Headgaskets? Pistons? Some spurious little pipe that is blocked/split/cracked that could cause this? It is running smoothly when the throttle is touched and pulling/boosting properly. …

Hi, just brought a NA 1991 300zx fresh from Japan, does anybody know wether i need to run this vehicle on the higher rated fuels like shell optimax or will she be ok running on standard unleaded, just wondered as ive been told that over in Japan the fuels are a higher rating (like shell optimax) than what we have here. Any help or suggestions would be gratefully recieved. Richard.

Hi all, another problem has come up now, whining noise coming from left of engine, think it is power stearing pump cos every now and then the stearing goes stiff and Hicas light comes on now and again altho fluid is ok. Anyone know best and cheapest place to get a new cheap or secondhand one? Cheers anyone..............Rich

Hi all, I have a 300ZX 1989 Jap import TT AUTO. I bought the car without an engine (as it is unbelievably good condition and very low mileage) and had my uprated engine from another TT fitted. All was OK until the gargage took the beast out for it's final test drive. They found that the car ran perfectly except it wouldn't go into top gear? 1-2-3 were perfect. The garage decided that it was a gearbox problem and installed another AUTO box. It seemed to fix the problem but 10 days later, while in top gear on the m-way the car revved out. I took my foot of the gas and coasted down to about 30 MPH. When I put my foot back onthe accelerator it was ok.... until I …

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I've changed the clutch fluid and could only get DOT 4 instead of DOT 3,i'm worried this may affect the seals which may be the cause of an irritating clicking coming from the master cylinder!!!!!! Mineral or silicone???????????

Hi All, Driven to work in my Z for the first time in two weeks today. All is well apart from a dreadful noise - seems to come from the front drivers wheel arch area - sounds like something rubbing/catching, the sort of sound you might get if the wheel arch liner was rubbing the wheel. I've checked and it isn't. Funny thing is it stops when I turn the aircon off...!? Any ideas? Aircon pump? Belt has been recently changed...maybe needs tightening? No squeal just a loud scraping noise - very loud with window down... Any advice appreciated as always. RobH

Anyone know of where i can source a race spec/uprated sump,have seen a few for the 240,260,280 Zs,surley there must be one some place somewhere,any ideas;) Tony

Lymon ...many thanks for the info re running rich - I did as you recommended and the MOT went perfect. HC recorded 297, CO 1.77, CO2 13.8, o2 0.03 and 0.94 on the lambda. Both banks of cylinders recorded very similar readings. As mentioned earlier, that's without the AIVs. ...thanks again. cheerz Jack

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lookin for a new exhaust for me jap swb tt zed. saw a silver zed with 5 inch twin pipes (one each side) that sounded awsome but i dont know what sort of pipes they were. i need a twin 4 or 5 inch system that sounds good but dont know where to get one from. also my car has a cat and theres a real bad rattling noise comming from it what do i do :confused: :dance: :dance: :dance:

Hi, I am getting my Zed from Japan in the next month or so and seeing I have only seen pics and an engineers report for the car I feel it would be wise to invest in a good lengthy warranty when it arrives to safeguard me against any wallet crushing repair bills! Does anyone know of any decent warranties out there and how much am I talking about having to shell out? I need one for a year at least, maybe two and it needs to be as comprehensive as possible with the parts covered. Cheers all, Justin.

Hi all My Zed is going into the body shop soon to have the small rust bit on the rear o/s wheel arch sorted. The garage chappie thinks I should have the whole car machine polished afterwards to renovate the paintwork, but I'm not too sure about this. I've heard bad things about the mop scraping or burning paintwork etc He has only seen the car when dirty, when I polished it with red Colour Magic followed by Super Resin Auto Glym it looked perfect. No flat bits or fading etc. Now it looks good after a simple wash and leather. Should I have this machine polish or do you think it would do more harm to the paintwork long term, like strip the protective laq…

Whilst wiring my stereo up today, i blew a fuse. Trouble is ive checked under the bonnet and none of the blade fuses appear gone. Also, the clock works fine, its just the stereo/neons and the volt meter that was wired to the stereo/and my amps etc. Does anyone know if there is nother fuse box somewhere else in the car? Its a j reg jap import non turbo (dont know if this makes a difference). Ive also checked the stereo/amp fuses and it aint them! Please help, otherwise the local autoelec bloke will be making a killing off me :( Cheers -Mike

Hello all, Please help me. There's 2 Zed tt's i'm looking at and i need help on which one i should buy...... 1. 1990/1 Red import, velour interior, auto, low miles 72000km's, nice condition but very little service history. 2. 1992 Grey UK car, Leather interior, auto, 90,000 miles, couple of very small car park dings, full nissan history upto 87500mls. Oh my god it's doing my head in....................aaaaarrrrrgggghhhh. Please help me:x: Thanks all Rich P.S. How do you become a subscribed member.