General Discussions - 300ZX Related

a few months back one of my turbos blew quite badly while i was driving (pushing the car pretty hard), and when i came to a stop the car was miss firing pretty badly, causing the car to shake noticably. the revs would fall till the car would nearly stall, but then pick up again. this would continue for a few minutes, then the car would run pretty normally again (except for the rattling from the turbo!) since then the few times i have driven the car, it has seemed to fire properly on all cylinders (although it is a bit hard to tell when you cant push the car properly due to the damaged turbo). i asked the mechanic who is changing the turbos to check over th…

OK! With all the chat about turbos lately, I thought I would start off! I think the defining factors for most people are Cost and Driveability, i.e. Lag! So here are my choices with cost being the deciding factor initially! £1kish Turbos to replace the stock items with, Smithys with uprated seals! £2kish Pe1420's 500bhp on tap with nigh on stock lag £3kish JWT 535's what's the point, get 500BHP for a grand less with pe's £3kish PE1820's 600+BHP not proven yet, have yet to be fitted and proved with uprated manifolds! £4kish TD05-18G mega HP 600RWHP Laggy but you have to make the sacrifice for BHP eventually! What d'ya reckon?

Hi Peeps, Does anyone have the instructions in English for this boost controller. Also for those who have fitted it. How long do I need to put aside to fit it ?.

here you go m8,1 of these and you can pretend to be qualified http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&category=6763&item=2436944598

I currently own 2 MR2s and and looking for either a Zed or a Supra for the weekend.....possibly both....... What are the running costs like for a Zed ?

And looking out for certain types of veichles with lights on their roof.

I recently sold my car on Ebay to an Australin bidder who has already paid me but has asked me to transport the car (at his expense) to the shipping company's warehouse in East London. However, the car is now without tax and insurance so will need to be transported by a vehicle carrier (from Bristol to East London). Can anyone recommend a good reasonably priced company???

what wheels are these? http://rides.300zx.co.uk/rides/1055/01140004.JPG

Anyone know how much a TT zed engine goes for nowadays??? Might just change mine if its cheeper then messing with getting mine running agan! Just a bit skint at the moment! :cry:

hi how do I add a pic of my Zed to my signature - since I've nearly got 500 posts? geoff.

are these any good? is it a good price they also want $75 for shiping http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2436078119&category=38634

Just fitted full energy suspension poly bush kit. Some of the bushes are an absolute bugger to do, but probably worth the effort. Probably took me about 10 hours to do, but that was dropping the subrframe and taking off the hubs etc too so that I could get it into the press. Much less wheel hop on launch and the whole car definately feels tighter. Finally some feedback through the wheel too. Only downside is alot more transmission noise inside the car, particularly with my noisy plate diff, and slightly harsher ride. Reackon I can live with that though :D

Anyone know how to get window tints off. Jap who had my car decided a 300zx van would look good and blacked out the rear quarters and screen. Cheers

Hi all, Because of the MR2 Drivers club forum being down at the moment I need some help from you guys if you can. Before I get a load of crap for being the "enemy" I do actually have a Zed coming from Japan at the moment and am selling my MR2 turbo to fund it. Anyway, to my problem. I am having trouble with the central locking on my car. When I lock the car with the key I can only get the drivers door to lock and the passengers door won't. I have manged to fix the problem for a few days at a time by spraying WD40 in the lock but now that does not even work. I really need to fix it to shift the car if I can so any advice on how I could remedy it would be most apprec…

friend has 300ZX Z32, non T..prob is if you touch the throttle at all on cold start-up it'll flood. Once running, there's no misfire but you have to baby it to accelerate, if you try, it stalls, so... we've taken a couple of coilpacks out, and found the plastic just before the end has cracks in it. To me this is where some of the spark is going, hence the rich running and stalling...... what do u guys think? and also, anywhere good to buy these coilpacks at a good price please. les

Two questions really:p Firstly on the wastegate actuator hose one end goes to the boost controller the other end goes the actuator then there is a third hose teed off that goes to something else , what does it plumb in to , should this hose still be connected if using a boost controller , next I can only see this third hose on the passenger side actuator is there one on the drivers side ?? Cheers Ryan

Anyone remember? Name of company? or tel number? Cheers.

I've started to remove the heads on my Z for inspection...but, i can't cet the cover off the manifold (n/s), any ideas - all the nuts are off but it's stuck somewhere? Has anyone changed a head gasket with the engine still in the car before? it's a tt import, (autobox)

Having f***ed around fitting the glo-dials into my car last week I decided to remove them as they didn't work and the mph were wrong (US). Anyway, since putting them all back together everything looked sweet. My intermittent odometer problem has been fixed in the process but now a new problem has occured. My temp gauge moves to the centre correctly when warming up and appears find but every now and then (not that often), it will go right to the H, stay there for a bit, then come back down the the centre. It has done this during normal driving conditions and I have checked to make sure the engine IS NOT overheating and it appears fine. I get no issues with the engine/powe…

Morning! Just getting round to fitting my gauges :rolleyes: ;) Got a 2" water temp gauge that i want to put in the din hole thingy below my CD player. Do people usually blank off the hole and cut the blanking piece to fit the gauge? Only I'd like to keep my shelf thing (well 1/2 of it lol) if poss - but I cant imagine it'll sit right inside it. Any tips, or pics of yours, before I have a bash this week? :) Cheers Pete

Folks, Anyone know of a mandela that offers parts over the Interweb? I don't want to engage with humans if I can help it... Lemme know, Russ.

Can someone give me the link to the operations for the heater,i.e. what each button does etc,apart from the obvious ones?????

I need to get all the turbo by pass hoses done on the zed but the engine needs to come out is there any1 out there that has had there engine taken out by some1 who knows what theyre doing and im willing to travel anywhere up to the midlands no further though. What kind of cost am i expecting.

And how much. Mind you I don't recon much of the colour coding.:D

Not trying to start anything, just wondering. My mate has a 95 Supra TT 6 speed UK model. I have a 93 TT auto. Standard as far as I know. My question is; when we race he always just has the edge on me, I mean he slowly, as in very slowly pulls away. And if I am on the ball I keep up, just. Is this what one would expect? I ask because I am always surprised how well my car keeps up.... Please tell me what you think