General Discussions - 300ZX Related

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

As some of you know I've been smoking on idle, I filled up with a tank of 95ron instead of the usual optimax, strangely there is no smoke at idle now. It may be worth trying for those with smokey idles. I've got a tank of optimax in now so ill let you know how it goes. It may be a coincidence but ive been smokey for months and its within half a tank of petrol its stopped.

Hi every 1, Finally had the car up on axle stands today to find the problem what i have been having with the rear end keep kicking out, i done a seach on here and found that others have had the same problem. When up on stands i grabbed the rear wheel at 9 and 3 o'clock position and shook, there is so much play there that it seems to be deffinitely the Hicas arm end joint where it goes to the Hicas rack, also my shocks are leaking so bad that when car is pushed on boot it just keeps bouncing up and down so i take it these are shagged too. :( I have placed this pic on here to give peeps an idea what arm i'm on about, it shows the ball joint without the rubber…

I was thinking of getting a autobox cooler from Zcentre, in Luke's instructions he says it replaces the engine oil cooler, and then you use the old one for the autobox. But the n/a does not have a oil cooler does it ? If it does'nt, can you simply use his kit for the autobax ? Will the fittings & brackets he supplies enable this ? Thanks John

fitting new clutch hose today, took it off the slave cylinder no problem, but I've rounded the nut on the other end trying to get it off!!. I've soaked it with WD40 for now and I'm gonna watch the F1, so hopefully it might come off later. Any advise? Or should I just put it all back together with original hose and take it to a garage.... James

Going for a nice trip out to the lakes when a couple of bikers wanted some which i did but... Big plumes of blue smoke when accelerating hard...the only good thing is that the other biker nearly fell off his bike cos he couldnt see :confused: Pulled over had a look and nothing, no smoke on idleing. Went out again and same again the harder i accelerate the more blue smoke. It still accelerated OK but the smoke screen it leaves behind cant be good. So come on experts how much is this one gonna cost me :confused: :eek: :cry: Kirbz

under car settings should i set it to CYL 6 SPD 2 and arrow pointing up and to the right? cos when i do the rpm read 145rpm on tickover and not 850 which it does fine till i make these settings WTF put back to CYL 1 and rpm is fine surely this should read 6 CYL also kmh is wrong in speed maybee due to conversion from kmh to mph though. is there somwhere i can go to get settings and help from as i cannot read Japanese. Cheers "T"...... :confused:

Any one got pics of Z ride height with Avo lowering springs fitted. Got Blitz jobbies but they seem too high so thinking of changing them.

I hate my Zed, think i've blown the engine!!! Its knocking like hell! noise is comeing from the drivers side, but dont sound like your usual big end knock, any ideas people??:( :( :( :(

I am trying to put in a amp & all the usual ICE stuff, and am bloody close to finishing, but at the moment I am stuck on how to get the power cable direct to the battery. At the moment I have it sitting under the glove box on the passenger side from the boot (then football started) and need to get it to the battery. Can anyone help? Cheers Daz:confused: :confused: :confused:

Just in case you've not caught the site, try: http://www.nissanperformancemag.com/october03/project_zx/ (Put wrong link b4)

As said above really. New to the zed's, had a couple of test drive's, loved them so i'm having one, i've got about £5k to spend. It will be an auto so are the box's prone to anything etc etc Help me as i'm not very mechanically minded.:confused: Ta very much Rich:p

does anyone know a decent technique to remove the EGR valve and plug up the holes left? i've got the replacment instructions from the twin turbos of dallas site, but i want to remove them all together while i've got the engine out getting the turbos done. i was told theres a method using a 2p coin and some JB weld but dont know what the actual method is. any ideas? thanks, Ed

just had the MOT fail 'cause there's no rear fog on the car (Jap import) even though it passed it's previous MOT! I'm gonn'a fit a rear fog light, but wondered if there is such a thing as a standard illuminated fog switch? Ideally I would like to replace the none illuminated jap switch on the consol with one that is illuminated. Does the uk car have such a thing or anybody got/made one? Cheers

whats up with the digital clock when it keeps resetting itself.

Is a turbo autobox same as n/a? I am trying to figure out if a gasket for the autobox oil pan for a 1991 turbo will fit a 1992 n/a. Also, are the import boxes different to the UK ones ? John

This seems to be a talking point at the moment, everyone seems to have there own ideas to which turbos are the best so what are?? There is a reason why i ask because i need to find out what garrett turbos are the best for the zed ie for BHP. I'm not promising anything but i might have sorted a deal out with garretts themselves to buy turbos off them cheap but i need exact model numbers etc for the zed because a a t25 or 27 comes in about 15 different models so i need more details and hopefully i can save a few people some money and of course get myself some dirty great big tubs:rofl: Kirbz