General Discussions - 300ZX Related

This popped up on my facebook from the beaulieu page

Had a non turbo zed in for service and MOT etc. looked in good order until I held the steering wheel and it wobbled left and right and up and down and was not a nice feel when moving about let alone driving on the road. It had an after market Momo wheel and after a few frustrating moments with the ever so small bolts they love to use on steering wheels it took no time to find the problem. The after market boss was just wrong in many ways, it had been made to fit over the splines ( was tight) but the thread on the steering shaft passed though it too far and there was not enough thread to get the wheel tight so a spacer had been fitted and the spacer had …

Hi all, Both the leather seats are electric in my zed and fully operational. The passinger seat is like new and the drivers as to be expected is showing wear but is still in great condition with no holes or tares! What are they worth? From what I understand passinger electric seats are quite rare? Thanks Dan

Right everyone, what are the top three best and worst things you have ever done to your Zs? As a fairly new owner I'm hoping to learn from other's mistakes and pick up a few useful ideas at the same time. Hopefully this will help anyone else new to the world of the 300ZX! Stefan

Hi has anyone any idea where I can get four of these please? They have two small clips, one each side & age related they become brittle & break!

Does anyone have any experience of Keith Michaels for their Zed insurance? I'd never heard of them but a google search brought them up and at the moment they are my lowest quote so tempted to go with them. Initial sales service seems good but then sales always is. Any feedback good/bad?

Later this week im preparing to take out my knocking engine and was considering putting my old NA engine back in for now, although its been stood a couple of years outside, but covered, so im not too hopeful of its internal condition sat so long with the oil drained. So my alternative should i need, is to Take the TT engine out of my UK project and TT the NA, but as im going to save time and use the NA loom, what do i do with the boost hoses, without a boost controller. I know it will be something like 6psi untouched, its just that i may not have time to get one sorted if i do decide to go this route. Obviously a fair bit of TT stuff will need to convert over to the …

Hi all Need some help here .. went to fix my window slider bolt problem today and found its the actual nylon washer that's worn as when I click it back in it pops back out when it's push fully up against the Targa. So I need a new pair of nylon washers. Any idea where to buy them? During this process some woman decided to reverse over my door card buckling it , and breaking the plastic air vent, and now has chips all out of it where it scraped along the pavement :( so I need a passenger door card anyone? I also need one of these. As mine is badly worn and split. Many thanks

Just a handful of pictures from Beaulieu. We drove down in brilliant sunshine and arrived at Beaulieu in the pouring rain. Helpfully it quickly cleared up and went on to become another blistering hot day. Thanks to Simon for organising the meet and to everyone who attended and made it such a great day at a lovely location. Was suprised and delighted to make the shortlist for the "People's Choice Award", and even more so when another Z32 from the Club was also chosen! Good job you passed that MOT Hellraiser! In the end the award went to a purple R33 GTR... In the afternoon I managed to park up next to Simon's car (in this month's shade of white) and took thes…

So, after two years I finally started up my project build, idling was a little rough, but she started, and the rear hubs were turning, so overall things are good. :) However, I've used a TT shell, and put my NA engine in it, so switched from an NA clutch cylinder, to a clutch booster. I was expecting the clutch pedal to firm up when the engine was running, but it requires very little pressure to push it down, there's pretty much no resistance. There doesn't seem to be a loss of fluid, so I was wondering if my vacuum connections may be at fault. There's no difference to the clutch pedal with the engine running, or not, feels the same. I have two…

whats i bar of pressure 1.4 dead for argument say. 232 psi 0r 200 psi whats that in bar,? silly question but just wanted to know.thanks

Thought this may be of use to some, http://www.mcgillmotorsport.com/male-rod-ends-metric-xm-racing-series-chromoly-kevlar-ultra-high-performance/ Replacement parts for all those bits, apparently very high quality and very cheap.

After today I found the perfect name for my car, introducing the "General Zee" why because I'm now officially a red neck, it's gonna peel I think. And some quick pics on the way there today.

Hi, A local garage has told me that exedy don't make clutches for 300s any longer so this one from japspeed most not be genuine. Can anyone tell me otherwise ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150819395638?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Hi guys, My car has a Zedworld chip that was fitted around 6 years ago. I only know this as their is a receipt for it in amongst my folder of service history. My query is this, what boost level do these chips fuel to?

just been messing around under the bonnet and discovered i need a new radiator as the plastic ends are starting to disintegrate . i might as well get myself a good un now so any advice guys as to what to go for or more importantly what to avoid . cheers andy oh and if anyone has a shroud in top condition i also need one of those

I've had someone hit the N/S front wing/ bumper of my 300 (2+2 jap import) and its quite bad, but thankfully they have said there pay for it all to be fixed but before I got a replacement wing i just wanted to check if there was any difference in wings between swb or lwb or uk or jap? im sure there isn't but I wanted to check for piece of mind.

Hey, Can anyone tell me if I've connected the clutch cable to the bracket backwards? It now rubs against the down-pipe, which obviously isn't good, and I can't remember it being like that before. I think I have connected it the way it was originally though. Cheers!

My number 5 injector decided to injector decided to stop working so I thought that I would pull the plenum and carry out the water pipe delete whilst I'm at it! To say everything went accordingly to plan would be a lie. For those who have managed to take off and refit a plenum in a few hours, I congratulate you. Anyway, with the injector replaced I carried out the water pipe delete on the plenum and completed the rebuild. All vacuum pipes and electrical connections made I cranked the engine! The engine turned over and then made a horrible mechanical BANG and wouldn't turn over. I have unplugged all the electrical plugs and followed the wiring harness schematic …

OK I mentioned this on another of my threads When I went down to the Coventry meet last week, the air vents in my car were stuck in 'Auto' position, blowing air through the centre console and door vents and would not switch over to windscreen demist When I pressed the Auto/Demist buttons on the climate control, the appropriate LED would light and there would be the bleep to indicate it was switching over Also there was a click from behind the passenger glove compartment when switching between Auto/Demist While over at Lee Dent's today he had a look at this for me With the passenger glove compartment removed, it was clear to see an actuator arm wa…

Have to sell this on as I have to make room for something I have my eye on thought I would offer on here before I place it on other sites its very old from the 80s early 90s comes with 2 bodys both seen some use great item for show could be easy made to run with radio gear

Went out for a drive with the roofs out today got home and noticed the end plug missing from the top of the windscreen trim,anyone got an old trim with one in I can have or buy don't need the whole trim just the end plug

.my window seems to have come away from the rubber strip and not fully touching the Targa seal due to this bolt being very loose any idea how to tighten it chaps?

I've been thinking about what could have been better at the Coventry meeting, this is by no means a criticism of the people that attend that meeting or the organizers, but it would of been good to have had a group gathering when we first got their, so that the meeting organizers and any club officials could be introduced to the members attending the meeting as a way of breaking the ice to new members or members who's first meeting it might be. Just a thought.

just putting my car back together after getting the correct boss and have almost got all done. My issue is the wires from the clock spring to the standard wheel. Looking at the 4 way plug going from left to right, the first wire is the horn wire, no2 ???? no3 is live and no4 ?? anyone know if any of these is an earth or do I just sneak a new earth wire between the boss and wheel