General Discussions - 300ZX Related

your blocks back at my workshop. (im not untill tomorrow :D )

if anyone wants a carbon interior kit £150 6 piece email me jaylox@z32.co.uk

I'm sure if i did a search i could find this out but suspect tyre opinions are ever changing, which do you reckon are the best rear tyres on standard 245 wheels? Mine are practically bold, eek!!:p

Has a fun drive into work this evening , raining cats and dogs etc , took a left into a steep country lane , booted the beast a bit.. hey presto did half a donut about turn! Its gonna take me a while to learn how and when to give it some stick! Anyone else got any (more interesting) tales of fish? Dil

I know someone posted one before, tried a search but no results. Anyone help?

Here is a Z on E-bay if anyone is interested. Manual twin turbo and with leather, at the mo at just over £2000. Not my car but someone might be interested. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3109288189&category=18238 Ray

Can anyone tell me if the inlet camshafts have any form of keyway on them, if not hows the best way to time them as i dont have the rocker covers off. Am about to replace the camshaft seals, the exhaust cams have 4 bolts on them so thats no problem to mark when taking off the pulley wheels. Any help appreciated Cheers John Crisp

Sounds like a daft question right? The problem is i'm not sure what my zed has had done to it and I'd really like to know. That way I can plan further upgrades or at least start worrying that my car's going to blow up. I think most of the work was done in Japan. When it was advertised, the seller was talking about it having high 300's in terms of bhp (@ the crank) and apparently it has been rolling road tested in the past. I haven't seen any dynographs though so... I know for a fact it has: Kakimoto single exit racing exhaust Dump Valves (god knows what make, can't see them and don't know where to look!) HKS Turbo Timer Alledgedly it also has…

This is for all you manual or (stick for you yanks) boys and girls out there. I can confirm that if you are experiencing clutch slip due to power increase mods(I am currently at Stage III), adjusting you clutch does have a positive affect and will give you a few more months of pleasure before having to fork out a wedge of cash on you upgrade. However, don't be a silly ninny like me and adjust it the wrong way and end up in a car park at 7am correcting the mistake. D'oh. Advice. Making the adjustment is very easy, however, most of the tech articles talk about turning the spindle clockwise or anti-clock wise. However, due to the fact that you are in a, on-…

HI all , sorry if I appear to be getting above myself as a junior member etc , but seeing the recent threads about M3's , Sklarks etc vs the Z , I thought I'd throw a few thoughts in. Like most of you I have owned shedloads of cars , at the age of 37 insurance doesn't affect me too much these days. In the last 3 years I've had 2 M3's , 2 Cossies ( Escort/Saff) , An Audi s4 , blah blah blah. The reason I now drive the Z is down to one thing...they damn sexy looking pimp mobiles! The others were maybe better engineered cars...well definiteley , but didn't float the proverbial boat visually , and the Z aint no slouch , as you all know. Sorry to preach to the con…

any idea what size boost jets can be run on a standard ECU with aftermarket intake and de-cat exhaust , I know SE do this but they charge £250

I need downpipes similar to Greg Dupree (The ones the US guys are using - split type) But they have to be Japan-Spec.

Anyone got the Series II Service manual supplement on CD?? I have the Series I and its bloody good, but as I have a Series II motor I need the other bit!!!!! Over to you guys! Nick :cool:

OK, due to a fairly narrow escape with getting caught speeding, what would you folks recommend as the best detector / jammer combination? Cheers.

Am I correct in thinking, If you put a Jap speedo, including the electrics attached to it which moves the needle, into a UK dash, the speedo will then start working in KPH. I.e. if I was doing 50mph will the Jap speedo show 80KPH in a UK dash? Stuart

Anyone got any tips on doin the timing belt , as in setting up the tensioner. Cheers John Crisp

I have an oil leak on my 300 from the passenger side front of the engine that drips onto the a/cond pump. Tomorrow i am gonna replace the cam seals but i cant actually see where the oil is coming from. Would the leak possibly be coming from the head gskt from the oil galleries to the rockers or maybee am i right in thinking the cam seals are leaking. Has anyone noticed where in the block the oil galleries are, my thinking is if the galleries in the head are at the outside of the block face then thats where my leak is. Any help appreciated Cheers John Crisp

Guys, has any1 got any a set of NON-stock injectors? let us know, if they're the right price i might just take them off ur hands! jaz:)

Steve, u got mail me old turkey! :)

below is a copy of the email tennis ive been playing with a company in the states, all i want is a couple of shock absorbers......................PS. START AT THE BOTTOM!!!! Make/Model/Year. NISS 300ZX 89 Enter Line Number Type Low High 1 Eibach Pro-Kit Spring Set 248 2 Koni Sport Shock Front (each) 166 3 Koni Sport Shock Rear (each) 94 4 KYB GR-2 Shock Front (each) 37 5 KYB Gas-A-Just Shock Rear (ea) 29 6 KYB Strut & Shock Mount (each) 14 23 7 KYB Strut…

Hi all, I had new front tyres fitted to the Z today and it was a high performance tyre speciallist who did it for me. After messing about trying to get one of his trolley jacks under the car I finally got the tyres done. I asked if they could do the tracking for me and without any hesitation they said NO:mad: Sorry mate it's a specialists job on one of those!! I have also tried 3 or 4 other places and they all give me the same response. Is this right?? is it a specialists job or is it that they can't be bothered. What are your experiances with tracking and can someone like ATS do it??? Cheers Glenn

Guys i have used motorup in my previous two cars and the motorup made a great difference. The car revved more freely, felt smoother and fuel economy improved. My Subaru i had for prox 10,000 miles and the motorup worked well and in the EVO same again i had for 10,000 miles no probs. I think if you use it for long periods of time there may be probs, but in the short run its fine. My Z is arriving from Japan in March and i was going to put some MOTORUP in that but now im unsure.mmmmmmmm Ray

Quick Question does it matter which way round the plus and the minus go on the injectors it just that some tit before me cut all the injector connectors off and replaced them with little individual connectors which keep falling off and touching each other etc. anyway ordered some new ones from Courtesy and the plus which i presume would be the thicker of the two wires is the other way round on the connector so i have a thick plus wire going in to a thin plus wire on the connector and a thin minus wire going on to a thick minus wire on the connector Confused:confused: would this be ok or can i swap them over (thick to thick) (thin to thin) sorry if th…

Z will be up for an MOT soon, just wondering what i should look out for, what do they sometimes fail on? Are emmisions a common problem? The car is standard (UK) apart from exhaust, but the cats are still on. Be nice to know what to look for to try an get it sorted before its done. :cool:

Anyone know of a good garage/engineer in Teesside (or surrounding area) that has dealt with 300ZXs? I'm just looking for someone who I can trust to help as/when needed! I'm happy enough to go further afield on recommendation, say to Newcastle, but local would be best. Ta, StuartR