General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Leaking coolent from the left hand side of the engine, as a your looking at the engine its coming from I think the side of the radiator. I had the RAC come and try and find were it was coming from, as I had lost a lot of coolent he filled it back up with water and some stuff called Bars seal, its stopped the leak, is this stuff OK in the radiator? though feels like there is a loss of power. Does anyone have an idea what if any could of caused this to happen? coolent level was good, and around 6 months ago had a flush. Also is this a big job to find out what has happened any suggestions much appreciated cheers rob

does anyone know the the part number for a manual starter motor and is it different to that of an auto. aki

That is what I call a job well done! Fun when it happened on a busy motorway at about 70 mph!! Its fun, you should try it sometime! [This message has been edited by b12andy (edited 29-07-2002).]

Hi all I'm after an ariel and a rear wiper system (mine was yanked and now no longer works or fits in place correctly) Its a UK 1990 TT one Thanks Matt

The plan was to drive up to Reading on Friday night, stay at a friends place so I could get up and get to Micheldever tyres nice and early, and drive up to Billing Saturday or early Sunday morning What actually happened was I drove up to Reading on Friday night, met a cute girl in the Purple Turtle, completely fell in love/lust with her, found out she was at Womad festival, decided to go to Womad on Saturday and then Billing on Sunday, found out that day tickets for Saturday had sold out, found a girl selling a full weekend ticket for only a fiver more than a day ticket and bought that. I then met a cute German girl on Saturday night, fell in love/lust again, decided…

Hi Guys, Just want to say Big Thanks to Craig and Nico for facilitating Billing and anyone else who had a part to play. I find it easy to take these things for granted and think that these events happen on their own. Great to see everyone and so many great Z's, I had a superb time, and thanks for all the advice and offers of help/beer and tent space from Cos. Unfortunately a lot of the help/advice got lost because of the beer sunk, so if anyone remembers offering me free engine rebuilds and a wingswest kit, just for the pleasure of working on me convertabubble, pipe up! LOL Mark

Well, what can I say. We may sit behind these keyboards and give each other hell, but when it comes down to getting together and having a good time, no-one does it better. Everyone I met this weekend was a Gentleman/woman apart from Tracy who was star and a proper geezer bird(Tony, have you recovered from your pasting?) Tracy, I would see a doctor about your drinking problem. It annoyed the rest of us how we were not able to get pissed in time before you cleared out the boos. Kris-Mark-Macca-Jaylox-TonyC-Harve-Harve's mate-Tony-Tony's mates(who didn't want anything to do with him by 2am and just watched Tracy abuse him-The couple in one of the pictures…

I recently had the engine out and it stood on end in the workshop for a couple of weeks. Now that its back in, its got one noisey hydraulic lifter. Looking in the manual it says you should always keep the tappets the right way up when you remove them otherwise air gets in and they go noisey. Do you think this could have happened to mine while the engine was stood on end? And how the hell can I purge the air out of it without having to strip it back to the cams???? Cheers in advance ZHead.

Hi Guys, On the way back from billing I noticed a strange light come on the dash which I had not seen before. The only way I can describe it is a square with wigley lines above and below it and it was a red one. Second in from the right I think. This light came on twice, each time for about 5-10 seconds. I was cruising at 80-90mph prior to the light coming on so I eased off down too 60-70 and travelled the rest of my journey, about 50 miles and it never came on again. Car drove fine, Temp and Oil pressure were OK and car pulled fine no lack of turbo boost. Should I be worried about it. Cheers, Deano.

$520 bucks for a titanium (alloy) key !!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&showtutorial=0&ed=0&t=0&indexurl=0&item=1844945067&r=0&rd=1

On the way into work this morning my indicators packed up on me, I found the fuse box that had about ten relays but no sign of the indicator relay, could someone kindly point me in the right direction.

Not only did my Z fail its MOT this weekend (2 rear tyres surprisingly), I did't make it to Billing and to top it all off i went to my Z on sunday morning to give my mate a lift and some jism stain fucker has run a key right across my rear spoiler. Wankers. Tristan

How was the boost on the way home ? Didn't mash too many pistons did you ?!? Great to meet you. Dave

Im need new front discs, is anyone using EBC front Discs? If so what do you think of them?

at billing while chatting to someone , i mentioned my name and when i walked away someone(sorry ive forgot who)came up to me and said they heard me mention my name and i was the goosehonk guy well i should of been expecting this,a nice label for myself hey. goosehonk jay

Can someone tell me how to take off my headlights without breaking anything! Thanks

I made a complete arse of this Veilside Z pic But if you zoom in a bit..... And a bit more........ Maybee not such a bad pic after all Paul

Top weekend at billing. Met loads of great people and saw many great Z's, nice to see loads of people from the Slough meet again (Jay, Mark and the scottish chap (SWB grey Z) whose name i never remember is it Jason also, I cant remember!! Good to meet the lengendary Mac 1, alot of people with super maxed cars tend to be arrogant tossers, but he was really down to earth (even though its his fault i spent £86 on a razo gear knob!!) I even managed to get a quick donut in before the park police turned up and copped my mate having a spin in his £200 xr2. Bring on next year!! B19RKS

Half an hour to fit a Razo Gear knob??? More like 3 hours like Mr shake hands man on the Razo stand said! (This did include an hour looking for one of the screws i dropped down the side of the drivers seat!) Seriously thanks for the advice on how to do it it helped loads, Took a couple of attempts to get it all working properly (shift lock etc) but i reckon if i had to do it again it would be half an hour next time. Also do you know where i might be able to get another sleeve that goes under the knob? As i cut a bit too much off mine and its got a little gap at the bottom. Nice to meet you. B19RKS.

as my head is in bits,not sure who i met? who was there and what time ,which day?

Anyone got any of these items?

Noticed at Billing a few of you guys had upgraded/renewed the various oil coolers, what sizes and how many rows (matrix height) also jic male or bsp male, have yers gone for ?? and i suppose roughly how much sponds cheers smithy

See them all at www.clarkey73.btinternet.co.uk/JAE/ apologies for the low quality. ------------------

I jyst spent half an hour typing out a report of billing, and it said The post cannot be processed because I exceeded the maximum limit of images, which is 8. But I didnt have any images in it at all. I hit the back button and its gone. Im almost as annoyed with the forum as I am with the zed currently!

i have a spare short block. crank Con rods ect. im not going to be using them anymore. anyone interested mail me.