General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Hi Have any of you used this company, there offering a low milage engine with all bits and fitting, 12 months warranty, parts and labour for £3000, is that worth it. Still waiting for the rebuild price. Cheerz John [This message has been edited by John Whelan (edited 19-02-2002).]

Ok that old goody is with us again but has any body ever noticed how, despite all the arguments for and against there is never a conclusive answer to the question of which is better Auto or Manual. So here is what I propose: Lets have a listing of the good points with Auto and Manual transmission. For every positive comment that type of box will score a point. When this post dries up let the box with the most points be declared the best all round transmission type. Remember, stick to the good points of your preferred transmission type, no slaging of the other and try not to repeat previously mentioned points by re-wording them as this will corrupt the final sc…

At last, my car is sorted. It idles perfectly at 800rpm & drives beautifully. The problem was half due to the air flow meter & dodgy wiring. I found that my air flow meter was full of crap & also the wires to the connector were half knackered! Also just want to say thanks to Andy Duff for finding one fault which if had been left undiscovered could have had me guessing for many months more cos there's nothing worse than multiple faults! I drove it today & it feels bloody ace!

Now this Just does stop you matey . ------------------

I live in sweden and our only option when we want to order stuff from JWT (like a clutch) or the jspec 99 taillights is to order from either Ultimate Z or courtesyparts in the US. This works just fine, but shipping costs are not fun at all and we must pay swedish taxes (25%). Is there any equivalent to courtesyparts in the UK or som other part of te EU? regards David

Hey chaps my pc has taken to opening links in a minimised window can just see title bar, I then have to restore it to read, getting a bit annoying I have looked at my internet set up and can not find any reference to opening links minimised where do I look is it somethink else?? even if I open as another page its the same ...help Oh and when I am line now the monitor keeps going slightly puple then ok??? but only when on line. helpppp Jeff TT

Just to give you an update on my dead Zed. Its been with SE for the last 4 weeks. They managed to start it 2 weeks ago, indicating the PTU and CAS are ok. They switched it off, went to start it again, turns over won't start again, the engine is flooded again. They reckon it might be the ECU, so beginning of last week, they said they are gonna try another ecu. Each day they assure me the car is gonna be looked at that day..each day comes..each day goes..nothing..I keep getting pushed back to the end of the appointment queue, I mean how long does it take to swap an ecu over?? Now they assure me is gonna be looked at tomorrow. Cor I could of built a zed from the floor up i…

I'm going to get my Zed (auto) and I've got a daft question to ask, well its not daft really as I don't know the answer..... What does overdrive do? and while i'm making a pratt out of myself how does the power button and hold work on the auto box, sorry for sounding such a div, but if I don't ask i'll never know...

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Just behind the fan there's a silver pipe that runs lengthways. It houses the temparature sensors for the dashboard, the ecu, and there's a third. The first two are on the same mount (yellow block with a black and a yellow/green wire). It's the third sensor, and blue-headed wire on its own, just to the right of the double-headed one. Can anyone please tell me what this third sensor is for, and a part number if you know it - I'm getting code 13 from the ECU, have replaced the yellow-block sensor, but am having same problem... Thanks a lot...

Hi all, I'm just about to buy a Z, and I mean just about (should pick it up this week) and I’m interested to know the service intervals? I've been told many different things by many different people, some say 3000 for an oil change others say 6000, one magazine I read actually said every 9000 which seems a bit high for my liking, could someone please tell me the truth????

Why do cops love pulling over someone in a zx? got pulled over as they said my fog lights are on just bought the car and had the lights taken off as they come on with the normal lights, also why are the normal lightd so bad at night? can something be be done about that, are these running lights or not? These are the lights direclty at the bottom level at the front. does anyone know? cheers rob

Cannot work this one out? its a twin turbo just had O2 sensor replaced, the car is still when starting from cold reving up to 1500 then down, sometimes staling, is this just beacuse the engine is cold? if the air is on or the heater it dosen't stall. Does anyone now what is going on? oil pressure is good everthing seems to be running fine. Please can anyone help me with this. cheers rob

Hey all! Just got through installing one of my 6.5" widescreen Pioneer removable TV screens. now onto the bigger stuff.... does anyone have any good pics of ice installs in the bott of the 300? i have removed all the boot panels right up to the back seat so i have got loads of space in comparison to what i did have. anyone got any ideas? Latz

a mate of mine needs to standard back boxes for his 300 as its mot time and his are blowing does anybody have any going with all the recent exhaust changes that have been going on

Needs some help here planing to upgrade suspension, brakes and wheels. Im going for the full suspension upgrade, can anyone tell me if i missed anything. Suspension: I plan to get all the following from Stillen, adustable upper arms, rear adjustale camber bars, adjustable tession rods, rear stut brace anbd solid sway bars. Also going to get hiper damper II coil overs from HKS. anyone know where i can get a front strut brace from? and is there any other upgradable suspesion parts i can get that ive missed? Wheels: I want to get some 19x9, running 245/35s(front) and 19x10, running 295/35s Blitz technospeed wheels, will these go straight on? If not will 18…

check this link out wat a sweet looking Z www.streetcustoms.com/archives/2002-April-maxxedout.html

All my RIDES!!!!

Ok Roy 100% respect to you mate,You said you would do it and you did,a picture of ALL your rides,SHIT if only that rubber was 1" to the left. ------------------

y r insurance companys such a bunch of cock suckers, im 23 from bournemouth with a motor trade policy 500 tpft any car any value. my mate was set 2 buy my z as im skint and need money for my lowrider £600 they said sweet he thinks then he gets a call is it a import yep fine £1800 then. hes 31 and from benfleet essex hes called 43 companys cheapest is 900 plus tracker any help guys??

platt bridge wigan !in the wet and windy ness,black zed what looked like hks exhaust white 5 bar alloys (nice)reg-c ends in (ajr) is it any of us lot ????!

i need to borrow these items for a couple of months. unless someone has them for sale REAL CHEAP. condition unimportant, broken, cracked, dirty, whatever.

http://www.jcars.co.uk/mmc/fto/bbs/config.cgi?read=14372

I hear you are not coming to the Chester meet??? ------------------

Hello peps, I was surfing today looking for something completely different but come across these web sites and thought some of you might like to browse over the information presented. The turbo calculator is 'interesting'. http://www.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=turbo.htm&url=http://www.turbofast.com.au/tfcalc.html http://www.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=turbo.htm&url=http://www.quancon.com/~gdrane/turbosys.html cheers.