General Discussions - 300ZX Related

The breaker I bought a few months back left my drive today destined for the crusher. It was a silver 89 NA, at least it's heart will live on with whatever zed it gets transplanted into !

Ok, so was excited that I finally bolted my engine into the new shell today and started reconnecting everything. I got to the compressor connections and the damn things are different! It's a TT shell and an NA engine. Do TT's use a different compressor, or is this some kind of auto transmission thing (cant think why)? Neither connections fit, though one is a new pipe I got from ebay a while back, as I stripped the threads removing it from the NA shell, I think it's a TT pipe, but when I bought it I didn't know they were different. I'm guessing TT's have different compressor, but why?!

I've been doing a bit of touching up of the bodywork on my old volvo workhorse and it appears I've left the masking tape on too long! It looks like some of it will be a nightmare to remove, especially the glue residue. Has anyone got any top tips, apart from not leaving it on so long!?

here are the sizes front and read staggered fitment, fronts are 18x8j rears are 18x8.5j what size tyres should be fitted

My car has developed a revving issue recently which is getting worse. As I'm slowing down (under 30mph) the engine starts revving between 600 & 1k revs & then settles back down again as the car is coming to a stop or speeds up. The base idle does change slightly aswel when the car is in park, between 600 & 750. Its an auto na. Any ideas what it could be?

just a quickie, anyone know if the electric fan comes on when the ac is on? im sure its supposed to just want to make sure my car has a fault before i go looking for one xD (could be the reason i had to replace the ac compressor??? Thanks guys :D

before i go done the route of fitting buying another electric ariel is there a relay somewere for this or is it just fuses that i need to check cas it dont work and there is a live feed to it. secondly can anyone point out to me the relay to buy for the indicators that i can replace for slowing things down when fitting led bulbs. cheers

Surprisingly this didn't take as long as I thought, but I've managed to get it ready within the weekend. So here's the progress photo's This is how it looked when I picked it up from Lee on Saturday. It appeared as if at some point a silencer had been welded into the tip, so my mission was to remove the weld and try and make it look as acceptable as possible. My first attempt Saturday was to try and hacksaw it off, but it was taking the piss out of me (stupid 5 picture rule)....

So why "What did you do to your zed today?" is Closed? :confused1:

Well it's all over for Time Attack 2013 and for both 300ZX's it was a good day. Both cars ran well. Both drivers were on good form. We all enjoyed ourselves . Those under the "we " heading are in my end of season finale pictures. Team Jaffa..... Driver. Jaffa Pit Crew. Jimmer. Team Bob.... Driver Bobgenie Pit Crew . Slick Pete. Paul/111Mattin111 And today we had Mikey Bean as extra crew!! Thats all for tonite. Its been a long day for all of us.

took the beast along and won best modified today nice way to end the show season

Guy,s, I was at Santa Pod today for the Jap Show finale, ,,,,,,And hey ho,,,,,,,,,,,,, WON SHOW AND SHINE BEST OF SHOW,,,,,, :rockon: So pleased after at least 6 attempts at this,, Pics to follow Cheerzzzzzzzz Chris

Just put my zed away in garage and saw you drive pass one driver had a black cap on.

Is it just a case of getting a kwick-fit type place to source some or do these need to be special order and custom made? Any advice welcome...

Decided to take both inter coolers off today as they are quite corroded and battered with road debris etc, My question is, will she run OK? enough for me to put her back in the garage with them still off? Not likely to do any harm am I? I will put some before and after photos up later. While I have the front end off, is there any particular points of interest that anyone would like photos of? Thanks in advance.

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Hi Just a quick question My starter died on me today and i was wondering if a NA starter is the same as my turbo one? Cheers Rich

Chased you down the slip road In my pearl white Z, nice Red Z black alloys with polished rims I think. Thanks for he hazard flash buddy.

Does anyone know what these two plugs are for? There on the passenger side just near the suspension turret part of the main loom Also this white one you can see in the pic where it comes from, there's been a few deletes on the car so wondered if these are from them

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I have just fitted a HID kit, when I turn the lights on the engine rpm drops a fair bit, I put a multi meter across the battery terminals before the lights switched on and got 13.8 volts, with the lights turned on the voltage dropped down to 12.2 volts, this is without anything else turned on, no air con, stereo or any other lights. Cheers for any help.

I've done a search through some old posts but I was just wondering what the current consensus was regarding the options/methods available to paint the tailgate. With the seals being so expensive, does anyone have any nifty tips as to the most cost effective method. My painter suggested that if I don't remove the trim to get the paint in and under it, (ie masked off the trim) the lacquer would possibly peel from the edge in the future.

Filled up at Didcot services on Friday at 8....... Spotted you in the exit queue while I was waiting to join it Looked a nice white tidy Zed and possibly big brakes

Whilst there has been many a debate about the virtues of stock brakes on here, I have always been of the opinion they are good - as long as they are in full working order..... .....And I had the opportunity to test that theory this morning when a small child ran across the road in front of me, without looking or warning. Luckily there was no-one behind me, as I doubt they would have stopped as quickly!! Richard:nono:

how do i get one with correct color of my car ? :)