General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Anyone know how much oil I should put in for first turn over to prime turbo's, oil lines and cooler??? I have New oil filter, Empty oil lines and slightly bigger oil cooler? I was looking at cranking over using 3.4 ltrs and then check dipstick after a few minutes? What is best way..... add 3.4 litres and then add more if it drops...?? Cheers....... Russ

i need some inspiration form everyone with carbon spoilers... my zed going into the bodyshop over the winter and i really want a carbon wing, to go with the splitter,canards and rear diffuser and carbon bonnet. but im not sure what size to get so if i can get some pictures and what size they are. (particuarly the width) was thinking of a 70" wide APR spoiler, (this is going to be my track day zed, i know its over kill for public roads... :blush:) thanks guys...

Recently fitted a sandwich plate to oil filter housing but when I screwed the hks gauge oil temp sensor probe in it it hits on the inner ring of the sandwich plate the sensor is tight .It hasn't bottom out on the thread I just wondered if this was ok or do it cut a few mm off the end of the sensor thanks taff

i have just ordered the drift works hicas full elimination to replace my very wornout rose joints.

Hi Guys, Well, a couple of 5:00am starts, a missed flight and a trip to Lurgan in Northern Ireland later and my new Zed is still not quite home yet. Don't get me wrong, she didn't miss a beat on the journey back. She even coped with 2 and half hours of rush-hour traffic off the ferry and through Liverpool, the temp gauge never even troubling the middle of the dial:clap: The car went straight to MWP in Chester for a FULL healthcheck and to get some of the more pressing issues sorted :thumbup1: She's in for a replacement scuttle trim, top door window seal, driver's door alignment, and an oil cooler for the 'box. Oh yeah, and a working radio would be nice too. I…

Sadly my first ever z32 is beyond repair, the windows are missing and the rear subframe had been ripped out. The body work has also suffered. Worst thing is its orange And there's an eagle on the bonnet. I'm keeping the chrome interior but the is up for grabs.

Spotted these today on gumtree if they are of any interest to anyone Nissan 300ZX Eibach/KYB Dampers and spring suspension For sale Eibach Springs and KYB Dampers For nissan 300ZX KYB Dampers with adustable damping rate. Custom Eibach Springs with progressive 30% stiffness over original Eibach Springs Lowers the Car between 30mm-35mm Handling is very competent and linear . Supremely tighter than the standard setup South East London area http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/nissan-300zx-eibachkyb-dampers-and-spring-suspension/1032418250 My Zeta-R just arrived today (only paid for them yesterday morning) :cool3:

I have no heat inside the car. I haven't checked anything as yet but I'm just wondering if there's any easy way to check if my heater core's been bypassed...? Anything obvious I should be looking for generally? Blower works fine but only blows cold, radiator is fine, cooling system is fine with no leaks or issues. Cheers.

Its always the case that at a cracking good event you never get to see everything, so I'll start specifically with other peoples pics of Zeds I have found so far. An outlaw jap member got this cracking pic of my car: Then there are a few Zeds I missed altogether

Just taking my daughter to school and went to change gear and was met with a very wobbly gear stick like the linkage was undone, managed to limp the car up to my daughters school then back to my old flats, the linkage has failed on the u joint between the gear box and gear leaver how can this be fixed ?

Hi, I have just fitted the new oil cooler and lines and before I get finished putting radiator in and cranking over the engine............ I have a few questions..... 1) I can't find the restrictor in the old oil lines as I only had the ones from the block to the metal hard pipes.... no restrictor seems to be in them..... do I need to get one and fit it to the new braided lines? Made restrictor myself 2) How do I prime the new oil cooler and oil lines before firing the engine for the first time? I know about cranking the engine without ignition to prime the turbo's..... Do I fill the oil cooler manually? Going To fill oil cooler before I fill engine to make sure there…

im struggling to get my pics up. It gets to upload then nothing??

Not sure if this is the right section, but il pretend it is. I've been thinking for a little while about this, the yanks seem quite keen on it and few clubs are turning up around the uk. For those that are unfamiliar with what autocross is, it's a times point to point race through a series of cones, usually in a flat surface. The cars usually required to be road legal and to have arrived under their own steam. So what's so good or different about it I hear you ask? Well price is the main thing. Costs are low due to it being able to be organised on a flat surface with permission, no track day costing. Lower speeds, shorter tracks and massive run offs mean that the…

Hi guys im respraying my car, and im doing it in my father laws garage cause im so skint. Im doing an mot course and should have it all passed by the end of month so can earn some bloody money again. Anyhow I'll get to the point lol...I took my windscreen out for respray but I think I've cut to much out. Ive removed all the bond, and the bloody 2 plastic strips that hold the weather strips. does the new Window come with a foam/sponge on it cause this one had it and I think I shouldn't have cut it all out. Anyone taken it all out where can I go from here can I buy new strips etc. other then this the car is almost ready for paint and I'll put so…

So JAE 2013 has come and gone and there's not that many pics to be seen. :thumbdown: Never had a good enough camera myself so was hoping to see some good camera skills from the member base. So come on get those cameras and phone pics posted now !:yes:

Hi guys Just bough myself an imported '92 300zx TT 5 speed manual , absolutely love the car but when i got told they'd have problems i didn't expect this fast! so! , i got the car back sunday night , working fine , test drove fine ! in the morning i took the car to work about 7 miles ! and pshhhhhhhhhhhhh off comes the power steering belt happily taking the a/c one with it too ! , 20 quid for the 2 belts ...sorted Number 2- a little smoke when idling , got told by the previous owner this was down to an oil seal leak on the drivers side turbo and only smoked a little when idling ( which was true) never the less i do want to look into it and would like advice …

Two zed's in one day! Red one this morning in mereside with high level spoiler and Ferrari lights, about 7am, and a silver one at 1.15 on whitegate drive?

hi guys ive just had the hicas outer ball joints and inner rods changed for new, after driving about 40 miles my hicas light has come on on the dash and wont go off, any ideas what could be the cause, drives and handles great still just annoying.... cheers

does anyone know were you can buy a co2 intercooler kit from in the uk ?

I'm sure I already know the answer to this, but just in case I am being dense, I wanted to ask first. My Zed is a '95 NA, but I am almost positive that the front nose (or at least the lip) is from a TT as it has the intercooler vents. Could someone confirm either way please as I am about to order some bits from the states ;) Cheers Al

Is the Rad expansion bottle meant to have this hole at the top?? So when its full it will trickle out down to the road.??

I have that new bush to go in, I have gt85'd and wire brushed the hell out of the end of the arm, finally got the nut off and stuff but can not move the arm off the bush. I exposed the inboard end of the arm but don't want to dismantle things I don't need to. Does it just need a bloody good pull. Then there is the matter of getting the bush out of the hub. All advice greatly appreciated.

Its no coincidence that the vast majority of 300ZX owners in motorsport start with a slicktop. Its the lightest model in the range. Way back in 2005 I weighed a standard NA Manual Slicktop. It weighed 1420kg as driven on to a weighbridge. Fuel around 1/3 tank. This was pretty much what Brian Long listed in his book. After a fair amount of stripping which was partially documented in a thread at the time I got the weight down to 1320kg. This was with my original red slicktop. When I built the current orange and black car I did some more weight loss but never went back to get it weighed So in its present spec I weighed it today. It weighed 1270KG. There…

My arial i swear used to work before i took engine out im sure it did but hey it ant anymore .ive checked all the connections so before ibuy a new one i wonderd if there was a easy way of checking .like unpluging it and running a live wire from the battery across it.?

I decided to spread the love outside the forum and jump on this guys donkey. He obviously loved it, I'm now wondering if woody, actually had wood lol. As you can see in the first picture... IanL was waiting like... "I'm next!!!"