General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Probably been asked before but hey ho, Is it possible to swap the guts of a TT Diff with those of an NA diff leaving the finished diff fully boltable up to a TT car ,complete with Hicas etc etc ?? thanks Sayers

Hey Guys, Just wanted to get some questions out of the way. If i bought a standard 300zx, what would be the best mods to get more bhp out of the car. Also whats the limit with everything being standard, or what parts would i need to upgrade i would love to get around 380-400 bhp. My main importance would be to 0-60 times being as low as possible. Cheers

I've received another black box for the windows from Baz but still my windows won't work. Are there any fuses etc... I can check, thinking back i'm sure i heard a pop when the problem occured.

Hard to tell until I get to the garage to have a look for myself, but had a call from the mechanic earlier. He is fitting a japspeed radiator and has phoned to say the radiator isn't the same as the one he just took out, he said there's no pipework for the gearbox cooler. Now its a JDM manual TT, that doesn't have a cooler for the box does it? And if it does then does that mean I've had a maual conversion in the past and some crap has been left behind? Any help appreciated guys, hopefully heading to garage later this afternoon. Cheers

just took my zed out ( i know late on a sunday to be taking out a zed with a broken gearbox ) but was only dropping something to a mate down the road. i noticed it seems to be acting odd, the idle is fine, but when ever i come off the throttle the idle drops and it nearly stalls???? its not done this before, only thing that's changed is it now has a full z1 silicon idle hose set on. they are not leaking or defective, as far as i can tell, but its dark and late so will look tomorrow, anyone ever had this problem?

I've been offered a new pair of Work Equips for the rear of my Z... but they're a little bigger than my current ones, at 18x12 ET-20 :shifty: I'm aware this is a mad size, and I know this will probably mean wide or flared arches, which I certainly don't mind :clap: Will the rear clearance be ok for these wheels does anyone know...? :huh: I'm talking this sort of dish... :shifty::shifty::shifty::shifty::shifty:

OK, Start the car from cold, everything is fine. RPM at 1500rpm and all other gauges are fine. So, I select reverse and as soon as I touch the accelerator the revs drop by 500RPM! I then have to over rev to compensate so as to avoid stalling! This goes on untill she reaches normal operating temp, then the reverse happens! Sits at 850 RPM and as soon as I touch the accelerator the revs jump up 500RPM!! I'm begging you guys, can someone tell me how to fix this? It's making driving bl@@dy hell. The only thing that I can say is, that there is a definite click each time I touch the accelerator and it seems to be coming from the right side of the drivers footwell.

Seems we had more Zeds than I've seen at meets on our stand today, we had 5 in all but with 4 at a time! Anyone get any pics? Was nice to give the Zed coverage on our trade stand.

Can anyone tell me where I can get a replacement fibreglass spoiler to replace the water logged foam thing?

Just a few pics of Japfest 2 I attended today, met some great guys, here`s a few pics, got loads and will update tomorrow ;) Marks car went and sounded great!!! and that 240z was bloody quick as well !! lovely to meet, Roobarb,Chris, Mark and son, CJ`s wife and son, the 2 Portuguese lads in the white 300, the 240z ladz and of course Chris artztogo, and Anthony sfs silicon hoses, bloody hell Loads!!!!!sorry if i missed anyone ,whos the lad with the orange zed with aviator wheels who I was speaking to?his dad is arkwright?

Which additional gauges everyone is using? I mean - boost / oil / temp etc .. ?

hi just wondering if you could let me know what sensor(in red) this is and what the 2 pipes(in yellow) are for?

can somebody tell me exactly what would be involved in the conversion , the pitfalls and of course exactly what i will need , thanks sayers

Drove my son up to a friends house yesterday but unknown to me my bonnet was not fully closed after I was cleaning around the engine bay earlier. So droped him off and heading home I pushed the zed on (up to the speed limit) the next thing I knew there was a loud scraping noise under the car so got home and looked underneath the engine bay and the plastic undertry was hanging on with one screw! So the wind blowing through the engine bay at speed must of ripped it of.I was just glad the bonnet did not fly up into the windscreen or it would of been goodnight SWB.Need a new undertry now and looking at these or maybe make my own. http://www.zspeedperformance.com/ZSpeed-Perf…

noticed today a small part of my dash by the windscreen has started to lift i know its an age old thing on the zeds anyone got a easy fit or does the dash have to come out and stuck back down

Going to go out this afternoon and fit the Mongoose Cat Back Quad Tail System, I been out and bought new U Brackets for connecting rear to middle sections. RTV Sealent, and M10 Nuts and Bolts. I dont have gaskets, as I was advised here I could just use the Silicone (could someone confim this?) Also, once the new system is on, and bolted up, how long should I wait for the silicone sealent to set, before starting up the car? Kindest Regards Ryan

...........If you have no paper work? My Mate who purchased his Black wide arch off a salvage site with very minimal damage has got himself something special:yes::yes: it goes like a rocket, boost over 18 and wants to tear up the tarmac ! He has had the car on his ramps at work [just put a new clutch in it] and the are larger then mine and look pretty new but cannot see any identification Is there a way of identifying?? Dave

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Silver, jap @ T in the park, nice looking wheels. Hope you don't get stuck in mud.:punk:

Friday evening followed a black zed turning into TESCO, Hamilton, Leicester.

Ok bit if a strange one but here goes, I know that the zed shares the same shock absorber setup as the R32 GTR. Now would i be able to fit zed shocks and springs to a R32 GTR?? Reason i ask is i may be buying a GTR with the intention of punting it straight on, only it has a lovely set of tein coilovers on it which i fancy for the zed. I have bilstein b6 shocks on the zed which are fairly new ( rears havent even done 200 miles ). Cheers in advance

just wondering what one u have fitted and what u think of them been looking at the Bee-R brand but theres few more on the market too

Well the weathers not looking to good for japfest 2 tomorrow at donny, just hope it stays dry

ok, so its said to use: 225 / 50 / 16R on the front 245 / 45 / 16R on rear Is there anywhere I can actually get four tyres the same brand and tread pattern? What does everyone else have on their UK Spec OEMs? Is there any harm having different fronts to rears? The only Two I have found available in both the above sizes is the Bridgestone Potenza S02's Rears: http://www.tyretraders.com/tyreInformation%7CItemID%7CBRI24545R16-ZRS02N3.html Fronts: http://www.tyretraders.com/tyreInformation%7CItemID%7CBRI22550R16ZS02JZ.html Which comes to around £480 for all 4 delivered (Not Fitted) and the Toyo Proxes T1-R's Fronts: http://w…

theres crap all on tonight so my lady has put columbo on as she has the lot on dvd, im on the laptop and happened to look up and there it was a 300zx full on side view behind a 928 got her to play back and yep there it is red 300zx z32 ,so i googled it and this episode was aired for the first time on the 20th of jan 1990