General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Hey Richard, not sure if it's because of which section you've posted in, but I could not comment on your other thread.. I'm all for encouraging younger members, but agree with Stellaz, that some of the content that we post here may be a little inappropriate for a younger audience. Not sure how you fix that and also depends exactly how young the young members are. In principle I'd be up for letting them join for free or a very reduced rate. I'm sure we'd quickly get suspicious if one of our juniour members started asking for things like replacement CPU's and welding tips!! Cheers

Hi all, After a bit of advice please. The Zed is getting a set of KYB AGX shocks with (what I believe) eibach springs fitted. I've got DW front and rear camber arms and front tension rods to go on too. Has anyone got any info on rough adjustment required before going for 4 wheel alignment please? Reason is I don't know of a place in Germany that does it so may have to drive to England before its done. Many thanks, Rob

Just spent a couple of hours removing this,....... does anyone recognise it and if you do then you will understand why I spent the whole time either swearing, crying or bleeding !! Worst job ever.

I have a '91 Twin Turbo Automatic, and when I go above 3k RPM, I get a grinding noise for a short time, and a huge power loss. It does eventually pick up, but I get a constant whistling noise, but not all the time. Sometimes when I do put my foot down, it just drops into the right gear and it shoots off like a rocket, but 90% of the time it will delay massively. A few different people said it is a gearbox issue, but someone who has had more experience with turbo performance cars says it's a turbo. The previous owner said it was like that for over a year, and it is still going strong, so I'm not 100% sure it is the turbo. I'll try to make a vid of it if the …

My previous Zed had these '6 Pot Venom 1 Piece rear LED Lights' fitted and I want to fit the same to my new one - but the '2 piece' ones as I also want to have a go at the illuminated rear panel too Are they purely a zcentre thing, or are there other suppliers of these? Competition hopefully leading to better prices and all that.... ;) Rich

Currently my car is fitted with a rather difficult to read speedo, its in k/ph and goes upto 300 kmph. The converter, now means that 30mph shows as 30kph so the gauge reads upto 300mph. Not very usefull. So im setting about changing this. Ive aquired a speedo which reads upto 180 but I noticed it actually says on it kph, so now im a little confused, what do I need to do to get my car to read as if it where a uk car. And why do I have these weird clocks, as a side note my jap clocks have zsport written in the centre

as the title say parked in a car back near the hotel im staying in looks nice spotted it as soon as i drove in last night

hey guys, im back on the forum full time now. and so glad for it. after fighting for SO long to keep my old 93 tt 2+2 i had to sell her early this year. stupid insurance companies wanting 8k!! well i had a e36 m3 replica since, and lady luck shown me a awsome lookin 300zx N/A, ex show car. of whos owner wanted a e36 m3. so a straight swap and i am now the proud owner of a z again. and although its only a N/a, its been looked after,veilside kit, bsa 19'' rims. hsk Zorst. Ecu mapped to the balls.s14 seats.dvd etc etc. ill try get some piccies up soon, cant drive it yet tho :( , redundant, Again! soon as i find a job, ill come cruisin wid ya :D

Sure you some of your MOT guys have already seen these but we saw the new MOT certificate last week and was very surprised by the low tech look of them, in fact not just low tech but low security also, no actual official water marked paper just normal pc paper and printed using a small ministry programme....! Jeff TT

ive been toying with getting rid of my alloys want some nice 5 spoke these are 18" on my caratm same in pic below but center cap missing, i know they were off a merc but anyone know what there kinda worth i know there OZ opera 2 and there split rim there in good nick ie no chips etc, cant find any for sale to get a price, cheers chris

Hi guys, Just wondering, were these a good buy and/or what are they worth? Picking them up tomorrow. Paid 150 for 4 of them. 17 inch - Z Sport alloys. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230694168773

Well i tucked away all my engine loom and instead of just patch fixing it i went hey i'll take the whole body loom that runs under the guards, shorten the heck out of it and bring it inside the car... 20 hours of work later i'm almost ready to shorten. This seemed like a good idea in my head.

Do MINES ECUs have a safety map? Reason I'm asking is that my car only seems to be devloping 5psi boost of late. If they do, I figured I'd try the 1M resistor trick to see if that sorts it before I start looking for a boost leak. So can anyone point me to a 'how to' to do the Det sensor short please? TIA

can someone clarify this for me have read so many threads im now just confused... if i wanted wheels for a wide arch kit, for example 20mm wide arches, would i get ~ .8 inches wider alloys or increase my offset by 20mm? or both, my heads hurting now please help...

ive been changing the orange bulbs in my front indicators for silver ones and I've noticed the drivers side one has a small crack in it so it's gotta go!! Spotted them crystal ones on eBay that look nice but it says they might not fit imports? Who's got them already? Are they a pain to fit?

Just after some more information on the above. My fuel pump at the minute just pumps constantly without varying speed, (although it sometimes struggles when the revs are hunting really bad). I think I remember Jeff saying it was because the fuel pump ecu will have been shorted out due to it not working. So am i right in saying that if I buy another one (such as the one black magic is selling) and then replace mine the fuel pump will run normally and I'd get rid of the constant whining noise???? Anybody fitted one of these? because i wouldn't even know where it goes. As always any help is greatly appreciated.

I think this used to be TheVeterans? Back up for sale pretty quickly, probably couldn't keep it going on juice! http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3309302.htm Always one of my favourites as it looked so smooth and not OTT!

Hi all, does anyone know the diameter of the pipe for the targa drain tubes, the ones that go down into the front footwell? I think these must shrink with age, mine no longer reaches the connection at the bottom so want to buy some pipe and sort it.

Hey you guys im brand new and if you dont mind me asking i am currently looking at a 300zx 1992 with 115,000mi's on it i need to know what normally goes wrong with the 300zx's thanks!

Hi guys, I know this has been covered but none of the usual suspects apply. I did have a sizeable leak in the exhaust but I had help from a guy on Angelsey, modifying the exhaust so that it now lines up perfectly. He does custom exhaust builds and mods to a very high standard if anyone is interested. There should be no overfuelling, I'm running the same tune as I did on my previous engine without any popping. I don't see how it could be an intake leak as this would lead to unmetered air and therefore lean if anything. It's making good boost anyway so I'm confident it's all sealed up nicely. It runs well, not perfectly smooth at idle, but I do have a lightened fl…

My zed has gone through a total makeover, since sorning it in March, I removed bits that i just wasnt happy wit. The skirt were the main problem, as they were hiding all manner of issues, lots of rot. after removing all the crud it was apparent the skirts had caused most of it. So any free time i could get, i would do a bit more, to make it all good. Making new panels from the inside out. Next was the high level wings west spoiler, once i got if off and repaired the back end, it has a brand new fibreglass OEM spoiler and brake light. Then the rear arches were a concern, slight bubbling on the drivers side, removed all the dead metal, and repaired. The passengers i…

As above, ive been after one of these for a few years, but couldnt warrant the price they are new, so managed to grab this bargain, which im really happy with. It feels slightly less chunky than my old Momo, but it looks great :drool:

I know theres are people out there making the stock lights LED, but i'm looking into some mars performance ones, but there are no pictures of what they actually look like on a car and google images seems to be failing me. :helpsmilie: these are the lights. if anybody has fitted these or can find a pic that would be great to see them on a car in daylight. Cheers

Hi, I'm trying to confirm a part number and the parts catalog I've found isn't helping much. Due to brittle and leaking fuel pipes I've almost replaced all of them on the car now but one in particular is leaking a little but its the one at the front of the engine between the 2 fuel rails and I can't get to it without removing the throttle assemblies. What I mean by that is there are the 2 butterflies on the front of the plenum which are connected to each other and to the throttle and Cruise cables. I think this is right one. Anyone confirm? http://www.zcentre.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.pbv.tpl&product_id=105&amp…

Red 300zx in Sheffield just near pure gym. Looked tidy enough apart from the huge ferrari badge on the nose.... :(