General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Big thanks to Jeff and Jamie for sorting the water leak on my zed. Took a while. It was the four or five inch heater matrix hose that had a leak caused by an overtightened jubilee clip cutting into it. Who the eff put that on ? Then JAn's zed was in for an MOT Jamie said oooh pads llok a bit low. Spot on Jamie, flew through and he won a fitting for new pads all round. Thank you Zedworld

As above really :)

This is a late Z but I despise Lambo doors :hammer: In my hometown as well, not a clue where though :confused1: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250917769273?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Never seem one as original and with incredible low miles :cool3: Tan interior and green does nothing for me but that aside :wink: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230691528978?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Sorry , its not very interesting, but whilst looking for a new works van i stumbled across this showroom in California! http://www.ckmotors.com/

If I was a day later, this car would have been on a scrap pile, which would have been a great shame. But I've now expanded my Z collection with the addition of this rather pretty pearl white NA. I had to remove the front bumper to tow it back. Its really tidy and had some money spent on it, but its not all gravy, as the engine is knackered, as is the gearbox and also the radiator! (thats probably down to the wrong top hose!!! :slap: ) the exhaust has been sold as had a couple of interior trim panels but I've already fitted new ones. I have an engine and manual gearbox 'in stock' hence the reason I'm gonna repair this one up! :thumbu…

After winning the other part of the oil filter challenge on Sunday. I get home today to find a nice shinny new oil filter has been delivered. Jeff and the guys at zedworld you are a total credit to this club. First class service. Cheers Stu

I've just had a blether with my engine builder and thought i'd see what your opinions are. I'm having a full engine rebuild and will be running HKS GT2510s. These are complete with HKS elbows. Before i got my hands on the HKS tubs i got a nice set of Z1 4 bolt split downpipes. These are obviously now useless as i need 5 bolt downpipes for the HKS tubs. Anyhoos, i was going to try and get a set of the Z1 5 bolt split downpipes. My engine builder told me not to bother - the HKS elbows will be fine. From his experience, unless i'm hoping to run 1000bhp the difference is completely negliable. Whats your thoughts on this? Only actually experience ple…

Hi Guys! Ive originally posted this in the ZClub but a Zed is a Zed! We had a few of you guys down for petrolhead nirvana a few weeks ago and we got speaking to the Hero that is Steve Burns. We spoke about having a Z only day down at LMM, we can get you guys to bring the 3 best Zeds you have t offer inside the museum in the studio for some crispy shots. All we need is a date, we are NOT located in central London and we have plenty of parking. Steve said that some of you guys pictured us like the transport museum! We are very different! How are you guys for the end of November? Alvin LMM team

just wanted to see if anyones got any idea's for my Z car was running fine the day before. Got in it dismorning and it started but i then stalled it :death: and now the Z wont fire up. The engine turns over but does not spark to life. I have charged the battery just in case. Was thinking it could be the fuel pump or PTU (bit strange as it was fine the day before) Anyone else got any ideas for me to check?

Well, got my lovely zed back from Jeff, he has done wonders with the car, it is so different to drive, quicker, smoother, feels more planted on the road. It is odd, the way we have our cars for so long and just get used to the way they drive, then after someone like Jeff has tweaked it, and fixed a few little things, it is like a new car... Thank you Jeff, and to all your team.

Hi chaps, Does anyboday have any recommendations for upgraded engine mounts? I've seen a few in the states. BDE for example, and Z1 have a solid aluminium mount. Any feedback would be great before i order Thanks

Well, after being mortally afraid to do anything other than check the oil and water on my car, I finally rolled up my sleeves and got my hands dirty! I'm not adverse to practical stuff, but generally with cars I know I'm better off leaving it to the pro's. After getting a quote of 200 quid to fit some stereo equipment in my car, I quickly changed my mind however. 200 quid? How hard can it be? I had been looking at a whole new setup for my car, but to get myself started, I decided I would replace just the door speakers and rear 6x4's. I started at 9 o'clock removing the driver's door card and by 10 o'clock I still hadn't got the bloody thing off! One of the meta…

I have had my rear subframe off to paint and renew, now it all is refitted, I have a kind of bang type noise. It happens when letting the clutch out the first time going forwards or reversing, there appears to be play in the diff, when I let the clutch out, the prop and diff seem to rotate about a Cm before becoming solid, or engaged, and when it becomes solid, it makes a bit of a knock, or slight bang, is it normal for the input of the diff to have play in it? I noticed it when I had the diff off, presumed it was normal. If I put her in reverse with the handbrake on and let the clutch bite repeatedly, it is knock, knock, knock etc. each time I let the clutch bite..…

Saw you at around 20:15pm today, I was in the opposite lane. I flashed but it was kinda late when I saw you. Nice car :)

Al little knowledge can be dangerous, a well known saying that is proven over and over, see below, the amount of copper slip that had been applied to the release bearing in this already oily gearbox ( crank seal leaking) the bearing is designed to not need any amount of lubricant on the front face, this is stationary once it makes contact with the pressure cover fingers, the internal ball bearings then are the rotating point, of course the trouble this causes is it gets up onto the clutch face, see in the second pic the throw out lines of copper slip..... be careful if in doubt always ask! Jeff TT

Making a list of winter projects to do and on it is rear hub removal. Could anyone give a brief run through for me please? (With pictures if possible) Better still, if there is already a tech "how to" and if someone could post the link I would be grateful.

right im going to sort a list of common part numbers out from the nissan main system, if you want anything on the list please post it up here and ill get it on there.

Have got an el strip and inverter on its way for my rear centre panel, my fusebox cover arrived at the weekend, ive taken the amber reflector out of my front indicators and fitted amber bulbs and have a complete scuttle panel on its way...so its full steam ahead :) Still have my rear trim panels to re-cover and hopefully sort out a respray in the not to distant future ;)

Hey, Just looking for the Nissan part number for this, preferably with the rear brake light in it, if not, the normal one would be ok. I saw a post about a week and a half ago, but a search through the recent forums, and a search didn't find it. If anyone has the part number, I'd be grateful.

Hi Guys, I originally purchased the car just under 6 months ago. The garaged taxed it for me and were suppose to send of the log book for change of name and owner. Well its my fault, I forgot about the log book. Never received it. Now its time to tax the vehicle and obviously I cant do that as I have no log book. I have downloaded a form for obtaining a log book and the fee is £25.00 However I am stuck on the chassis number VIN. My car is a JAP IMPORT and has more VIN numbers than the box will allow. Can anyone advise?

i fitted my new japspeed rad the other weekend and after its first two drives, ive noticed to issues. firstly i seem to loose about 1/4 of a litre of coolant both times, toppd it up the first time. :s can i assume that given that im not experiencing any drips.( i put a piece of noteboard paper under the car to check over night no green dots) that was both running and cold. can i assume that im not leaking? my thoerys are either : im still getting air out the system, ive only covered about 30 miles so far, with the temp set on max. : or that its over flowing into the emptied expansion bottle and not coming back. (i havent actually checked to see wether its gone …

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I havent driven the zed for a while, put about half a litre of oil in as it looked a little low. drove above 10 miles and fine, on the way back it started to misfire. it got to around 4000 revs and would go no further but drove home okay under that rev range. went back out straight away and the power completely went. I know it shouldnt be the case, but if I have over filled the oil, anyway at all it could misfire? Thats probably just coincidence. Anyway drained some oil out just in case and restarted, no problem, no misfire. Lad over the road pulled up and we chatting about his GT4, the car was running, it started to misfire again, enough so it cut out. Ill…

Hi all just wanted to post up the results of my power runs yesterday after the boost controller was plumbed in and set up it should be boosting around 0.9 bar on the road because its a uk auto theres no power hold button so we couldnt really do a full throttle run. the boost looks better now and made a modest 15hp and there was a tiny amount of det at about 3.5k but bobs timing light had been smashed to bits a few days ago so we couldnt check it, it really needs mapping now which should be happening in the next few weeks it looks pretty good to me but tbh i have no idea how a zed graph should look so thoght id ask you guys if it looked ok? cheers guys