General Discussions - 300ZX Related

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

There's been so much vandalism and thefts recently that I've decided to get some security installed that covers my zeds at night - and the wife's herbie too. Every second week or so there's cops at the door asking if you seen or heard anything the other night when the neighbours tyres got slashed or even when somebody nicked our brown wheelie bin. So I thought I've chanced my luck long enough and have bought my self one of these : I've done CCTV before with wiring up around 12 cameras at my work so don't think this job will be too hard to install. I plan to put it under the eaves of the rear top corner of my house and run the cable nee…

Whilst attending to several jobs on a nice zed we could not help but notice the front brakes were not in a good shape. On closer inspection it was clear the pads were done, and more so one side of the caliper what was less clear was how the discs had not been damaged.. was close though, just a heads up to check your brake pad wear, on standard and many other wheels its only a glance through the wheel anyhow, the owner decided to have upgrade discs and pads anyhow which was nice. Jeff

I keep thinking i should giv up on the zed project. I hav so much to do and so much little time. But when i go on this site and look at some of the cars and read the threads it gives me more insperation and a massive boost to just go and do a bit more. I carnt get rid of her, but i am getting impatient now. I want to go meets and track days also shows but i carnt yet. Oneday!

i could really use some advise, just been fitting a few of my new parts, went to go for a test drive and she won't go over 1500 rpm, if it does it cuts power, (not engine) however if its in park or neutral it will rev freely and sounds perfect??? is this some sort of safety mode? and ideas what to do?

Hi I want to fit some custom body kit - however I'm a bit concerned about how low it may be (to the road!) as my Zed is already lowered, with eibach springs fitted So I'm intending to fit front and rear bumper, side skirts and possibly vented wings, rear lights - and change the colour My previous Zed, the one I wrecked lol (must see if I still have some photo's of it) had a lot of custom body kit. Problem was it would pass just about anything but a speed hump. I must have broke the front spoiler about half a dozen times!! Out of interest I do have an old receipt for the kit on the old Zed (I didn't fit it) and have some Zedcentre codes from 2004 - b…

long way off still but im thinking of wheels for the car once its done currently i have a set of refurbed enkei rp01s 17" 9j front 10j rear, they are a classic 5 spoke which i think will suit the car very well, but ages ago i saw a zed running on what look like big oem wheels (18s i think) and i really like that look. im not sure if they are what i saw ( i think it was dazvert who posted the pic) but i am thinking of going for a set of porsche turbo twists, ideally 18" and at least 10" on the back any thoughts, any pics?

Hey, anyone know if this is available from anyone/anywhere? I would have said that there were bespoke.... (asking on behalf of a friend in Oz) cheers.

i seen some where a zed with vinyls down the size Some thing alike does any one know where i can get ? ===NISSAN=300ZX==== ====== 300ZX ======

....under plenum is there any pictures around to show me whats under there?