General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Its with deep regret I have to post this up to the fourm:cry: but I have sold my black LWB 300 It was my first 300zx which I bought in December 07 and has never let me down but with the SWB 300 taking up all my time I have sold it to a good friend of mine he has left a deposit and I will put it through the mot for him on the 1st October.Some pic's of her looking her best.

would a failed water pump cause the heater not to blow hot air through the vents, although both upper and lower rad hoses are warm and the radiator is warm on both sides. this is with the car up to temperature, and yes after a few mins the temp gauge goes up so i shut it down.. i dont have any water leaks at the front, but when i rev the engine i do hear a 'squeel' from the front of the engine area.

Nice grey Zed on the A1 near the angel of the north this morning, perked my morning up. Mark

just spotted this on dw, i think rather cool:rockon: http://www.driftworks.com/forum/drift-car-projects-builds/155503-1jz-z32-skid-build.html

Well I decided to rebuild my engine to put new shiny turbos, but can anyone advise me before I start doing this. I want approximately to produce 450bhp + and also what middle rev turbos, dont want anything like a massive turbos with massive lag. So anyone can advise me where to buy cheaper rebuild kit what turbo the best to put in and any other necessary information. Cheers guys.

Gents i have a car battery thatwas overcharged, and the acid level inside is low just under the level of the plates, now i have topped up the battery with distilled water but im finding it hard to charge up again, is there a way to revive it somehow, what about the electrolite level should i top it up with battery acid instead? its an expensive battery so i would like to save it somehow thanks in advance

Was looking forward to racing at Japshow Finale at the weekend. Cruising up with the Hampshire Jap Car club boys (yes I know - Asot is not in Hampshire) and some spirited overtaking insued. Oooooh some of us where doing up to 70mph!! Not any faster than that at all I swear on the bible. Not at all, not even a little bit over! Any way, after booting it a few times the car started to hesitate under load!! It got progressively worse down the rev range until pulling away from a junction was like having an epileptic fit! Luckily by this time I was right outside Sant Pod!! Not a good start to my morning!! Unpacked the wendy House and set up be…

Hi folks. My car has developed a really bad idle. i couldnt adjust it with the aac valve adjusting screw so fitted with a new iacv unit. still lumpy. ive checked all connectors and the one going to the ficd solenoid is only gettin a feed from ground side. ive traced it back to the ecu where its sending the feed and tried a known working ecu too which hasnt helped. it might be a broken wire somewhere in the loom. so ill need to try that. but also when i did a leak test there was a slight leak in the plenum. so my question is this, would the ficd cause the revs to bounce on idle and almost cut out or could it be the air leak causing this. it seems to be getting worse. befor…

just wondering if anyone has had similar issues, was driving home from work at midnight last night, put my foot down to overtake some idiot doing 40 in a 60 and when i took my foot off the throttle, the throttle stayed where it was and the zed carried on accelerating!!! managed to get it into neutral and get it to the side of the road before anything worse happened, got the torch out and lifted the bonnet and on of the metal pipes that comes out of the rocker cover had moved out and wedged against the throttle body!! pushed it back in and got the car home, was just a really strange thing to happen, had i not been on a straight road could have ended badly...

Don't even think about it!! lol!!:no: I come back from Japshow Finale and every thread with club suggestions is deleted and/or closed!! You lot can't be left on your own for five minutes!!! And as for the members....:whistling: Only kidding! Right so, back to the point - For me, it's simple. 1. The club bank account grows by "an amount" per year. Fact. the figures are here http://300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=94723 but I can't tell if it's £1,500 or £2,500 after expenses per year. This is great news!! 2. The club account presently has £25,000 of the members money in it. Fact 3. Since the inception of the club there has never been a £25…

With the window down on my Zed, I can smell exhaust fumes even when driving around 40~50mph. I seem to remember this on my last zx too, and just wondered if it is an inherent fault to all Zeds? There's no smoke from the exhausts, no oil dropping onto the exhausts/turbo's and no smoke from around the turbo area? I have the UK version and wondered if the front outermost lights in the spoiler were meant to be hooked up? Since I don't have fogs, the indicators and sidelights are there instead...

I was wondering if Zeds came from the factory with a fob for the cetral locking, or was an alarm usually added to achieve locking via a fob? I seem to remember the pulse wires were in the drivers door? I bought this car with the air con not working - the belt was removed. I have fitted a new belt to prove that the idler etc isn't running noisy, I'm guessing now that there isn't any gas in the system. I want to get this up and running but would like to know where the pressure sensor is located so I can verify that the e/m clutch on the compressor works/rotates before shelling out for a re-gas. Cheers.

Hey fellas' I've just bagged myself a bargain in the form of ex display blue SAMCO hoses/pipes for £75 but I'm now looking for blue SAMCO smic pipes and vacuum hoses any body selling?

Got my Self a Blits spec-R Controller just wanted some info on whats the Max Boost ( Play time ) Safe Boost ( Normal Driving ) Min Boost ( Wet Weather ) i can run with my car FMIC AutoBarn Full Silicone Pipes 555 Injectors Stock Auto Turbos AndyP Devlin 555 chip ( Agressive Fueling ) so i have been told does seem better than my DTa555 i got the Jist of how to program the controller on the 0>100% to slect PSI boost .. and what the gain does Thanks Mark

Passed me heading south on the M3 (sadly up on a trailer)

zeds been running fine for almost a week now, but the other morning i went out and started her up and she has developed a rather noticeable misfire, like shes hunting on tick over, which is bloody annoying. Just to let everyone know, its a new wiring loom on the zed. day before id taken her down to the garage to get some milk, got home and it was running fine, the next day it was hunting. also gave it a few beans the other day while joining the dual carriageway as wanted to see what she could do, the auto box seemed to take ages to change gear (think it might of done it when it reached the rev limiter) i had a double pop like back fire, and then crap loads of sm…

Just found these whilst trawling:thumbup1:

Firstly apologies, I hadn't forgotten about you. It's been a hectic summer with the problems i had that ended up finishing off the V8 project for good but i'll fill you in later on that. As i replied to Ian in another thread I haven't had a chance to organise anything so i was thinking get the summer out the way then sort something out finally. So if you guys are free bonfire night weekend (bonfire night falls on the saturday) we could have a meet up on the friday or sunday for a bbq? Let me know if that's good for you and if not we can shuffle dates around a bit. Cheers again for you help guys :) Nick

is there a reason that one model has wider rears than the other, are there brake or clearance issues?? as im buying a set but not sure if i need the wider rears or not?? mine is a Jap import TT

Eventually I've managed to get the engine out of the LWB zed, without the benefit of an engine hoist and with every nut and bolt seemingly taking the p**s, it wasn't the easiest job that I've carried out on the old girl, but hey it's done now....all I can say is thank God for creatine! *The internals are forged carrillo and Arias parts thank God* the hardest part was carrying the bloody thing on my tod through the house and garage without dripping oil everywhere anyway, it's currently up on the work bench but I'm planning on putting it onto the engine stand in the next day or so, which would give me some spare…

Where`s the best place to get paint code KH6 ? Thanx

Nice looking white Zed parked up in Yarm today, does it belong to somebody on the forum??

Hi all My zed L300 SXY is in Japanese performance mag Oct issue! OUT NOW!

hi all I'm on with an engine swap in my 1990 tt manual. I'm just about to put the new engine into the car but have noticed there is a noticable amount to oil in the drivers side plenum when i open the butterfly valve, the pass side is clean with no oil. The engine seems to have had the pcvs changed and the turbos are apparently reconned. they have turbo technics id tags on them. What could be the cause ????? I really dont want to go through all the chew of putting the engine in, box on and everything else to find out the engines a dud.

I was at the Drifting championship last night at Wembley Arena and spotted a Nice Black Zed in the carpark reg J3m** :thumbup: anyone here ???