General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Spotted a black zed in car park 15 on Warwick campus about 9:30 today, might still be there.

Can the original factory fitted rubberised rear spoiler be successfully repainted? Mine suffers from the usual cracking/peeling. Has paint technology moved on that allows an improved acceptable finish? I'm aware that fibreglass replacements are available but reckon that it'd be more cost effective to paint original. Your comments, as ever, are much appreciated. Regards

Does anyone know what bung I need, maybe a link to one? I've lost the original but don't fancy the 5p jobby anyways...

Well, ive now got 2 Zeds. Both have no tax or mot. The one at Zedworld is now running, and hopefully will be ready for an mot this week. The other, is in need of some love, i'd say more so than the other one, but has a lot of nice bits on it. I thought about putting them both on the road, making them both nice, then selling the one an keeping the nicest one for myslef. Im now thinking, how long will that take me, and is there any point. Which brings me to my lastest idea. If the first one will pass its mot, i'll be on the road, so thats the project finished with regards to getting it going. I could then take the good bits off the other one, and mak…

Hi guys, Hoping to collect my new toy this week, but hoping to use a recovery a frame such as this - Would anyone be able to confirm if a zed can be pulled using one of these? Thanks Dean

There doesnt seem to be anything on this, so here goes... Just fitted my new steering wheel, but as its a smaller diameter than the stock one and even with the seat set as low as it will go, the top of the wheel still obscures all the dials... In my old MX5 i very successfully did a foamectomy on the seat, and removed about an inch of foam so I sat an inch lower, which is all I'd need to do to the seat in the zed to be able to see the dials. Has anyone removed some foam from the front seat to lower it further?

regaurding some work done by nippon auto spares to my car ive tried searching for it but found nothing it was posted up by jeff when i he had to do the job properly for me. i would like the contents of this thread for my records....

Parked outside a pub called The Victoria (or something), in St Warburtons (or whatever it's called) on Saturday night.

just a few quick questions found a thread for door card removal i assume the dash underside is pretty straight forward....? does anyone know the following two questions? first do the tweed parts of teh door come off seperatly? and secondly how much material would be required to recover all the tweed?

Hi all, i bought these of one of the lads over here last year but i can't remember what Evo they are off. Does anyone recognise them because i need to get pads!!??:hammer: Cheers

Hey, Currently putting new front pads in and noticed two of the pads have spring clip things on them, can anyone tell me if these go on the rear of the disc or the front. They seem pretty pointless they do, guess theyre there for a reason. Cheers!

Finally after two days of bad luck and hardwork i managed to get my car back home. To cut the story short, took a flight to belfast but on the way my wallet was stolen but lucky i put the car money seperately. This indirectly made me miss my ferry back to london. So was totally screwed but was a proud owner of a zed with no money for petrol and no place to stay. Somehow managed to get some money from a friend via a long shot, rebooked the ferry for the next day and left for london on saturday! Short version but was one of the most stressfull days lol However getting of the ferry at liverpool and then driving 4 hours to east london, couldnt stop smiling :D. The car di…

Hi guys, just sorting the little bits out on my car before i advertise it. I have purchased a correct steering wheel [one with no cruise] for the car and just went to swap it over and found they are quite different see pics My question is this can i fit this steering wheel [i think its an NA] and what do i need to buy for it to fit? The old one is the bottom one and the replacement one is above it [obviously]

Has anyone fitted the K N replacment airfilters (the ones that fit the original airbox)to there car, and was there much improvment in performance over the standard type.

20 manual conversions done............ who`s this then? From his feedback he works on Supra`s and 4 x 4 and lives in the west country, has only one feedback as a seller but enough work on to do 20 conversions any guesses, if I am right I have some cracking pics of at least 3 of those conversions....multi ebay identities perhaps :x: Tasty workshop or what :tt2: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/300zx-Manual-Conversion-Kit-/140522134879?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item20b7c59d5f Jeff TT

Originally this is Groover's baby so all credit goes to him :biggrin: I sent my switch off to him and he blue illuminated it for me about 10 months ago :yes: Off Marty I got a switch that was not worn on the switch, so better than I had so set about lighting it myself in red this time as my interior is either blue or red, Palace fan you see :cry: So Graham, I opened up the chambers inside as much as I could get to and as much as I dared, used two strips, one either side, cut down to 3 smd's on each, I know you did it differently but my confidence in soldering is not good :wacko: I did Dr. Dremel'd it back as well to accomodate the strip thickness and also took …

who is the chap that makes these for considerably cheaperthan they are everywhere else hes a 350z owner i know one or two of you lot have his product :D spill the beans?

Morning folks, my HICAS warning light is on anyone know how to make it go away? Cheers

just going through stuff in garage came across pack of top trumps look what was in the pack.

if you were going to turbo a N/a how much boost can you safle run without wreckin the engine without upgrading the pistons n all that im just wonderin coz i start a new job at the end of the month.would it be worth while trying or should i just sell and get a tt bear in mind insurance and stuff + can the vg30de run just one big turbo or am i just bein stupid.. the N/A isnt powerfull enuf..got used to it too fast its just when in second gear pulling the grrrrrrrr should be followd by a pshhht

Hi all, Another problem i came across today is that my newly installed boost controller has stopped working. I bought it a few years back but have only recently installed it. It was installed a few weeks back and was coming on and working fine. Its power supply is fed from the ECU harness but after doing a few more soldering and wiring to various other parts on the dash it has seemed to have lost power. Does anyone know if they have an inline fuse anywhere? or does the ECU harness is fused? im hoping its either a fuse or a cable fault somewhere from when my mate has been doing other wiring. Any ideas?

Ok people before i do this i thought id run it past you guys and see what you think? Im running a stand alone ECU that uses a MAP sensor instead of a MAF. In my build ive had to make custom pipe work up to and from the turbos! The plastic air filter inlet has a pipe where you normally connect the idle control pipe to....Instead of going to the trouble of drilling, cutting and welding an adaptor to my new pipework im thinking of just running a little oil filter to the inlet of the idle control valve. The air drawn in will still be filtered and the valve will still be able to function the same as before. Im sure the AEM ecu doesnt need as much data signals …

Hi, Which induction kits/air filters are you guys using? what is best a dual one or a single one? cheers mark

My car was a uk TT auto but the guy I bought it off changed it too a manual, is there a difference between the turbos from a auto to the maunal and does it make a difference? cheers Mark

Hi All I recently acquired a 300zx non turbo auto 1990 on a swop. Since then the car has developed a problem – third gear is now Missing In Action,:detective: it just slips.Oil and levels are good. I don’t really want to go down to manwell conversion route. So has anyone got any suggestions as to what could be wrong and where to start looking? Jooles