General Discussions - 300ZX Related

I am rapidly loosing confidence in driving the Z. [1990 import TT auto]. It has been driving great for the last six months but now things are different. On Monday this week she cut out on a dual carriageway doing about 40mph I managed to coast into a lay-by. I turned the ignition off and it re started first time. I carefully drove the couple of miles home and it stalled on the approach to a roundabout. I eventually made it home with no more problems. I rechecked the likely loose connections I have seen mentioned on the site, cleaned the terminals etc. I have recently noticed gauges not working for a while and then suddenly coming back to life [oil pressure, boost a…

Hi guys, Thanks to Vodkashots we went to his tyre place in Wellingborough. The other tyre place i went to did not line uo the 2 spacers on the n/s front wheel and not balanced all 4 wheels properley What a bunch of w.....s eh So big heads up to Ian and NATIONAL TYRES OXFORD ST WELLINGBOROUH. You know where to go now fellas if you are in the Northants area Cheerz Chris

Can anyone who owns a 99 spec Z please post up the measurements/distance from the bottom of the rear window to the start of the foot/upright on the spoiler. I've bought a 99 spec spoiler from car.mad but am unsure of the exact place to fit (obviously on the boot) as I've never seen a 99 spec up close only in pics. I want to fit it as it would of come out of the factory. Thanks Matt

About a week ago i could happily wire a headunit and your standard 6x9 and door card speakers as you do, but now i wanted a sub and i wanted to know everything about them from wiring to peak performances and so on. I want a system which is above beginner and one where when cranked up i hit my comfortable sound threashold before it does. At first i was looking at this JVC sub 700 watts RMS, 2000 watts PEAK. http://www.jvcmobile.co.uk/product.php?pr=220 and i was going to use this amp to power it as everywhere ive looked says try and better the RMS wattage of your sub with your amp by up to 125%, and that peak isnt a neccesity. http://www.jvcmobile.co.u…

the interview was about an american writer's take on abama and as he was driving over the crest of a hill what appeared behind him? a red Z looked like a 99 spec frontbumper!:clap: dan.:biggrin:

hey folks bit new to this site just bought my first 300 2 days ago and having bit of a problem already my heating isn't working properly its blowing out air but i cant seem to turn up the temperature please help me

My new 99spec Spoiler arrived yesterday, thanks car.mad! I was going to wait until the spoiler had been painted before putting pics up but after giving it to the guy doing the spray work (who also sparyed my car in the summer) and listening to his comments I thought it would be only fair to put some pics up before the spray job to praise car.mad's work :) When I took it out of the packaging I thought it was a good job but when the guy spraying it told me he was over the moon with the product and said it was a very very good quality spoiler I was even happier :) :thumbup: He also told me that If I'm thinking of changing any other body parts (the cars not my own) …

Should Dazzy McVert pull his weedy little NA lump from the vert and replace it with a proper mans engine. TT power :gunsmilie: All in the interests of research Daz - honest :wink:

Anyone have an easy way of getting the ignition barrell off the zed, I want to take the one off my breaker but I cant see how you get it off without drilling the bolts out?? anyone?? cheers Craig

im looking at changing my bumper over the winter suasagefingaz done me a photoshop what do you think? change or keep as is or other? as is vielside ec1

dont know if any of u watch this program but i have just sent a email to mike asking if he will buy a z32 and restore it. Lets see if he emails me back. I would be great.

a local guy with a NA auto is interested in my TT autobox (doing manual conversion so will have the front prop and all other parts needed) Cheers.

It's not the first time I've posted on this, so just wondering what your thoughts are about this ongoing problem. The chaps at Zedworld fitted the driftworks total eliminator bar to get rid of the HICAS and I couldn't be happier with that. BUT the car just won't stay straight like it should. Let me explain - 1. High speed, i.e. fast, touch the brakes and it will snake all over the place, a bit spooky if I'm honest 2. A bit of judder under medium braking 3. At very low speed, it is sometimes pulling left and sometimes right, not a lot, but noticeably, the steering wheels turns by itself i.e. a quarter turn one way or the other Now, all wheels…

Hi, Just wandering if its safe to grind these lugs from the plenum before it goes to get polished? and are there any more nastys that can be grinded off too?? Thanks for your input :thumbup1:

im getting a really weird grinding sound in overdrive at about 50mph and when i disengage overdrive it goes also when im at low speed between 20 to 30 mph i get the same grinding does anybody have any clues if it is the box or could it be something else like drive shaft maybe ?:blushing:

Thought this was worth a mention as seen a few now. Basically I guess its just a case of you get what you pay for. Have worked on a few cars with ebay I/C fitted where they have been a bit disappointing performance wise. Having investigated have found that the cores on the coolers are partially blinded by bad manufacturing processes so the pressure drop across them is huge. Had an extreme example recently helping out a member over the phone, car wouldn't rev over 1800rpm with no load as the core was so bad!! On top of that, if you pay £200 for a cooler that costs £800 from the likes of Pace then you can't expect to get the same performance, they're just badl…

dose the heater system work off the A/C system there isnt a belt on the A/C comp just wondering if this might be why the heaters arnt working

Having been all over Japan last three weeks ... I can report that I have seen: 1 x z31 2 x z32 x,000 x 350z x,000 x 370z Thought I would have seen more of the z32, they must all be exported by now :} I did find a zedcar book as well, although it was all in Japanese. The roads here are awesome, would totally love to take a zed round some of the mountain roads !!! Here are some (z-related) pics!

I have a nice auto TT and have just bought a not as nice manual TT with a good gearbox in it, 1 year old uprated clutch and light flywheel for a grand (engine is not great) in order to do a manual conversion on my auto. Is it worth swapping my turbo's for the slightly bigger turbo's off the manual TT if they are in good nick? Also considering the labour might cost a few hundred quid more if i do this. Will be selling the rest of the manual TT in bits and will subscribe as a full member so i can sell on here. Thanks, Liam.

I've got the plenum off at the moment and want to do the water bypass, but I'm a little bit confused as to what I can remove and what the bypass actually bypasses? if that makes sense. Are the pipes i've arrowed the ones that will be bypassed and can be removed?

hi my gearbox is very sticky ,stiff however you'd say it going from 1 to 2 worse when its cold but all changes seem to be gettihg stiffer cars going fine did about 500 mile with the trailer on and 3 adults in the car this weekend no problem except rotten gear change .anything i should check? cheers

i just wondered if jefftt can help me i am after inner and outer cills and rear archs for me z. Do u know were i can get some from mate ? i heard ur the man thanks

Following on from another thread.... I just spotted that my PC rating was out of date as I've recently fitted a new graphics card. So this is the old one; Where I was running Intel Core2 Quad at 2.4Ghz 2Gb Ram NVIDIA Geforce 7300GS, 512Mb 1 x 80Gb HDD, Partitioned for the OS (Windows 7) 1 x 80Gb HDD, Movies 1 x 300Gb HDD, Everything else. Now I've updated my rating, and this is it now; Where I'm running Intel Core2 Quad at 2.4Ghz 2Gb Ram XFX Radeon HD 4550, 1Gb 1 x 80Gb HDD, Partitioned for the OS (Windows 7) 1 x 80Gb HDD, Movies 1 x 300Gb HDD, Everything else. So fitting the new graphics card has upped my overall rati…

Hi Ive put up another post about the transmisson prob im having with my zed non turbo. basically its staying only in first gear. Vod...thanks for you other replys and offer of help...is there any chance you could come and give me gearbox a service first..i can get the car to cheltenham and leave it at my mates ..least abit closer?! If theres anyone eles that can give me a hand id much appreiate it as in mot mechanically minded lol. Cheers 4 now Matt

I was on the way to london on the m40 ro take my friend to look at a new car and my car started to make a strange noise- i was in cruise control at the time and doing 68 mph, there was then a squeeling noise and tyhe car went very heavy so i turned off the cruise control and pulled onto the hard shoulder. i put the car back into drive , but nothing it didnt click into gear like a normal automatic would, so i tried 1,2 and park , still nothing..... AA came and took me home , but more issues as we couldnt roll the car off the flat bed truck it was as if it was sruck in park or the handbrake was on, after the aa man (who was only a recovery driver not a mechanic) got m…