General Discussions - 300ZX Related

ok yesterday i thought i would check to see if my car is burning oil. the dipstick was really hard to get in and out of tube which was odd but it bone dry................. so then i panicked that my car suddenly ate all its oil. Well today i filled up around 4 litres of oil and the dipstick was still dry. gently took car around corner to warm it up and it was still dry noticed oil dripping out underneath car so i think i have overfilled car and dipstick pipe is broken as it wobbles a bit. i am a bit happier that i could have not burned much oil previously but obviously i need to re fit dipstick tube and drain all the oil. How hard is it to get th…

Just had a thought here - people say the stock ecu compensates for higher than usual boost by overfuelling. So why not use it instead of going the tuned route? I was just considering having my DFCO disabled and having the map made slightly richer to get some nice pops/bangs at lower revs on let off, but suddenly realised - perhaps upping the boost on a stock ECU would give the same result? I have decats and straight through exhaust and bov-less so it's set-up otherwise to make some nice flames/pops but it's completely pop-less :(

I must have a fuel leak somewhere. I can only smell it when the engine's running and the car's stationary, i.e. while driving through towns etc. Had a mechanic look around and he reckoned there'd been a lose pipe which he tightened up under the rear end of the car but it's still there. Any ideas?

trying to get my headlights out to clean the lenses and also get a dead spider carcass out of the housing, also going to be fitting some angel eyes. But i can not access two bolts, You know the one's I'm on about, drivers side rear left (as looking at it from in front of the car) and passenger side rear right. for love nor money i can not get to these bolts, i have followed guides that say to remove the Recirc valves and the throttle body pipes, but my bolts are just too stuck, i even tried using a breaker bar and had no joy in getting them to budge, i can get a spanner on them, but then i have no room for leverage. With the recircs in the way, i cant get at th…

Passed by a nice white possibly h or j reg Z this morning on A5 dual carriageway up to the Emstrey roundabout, they then went up London Road.

I saw it for sale on the main Lincoln high street the other day, then the next day it was pictured in the paper. I can see their point with the complaint, every single car on that image is for sale and they nick all the spaces :sneaky2: http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Traders-anger-street-car-showroom-getting-way-custom/article-2637796-detail/article.html

Gave you a flash and thumbs up I was in a Blue Honda civic coupe?? any one??

Maybe its just me... but I;m puzzled by the attraction of joining a group buy for a short shifter at £40 whan you can buy one any day of the week from 800BHP power seller on Ebay for £33 ???? At the end of the day they are all the same and are mass produced in Taiwan or one of its neighbours.

Is there a thread that explains how to wire the wing mirrors to close when you lock the door ,

On a bootlid that wasn't designed for a perspex strip the are 4 mounting holes that havent been drilled, is it the done thing to drill these out or am i missing something silly?

I have a DVD head unit from my old car, works fine but when wired into the zed it wont remember the settings or stations, does anybody know which wire is for the memory? Is it usually the same colour on all headunits? also, when i turn the ignition off i get a loud bang through my subs which i dont get with my current head unit. Anybody know what could be causing this?

Removed all the aiv gubbins under the wings today and blocked of pipes to downpipes.But on the driver side there is a flat plastic tank low down which leads to somewhere near the brake servo i left this in because it didnt seem to be anything to do with the aiv system.Does anyone know what it is and whats it for thanks.

When tightening the valve cover it cracked, did'nt even give it that much :sad: This was the top one without the oil filler. Do you think I will get away with it, its on the over side of the gasket plus its a middle bolt rather then the outside ones.

My mule is going to be featured in Banzai mag when Jimmer and John Dixon have finnished getting it running sweet. :blink: I will keep you posted on dates etc, I have decided to treat it to some new wheels for the occasion. :laugh:

Guys I am ordering some rays titanium gram light wheels, they are over 3K so I really need to make sure that the wheel sizes are correct and I am a complete numpty with wheels. http://image.turbomagazine.com/f/9023995/turp_0804_19_z+1998_nissan_silvia_s15+gram_lights_57s_pro_titanium_wheels.jpg I have to have seven spoke because of my big brake kit but they look cool anyhows. Will these look ok and fit under STANDARD arches I cant do any arch work, dont want stretched tyres or to do anything other than get some tyres and put them on the car. fronts 8.5 wide + 20 offset rear 9.5 wide + 35 offset

Well the entrants are in and it's time to vote for who you want to win the title of Miss 300ZX.CO.UK 2010. As you can see the Competition is stiff (NO pun intended :biggrin:). So please cast your vote. The Poll will run for 7 days. Good Luck to ALL entrants. Winner will get any item from the club shop of their choosing. :punk: Miss Paul C Mrs Mental Miss zed-me-up Miss scatrat Mrs Richard Smith Mrs znut Isobel (Mrs Suffolkzx) Princess Fiona (Miss Shrek)

i need two front indicators asap as some one nick my one's yesterday and tomorrow (thursday) i got to drive to cambridge and i dont have indicators (one on the bumper) i live surrey close to kingston so if any one got any please please let me know ;)

i have searched every thread i can and possibly started to confuse myself with different scenarios - as i understand it after the manual box is in i only have to wire the reverse lights and sort out the neutral switch - from what i gather the two wires from the remaing inhibitor switch go to the reverse lights but what wire goes to the neutral - some leave it but i dont want the hassle with the base timing out - do i need to bother with the starter relay in the inner wing on the clutch does everyone bother with the booster side - i want it easy to drive but is it much more hassle to fit all the bits kind regards dave

Hi Guys, time to clean my Apexi induction filter. Whats the best way of doing this? Can I wash it or just use compressed air or something else? Cheers....:)

nice looking yellow z north bound carraigeway m4 high cross area j27/28 1.30pm today would have passed the remains of the blue pug 106 lol

can anyone tell me if the lifters in an s13 are the same as the 300zx z32

Just fitted a new clutch to my nissan cabstar including all 3 parts..when i release the clutch ime getting a kind of groaning sound:blink:..ive heard the exact sound before on a high powerd zed with an aggressive clutch but never on a poxy cabstar truck,any ideas what causes it?? i sanded the flywheel to help the plate bed in but ime baffled what the sound is.

Ok folks...I need to pull my finger out and get myself a new clutch. Have been putting it off til my existing clutch is properly knackered and it's almost there now so... ...I have an RPS Max Street at the moment as recommended by most on this forum. However...for a variety of possible reasons, it's knackered (within a year!). It's been looked at by a few very trusted mechanics and the conclusion is that I need a new one. Now...my issue is that I'm a little apprehensive of getting another RPS Max Street as it has to come from the US and as such, if anything goes wrong with it, I'm pretty much dead in the water! So, I thought I'd post up on here to see if an…

I want to renew all of the bushes on the rear sub frame, currently waiting for MrF to fix his website, can someone tell me what ones i need. will need a list for all of them including the 4 main sub frame bushes. just so i don't end up getting the wrong ones.

I know there's been a few threads about this in the past: On the way to work one of my boost pipes came off and caused the Z to belch black smoke and refuse to run/idle. Luckily I was next to a petrol station so I pulled in and managed to temporarily get the pipe back on so it would at least drive. Unfortunately it's not giving me the key back. The thumb-push refuses to go in and allow the key to come back to first position and come out. I'm sure this is due to the car stalling because of the pipe as I've never had this problem before. It's a MANUAL, with an Apexi Turbo Timer. I've tried wiggling the steering lock, I've started the engine, turned the key of…