General Discussions - 300ZX Related

Hi All, When I depress the clutch it drains all the fluid. Therefore, I am shortly going to replace the master and slave clutch cylinder and fit a braided clutch line. Does anyone know how difficult it is to access the cylinders? Is there anything else that I should change/uprate whilst doing this? Many thanks in advance, Tom

Just want to say a huge thanks to a few members. First off is shrek, fantastic guy and finally got to meet him tonight, great meeting him aswell. He collected the 99spec front bumper for me from Newcastle. Also jaikai, lee Pmd me to let me know about the bumper as I actually hadn't noticed it. Ck300z for getting me a new front fog and a spot on price. Thanks a lot guys, keeps u going with these cars when u meet genuine members who actually care about helping others etc.

Hi all how hard is it to fit an apexi electronic boost controller And is the harness the same for all cars or will I have to buy that separately. Cheers

2 Zeds in 2 days, this one was parked outside pizza express in Chippenham town centre. Was it you?

after returning from my epic 3000 mile trek to spain with relatively no problems i drove the car onto ferry, all ok. When i started car to drive off ferry and into slow moving traffic there was loads of blue smoke out of left side exhaust that had a burnt smell, once car had got on the motorway it seemed ok break it to me gently please Paul.

Pulling out of LIDL at Catterick today around 3pm. didnt get the Reg.

Hi all, just noticing little things the more I drive my Z, When I hit the loud pedal with moderate force I get a distinct smell of either burning oil or half burnt petrol, im not really sure which.. but my main issue, is, why can I smell it?? where would likely gaps be from engine bay or exhaust? is it possible its coming through the air inlets? and on top of that, whats the best thing to do to fix the issue in the first place? is it possibly a sticky injector or something so its running richer than it should? i've given it a bit of a rev with the bonnet up and cant seem to smell it then... which makes me think exhaust..?? I really dont know.. anybody elses Z smell …

Hi guy,s, Took the z to the bodyshop today to have my Bomex front bumper fitted and also the rare Border rear spoiler fitted along with spraying the cambelt covers and engine bay skins. Come in Si lol, you have been waiting for this a longgggggggg time haha. Cant wait to see the end result Cheerz Chris

guys, zed had been rattling (topend it seemed) , anyway it just died last wednesday, its at a local garage who say ive got a siezed cam no prices given yet to sort prob, ( garage is macdonald racing) this garage specialises in restoring old morgans so there not that familiar with zeds do you think i should just get an engine swap from jeff at zedworld or does any of the northern guys know where i can get this done cheers

Spotted by my g/f. Using the sports hall / gym at Brinkburn. Monday night.

As above really folks, does anyone know of any good, cheap silicone pipe suppliers? I need a couple of elbows/joining pipes, etc. Cheers :D

All set to fit my Apexi on a N/A auto, and am confused as to what to do with the original pipework. I was all set to cap the pipework on either side where it used to fit into the air box, but upon investigation it looks like there is a branch off of these intake pipes that goes directly into the pipework AFTER the airbox. As I see this, it appears that fresh, unfiltered air is by-passing the airfilter. Is this correct or am I just have a blonde day (or week?). Anyway's, what the heck should I do with the original pipework if anything?

Anyone know what the import duty is likely to be on a clutch from Z1? Total cost including shipping is a little under $700. Need to buy one soon and just pricing up the options of getting it from Z1 (again) or from Smithys....unless anyone knows of anywhere else? Obviously local would be better in case things go wrong...as it did with my last clutch from z1!

So far John dixon ecu and boost jets complete from turbos de cat and stillen single outlet, K&N filter, So would i benefit changing the injectors and why, how much etc, and what else can i do to upgrade. tt auto

My UK Z already has black leather seats. I want to have the seats retrimmed in leather and possibly the material on the doors/dash done also. I just want them done in plain black in a good quality leather... ...what do you think I should be paying? Thanks guys, Dan

Anyone going?-would be good to catch up!:cool3:

Sisters getting married tomorrow and thought I'd snap the zed in front of airth castle !

wheels have been off the car now for about 3 weeks car is on axle stands and im painting all around the wheel arches all suspension etc and going to start the rest of the underneath next week,back to the wheels 120 bolts later and about a days work finally got the centres out from the main rim ,,the 5 spoke section has been bead blasted and now today dropped them off for powder coating in red bull blue,,the rims have been de-anodised and polished to a mirror finish ,and dropped the rear of the rims off today to be painted aswell ,so hopefully next week spend a day putting them back together and then get the tyres back on ,,

Cant make out how fast this is going?:w00t:

I a turbo change a engine out job or can you do it with it in? Thanks Mark

Fog lights..... I bust the back mines, so got a new one (thanks ck300,will sort that paypal out!) but how on earth do I get the wires in without disconecting from the plugs? I don't think they all unclip as only the white wire Has male and female crimps. So am I being stupid and missing something without having to cut and try obtain new male and female crimps to wire back up, I don't do soldering etc so not wanting to remove from the plugd whatsoever.

when driving along and you come to a roundabout the car cuts out,but it starts again but cuts out.sometimes when you start it up it will tick over for 5secs and then cuts out.other times it doesnt miss a beat.any help would be helpful as thinking of selling car because they have so many probs

saw this at tesco in collington you were just going in as i was coming out in my van looked really really nice iv got to say.

I have a question (or two). I have a very expensive Greddy 3 row HG FMIC that has sat in my hallway for over a year! I haven't fitted it yet because I can't make my mind up on a sutable bumper. I like the 99 spec bumper but it looks like only the top row of the intercooler will recieve and air flow therefore providing uneven charge temps. Is this just theorising rubbish? Am I better off going for SMIC's with a 99 spec bumper? The thing is - my car now sits quite low which I love but it kind of rules out deep bumpers and fibre glass bumpers. Help!!!!! Andy

Does anybody know what the legal size is for an imported vehicle number plate?