Hi all, im new, well sort of! I been on here a while but been saving my pennies to finally buy one of my many dream cars!

 

I do have one question though, as i have found a Z that im hopefully purchasing this week, whats the cheapest qoute a 20 year old male with 2 years no claims and 2 years driving experience look to pay? The lowest i could find is £1400, which i think is reasonable, but was just wondering if anyone knows of any cheaper prices?

 

Great forum by the way, been on here a while, just never had a Z!:D

I did have a look at a thread, looks like a pain of a job, i could see the lines linking from what looks like the fuel filter to be perrished also, hopefully it could be just them?

got any pics of ya new motor

Yeh i have a few, but it doesnt look as good as it does in the pics!

 

Got a lot of work to do, probably have a blow over in gloss black or high gloss black, its that mettalic black colour at the minute, im not a great mettalic fine, more of a shiney gloss :D

 

Do you have to link htm or whatever it is, like photobucket? Its been about 16 months since i last used a forum like everyday! Hopefully ill used this one everyday for a while! (hopefully not to find out how to fix things!)

just upload to photobucket, thats what i do

Yeh i got an account, but no peeping at my banging supermachines ive had before! Ill upload them later, off out for a bit, in the land rover not in the Z

 

Oh yeh whos going to ye olde japfest? :p

Yeah just do it thru photobucket matey :)

 

http://300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=116565

 

BTW the above guide will show the individual pics and not your full album ;)

Yeah just do it thru photobucket matey :)

 

http://300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=116565

 

BTW the above guide will show the individual pics and not your full album ;)

 

Yeh i got an account anyway, i used to be a regular on novaload.net or png or whatever it is now!

 

Anyway heres the pics

 

 

 

My last car, apsolutely spottless by the time i finished on it, wish i never sold it, was pretty shocking when i bought it, managed to find a fully rebuilt xr3i efi cvh engine for it, had nearly a full respray and lots of other hard to find parts for it

 

 

And this was one of about 8 Novas i owned and built, started with lots of 1.2's, 2 sr's, then a nova fun, which was fun once i rebuilt a mk2 c20xe for it.

 

 

So theres a short profile of the work ive put in over the years, so hopefully you should have a good idea of what my new pride and joy should look like. There will be a WIP thread once ive subscribed.

I forgot to put a spec for the Zed, its 1992, uk twin turbo, manwel, has mongoose system turbos back, profec b or whatever boost controller ( i dare touch it!) has hornet alarm, dump valves replacing the original re-circs, and i think thats it.

 

This is my first turbo (other than my discovry 1 300tdi!) so is there anything i should be doing in particular? I always wait for it to warm up and let it stand running when i park up for a while, ill have to look in to getting a turbo timer. I have given it stick a couple of times , but i dont give it beans all the time as i respect the cars i own (im not fortunate enough to have loans, or family buy me the car!)

RR printout for 328bhp 348 torque, power courve looks pretty healthy aswell for a turbo, im not sure if thats at the wheels or excluding transmission losses etc, i cant see it being rwhp???

The pic of your zed shows it with a n/a front, if its a twin turbo then the n/a front spoiler does not have the air ducts for the intercoolers.

I forgot to put a spec for the Zed, its 1992, uk twin turbo, manwel, has mongoose system turbos back, profec b or whatever boost controller ( i dare touch it!) has hornet alarm, dump valves replacing the original re-circs, and i think thats it.

 

This is my first turbo (other than my discovry 1 300tdi!) so is there anything i should be doing in particular? I always wait for it to warm up and let it stand running when i park up for a while, ill have to look in to getting a turbo timer. I have given it stick a couple of times , but i dont give it beans all the time as i respect the cars i own (im not fortunate enough to have loans, or family buy me the car!)

 

Also dont let it stand idling to warm up, drive it straight away as soon as you start it but dont go over 2000rpm until its fully warm...otherwise you can damage the heads as the cold thick oil struggles to get to them and lubricate properly when its cold.

The pic of your zed shows it with a n/a front, if its a twin turbo then the n/a front spoiler does not have the air ducts for the intercoolers.

 

You know, i did wonder that, he never said it had a different front bumper, but its pretty obvious! Ive gotta get another one anyway as its shagged, could you point me in the right direction for a turbo one? Or just post a pic of what im looking for, im reasonably new to Zeds. As for the spoiler, the bootlids also past its time, so im going to get another one, but the spoiler i have has always been my favourite.

 

Thanks for the advice on how to treat it right, hopefully it will prolong the life :)

I found a pic of TT front bumper, i found one, order it when i get back from a weekend away in weymouth

How do you let it warm up? I dont think it is best to start it up and let it warm up at idle as this will cause more wear to the engine, what I do is drive it to about 2500rpm untill engine is at full working temp then drive it how u want, im sure others would agree.

Sorry, someone said it before me.

 

Oh yeh whos going to ye olde japfest? :p

 

Hi and welcome. Lots of us going to Japfest:)

 

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=121838

Yeah,i agree wid you there.There are some real bad ones out there.i went to one in staines near me to find my 300 and it was a turbo an it felt sluggish,till i went to Newcastle and bought mine.Quick for a non turbo.Selling mine aswell quite cheap if your interested.Got made redundant.Has rust on wheel arch and sils aswell.But drives good,jus needs a good service.

 

Im with Sky Insurance,been with them for 3 years as back then i didnt have any no claims now i have 3 years no claims with this car.Try them.

 

Good luck otherwise.

 

BRUTUS.

Edited April 24, 200916 yr by 300zx_girl
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Brutus the barber beef-cake. Anyone remember? LOL

Brutus the barber beef-cake. Anyone remember? LOL

 

Yes, the good old WWF days

Welcome to the Club :D

That's a very nice looking Zed you've got there. Looks like another rather nice one I've seen recently!

That's a very nice looking Zed you've got there. Looks like another rather nice one I've seen recently!

 

looks nowt like mine?????:duffer::D

:rofl:

 

Propper wrestling was with these guys though! ---> LOL

 

 

Well im back from my weekend away, i might not take it to japfest its a bit on the rough side for me. Get all the work done soon hopefully.

 

Mines certainly not slugish to say the least lol.

 

Also thanks for the compliments!

Ive just realised, i have what looks like an import N/A front bumper? How will i wire up the indicators and fogs?