.... the harness plug is to connect up a turbo timer? Supposedly, under the steering wheel there is one particular harness plug that connects up to the extended wiring harness that came with the turbo timer. I've disconnected all 4 of the ones which plug into blanking sockets on bolts, but none of them fit!?!?!? Is there a difference in those sockets between versions of the car? i.e. S1, S2 etc?

 

Please HELP ME!?!?!?

 

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You should have a thro plug for it that goes behind the ignition switch. Timer should plug into there and then the original plug goes on behind it.

By the power invested in me with MSpaint, i give you.....wiring instructions

 

did you buy a timer with a specific 300zx harness?

I bought it from Mikey, as in Shrek Mikey and it came off the 300 he was breaking. I looked around for instructions on the web and got that there should be an unused harness plug under the steering wheel, which fits this harness. Unfortunately it doesn't plug into the ignition and it isn't a pluggable plug, if you get me, you can't just plug the ignition plug into the back of it.

 

Supposedly from what I can tell, there is supposed to be a connection under the steering wheel which must be intended to plug in an ignition diagnostic thingy or something, and it plugs into that, I dunno.

Yeah I can see one diagnostic plug near the bonnet catch, but it doesn't fit that either :( Depressing, got a lovely turbo timer and can't fit it :(

Yeah I've pm'd him but no reply yet, wanted to fit it today, seemed like an easy job :( Ended up stripping rust off the arches (Which now have holes in them :( lol) and removing a few more bits from it that aren't needed etc. Kurust'd the front bumper and wing brackets that Baz sent me, so they're ready to go on when the BOV turns up tomorrow, Rose has polished the exhausts and cleaned up all the back end of the car ready for the rear bumper to go on when the brackets show up tomorrow (More rust holes there too, so a bit more welding to be done, nothing drastic though) really not a lot left to do, just waiting on fan belt, BOV, rear bumper brackets and sills to turn up.

 

I've decided to bare metal it after we swap Roses VR4 for something like a Scooby (Or potentially she likes the idea of a Merc SL Convertible) and then once that's sorted, I'll take it off the road, bare metal it and get a full re-spray from there, then I know I've done EVERYTHING I can to prevent the rust from coming back.

This is what you should have with the turbo timer and this should fit in line with the ignition switch connector.

 

Jeff TT

 

 

If not ebay has them

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BLITZ-TURBO-TIMER-HARNESS-NISSAN-300ZX-/280598017447?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4154f1f5a7

there is a diagnostic plug under the steering wheel. its nearer to the bonnet catch. try that:)

 

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:stupid: :slap::slap:

 

 

Jeff TT

Tis ok I went old school on it, dug out some spade connectors and some ignition wire and my soldering iron and solder.

 

Those who have taken their steering wheel cowling apart will be able to follow this:

 

Remove the cowling, 4 screws, simples.

Remove the aircon tubing that supplies the doors vents.

Remove the drivers feet aircon tubing.

Remove the metal bracket which is held up by one bolt and one screw

 

on that metal bracket there should be three connectors, one of which, comes off the ignition and plugs straight into the harness I got with my turbo timer (Not like the one Jeff put up), unfortunately, as I've mentioned before on this forum, the lovely people who had the car before me, have butched the ignition wiring and I previously had to go in there and make it all safe, properly. As it happens at the time, I didn't know this connector was supposed to be there, but now I realise, the prong on the metal bracket, which is supposed to hold this connector, is empty, and all of a sudden it became clear why there were so many wires hanging off my ignition loom, they've previously cut it off.

 

All is well now, it's not hard wired either, simply cut back some of the electrical tape that was already on the appropriate ignition wires, hooked up some new ignition wire with a spade connector on one end and bare wires on the other, solder the bare wires to the ignition wires (Yes the battery was off), plug the spade connectors onto the prongs of the harness for the Turbo Timer, doneth! :D

 

Got my wings back on tonight too, and most of my arch liners, just need to fit my BOV tomorrow when it turns up, then put the front bumper back on and the arch liners in and the front end will be back together, apart from the fan belt which will be winging it's way from MJP shortly (Turns out my engine was transplanted with a Jap one, so I got the wrong fan belt).

 

All is well and I am happy :D