So its finally happening after been off the road for well over a year the zed is on Target for its refurbishment.

 

Last year I started with doing all the underbody suspension stuff to make the ride more stable and after that

I decided I wanted to do a full strip down to the bare shell and start from scratch to create a show quality z32.

 

After much bad luck and many thousands of pounds wasted on rotted zeds i'm cracking on with the original plan.

 

So as a quick update i'll post some older picks followed over the next few weeks by an overall progress report.

 

Starting off with how she was when I first purchased her 3 years ago until the state she is now then showing the

strip down and all the bad luck I've had.

 

So here she is as I bought her :

 

 

 

Some pics in here Lee.

 

http://twinturbo.net/nissan/300zx/forums/technical/view/934344/Alarm-Install-procedure--Viper-Alarm.html

Seen those before but something doesn't add upp.

 

When I turn the key to acc I get some internal lighting above head but nothing else,

no lights on the dash either but if I turn to start I get full power but no engine start.

 

Windows only work while forcing the key to start so that suggests something back to front.

is it having a rear wing of some sort ?

Ok, three out of five were wrong, in that the colours changed between the harness and ignition.

 

I now turn the key and have power but no ignition, not even a sign of trying to turn over.

Blown fuse from the initial wiring set up?

Windows, interior lights, indicators, fogs, wipers all work just no ignition.

By ignition, do you mean crank?

 

Does your starter motor click when put to start?

no click so something but still be disconnected or wired wrong.

 

Interior wise all my lights work but now when I put my front fogs on the dash illuminates which I don't remember ever happening before.

 

All wipers work fine and tested front washers and the new jets I bought are awesome.

 

To try and diagnose the issue I took the drivers side wheel off to get myself underneath but I only had the scissor jack and didn't trust it any higher.

 

However I did find another unrelated fault in that the power steering solenoid looks buggered.

 

 

 

 

 

By ignition, do you mean crank?

 

Does your starter motor click when put to start?

when I put my front fogs on the dash illuminates which I don't remember ever happening before.

 

Front fogs Lee does that when you hit the pod button, it makes all your sidelights come on :thumbup1:.

Not that i noticed.

 

Dont have any bulbs in my headlights to test them.

 

I have a wiring specialties harness and i thing something might be wired wrong with it.

Get a multimeter on your starter buddy, get someone to turn the key and see if you get some juice down the control wire as the supply should be primed with 12v all the time. If that dont work get on the back of your ignition barrel.

Here's is the loom I have installed and what confuses me is the small loop cable you can see in the middle.

 

As I don't remember connecting that anywhere.

 

Been reading up on a few oz forums and I believe that my zed thinks its still an auto so as part

of the auto to manual conversion I think we need to bypass the starter inhibiter switch.

anyone know where the starter inhibitor is on a rhd zed ?

think I've solved this one myself after reading various right-ups on auto conversions.

 

Just need to bypass that switch which I now know is in the drivers side wheel arch.

Apart from the starter issues today my new crimper showed up so I crimped up a new battery loom.

 

 

Also my brake rebuild kit arrived too; hopefully my brakes arrive tomorrow and I can start the refurb process.

 

There is quite a good video in YouTube about 300zx brake rebuilds I seem to remember. You can't go too wrong just make sure the bores are clean and go easy on installing the Pistons so you don't pinch a seal.

The plug with a loop of wire on it's own? That's a fuse, it lives in that little box up by the brake master. I believe it's labeled engine constant or the like. You can't miss it it's one of a kind, first time I saw it it thought it was some Heath Robison production.

 

The starter inhibitor buisness. If you haven't shorted the relay out then you are indeed going to struggle to start the car. Pop off the drivers wheel and arch lining, on the left there is a blue block this is the starter relay. Looks like this;

http://www.z1motorsports.com/product_info.php?products_id=3021

You need to short this. I think theres a few ways of doing it but I essentially just cut the two cables going to it and joined them together. Probably best to have the battery out for this. The relay is then not part of the equation.

 

Have you done the other wiring? Reverse lights etc on the loom by the pas pot and the neutral switch?

The plug on its own is actually part of the kit from wiring specialties and just figured out its to be plugged into the inhibiter loom.

 

The manual conversion was done years ago but the wiring specialties loom takes care of like of the neutral switch and reverse lights

with proper plugs rather than hacking of connectors.

 

What I can't understand is how I bypassed this inhibitor switch previously as I've never touched the main relay.

 

Only thing I can think of is I've just joined the park sensor cables together and now they are not by me cutting off the plug.

 

 

The plug with a loop of wire on it's own? That's a fuse, it lives in that little box up by the brake master. I believe it's labeled engine constant or the like. You can't miss it it's one of a kind, first time I saw it it thought it was some Heath Robison production.

 

The starter inhibitor buisness. If you haven't shorted the relay out then you are indeed going to struggle to start the car. Pop off the drivers wheel and arch lining, on the left there is a blue block this is the starter relay. Looks like this;

http://www.z1motorsports.com/product_info.php?products_id=3021

You need to short this. I think theres a few ways of doing it but I essentially just cut the two cables going to it and joined them together. Probably best to have the battery out for this. The relay is then not part of the equation.

 

Have you done the other wiring? Reverse lights etc on the loom by the pas pot and the neutral switch?

Starter relay bypassed and started first time!

 

Oooo and she is loud.

 

Waken the zed up after two years woke the neighbourhood.

Good stuff mate, I'll need to try and get down for a look - that's if you don't mind!

 

Regards

 

Ronnie

The boot retainers on for the Sumitomo callipers are hateful things.

Did the kit come with any assembly grease for the seals?