I have a 1990 Jap 300zx twin turbo that i bought 3 years ago and i took it off the road just over a year and a half ago as i got the chance to purchase a wide arch kit , vented wings , vented bonnet etc all together and i had spare £s at the time.
Anyway now its about a year and half later and im ready to put it on the road again, the car hasnt moved for a year and hasnt even been started for last 8 months since i brought it home from my work (where it had sat for months getting everything fitted + painted) and was wondering if theres anything i should watch out for or check before starting it up again?
When i brought the car home a year ago it was smoking pretty bad which made me panic (before i bought the bodykit etc it had started to smoke but only a tiny tiny bit and i had put it down to PCV valves as the previous owner had reconditioned the turbos less than 10000 miles ago..............my m8 from work has said that he thinks the reason it was smoking bad when i brought it home was because when it was in my work for 6months it was only getting moved from the car-park to the bodyshop (50yards) every couple days and wasnt getting a chance to warm up properly and that it proberly just needs a really good run to clear it.
I have just fitted new o2 sensors , new PCV valves (the old ones that came off were clogged up and completly solid) , series2 PTU , new exhaust , braided fuel lines
but am i right in thinking that the car needs to be ran for a couple hundred miles as there will be a build up of crap because the valves were knackered?
I have found that 1 of the small water hoses (near the back of engine close to battery) has split , so i need to fix that before i do anything but apart from that i am stuck , i dont know what else i can replace and im worried that if i take it out for a long drive to 'clear it' something major goes wrong.
I have done the self diagnostics for the ECU and the Auto gearbox and both showed no problems. + bought a new battery to put in this weekend and get the car started.
I dont know what the next step to take is and was hoping some1 could advise me the best way to go about it because i dont want to take it to a garage to get the engine taken out and turbo seals or even turbos changed only for them to realise that the turbos etc were ok anyway and it must have been some other problem. :headvswal:headvswal:headvswal
Hi , im looking for some advice
I'll try and keep this short:
I have a 1990 Jap 300zx twin turbo that i bought 3 years ago and i took it off the road just over a year and a half ago as i got the chance to purchase a wide arch kit , vented wings , vented bonnet etc all together and i had spare £s at the time.
Anyway now its about a year and half later and im ready to put it on the road again, the car hasnt moved for a year and hasnt even been started for last 8 months since i brought it home from my work (where it had sat for months getting everything fitted + painted) and was wondering if theres anything i should watch out for or check before starting it up again?
When i brought the car home a year ago it was smoking pretty bad which made me panic (before i bought the bodykit etc it had started to smoke but only a tiny tiny bit and i had put it down to PCV valves as the previous owner had reconditioned the turbos less than 10000 miles ago..............my m8 from work has said that he thinks the reason it was smoking bad when i brought it home was because when it was in my work for 6months it was only getting moved from the car-park to the bodyshop (50yards) every couple days and wasnt getting a chance to warm up properly and that it proberly just needs a really good run to clear it.
I have just fitted new o2 sensors , new PCV valves (the old ones that came off were clogged up and completly solid) , series2 PTU , new exhaust , braided fuel lines
but am i right in thinking that the car needs to be ran for a couple hundred miles as there will be a build up of crap because the valves were knackered?
I have found that 1 of the small water hoses (near the back of engine close to battery) has split , so i need to fix that before i do anything but apart from that i am stuck , i dont know what else i can replace and im worried that if i take it out for a long drive to 'clear it' something major goes wrong.
I have done the self diagnostics for the ECU and the Auto gearbox and both showed no problems. + bought a new battery to put in this weekend and get the car started.
I dont know what the next step to take is and was hoping some1 could advise me the best way to go about it because i dont want to take it to a garage to get the engine taken out and turbo seals or even turbos changed only for them to realise that the turbos etc were ok anyway and it must have been some other problem. :headvswal:headvswal:headvswal