Quavey

So its been a few years since I had a Nissan of any description. However I have one arriving today which shares a couple of traits with a Z32... Its a manual twin turbo with rear wheel drive, can anyone guess what it is?

I started of a 1996 civic 1.5 vtec-e only 90bhp but sounded great with an induction kit! I added the wheels exhaust and lowered it. Bought in 2004 I then moved onto a 1998 BMW E36 323i coupe. Massive increase in performance, I didn't realise it st the time but the thing was mint! Although I didn't add the slightly dodgy alloys. Bought in 2005 Then it was Z32 time. 1992 lwb TT auto which I had for a little while and converted to manual. I did 14k miles in 18 months actually which is pretty good for a 300zx. I was 20 when I bought this in early 2007 She had started to get tired so I lost faith, changed jobs and fancied German again so back to a 1997 E36 M3 Evo. Bought in 2008 Then by 2009 a slicktop is known since it came into the country had slowly made its way to about 8 miles from my house and came up for sale so I couldn't really say no. 1995 Slicktop TT manual. Did quite a bit on this one, painted body and wheels, all upgraded front brakes new coil overs and full interior change. And we come to 2012, I'd had enough of using my van as daily as the slick top was quite hard to live with. I bought a 2002 E39 M5. Stunning car was utterly reliable Then in 2013 I fancied a play mate for the M5 and bought a 99 P38 4.6 HSE a complete pain in the bum but very lovable. By 2014 the M5 was getting ready for some work, service clutch and a bit of paint after I scuffed a bumper. I elected to sell as is and out the money towards a 2005 E63 650i. Then by 2015 my partner was new to give birth to our son so the Rangie went and I bought a 2003 E39 530i sport touring for family duties but we never really gelled. Which brings us to January 2016 where I went a bit mad an bought a late 2001 P38 Vogue. I won't learn will I. Current fleet sits as the 650i and the Vogue plus my other halfs 116i and my van. Phew!

You could contact Jerrick about them, the kit fitted to that car was from the original group buy back in 2010 and they were fitted with the lower spring rate to reflect the lighter weight of the SWB car. I found them a huge improvement over what was there to begin with both in poise, comfort and handling. It had some bad lowering springs on the front and tired shocks all round before fitting.

Ah one day maybe, I've a little boy these days and 3 BMW's and a van on fleet at the moment so its enough to find a parking space for that lot. I'd love a LWB manual turbo as standard as possible!

Thanks guys, I still lurk from time to time! And admire the high quality of Zed's these days!

Thank you very much guys! Big 29 today!

Its nice to see 300zx's being treated as they should be along with many other cars. I agree with the above though its not that kids dont want to put awful kits on their cars, its that they generally can't afford to. With the cost of buying a car being very low (great) but the cost of actually insuring the dam thing being so insane for young drivers (i'm not saying it should be cheap but the cost is unfair) that if they are lucky enough to get something on the road normally they are out of money, and to be fair the ones with the money tend to be the more sensible ones that wouldn't have gone mad with it anyway. Not that I was ever into the mass modification thing, infact I've spent my life trying to avoid it. You can't help but admire the lunatic that spent £10k putting a flick painted body kit with cameras for mirrors, fully smoothed and 20 inch wheels onto a 1.2 corsa he or she might not have been an enthusiast we can relate to but they were certainly dedicated to their car! The other point to note is that cars used to look crap, you look at how rubbish a nova was back in the day it was like starting with a blank canvas (a rubbish radio and 2 speakers for example) these days modern cars look good, they have to to sell and they've all got alloys, lots of toys and its not easy to just rip a radio out and get your mate Dave to stick some speakers in and your on your way. I just gave a very small amount of money for a 2003 530i Sport Touring and I was looking at it the other day and where would you start? Its got a sport bodykit, low and stiff suspension, 17" alloys, 10 speaker stereo (not great, but dam difficult to actually replace well) 231bhp under the bonnet and it cost me considerably less than I spent on my first honda civic. When I bought that, it was 8 years old and already pretty rubbish despite having electric windows and mirrors etc, you look at an 07 plate (yes thats 8 years old!!) civic and its got all the toys. Bad example I know but the point being cars have improved so much since we were "young" that there becomes less need to modify them.

An indicated 164mph in my E39 M5 but it hit the speed limiter (should be 155 but known for being lax) so hard I thought I had broken it as it was still pulling hard it seemed to throw me forwards. I know it didn't but a very strange sensation! Common thought is that it would have pulled onto around the 180mph mark without a limiter.

I think I'll try and pop down at some point with the camera. I'll be in the 650i so not really the car for the show but I'll try and sneak in.

3 Sisters is a very technical track. Certainly exposes any understeer in any car. I wouldn't say its a fast track but its quite entertaining and hard work. No lazy long straights! However its good value for £20, I might head down to this but i'll be in the 650i and I doubt that'll be allowed on track ;)

Congratulations mate! We also have an addition coming, another car fan but ours is due out of production a little sooner... In August!

Power button causes the gearbox to change down sooner or will hold onto gears longer. Or will allow the engine to rev harder BUT I found mine in normal mode would rev to almost the red line given a full throttle. (Hold makes the car move of in second and change up very early) Overdrive (OD) turning that OF stops the car going into effectively 4th and so stays in 3rd (although technically they are a 3 speed + overdrive box) and so will stay at higher revs at a speed. Power and OD have no affect on engine output just how the gearbox ECU behaves and when it changes gear etc.

Is there something wrong with it in the video?! The old girl doesn't seem like she wants to rev!

Fronts must have been from when I owned her then, but the rears would have done really well to last that time!. Yeah they were black with a red rim in "drift yo" style

What have you done to my wheels?! ;) I can't just remember the colour code for it if you fancy getting them painted! I think it was toyota driftwood, there will be some threads about it! Brake discs look good and new tyres always a sign a car is looked after.. Just out of interest, were the Falken 452's still on the front and some other Falkens on the rear? If so they've done really well!

Ahh very best of luck to you! Glad you got sorted in the end. Its nice to see my old girl being treated to some bits!

Just a reminder about the coilovers on the slicktop... they were spring rated for the lighter SWB slicktop. You may find them a bit soft on a LWB car! You could check with Jerrick what he might suggest with regards to changing the springs or perhaps winding more preload onto them would stiffen them enough at the expense of suspension travel.

Very interesting, that if you do some reading and look on driftworks and one or two other sites it does state that the discs are made to order. Its possible that at the time of them doing the purple calipers they offered the 330mm w/8-pot. http://www.driftworks.com/d2-big-brake-kit-front.html

Well bugger me I'd forgotten it was that much effort but then it was 5 years ago! Anyway the information I have is as follows (after a dig through my emails) NISSAN 200SX R32 R33 300ZX D2 FRONT BIG BRAKE DISC KIT (was the title of the kit, I won it on ebay actually. at the time I think they were about 850, there was a new kit on ebay so I bid on it with a view of as long as it was less than 850 then I was quids in, in the end I got it for 650 IIRC) It came from this ebay seller I think, http://www.ebay.in/usr/performance-motorsport-parts?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 Phone number was 08450 213334 Hope this is of some help, there was a few bits of leaflets and books in the history "back in the day" but what is still in there I don't know!

This is it, its just the Autobox in a 300zx is very much "of its time" If it had a modern box like my 650i you'd never bother doing it. What is alarming, even the 4 speed box in my range rover is better (IMHO) than the old unit in the 300zx but how times change!

Its not a bad job to have done, I had my first zed converted few points to take notice of. The vacuum assistance system is really worth implementing which means you;ll need a balance bar from the back of the engine from a manual car. Its a real pain to get leather gaitors out of Nissan, or it was at the time. Auto's have different turbos and cams to manuals, having had mine converted and then had a factory manual I have to say I actually preferred the power delivery of the auto with a manual conversion the factory manual was much "laggier" You'll never believe how good your car is once its been converted, I just couldn't believe how much better the car drove as a manual!

Ahh if its now dead then its a different kettle of fish. Even with a broken sensor I actually got mine to give me some warm water through the heat exchanger preheat function which keeps the heat exchanger hot for faster response of hot water at the expense of gas and noise. (Which again told me there was nothing actually wrong with the heating or control side of the boiler). But if it won't do much now best I can suggest is turn it all of and leave it for a while and then start her back up and see what happens. If not its looking more serious! http://www.keeptheheaton.com/acatalog/potterton_PCB_s.html

If its anything like my Worcester then it MIGHT be the water flow sensor. Its basically a little impeller that spins round with the flow of water when the hot top is open. It tells the boiler to light the burner basically. On mine the sensor had failed (jammed I think) and when going through the inbuilt diagnostics the water flow was "0". I actually asked a heating "engineer", (there's more engineer in my Tshirt with a picture of an engine on it...) that came round who informed me that the gas supply pipe was suddenly the wrong size and that's why it had stopped working after 2 years but there we go... When he had changed the supply pipe (in his defense a job that I wanted doing as I wanted the pipe moving) and it still didn't work he proclaimed he wasn't much of a diagnostic man.... Anyway, long story short if you have a diagnostic manual and the boiler can give you sensor readings I would recommend looking carefully at it. The repair and replacement sensor on mine cost me about £17 and 10 minutes work, about 8 minutes of that was draining the water out of the hot water system!

Mandy that's truly awful news, I'm very sorry to hear that. We met once or twice at various meets and as said above you are a credit to the club and the Z32 family. My best wishes to you I cant begin to imagine the courage it took to bring this to the forum, its just shows how strong you are!

Oh my...!