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A few days ago, when it was nice and sunny, the roof was off the car and I pulled up into the local shopping presinct (bad spelling :() to get a few things from the shop. There where only a few cars parked up and I pulled up with the closest car being a people carrier a few parking speaces away. I got out the car and I saw a couple carrying a boy of about 2 years old, walking towards the the people carrier with the dad saying to the boy "Are we going to get in the car?" trying to make a game of it. The young boy looked at my car leaned forward with both arm out towared the Z and said "That one, daddy I want to go in that one" They lad had taste ;)

I got something called drive cleaner ;) It cleans oil from drives. Works well too.

metre? How many pins/wires?

Oh Im sure it could ;) Does windscreen claims effect your NCB. Ie, when they ask you if you made any claims will I have to list that?

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How much longer do you need it to be? I think there limits to how long the cable can be I think, a bit like a printer parralle cable

Thanks Paul, You can hardly see the chip actually and its right up high, almost right behind the mirror when you sit in the drivers seat. I dont think its an MOT fail but to be honest I wouldnt put it past the MOT person I go to most of the time. He has a habbit of passing something one year and then failing it the next when its not changed.

In that case just ease the throttle in to about 1/3 of the way down. You will learn how much accleration you can use while pulling out. Its a case of dont accelerate hard while pulling out, and then add more power when you straighten up.

Dont think they will repair it as the chip has caused a small swirl crack. I thnk its called rosed.

*****cks! Will glass cover change a windscreen if its chipped but not an MOT fail? Will they also change the windscreen trims when they do it?

I have noticed, when you think you are pulling away quite slow in the Z you are actually pulling off quite fast compaired to other cars. Jerking the steering wheel is not going to help. As Legrath said, you have to be smooth. When pulling out quick, dont increase the throttle position. I find that if you put it about 25%-33% down, and use the clutch to pull off but then dont put the accelerator down any more. you should only put the throttle all the way down in 1st when its totally dry and you are driving straight.

Put your A4 brakes on it then ;) You are compairing braking systems which are nearly a decade and half apart. The 300ZX is very heavy The braking system was designed in the 80s, the brake lines are now very old. I bet a lot of cars still have the original calipers on.

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The injector pulse was faint? Maybe the injector connection is faulty, or the injector itself.

Flat ribbon cable for what? What does it do?

Shit in what way.? You can have them good at low speeds or good at higher speeds. You cant have best of both worlds. I find mine poor at around 30mph but drive 50-70 and slam the brake down and it stops very quickly.

But dont forget to fully flush the whole of the radiator system every year or 2. Coolent which is old actually goes off and starts working the opposite as it should, making the cooling less efficient.

I agree. But now 90% of school fields have huge railings with spikes on to stop people getting in. Every peice of green land is being built on, and the ones which are not have signs saying "No Ball Games". Or the few which are allowed to have ball games, are often covered in glass dog shit and in some cases, used needles.

Have you tried firebond?

Brake fade has nothing to do with ABS. Brake fade is caused by the pads over heating, on rare occations when the disc over heats. If your disc over heats it tends to cause it to have a blue sheen on it. This is called blueing and if they are blueish, they are wasted. I really doubt what you are experiencing is brake fade I have had brake fade twice and both times is when I have been driving quite hard, ie, hard acceleration and hard braking. With brake fade you do not thing "Am I gonna make it for this roundabout" its "**** Im not going to make it" and you wont. Your brakes do not work at all with brake fade. I think you just have air in the lines. Are you sure your ABS is coming on. ABS does not activate all the time, only when it sensies 1 of the wheels locking, and then its only activates on the troublesome wheel. It also makes a loud thudding and grinding sound when the ABS activates, as well as a vibratoin in the brake pedal. Are you getting that? Which EBC pads do you have? Green stuff? If so green stuff are made for "Fast Road". Yeah right. Fast road for a 3/4 tonne Corsa or Saxo is not the same as fast road for a 1.5tonne car. EBC have actually said that the 300ZX needs Red Stuff V2 pads, which will make it not very good at slower speeds and better at higher speeds when the pads are hotter. There may also be the problem of the calipers are sticking, causing them to rub hard against the disc all the time causing them to over heat. I forgot there is another version of brake fade when the brake fluid in the lines boil. If this happens the brake fluid is fecked and worth less. Its recomemded that you change all of the brake fluid every 2-3 years, and use dot4. I have put Castrol Racing brake fluid in mine, which is a dot 4 and good to 900ºC or something. You said you have braded brake lines. Did you install them yourself? You did bleed the brakes afterwards didnt you? So conclusion is, Change your pads to somthing which is more high speed. EBC Red Stuff if you are getting them. Check your discs for blueing and/or cracks. If you find either, change your discs. Bleed your brakes. Better yet change the whole lot. 2 litres is enough to make sure. Dot4, not DOT 5.1. See if the calipers are seizing, check that the rubber seals on the pistons are in good condition, with no leaks or cracks.

radiator cap can cause over heating. Is the car modded at all?

Happy "You survived" day mate ;)

its more for tuning so you can read if the car is runnng rich or lean.