JonLowndes101

Cha Ching!!! Well done mate!

Depeche Modes new album, "Playing the Angel" Awesome!!

No dude sorry I haven't but I got a complete 300ZXTT engine for sale in bits with a cracked head if anygood! Bottom block is mint!

Hey Dick Dangerous or whatever your name is, we all love our Z'eds but at the same time we're human beings not sad anoraks and like to have a laugh every once in a while else it does get boring!! Lighten up a little, we're all on the same team here!! ;)

Luckely I managed to get mine for trade price which was £140.58p!! + Vat :dance: but honestly it's well worth it for the better cooling and engine response gains!!! :bow: I should of taken some pictures while doing the install really but didn't have the time!!! :smash: The Kenlowe fan comes with full set of destructions (There not that bad really!!) but basically you remove the viscouse fan and fan sherode first which is really easy as the viscous fan is only attached with 4 small bolts then take the sherode and fan out together.. I then took my rad out for ease of use when mounting the kenlowe fan.. It comes witch a full fitting kit but basically you feed some small metal strips through your cooling fins on your rad and cable tie some one end to the other to hold it all in place. For the electrical feed we linked it into a relay switch which is supplied in the fitting kit and then onto the fuse wiring for the air con in the Z'ed.. This means the Kenlowe fan will only operate when the IGN is turned on else my bloody alarm would go off when parked up!! I'm also gonna fit a manual switch in the car to switch the Kenlowe fan on and off when I want, just for extra piece of mind if the thermostat ever fails!!! :nono: It's amazing how much more room your left with when you have got rid of the viscous fan, I needed to do this so I could fit my Dump valves into the top intake pipes as the original fan sherode was in the way!!! :rant:

Hey Gaz, it's not a stupid question mate, the thing with the 16" Kenlowe fan is it uses 40Amps just to power the bloody thing up, it's a really powerful piece of kit!! :D If your engine is running then the fan is always at a constant speed as the alternator is doing it's thing and giving every electrical component in the car it's maximum power.. When your engine is hot enough and the fan kicks in switching the engine off will cause the rotation of the fan to slow a little bit as it's drawing a lot of current to power the Kenlowe... Viscous fans will always spin when the engine is running but they use a basic clutch type mechinisum on the fan it's self. When your engine is cold the viscous fan will freewheel but when hot enough a little coil spring heats up and the fan clutch engages cause major drag and loosing you BHP!!! :( Most viscous fans on Z'eds tend to nearly always be siezed up so the clucth is always engaged loosing your responsiveness from the word go and of course cause of the extra drag your fuel bills will be higher!!! Hope this helps, Jon

The standard electric fan is still in place but it will probably never ever come on again as the Kenlowe has a massive 16" diameter fan blade span and rotates like an absolute B/\stard :cool: , you can actually see the temp guage inside the car go from normal to halfway between the L and Midway on the temp guage in the car it's that efficient!! Very quick at cooling the system down too!!

Cheers Pete!! ;) Yeah had some help from my mate at the garage (Access to tools etc + rolling road etc) but it was bloody satisfying doing having a go myself!! No when we dynoed the car after the fan installation it was only sapping 0.48BHP and the feeling of driving it on the road this evening was more responsive and less laggy too!! I don't know why more people haven't done this kinda upgrade as the stock fan is positioned quiet away from the rad and isn't really doing much cooling!! :headvswal (Mac do this!). ;) You can set the Kenlow to come on by an ajustable thermostat but under normal driving condidtions and a after a far bit of kaning it's nuts off it only comes on when it needs to ie parked in traffic etc as there is enough air flow to keep the rad cool when the Z'ed is in motion. By the way it's a SUCKER!!! :D to take hot air away as if it we're blowing it would be like pissing in the wind just blowing air forward! :headvswal

Have had a great day all day today on my Z! :D Completly removed my viscouse fan cause it saps power and fitted a nice big Kenlow 16" er which was an absolute bitch to bitch having to take the rad out but it's well on there now!! Then had to remove my oil cooler cause it's a UK Spec car, standard electric fan just to get to the original recirc valves to remove them!!! They we're a bitch in them selves, easy to remove but then trying to bung up the recirc pipes was a nightmare!! The top hose requires a 28mm bung and the bottoms 32" :headvswal thats the bloody japanese for ya!!! Then I spent the afternoon chopping up the intake pipes to fit my new baily venturi dump valves!!! Put it all back together and it all worked first time!!! Just a quick question though i've disconnected the vaccume pipe from the original recirc valves completly as I feel there know longer needed and have connected the vaccume pipe from the baily ones in it's place.. Are they used for anything else?? :confused: PS By the way got the car dynoed befor and after viscouse fan removal and for those that need to know when the viscouse engaged it saps a wopping 18.3 BHP!!! The electric kenlow only sapps 0.4Bph as i guess the alternator has to do some work!!! Good upgrade :D

Sound like a good idea Dave, as long as i'm not working that day i'll come up. Rotas at work haven't been done for that week so can't commit just yet..

Or a "And you are???"!!! :D TWR did lots of stuff especially in the touring car scene but the car he mentions wasn't anything that special as far as memory serves.. :x:

Lol!! :rofl: :rofl: :D

Imagine a load of 300ZX's going banger racing! :x:

Still think Pierce was that best james bond.. Fitted the charicter well and looked like how James bond should be...

Hey Rich (Chunk) ol' buddy - feel so, so sorry for ya - makes you wonder if they can ever get anything right but 3 Years though???!!!... For christ sake just don't show them any of your wheel chair stunts!!! Best regard mate...

Shame Jeremy Beadle ain't still going!!! £200 For every clip used, a sure money spinna!!

Yeah, and i've still got that copy in mint condition!!! Think it showed the beast overtaking a row of parked red vans I think!! :D [/img]

Simon Pock, Mike Duffy, b19rks, jocktheshockerr, Rob C Red Zed, mawby H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y !![/color]! Have a good one dudes!!! :duffer: :duffer: :duffer: :duffer: :duffer: :duffer:

How much are we looking at Chris, Wouldn't mind 2 sometime if the price is right!!! ;)

Depends who's doing it Dave, you or the missus and from which end!! :rofl: Can't beat a good old Fanny Fart / tops everything - they say Sex should be enjoyable!! :D

FLMAO!!! :rofl: :rofl: Chunk, you're an absolute hero mate!!! Will def have to come up to one of the up country meets at somepoint and meet you in person!! Good work mate!! :bow:

Why the hell did we all by a 300ZX in the first place, to drive slowly everywhere?? I think not. No let's be honest nailing it in a built up area especially where there are schools and children and young mothers involved is NOT a clever idea but the occasional yeeeha blip on a duel carrage way or motorway is more acceptable... There is a time and a place for everything but not when peoples lives are at steak.

Thankyou very much everyone!! Shame no one lives down this neck of the woods as loads of us are going to the Wateringhole in Perranporth tonight for food and a good old Birthday Piss Up!!! :duffer: :duffer: Was gonna go for a Birthday Kane in my Z this afternoon as I got the day off work but it's pissing it down!! :rant: Oh well!! Cheers guys, hope to catch up with all soon.. Chunk, i'll make sure I save you some cake!! :D

If someone's got it in for red mirrors then i'd better be careful!

I remember that game, but only had it on the spectrum!!! At least the eningine figures are accurate!!