EvoluZion3

Right I'm nearly there with the fuse box - I ran the Z again and I'm 95% certain the buzzing is coming from behind the fuse box so after nearly breaking most bones in my neck and spine I've got it to the stage where everything's unplugged but I need to unclip the sockets from the edges of the fuse box - especially the three in the centre of the first pic - how the hell do these unlip? Do they come forwards or go backwards? I've got no strength or skin left in my fingers to try them any more! Also, what the heck is the white box in the second picture - it's screwed to the body next to the fuse box?

thanks folks - I'll take a look tomorrow :thumbup:

nice one Jeff!! it's a hard life isn't it!

The car's got worse so I've started another thread here: :( http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?164650-Low-idle-stall-LIGHTS-and-buzzing!

My Z has deteriorated overnight. To follow on from my previous thread - basically from the start of this week she's been driving like sometimes she's on 5 cylinders. Once the engine warms up, she misfires a little and holds back a bit when I accelerate from low revs. She boosts ok, although now sometimes she'll judder a bit as the revs go above 4k. Don't appear to be symptoms of wet MAF as I've had that loads of times before (revs just cut under boost). Anyways yesterday afternoon on the way back from work she started to buzz loudly whenever I took my foot off the throttle. The sound seemed to be coming from behind the dash, but I confirmed this morning that it's from the driver footwell. I went out today with the hope of fixing the misfiring - I taped up a couple of cut/bare wires, pushed the coilpack plugs in firmly, checked the ECU temp sensor, the plug to the CAS and TPS, and had a general nose around the engine bay. I also taped up the connections to the PTU (which is relocated and exposed a little to the rain under my nose panel) and fired her up. She idled ok for a couple of minutes, then as she warmed up the revs dropped to 650 and she started to struggle idling. She revs ok (but hesitates a bit), but if I rev her over 4k or so, once I take my foot off it'll drop and stall. No visible smoke from exhausts, although yesterday there would be a puff of dark grey smoke on overrun. The LIGHTS warning light has started to come on which it never has before, and when I rev the engine, or switch the fans on, then off, there's a loud buzzing from the driver's footwell, around the fusebox area - like a failing solenoid perhaps. From cold, the LIGHTS light would flicker quickly 'in time' with the buzzing, but then it stays on. Video is here: Any ideas as I wonder if these symptoms are connected somehow...?

What the hell is this buzzing noise that's just started up this afternoon!??! Earlier this week she started to run like she drops a cylinder every now and then (misfiring, occasional puff of dark grey smoke, light judder under accelleration), and now on the way home, when my foot is off the throttle, this constant vibrator/electric shaver noise comes from the dash cluster!! No change to the way she drives (other than the misfiring that started a few days ago) albeit the 'LIGHTS' warning light was constantly on, which was new as well. Headlights, sidelights, high beam, brake lights, rear lights and dash lights all worked normally. I have reverse indiglo dials so at first I thought the inverter had packed in, but it's directly linked to the throttle. Listen to the video! I'm off tomorrow so I was going to spend some time looking for the cause of the misfiring, etc. so it looks like I'm going to be looking for this problem as well. Common denominator to all my electrical gremlins - it rained heavily this afternoon before the problem started. Any clues?

what was it, out of interest?

welcome to the club. you can use Photobucket or the like to upload pictures and then link to them.

congratulations Chris!!

Welcome John and congratulations on the purchase!

Happy Birthday Steve!

Audrey - wasn't that Scrawni's Z?

Welcome matey!

Welcome to the mad house

it's only in the closing credits - ironic seeing as F&F is based on a story called Racer X where the chap owns a 300ZX!

Sounds like a good idea Alan, I guess the broader the range of services you offer, the more business you'll get. Everyone on here knows the quality of work you can do, be it mechanical or external, so you need to advertise yourself out to the whole motoring world somehow. Twitter/Facebook are good free ways of drumming up attention. PS. Get yourself over to the FTO owner's club as I know someone who has one and who tells me that he doesn't know of many places around in the Midlands that'll do a decent job for a decent price.

Glad you're happy with them mate, and I'm glad I sent the right ones to the right folks! Remember that if you have problems with fitment then I'm happy to refund.

I have 275s at the rear - no problems other than a bit of a rub when I reverse up into my driveway. No arch work done and lowered 20mm-ish.

Good work Jeff!

Welcome to the club! :thumbup:

looks like the keys on your keyboard are still stickinnnnnng Chris! :p :p

I know it's been mentioned on here before but I just finished reading Retro Gamer magazine and it had a page dedicated to this game, so I thought I'd grab a few screenshots and boxshots from the t'internet and post them on here. Quite a good game as well actually!

Happy Birthday!

...or perhaps arguing: "I'm faster than you!" "Yeah but you're a rusty UK-spec!" "Shut up you pair of automatics, I'm a manual!" "Yeah with fooked turbos!" [sniggering] "At least I can hold my fluids!" "Yeah whatever at least I've got a bodykit!" "Yeah, a fake fibreglass one!" "Shut it you lot I'm trying to sleep" :rofl:

welcome along Trev!