nickz32

For some reason, when I try and look at Bird’s 99spec glass thread I’m getting this Only appears to be with this thread.

Wow...... For those of you who have kindly taken the time to read my Journal, you will all know how much of a roller coaster my ownership experience has been over the last 3 or so years. There has been more than a few times where I reached breaking point and was ready to give up on my vision of what I wanted my 300ZX to be. But because of this roller coaster ride I think have an even stronger bond with the car than ever before. It truely is part of the family. It feels somewhat strange for me to receive so many votes when so few people have seen my Z in the metal, especially when up against such well established and admired Z’s as Andrew and Gaz’s cars. I can only assume that I have managed to successfully convey the amount of blood, sweat, tears and sleepless nights (sad I know) that have gone into making my Z what it is today. I’d like to say well done to Gaz and Andrew for their closely fought contest. Both are fantastic cars that many owners aspire to transform their own cars to such standards. All I can say is Thank You to everyone who voted for my Z, I’m greatful beyond words. All being well I hope to get to some of the bigger meets this year, and hope that it lives up to the expectations that this competition has created. There are a number if truly fantastic Z’s in this club, and I shall endeavour to keep pushing the standard of my car to match those set by those cars... and hopefully compete against them again in the future. Finally, I’d like to give a special thank you to JoelyP. Joel encouraged me to rejoin the Club and show what I was doing with my Z and the direction I wanted to go. He also persuaded me to enter this competition, despite my reservations about so few people actually seeing my car (and it’s lack of engine). Cheers buddy! Nick

Let’s face it, we both know 90% of your post count is spam anyway LOL

Thanks dude! The rules in the competition voting says registered users can vote?

The importer should have declared your cars manufacture date as 1995 on your V5, that’s what is referred to for “vehicles first use” and what defines the age related number plate DVLA give you Car. Date of importation has no bearing on the emissions testing

So from my understanding, the law that required new vehicles to have a catalytic converter came into effect for U.K. market vehicles in Sept 1992. However there was a period of grace until August 1995 for manufacturers to make cars that were already in production to meet the new emissions regs. Theoretically, as the Z came with cat converters from the get go(QLDZDR, our cars also had cats as standard from 1989), it should have been subject to the cat emissions standards.... I can only guess that because U.K. sales stopped during that period of grace they simply never added it to the Annex sheet.... can’t say I’m complaining mind!

I’d completely forgotten Chris was doing dress up parts. Something to remember for the future!

Final day to reflect on 2018 and cast your vote

Because the Z was pulled from the U.K. market in 94, while all the others on the list were available after that. Can one of the admins make the VOSA link a sticky, as it’s a Q that regularly comes up.

Good stuff buddy

If you’re only in Wokingham mate, bring it over to Bone AS& Sons In Hook, they test my Z and are good as gold But print off those pages and carry them with you for MOT time... some testers have to be reminded of the standards our cars are subject to. (Bones should be fine though)

He’s incorrect 90% of 300ZX’s DO NOT NEED CATS for an MOT. It is NOT listed on the Appendix for Emmisions testing and therefore only has to comply with a Non Cat Test. Only vehicles with manufacture dates after Aug 1995 are subject to the tighter emmsions tests Page 12,134,135,136 and 137 are the relevant pages https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676700/in-service-exhaust-emission-standards-for-road-vehicles-19th-edition.pdf

That got sorted with the recent map. Unfortunately, as I’m on my temporary straight pipe exhaust, I can make the quaintest of villages sound like Beirut in the 70’s..... needs tweaking a touch to say the least, but I’ll sort that when the new exhaust is made

Ill have to have a look what they’re like when they turn up. I suspect that there’s not going to be enough material there for me to sand it back to remove the emblems.

So today I purchased a set of the Smoked version of these: Shock Horror..... AMS parts! Yes yes I know however, they are an AMS original part that they haven’t copied off another manufacturer, so there’s no guilt here. There are 2 reasons why I have gone with these over just OE covers, one aesthetic and one mechanical Aesthetic is that I have a bloody expensive valve train with the BDE cam pulleys and the PE Kevlar belt. Seems silly to hide that lovely engineering away The other reason is I run the EPR manual tensioner, so makes it easy to keep an eye on both my belt tension and timing marks without having to remove the covers. My OE fasteners are a bit of the tatty side nowadays, so I’ll see if I can purchase some through ZSpec while they have a sale on

I’ve pinged you a message mate

Even though the term “manual” is used for the non digital climate control cars, the system for changing air direction etc is still entirely electronic, so the solenoids are still used. From memory I eant to say you can still get the the HVAC flaps from the pass side floor well, but it’s been a while since I’ve been under the dash

Forgot to add this one to my submitted pics. Love how imposing it looks here

Been a mixed 2018 for me Z wise, hoping 2019 is significantly better. Happy new year guys

Im hoping to give you some competition at the AGM buddy, keep your knickers on lol

JeffTT for his “Look how nice the weather is in Portugal” posts

I thought the date was familiar... I’ll be doing Beaulieu rather than this

Well you can certainly have a like for the T350C, unfortunately I’ve already cast my vote

Any update on this from Z club? Doesn’t this roughly clash with the AGM?

I think you got yourself a bargain there mate