Pete54

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I got my a/c working again after a period. the condenser is made of unobtainium, mine now has the unit from a combine harvester! The compressor can be reconditioned. All this got sorted out by a local specialist at around £900. Not cheap, but the car demists properly and is a please to drive in hot weather. you pays your money and makes your choices.

I have just 'de-catted' my 300TT and fitted new O2 sensors. The aftermarket ones (OEM connections advertised) did n't have the right connectors! Bought propoer Nissan ones and the fuel economy has improved by about 3 mpg. The hot idle is much better (smoother).

I've just had my ac fettled to get it working after a few years. The condenser and dryer arrangements are not really obtainable (tried MJP etc here). The US ones can apparently be made to fit but.... Anyhow a local AC magician sourced suitable parts (condenser from a combine harvester!) and made up the pipework to fit. The AC compressor was goosed so he sent that away to be repaired and new seals fitted. Thankfully all the internal temperature control flaps still worked so the end result was a system which can turn the interior into a fridge! The condenser sits in front of the radiator - so it is a little vulnerable. I have a larger aluminium radiator and so have no cooling worries. The car has been to France and run perfectly in 35 deg C so I doubt the condenser has a particularly negative effect.

Mine cost around £1200 once I'd sourced the necessary bits for the overhauler via MJP

It is often used in light aircraft with Rotax engines. Got a bit of a mixed reputation. Unless you have a really good cooling system then you will see higher temps and need more pressure. So if like me you have a bigger radiator - but have not uprated the engine much it should be fine.

I think if you can afford the engineering to do it, yes there are engines that would fit. Performance would be pretty embarassing unless you used a recent engine such as the BMW 335 - but that engine by itself will cost more than a secondhand Zed! Then you would have to fit it..... Megger fiddling around. Even a straight forward diesel conversion tends to be about £2k by the time you sort everything out that buys quite a lot of petrol!

Thanks chaps - turns out it was a broken wire rather than a dirty connector - but the right place!

My zed is a '91 J-spec tt. Just about to leave the garage having got a new mot after being largely out of use over the winter. However the electric ac fan (for the evaporator) has decided to run continuously. Its likely I'll have to get it to a specialist - but before I do it there anytihng that typically causes this? Thanks

The speedo information is partially incorrect. Legally a car speedo cannot under read at all, or over read by more than 10% - so the tolerances are -0%, +10% of the actual road speed. That is what leads to all speedos over reading - the amount of over read is usually quite modest - generally around 5%. So if you have a portable GPS and a straight section of road expect to see that level of over reading. This is also why fitted car GPS do not display speed..... (because it would contradict the speedo!). The usual tolerance for prosecution for speeding is greater than 10% - as that is comfortably into the 'illegal' area - but there have been successful prosecutions at much less as this 'speeding tolerance' is not written into law.....

The listing of bits and pieces looks like it is going to add up to about £475 plus the vat. This is synchros bearing and shift springs, no major internal parts, mainly as I opened it up whilst just slightly noisy rather than very noisy or baulking etc.

FWIW I have ended up with help from Mike Feeney from MJP who appears to be able to lay hands on most things!

My garage has got the gearbox in a few pieces(!!) to recondition it. The Nissan dealers are denying any knowledge of 300zx parts which presents a bit of a problem... Anyone got a sensible source of gearbox parts - preferably OEM but otherwise aftermarket would be fine. I've found Drivetrain.com in the US who seem to offer a full rebuild kit are there any others in the UK (or even the US)? Car is a '91 J spec TT 2+2 . Many thanks.