m0n1xX3r

@hellraiser What have you got now, I meant to ask?

On the grounding kit, it's now gone to a new home!

Yes, it might be. Definitely a SWB NA in black. Sweet car. You bought me a pint of Guinness. I still owe you one! If you ever fancy a pint shout, I'll be down south soon!

Haha - my bad. Username must be super-similar to the Gaz I met. I see the forum got migrated a few years ago so a bunch of us have got the same join date.

Hi everyone, It's been a long time since I've been on the scene, or logged in to this forum. I was an active member from about 2004 - 2006 and in early 2005 bought myself a black (fastest colour, obviously) LWB 300ZX TT manual. Loved that car and for the first 18 months all was well. I see the odd name on here I still recognise - sometime during that period I met Gaz 300 and his partner (think he was driving a SWB NA back then) and we had a pint. At some point in that period I also bought a grounding kit but for reasons I no longer remember never quite got around to fitting it to the car. In fact I've never even taken it out of the bag. Anyway, I bought a house and money was tight, and various things went wrong with the car all at the same time, and with the new mortgage I didn't have the money to get it fixed. So it just sat on my driveway under a cover for a few years until my mate Tim mentioned that he was looking for a project car to fix up, and I offered him the 300ZX because without an MOT, and with all the work it needed doing, it wasn't worth more than a few hundred quid (this would have been early 2012 - I suspect it might be worth more now given the prices I see decent ones going for these days). He was doing a PhD at the time so I just gave him the car - I saw it as doing me a favour to get it off my driveway, and he'd get a car to tinker with. Anyway, he started coming over and after two or three days work, changing all the fluids, putting fresh fuel in, getting the brakes freed up, tyres inflated - I think he might have changed plugs, and maybe coilpacks and/or leads as well - he was ready to give it a start. I have a video of this somewhere. It pretty much started first time, and without the misfire it had been suffering from when I parked it up (in fact that misfire never came back). It still, of course, needed a new clutch, new driveshaft (both of which I'd actually bought but sold on eBay for an absolute pittance about 18 months before Tim mentioned he was looking for a project car - really annoying; I'd actually sold the car as well but the prick who won the auction was a timewaster who never came to collect, and I was away for a couple of months on a sabbatical so it ended up that I never got round to listing it again), new exhaust system, new brakes, and a few other bits and pieces. Still we managed to drive it up and down the road my house is on and, I kid you not, all the neighbours came out and gave us a round of applause. I'm sure you can imagine the racket a 300ZX with a completely shot exhaust system where the backboxes have completely rotted out makes, and it drew rather a crowd. Tim spent the best part of a year working on that car at evenings and weekends to get it back up to scratch again. He spent probably £2.5k on parts, but did all the labour himself. He let me drive it once or twice - in fact he was basically happy for me to drive it whenever I wanted but I didn't take him up on it in case I ended up wanting one again - and he'd done a great job getting it working again. He kept it a good long time as well and used it as his daily driver for years. He eventually sold it on to the guys at SCUZZLE in early 2019 (he'd also offered it back to me for the cost of the parts he'd put into it a while before that, but I resisted the temptation - not without some regrets). This is the car in this video here from September 2019: Hopefully they've still got it: hopefully it's still running and on the road. If you're from SCUZZLE and you're on here, let me know - I'd love to hear. Anyway, back to the grounding kit. It disappeared somewhere in the house move, but I found it fairly recently during a clear out of some old stuff. It's still in its bag, never used, complete with instructions, but it's also 15+ years old so I don't want to charge anyone money for it in case there's something wrong with it. If you'd like it, drop me a message and I'll send it to you. I was thinking about putting it on facebook marketplace for local collection but then thought, stuff it, might as well give it to somebody who's still got one of the cars and will be able to make best use of it. Here are a couple of photos: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2qc3dt0aqg844jt/IMG_1965.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ogrujnmbq4iwssr/IMG_1966.jpg?dl=0 Like I say, if you'd like it, let me know. First come, first served. Also, to the committee and mods, I'm sorry if I've posted this in the wrong place: do please move it to somewhere more appropriate if you'd prefer. I think, as I'm not a full member, my options for posting are pretty limited. All the best, and glad to see that the forum is still going and that there are plenty of you still out there running 300ZXs. Cheers, Bart

Thanks Andy!

Ta very much! ... And apologies for being a nag.

Er, hey? Has this gone through yet? I still don't have access to members' areas. Thanks, Bart

Bad news about your car: I got caught like that in the wet once, but fortunately there wasn't anything in the way. Interesting you should mention about wanting a new body with a knackered engine... http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=126906 I'm gonna stick it on eBay as soon as my subscription fees go through here (should be some time next week). The car's black (check my rides), and entirely standard, but it might be the kind of thing you're after. I'll drop you a PM once it's up if you're interested.

Definitely not!

I must be going senile... I was pretty sure I put a line in there saying thanks to everyone for the advice, but I must have somehow chopped it out so: thanks guys, really appreciate the advice.

You're keen mikey! Unfortunately, going the whole hog and breaking it isn't something I want to do, even though it'd be worth more, because I need the room on my driveway... I went car shopping with my mate (for him) in Peterborough last Saturday. Swore blind that no matter what we saw I wasn't going to buy anything... and then I found a 1.8 Turbo 200SX Fastback with only 27,000 miles on it from one lady owner, and so I was basically buggered. The real mistake was deciding to have a sit in it "just to see what it felt like". So, I'm getting this as a weekend car, and keeping my old Rover for everyday use, and I haven't got enough space on the driveway for three cars. Hopefully it'll be easier to live with than the zed, although at some point in the future I'd love to get another. I reckon what I'll probably do is stick the prop shaft, clutch and the car itself on eBay as separate items. I'll post up here when they're up, but I'm waiting for my membership fee to clear.

FFS. :rofl:

Hey mikey, I've stuck all the details in a new thread here: http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=126906

I've got a dead J-SPEC 1993 LWB TT manual sitting on my drive. Actually it's been sitting there since December 06 just after I bought the house and, although I've always intended to get it fixed eventually, I've just never had the cash. I've just resubscribed, and I'm waiting for that to go through before I stick it on eBay and advertise it on here, but in the meantime I'd appreciate some opinions on the best thing to do. The car sas a problem with misfiring on cylinder 5 (I think)--think it's a valve, needs head strip down according to the garage I took it to anyway. At the same time it needs a new clutch (which I have), a new prop-shaft (which I also have), and the exhaust needs replacing (which I don't have). No battery either whilst I think about it: I took it out to recharge it, but it's basically dead and I've never got around to replacing it. I'd been planning to replace the clutch and prop-shaft for a little while before all this happened, but then everything else went wrong and it just became ridiculously expensive to sort out, especially since I'd just bought this house. Bit of a shame, but that's the way it goes sometimes. Question is: should I sell the car, the clutch, and the prop-shaft as a job lot in one auction, or should I split them? I know I'm not getting much for the car--it's not in bad nick considering, but it has been stood for 18 months, and of course it doesn't actually run. It used to run, albeit a bit rough, on 5 cylinders, but I'm not sure what would happen if I got a new battery and tried to fire it up now. :wack: Thanks, Bart

Indeed bud! Car's been off the road since just after I bought my house: it died unfortunately, and I haven't had the cash to do anything about it. Anyway, I'm re-subscribing so I can sell it for spares/repairs. See you've still got yours, and still looking fantastic too! Definitely one of the nicest examples around.

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Yep, 'fraid so. Just filled mine out yesterday. It's a PITA as well, because it's not just the £17.50: there's another £4.50 for the passport photos if you haven't got any recent ones handy. Not much on its own, but it all adds up, along with everything else at the moment.

Those'd be my first suggestions (suggested to me a while ago). It could be something more serious, like a valve problem, which mine unfortunately appears to have. If you can get somebody who knows what they're about to take a look at it that would probably be the best option. Cheers, Bart

^^^ OTOH, if you have the cash, what he said.

It's furry. Not like the nasty tweed. I prefer the velour because you can get in the car on a hot sunny day without burning yourself - particularly helpful if you're wearing shorts I might add.

That hiking trail in China made me feel queasy just sitting here. Imagine if one of those little wooden platforms gave out. Gives you the willies just thinking about it.

Looks like he earns just about enough to run a zed to me.

You're right. It feels like a reject part from a 1985 Ford Fiesta. I really don't think I've driven a car with a crappier indicator stalk, and that's saying something because at the moment I'm driving a 1992 Rover 200 series.

Ain't that the bloody truth. Mine's still dead on the drive because I still can't afford to fix the thing.... still I'm thinking about selling the house and moving back into town, so maybe that'll change things.