dicky96

Yeah the bonk holiday is the weekend before

Yes perfect fer me moggs - but going to Torremolinos for 10 days on the 2nd Sept, therefore would deff have to be one of those dates you proposed.. so count me in. Guess 1st being a sunday would be good for most? Rich - - - Updated - - - Yes perfect fer me moggs - but going to Torremolinos for 10 days on the 2nd Sept, therefore would deff have to be one of those dates you proposed.. so count me in. Guess 1st being a sunday would be good for most? Rich

How soon can we pay the balance and get our stuff? Rich

OK, Cool. Price (for all of you plus car) is £3.50 One more and we have enough so I can book us a club stand tomorrow Rich

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I wouldn't worry to much about that Mandy..... Ian burnt just about everything lol Blamed his brickettes or something like that lol Thanks for a nice afternoon out, sorry couldn't stay long but you know I had a good excuse (Wedding Anniversary), cheers Brian and Keith for spending the time to not only just look at my car but quite probably fixed it too by scaring the fault into submission I do hope you guys all told Mack he really really needs a Z in his life. His comment on driving mine all the way back to Stoke was 'pretty impressive' and this comes from an SLK owner Oh BTW as mentioned above - I would be up for a New Brighton run too, if it gets organised :thumbup: Rich

My Z is a bit of an odd one I think, in as much as it is a 93 but has the seatbelts fitted to the doors and does not have keyless lock/unluck Don't know about the turbo elbows but there are some pics on this thread here http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?170333-Lots-of-white-smoke-when-revving-engine&p=1740662&viewfull=1#post1740662

I am pretty sure they are the same ones I fitted on my old blue Z as the old ones failed, but the car was written off a week later so couldnt' say much apart from they did fit.

Agreed though it is also somewhat an improvement on 1litre in 12 miles, with that blown turbo!! I fired her up again, no clouds of white, and just the normal sort of exhaust gasses you would expect on free revving really So now I am worndering, seeing as the smoke has stopped is the oil use also gonna stop. Guess I need to take her out for another run. Where do I get my AFR checked? As no one replied yet, are the decats I found on ebay £129 any good? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NISSAN-300ZX-Z32-TURBO-NON-TURBO-STAINLESS-STEEL-DE-CAT-DECAT-DOWNPIPE-EXHAUST-/230713275628?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Model%3A300+ZX&hash=item35b79534ec Actually this car is chipped (don't know what chip as it was done before i bought it) and has HKS Boost controller. Assuming this was all set up correctly before, then it was set up for my old engine. Would that make a difference?

This car is totally insane! Or makes me sound like I am by describing the latest situation OK yesterday I gave the car a good blast up to Ians BBQ and back (round trip about 100 miles) especially on the way back when the car was driven harder than it has been since the engine was changed Anyway she was smoking quite a lot on the way back when accelerating but not much smoke at all while cruising The only notable incident was when reaching the A500 in stoke and flooring her in 2nd then 3rd all of a sudden she lost a lot of power while on full boost, backfiring etc.. Turned out she was suddenly only running on 5 cylinders. After a few miles we pulled over and all that was the problem this time is one of the coil pack connectors (front cylinder off side) had come loose. Pushing that down she was back on all 6 again. The last few miles we gave her plenty more boost and the smoke was there as before. This morning I decided to check the oil again and was a bit shoked to find it was only just registering on the bottom tip of the dipstick. About 1 litre of oil saw it topped up to near on max. Surely this must mean she is buring oil and not just smoking because of residues in the cats? Anyway I had to nip down to Tescos so I fired her up......... and thought 'that's funny, where's the huge clouds of white smoke?' Because there wasn't any. I mean like none! Tescos is only a couple miles away and I gave her a bit of a boost and no smoke. Once i came back she was up to temp so I gave her a good boost. No smoke. Puzzled to see if I am just imagining this, after lunch (about an hour but the engine is still warm) I checked the oil again - nearly full. I fired her up and free revved her - absolutely no smoke. I mean even like there doesn't really seem to be anything at all coming from the exhausts So what's this all about. Am I going mad? DId I have too much to drink last night? Have I imagined the whole month of problems? Will the smoke be back again tomorrow? Please for my own sanity - is there an answer to these and other questions?!!???? dicky Oh and PS if anyone can answer that lot, then why is it only 15deg and grey with light rain today as I type when the forcast says the heat continues?.... - - - Updated - - -

Go man Go!!

Hi Ian We need six for a club stand - payment is just £3.50 per car with up to two adult + two child passengers If PaulR and Onslow are still available and up for the show that would give four of us If we can have a firm commitment from a few others then I will collect all the £3.50 payments by paypal and then order the passes Rich

no one?

OK just to update... I took the car up to Ian (300ZX 666) bbq and while there, Brian (Znut) and another guy who I can't rememebr his profile name (sorry) had a good look at it Two things came from this - one: that they don't think there is anything very much wrong with this engine and two: they say I have an overfuelling problem I can confirm I get quite a few pops and backfires when changing gear easpecially if I only gave it a medium acceleration before changing. They suggested some of the smoke once the engine is warm is due to overfuelling The concensus is I should run it another couple hundred miles, get an emissions check to see what the smoke is composed of, and knock out the cats or fit new decats (I can do this as mine is down on the V5 as an unknown model, for MOT) I think these are the ones I fitted on my old blue Zed. Are they any good? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NISSAN-300ZX-Z32-TURBO-NON-TURBO-STAINLESS-STEEL-DE-CAT-DECAT-DOWNPIPE-EXHAUST-/230713275628?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Model%3A300+ZX&hash=item35b79534ec Then see where to go from that So there is a plan, I guess. It's nice to hear these quys don't think there is much wrong here. Rich

JJP if it is a Cashplus and/or Mastercard and it's asking for some stupid 'security plus' code number then I had exactly the same problem as you - though I had never had this problem before (or at least had the option to skip the check on the few occasions I saw it before) Anyway I ended up phoning my card supplier and they gave me the security code I didn't even know I had. I even got the chance to change it to another one during the transaction. If it is some 8 figures code it wants, and you never created one, then try your birth date ddmmyyyy which is will probably accept then allow you to change to somehing else (in fact it insists you change as the new code must contain letters and numbers) Hope that helps Rich

No but it just came back from Zedworld after Jeff and/or Mark changed the blown turbo - so I would imagine that would have been done as a normal part of the job? Rich

HI guys - can I resurrect this - there is still time to book some passes for this show if I do it quickly. Now my car is back on the road I really would like to exhibit at Shugborough Sunday 11th August http://www.transtarpromotions.com/ShugboroughHall2013.html There was not a huge amount of interest before due to folks having prior arrangements but if any of you would still like to come or anyone else wants to add on to the list then I would need you £3.50 entrance fee pretty soon and I will need to book some passes after the weekend. Half a dozen of us would be enough for a club stand in front of the manor house - what a great backdrop for some Z pics!! OK so last chance - anyone want to come along? Rich

I drove the car again today (it didn't go anywhere yesterday) I got loads of white smoke on startup but this cleared quicker than before - however I am still getting the greyer smoke once she warms up - which seems not too bad now wheen just drving along unless i give it some boost and then you get rather a lot more! However as the smoke seems to be generally a bit less now I have been boosting her harder to see what happens (still not gone foot to the floor though) and I notice another strange sympton which I did not have before the blown turbo was swapped What I am getting now on a good amount of boost is this loud whistling noise, she sounds just like a jet engine running up to be honest, though unfortunately not giving fighter plane accceleration to go along with it lol. The car pulls very well though. So what's causing that? Rich

I went for the R pretty much because Jerrick says they look better under the bonnet! Yeah I know I am so much style over content but is that a big suprise? lol Rich

The local rag and bone men around here are Lithuanians or Slovaks or something like that, and they will take fookin anything believe me!!! Should have seen last time I got a skip booked to clear a lod of crap out, it went back half emptier than I filled it. OK so some other cheeky ****s did put stuff in it as well, but that was going out again just as quick as my own shit lol Cheers for the offer I'll tell Mack (friend of mine coming to meet you saturday) he does have insurance to drive other vehicles off his own Merc insurance so that's cool. Or anyone got a real proper running TT he can try, or just take him out as passenger on the M62 and raise the hairs on his neck a bit (mine is like 90% running well right now so poss not the total real deal) See you all Sat and really looking forward to it (esp the chance of a few beers) Rich

Thanks for the invite Ian I'm coming up from Stoke around 1:30 - 2pm, anyone esle coming this way about that time and fancies a little convoy up the M6 from J16 then let's arrange something, even if there is two or three of us, that's a lot of Zeds to see in one go on the M6 lol Rich

Is there a thread for the 300zx 666 BBQ this saturday? I'm gonna be running up in the Zed about 1:30 - 2pm from Stoke, anyone else coming up the M6 from this neck of the woods about that time? We could meet at J16 M6 and get a little convoy going even if it's just two or three of us :thumbup1:

My deposit paid as promised (want the Zeta-R for extra £50 and also adjustable tension rods £135 as previously discussed by PM cheers) Rich

Oh mine chucks it out straight from start up even after overnight so it kinda eliminates that - but then once warmed up it smokes much less and it's a more greyish colour as I think can be seen clear enough on my videos. Hmmm maybe then it's only the white smoke on startup until she warms up is actually coming from the engine, then the greyer stuff coming from the cats once warm (and nothing from the engine) but what would that mean? I asked Jeff about that too but he tells me the oil in the cats reacts in different ways depending on temperature hence the change from copious whitish smoke to grey smoke

Yeah she needs more of a run to see if this problem clears so I will come over on Saturday to the BBQ thanks for the invite The missus will not be with me but I will be with a mate who is thinking of getting a Z and want's to try mine to see what it's all about - so I'll let him drive her back (and I'll have a few beers lol) How many are coming? Rich