Bill89

hi mate you will find your rev range is really unsmooth for example when i let my car idle when it was missing it it seemed okish, but if i put my foot to the floor sharply the whole car was shaking and it sounded well.. not nice, u should notice it more between 1k n 3k

Thanks mate

Where do you get those ducts from? Do they fit into the standard bumper?

Black vented nose panel on a H plate lee? Real dark blue almost purple?

hey no worries dude :thumbup1: hey i would love to take ure invite but i got my little lad this weekend... ( have him every other weekend) ... so ill be gettin him to hoover the zx :tt2: another time though defo! cheers bill

yea well while your there you might as well do all 6 male n female connections while your there for piece of mind, as regards for the tapping i didnt experience any when all my cylinders came back online, just quite a bit of soot out of the right exhaust for a minute or two lol ! im guessing the tapping is a sepearate issue to ure firing problem, but thats as far as my knowledge stretches sorry pal

howdo mate the best way i found to clean up the connectors is to use warm vinegar warm it in the microwave, get some very fine wet and dry or something a little coarse, fill them up with vinegar n wait for the scale to lift, it is a bit of a patience game, but when all connections are clean wd40 all the connector plugs before clicking them back together, and it will fire up no problem

Is it too old to be in parkers price guide? If not might be worth checkin that maybe??

i had this problem when i first bought my z, i was running on 5 then 4, checked coil packs and plugs and it wasnt the problem, so then moved onto injector plugs and found my problem straight away.. i belive that the injector plugs are constant live? so with this they scale up like a kettle and the connections are then dud.... so a bit of warm vinigar and a bit of wet and dry on all the connections and she runs sweet as a nut now !:clap:

u could always get someone ( preferably not in their zx) :tongue_smilie: to back into it and then phone the council and tell them some polish wagon just backed into the lampost and drove off :thumbup:

think its about £900 mate, and i think you will have to get in contact with your council

agreed thats not a pretty sight.. :confused1:

UPDATE! thanks to all for contributing on this post, it was indeed the uj got the mrs to turn the steering with me underneath and it was getting tight it a certain point, i used some wd40 and the steering has gone back to normal no tight spots, i will prob get some grease on it at a later date but for now happy days! thanks again :thumbup:

Hey guys thanks for the replys , so the uj's sound like the issue... it was only mot last month but I'm guessing they wouldn't pick up on that ? Where would be best to get the uj from tried lookin on the bay but no joy... cheers bill

Hey bud my car is n/a, however I'm not sure if it started life as a tt in that case would it still have hicas? Excuse me for my lack of knowledge if that's a stupid question, but back to the steering I have cheked power steeering levels and it is full, when driving it down the road if the steering wheel goes to that ( tight spot) and I let go of the steering wheel it just drags the car to the side sharply, and you then hato give it quite a bit of effort to bring it straight again?, but it steers fine until u get to that certain point and its fine after that certain point too if that makes any sence at all cheers bill

That sounds promising thanks for that, definatly can see the logic behind the theory, cheers pal

morning! the last time i took the zx out i had a squeaky brake so found an empty piece of road n hit the brakes reasonably hard just to see if i could get rid of the squeak, after doing this my steering felt very odd, wether it is linked i dnt know but it was a quite a fight with the steering to get it home, i have gone out this morning to have a look, started the car and turned the steering to full lock each way a couple of times, when doing so there is a point where it goes very tight to the left and then when i rotate to the right it does it again, but then the rest of the rotation is smooth? hope that makes sence ! cheers guys!!

nah not exactly , its hard to explain , if you have ever drove a van that's limited to say 70mph it gets to 70 but won't go ne further even though its only doing 3000rpm, and feels like its starving itself of fuel, that's wat the zx felt like at 120, but again it was no where near finished, n just felt like it was starving itself, it wouldn't go 1mph over 120, so I let off the throttle to 90 ish ,and it picked right back up again to 120 with ease n that's it really lol sorry bowt essay!! :online2long:

Yea I see now, but from that link that was posted it does appear to be north american clocks.. they are the only ones that go to 160mph by the looks of things,so if they don't make n/a uk clocks how do u think its best I get rid of this limiter issue?

My car is a jap import mate

Ahh! Thanks for diggin that link out ! Looks like north american clocks then! Strange stuff lol

if it was a facia all speeds would read false wouldnt they ? but when my car is doing 30mph on my speedo its doing 30mph on the road etc ?

ok many thanks for your input pal, it definatly wasnt finished at what read as 120mph it just literally limited itself

yes mate it is a n/a model so r these the standard uk clocks for n/a models?

so the 160 mph clocks are a mystery and so remains my original limiter issue :sad: