J51

Was good to meet you Craig and you will be pleased to know the wheels are now facing the right direction. Back there tomorrow at the Jap Show and I am driving. Cheers Steve.

I have had an email today from Stonham Barns confirming they are having issues with tickets and to just print off the email itself as confirmation or just arrive and the guys on the gates will issue wristbands so long as you are on their “list”.

I have booked to go to the show as fortunately I only live 10 miles away, if you are still going what time are you turning up?

Thanks for the advice - I have received the new sensor and once installed I guess the next stage is to check the gauges if no luck. Bristol is a fair journey from Ipswich but I may not have another option.

I have had the same issue with the speedo playing up over the last 10 years, but only very occasionally, now it has completely given up and the HICAS light comes on after a couple of minutes of driving just after the steering becomes heavy. I checked the sensor and the black cap is fully in as it should be, so I guess the sensor could have finally packed up. Added to this the odometer stopped working yesterday. I had ordered a new sensor for my UK TT manual car just in case the sensor was the problem, but the faulty odometer now makes me think something else is faulty. Rev counter is ok as is the boost pressure gauge. I also have an Apexi boost controller and that shows the revs and boost, but the speedo on this has packed up as well recently. Can anyone help, and actually I really need to find a mechanic who can work on my car with a good degree of knowledge of 300ZXs, just seems to be impossible these days and I desperately want to keep the car on the road having owned this one for 21 years. Prepared to go anywhere within 100 miles of Suffolk.

Thanks for that, I have contacted the garage who will drain down oil and start again.

Thanks for the reply and advice - it was a full oil change but I will check how much was used, the tuning company seem to think it could have caused some damage to the engine but I think they may have gone over the top. Hopefully it is OK, my fundamental problem is the lack of boost on the turbos and finding someone local to me who is able to work on a 300ZX, I used the garage to service the car as I noticed initially a couple of Supras on their forecourt and when I approached them they seemed to be OK and have a good reputation. They could not find the fault with the turbos although they confirmed the turbos themselves are fine, so that is why they suggested the tuning company.

I have had a 300ZX since 2001 (UK Twin Turbo), now has 142,000 miles on the clock, took it in for service and MOT but at the same time asked garage to look at issues with Turbos, service and MOT fine (I think) but couldn't sort out Turbo problem but they recommended a tuning company that could. Taking the car home I noticed the car now sounds like a sewing machine, always had slightly noisy lifters but now awful. Took car to tuning company and now they and original garage are having an oil argument. Synthetic oil - 10w30 was used for the service but tuning company reckon they should have used semi synthetic, I have looked back on my service records and can see in 2006 synthetic was used - 10w40, later services do not go into sufficient detail. To be honest I am not sure what oil should be used but garage now want to drain it down and send it away for analysis. Have I got a problem or is tuning company getting carried away?