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My Zed and a Toyota Supra MKIV in red in stock condition would be an ideal two car garage for me!

All of them, but in red....? ? I love the 80's 300zx decals down the side. Really works on a black car...

Stuck it on my Christmas list. Thanks for spotting it!

Google is your friend... Z1 GT600R turbo kit = £1874 New. https://www.z1motorsports.com/z1-products/z1-motorsports/z1-300zx-z32-gt600r-bb-turbo-kit-p-1451.html Z1 Jecs 550cc full injector kit = £449 New. https://www.z1motorsports.com/fuel-injectors/jecs/jecs-high-performance-fuel-injectors-p-4293.html DTA 550 chip = Couldn't find this. Do you mean DTA with either T-series or S-series? https://www.dtafast.co.uk/products/?cat=ECUs or a Haltec 550? https://shopbhp.com/products/elite-550-ecu Z1 2.5" intercooler piping kit = £336 New https://www.z1motorsports.com/z1-products/z1-motorsports/z1-300zx-tt-25-intercooler-piping-kit-p-6557.html Ford F150 MAF = £62 New https://www.ebay.com/itm/353263412133?fits=Make%3AFord&epid=109973484&hash=item524023e3a5:g:h44AAOSwgU5fouaH dual cone filters = Depends on brand £20-£200 Then you need to look at 2nd discount, re-build costs and finally making them an appealing price to someone. Selling individually or as an upgrade bundle. Hope that helps.

Happy Birthday!

I havent told the wife about a sudden £32k loan.... ?

Welcome back! I think you were talking to me during the show!

Happy Birthday!

This tells you about the history of both the z31 and z32, what models and versions they made and a buying guide as well: https://garagedreams.net/buyers-guide/nissan-300zx-buyers-guide-ultimate-z31-z32-guide This wiki link will tell you a bit more about the cars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_300ZX Here is a link to a post on this forum from 3 years ago with buying tips from various members and experts such as JeffTT (retired) and Jimmer (powerzed expert) Much more info can be found via google or just ask if you have a specific question!

Get yourself registered for the car auctions and start looking and seeing what they sell for. Use google translate to check the Shaken (Japanese MOT), its not perfect but you can normally work out what its trying to translate. When you have found a car you are interested, then go to someone like Torque GT. I have never used them personally, but people on here may be able to point you in the right direction with who to use.

I saw that, there are a couple more videos with us in as well. Ill see if I can find them later

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Have you thought about importing? £10k-£15 would get you a very nice one

I just got back from the Classic Car show at the NEC and WOW, what a weekend, but more on that in a minute! If you remember from the previous blog that damage was going to be fixed by a company that my employer had arranged, so I went over to drop the car off on the Wednesday (1 week before the show). Here is a transcribe of the conversation: Me: "Hi, I'm here to drop off my car" Matey: *pokes damage* "I can do that, but it will be a different colour" (no self introduction) Me: "Sorry, what? Why?" Matey: "Its an old car, its faded" Me: "Its been in storage most of its life and on Friday it had the bonnet, both wings and both bumpers resprayed and they matched fine" Matey: *Walks around car twice* "Oh yeah, well its irrelevant because I'm booked up until January" Me: "It's booked in today at 10am, there is a hire car due here any minute for me." Matey: "I'm not taking it today" Short argument about car needed at car show in 6 days time and my employer told me it was booked in for 10am Matey: "Come back Monday, I might have it ready Wednesday evening." Me: "Hmmmm" As you can imagine this conversation didn't instil a lot of confidence in the car being ready in time or the quality of the dodge, I mean fix! On the drive home, I happened to be passing my guy who did the panels 4 days previous and on the 1% chance of him saying he could do it and more just wanting to show him I popped in: Me: "You know your hard work....well look at this" *points* Glynn: "?!?!?!" Me: "Its bad I know" Glynn: "?!?!?!?!" Me: "Is there anything you can do?" Glynn: "?!?!?!!" Me: "Its due at the car show a week tomorrow..." Glynn: "?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Me: "?????" Glynn: "I had a phone call today, some guy was supposed to drop his car in 20 minutes ago, he has cancelled. I could do it for you" Me: "I could kiss you" Glynn: "Please dont..." So 2 days later, I got a phone call: Before: After: I could not believe it, I couldn't see or feel any damage! Glynn even polished and waxed the car as well as taking out a few scratches and swirl marks he found too. Thanks Glynn (Again!) So the car was set, I was set and after an age, Thursday came round. I got up at 03:00, left at 04:00. got to the meeting point at 08:45, jet washed the road crap off the car, topped up the tank, waiting for @Aff68 and @AndrewG and then drove convoy to the NEC where @ianl was setting up the stand already. Thursday was a blur of setting up the stand, washing, cleaning, polishing, cleaning again, polishing again, pointing out a missed bit, cleaning again until my entire body hurt. @RichardS dropped in to say hi, to help out and keep us fed and watered which was really nice! At about 18:00 we felt the stand and the cars were ready and I had decided I needed professional help as I found myself cleaning the inside of my wheel arches: "Hello, My name is Tom and I have a problem....!" We had a walk around the show, some clubs were still setting up and others were ready. Having a quick look around really showed the logistical nightmare. When you visit for a day, you don't realise just how much work goes into putting on a show like this. Take our stand for example: A van and trailer stuffed to the gills with professional lights and equipment that had been begged, borrowed and "stolen" was driven up the day before we arrived by some Ian and volunteers, The lighting rig was put up and all the lights setup before we got there, the next day, by Ian and his volunteers. The van was needed else where, so returned to its home, the trailer was left in a carpark the other side of the county and the volunteers had to make their own way home. We had never met these people and yet they were prepared to give up their time to help setup our stand. A massive thank you to them! During our walk around that evening, I turned into a gooey mess when offered a chance to sit in my dream car, which I did not turn down! Then it was off to the AirBnB that had been rented for us for the weekend. The next day we were up early ready for the first day. We cleaned the cars again, tidied the stand and got ready to meet and greet the public! We took it in turn to man the stand, so we could also have a look around the show. Ian and myself managed at two halls a day. Here are a few photos from the day: We met up with Howard and Richard for dinner before heading back to the house to have a beer and sleep. The next day was a long day, the show was opened at 09:00 (so we had to be there at 08:00) and closed at 18:30. Being a Saturday it was a lot busier and where the Friday had lull periods, Saturday was a continuous, constant stream of visitors. Being on your feet for 10 hours is hard work! I had a visit from a special person on Saturday which made my day too! Sunday was the last day of the show. We got there at 08:00-ish again and made sure the cars and stand was perfect. Craig popped in with some club leaflets and t-shirts to make us look a bit more professional which was great! The day was busier still, but went really quickly and at 17:00 it was announced that the show had finished and was closed, to which every car beeped and held their horn on for a good two minutes in celebration. After 4 days, 39 hours on stand, 23-ish hours sleep, 47 microfibre cloths and one stig visit we had done it! However we couldn't leave just yet: Teardown was just starting. Once again, massive thank you to Ian's volunteers, they turned up with a van, a dodge pickup and the trailer from the car park miles away to breakdown the rig, pack everything away and load it up into the vehicles. We stayed on to help as much as we could, but these guys were like a well oiled machine and I think we hindered more than helped in some cases. By 20:15 everything had be packed up, we said our thank yous and good byes and we all drove out. I found it quite emotional, we had been a small part of one of the most prestigious car shows in the country, our humble cars had been lined up with Astons, GT 40s, even a £1.5m Bugatti Veyron and had held their own. So many people had come over to talk to us, to tell us that they had owned one, that they had one or that they wanted one. People young and old were taking photos and asking questions and taking an interest in our cars in such large numbers that it made you realise that young people don't just live on their playstations, older people don't only care about MGs and flat caps and that, most importantly, no matter how much electric gets pushed through in the coming years, people still want to see a massive, complicated JDM V6! Here are some photos from the last day: The drive home for me was the longest at 186 miles. Andrew, Ian and I convoyed until Andrew stopped to get some fuel. Ian and I carried on until he turned off on the M25 and then I carried on by myself until I got home just after 23:00. I am truly thankful for being given the opportunity to take part in the show and to help the club in promoting itself to new comers, un-registered owners and people interested in owning our beloved Zeds. I am also incredibly thankful to @ianl and his team who gave up their time, petrol and money to help us put on the amazing stand that we had. Without them, we would have had a square of carpet and 4 cars. I do hope I get offered the chance to help out and show my car next year, but if others wish to have the experience, I will willingly give up my place for them as it is an amazing experience. Yes its hard work, yes its tiring, yes your feet hurt, yes you spend too much on autoglynn products, but the four of us helped each other along, spurred each other on, supported each other and became really good friends in the process! Until next year....

Here is a few photos from the setup day!

Welcome to the club! Sorry to hear about the previous owner. Looking forward to some pictures. Red zeds are the best ?

Welcome to the club! Good luck, if you need any help we are all helpful here. When its on the road, you should come join us on our (almost) monthly drives. There are quite a few of us based in Sussex/Surrey that meet up

Not very good photo, but these were from a couple of years too: My old JBJ car and FRV with the wife's old Celica!

So I haven't posted for a while, since my holiday actually! Not much has happened recently, until now! I went with some of the club members to the Go Japan! show at Brands Hatch which was excellent and will definitely be going next year. Here are a couple of photos of the car that day, more photos can be found on the thread in the forum... After some discussions it was decided that I would go to the Classic Car show at the NEC this year to help out with the stand and to show my car, however this left me with a problem.... my bonnet and wings. For those that never saw it, the front of the cars paint work was quite badly damaged from a car cover flapping against the car for about 3 years during its 5 year storage. The bonnet, both front wings and the front bumper had everything from black marks from the straps to the paint being worn down to the bare metal. I needed to fix this quickly, as it wouldn't look very good lined up next to some of the best cars in the club and country... ? Enter my friend Glynn: The photos don't do it justice, but walking into his shop for the first time and seeing the car was awesome.... You remember when you were playing Gran Turismo and you looked at the car in the showroom with the black background, the car rotating and gleaming.... This was like that. It looked brilliant. He even did the rear bumper for me because he found a small scratch and touched in some marks on the sills, then gave it a mop and polish. He prioritised the job because he knew it was going to the NEC! Thanks Glynn! So there I was, car ready, bags packed (a little early I admit but you get the jist), jumped into my wife's TT on Sunday to go to work and her wipers stopped working half way down my road....in the middle of the road... in the middle of god emptying his bath water over Eastbourne... I crawled home and jumped in the zed to get to work on time. That evening at work, we had winds so strong the Newhaven ferry got cancelled, buses were crawling along the coast road with hazard lights on and one poor driver I have known for years was just getting out of a work ferry van when... Bugger.... That's the offside rear wheel arch.. the transit door was fine by the way! As the damage was done by a company vehicle, the company is footing the bill and after explaining the situation about the NEC, the car has been booked in to be repaired tomorrow. Luckily the company has its own claims department that deals with everything involving the buses, so they have a long list of repair shops, body shops, etc and they picked the best one they had on record. I've checked the reviews online and it seems promising. I wont name them yet, I want to see how the car turns out, but i've had a few people assure me that they are great. The car is still going to the show albeit with a war wound that will either be expertly cured by a trained medical team or fixed by a field medic... As Alanis once said: "Its a re-spray on your zed, 2 days too late"

Sad news indeed. Ive met up with this car a few times and its lovely! The colour looks amazing and during our runs together it kept up! ?

I'm always surprised by people that say "its ready for an MOT" or "needs very little to MOT it". If it indeed only needs wiper blades, a battery clamp and a new washer bottle, then why not do it and get it MOT'd? Cars will sell for more with a 12 month MOT, so why not spend the £10 for wipers, £15 to banzai for a battery clamp and £10 for the washer bottle. Even if you pay someone to do all that, its only an hours work. you would make the £100 by selling it with an MOT. My cynical side would set off alarm bells on any car (not just zeds)... It could well be a great car, I have not seen it or researched it, but I would start wondering why the current owner doesn't want to MOT it if its such an easy pass....? Also RED is the best colour ??

Saw a zed parked in the eastbound seven sisters bus stop with a Nissan skyline R33 and something else at 3:40 this morning on the way to work, couldn't see what colour, but maybe black/dark.

Welcome to the club, it is club policy to post pictures of any new car! We would hate for you to break the rules straight away! ??

Is that a brand new gearbox from the states?