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Nissan 300ZX TT
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02-01-2018 4:02pm#1Hello all
I may make this before I forget what I've done to the car!
I would also like to thank kilianmanning, CianRyan and ELM327 for the help over the years with the build of this car :cool: and if I've forgotten anyone shame on my absent mindness!
This thread will be a slight mess as I haven't all the pictures at the moment, what few I have, thus will be a work in progress like the car
The car I've had a while, a 1989 300ZX Twin Turbo auto originally in dark grey. A particularly rare sight on the roads due to the tax
This particular car is one of the first ever made (mid 1989ish) and was imported into the country in 1998.
Over the years it has changed since it left the factory...- It was painted matte black
- It had it's 16 inch wheels replaced with bent and buckled 18 inch Lenso wheels
- It was converted to a van (except on paper)
- It's had it's power upped
Remember that fad a few years ago getting these type of cars (3000GT, Supra etc) and plylining the back for commercial tax? This car was no exception, but remained private
Since I have the car it's changed a bit:- Back stripped out (plylining + carpet)
- Manual conversion
- 350Z wheels
- New interior
- General upkeep!
I have a big brake conversion to fit someday too, along with an extra lock kit (the standard lock is hilariously bad) and another spare diff when I get around to rebuilding it
Some pics are from snapchat so excuse the odd caption...
Enough yap!
The 350Z wheels
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The passenger door jammed shut one day and refused to open. Turns out some anus was at it before and never put back the bolts they removed :rolleyes:
Yes, we do like our W202's :cool:
In the first post the front pic of the car has a fat lip. I solved that with a lump of a TV stand
Bizarrely, this bulb somehow still worked
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I suppose the main part of this is the manual swap...
I bought most of the bits in 2016. This included- Gearbox (RB25)
- Clutch + brake pedal
- Master + slave cylinders
- Wiring loom for the gearbox
- Prop
The flywheel, clutch and bolts I had to source elsewhere. The clutch originally supplied was the wrong one... And took too long to get a replacement.
Turned out the prop was wrong too and I was missing some parts such as the gear lever mount... So was cheaper to buy a donor car
And by that evening
Sad fact about that red car: it was a 1993 and was off the road since 2000 :eek:
The process to change the box is very straight forward:- Autobox + flexplate out
- Make room for the clutch pedal
- Fit the brake pedal
- Change the wiring loom
- Shove in custom made hardline for clutch along with flywheel, clutch box and prop
- Bleed system and reassemble the rest
However with this car is a running theme: Lack of room
Panel for the clutch
I was lazy and got a grinder to the brake pedal
One of the main plugs of the loom had to be modified from 6 pin to 8 pin
The fun bit
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Some other bits from the past include:
Plenty more to upload, when I find the pics that is 0 -
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More Z fun!
I am confined to Saturday to work on this, until daylight extends.
There were three things I wanted to do immediately:- Sort the crap dip beams
- Remove the rest of the plylining
- Install bigger brakes
We will start with the dip beams. When I got the car first, the lights weren't great. This particular car takes a H3C bulb. Whoever fitted the bulbs used a hacked down H7 and a H3 with cobbled wire in both headlights!
Impulsively I bought a set of H3C... HID's. 10000k HID's. Talk about rubbish lights!
Sorted that with amazon specials though
Access is gratuitous if you have a cats paw
But that never stops me
Next, the plylining. When I got the car first it was fully plylined behind the 2 seats. The weight of it!
Most was stripped out but I left this piece in as I do carry jacks, tools and wheels (along with jerry cans and planks of wood) but decided to remove it fully as I needed to fit a battery box. This didn't happen either as my stash of battery trays had diminished!
Van!
Check out the quality work uncovered
I'll be putting the battery behind the driver seat
But that's for another day...0 -
Now the fun part: bigger brakes. Standard Z brakes are a tad small, somewhere along the 280mm mark. By comparison, a standard 406 front disc is 283mm when it has over 3 times less the power, on paper...
350z brakes fit but require an adapter for the caliper. I'm using standard pads for the moment until I figure out a more suitable pad (Alfa 166 Brembo pads would have been a nice fit and have almost identical mounting holes, only they're too wide!)
The problem
Off fully
There is something in further holding the car up should the jack fail, before it's pointed out
The adapters
The difference
This is when I discovered I needed longer pipe. I had anticipated it was a banjo fitment and not hardline, fooled me!
So I scavenged some unions from a Hyundai jeep and some loose copper pipe
Deburring/checking the diameter
Test fitting the face and flare, adjusting as necessary
Bent to the correct shape
Fit, bleed
Done
Much better now!
Hopefully I'll fabricate the bulkhead next weekend or some evening I'm free. If I could find my Apec big book of brakes I could find a more suitable pad too!
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Interslice wrote: »Any luck with pads pidgeon?
Not really no! The pads still cover a lot of the surface area and are fantastic to stop but the squeal... The squeal...
Have neglected this thread as I've really just been enjoying the car!
Recently:
Fuel issue causing car to cut out. After going round various points it was the air mass meter in the finish. Replacement got and back to normal!
Rear pads and coolant change
I have other bits to do, service shortly. Need to start collecting bits for the timing belt too, along with sort out the weep from the gearbox
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passatman86 wrote: »Any updates or pics on this
I'd totally forgotten about this thread...!
I do have updates as such, since the last post the car was taxed as vintage. And many months were had driving it round, many smiles!
Last year, I got the opportunity to shove in bigger turbos, injectors, intercoolers, socketed Nismo ecu and carry out other bits such as new flywheel, install the hicas lockout bar and general maintenance. Conveniently at the same time a coolant leak sprang up and after trying to diagnose it with the plenum off I scratched my head
So I tore the engine out of the car :cool: it needed other bits and bobs done while it was out
Something else also happened around March that meant my non work related travel was restricted, my work travel skyrocketed and my free time diminished
Fear not though, it sits under a tarp mostly, gets aired out when I'm around. Saturday last I was able to work on the car again. Removed the Hicas solenoid/pipework and confined it to the bin, along with the air injection. Hopefully in due time I'll be able to complete the car as my backlog has gone down significantly
Until then I guess, as it currently stands...
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Saw this thread again and realised I had done some work on the engine earlier this year. It's sitting in a transport box if you must know
Hopefully I'll get more done tomorrow (being a Saturday btw)
I did manage to fit one of the turbos a fair few weeks back. It required a lot of work to get to fit!
Bomb site of Nissan, Mercedes and Volvo bits shiny turbos are what's going on the Z
A distinct lack of room to fit the turbo meant I had to adjust the engine mount multiple times for it to sit snug, without fouling, and retain it's rigidity. Access was so poor with the new turbo I couldn't fit one of the bolts back, I ended up fitting a seat mount bolt from a Mercedes as it used an E Torx head; I could not get anything else to fit!
Was pitch black when I finished up, no pic of the turbo in situ. Maybe for the next time
We've also welded it up in between so hopefully things will move a bit faster now 2 -
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