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Juddery setting off in first will be the flywheel, do yourself a favour and get a lightweight one, not because you're a boy racer, not because it makes the car faster, just because that's what should have been in there in the first place. The OEM dual mass design is ridiculously heavy and introduces extra points of failure for no benefit. The lightweight fly does make the car more responsive has less potential points of failure and no disadvantages. Naturally, since this job requires dropping the gearbox, change everything you can afford to change at the same time; clutch disk, pressure plate, bearing, etc.

Cheers I'll bare that in mind. Thought a new flywheel would be needed.

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I'll take one too if these are still available

Me too please if still for sale ������

 

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Thanks.

Thanks for the quick reply.

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I'll take one too if these are still available

Cheers Strudul really useful information and great links, that gives me a warm feeling that I'm not wasting my moneys. I've got no record of the plugs getting changed so I'll do them as well.

Hi everyone, I have a 2005 JDM 350 which has done ~42k miles. It did ~20k in it's first year then a couple of thousand every year till I bought it. The previous owner doesn't seem to have done much maintenance beyond the basics.

I replaced brake pads and discs when I first got the car due to warping.

My question is: what should I be thinking of replacing - I'm currently thinking of drop links, drive shafts, and maybe clutch.

(I have a slight judder when setting off in first gear when cold, a clicking when I change from forwards to backwards and a sort of popping when going over speed bumps).

Cheers

Successful afternoon striping all the useless old electronics out of the Zed. This little lot weighed about 6kg.

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I was looking for some of these clips too, cheers.

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Thanks for the replies everyone, I wasn't expecting such a positive response.

On balance I think I'll get some rays ☺, if I can find some...

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Hi everyone, the previous owner of my car put the alloys from a gt4 edition on it. I'm thinking of getting a set of rays alloys. My question is what would be better for using on the track, the gt4s or rays. I've heard that the rays are lighter and lightness on a track is good.

And before anyone says anything I'm not looking to go for anything bigger and aftermarket, I want the car to look reasonably standard.

Cheers

All sorted now thanks to Alex and his knowledge of everything Z. Garage had completely the wrong part..

OK, I've spoken to the garage. The ball joint in question is the one in this image:

which I assume is the lower upright ball joint

The new joint they have fits into the aluminium frame but the conical fitting is too big. I assume this is the "compatible seating cone and nut" ZMANALEX mentioned above. Does anyone on here supply just the cone and nut?

Thanks

OK, cheers, I'll have a word with the garage tonight and check they are using the right parts. Out of interest, when you say the compression rod ball joint is not replaceable, do you mean impossible to replace or just difficult? The garage has tried all sorts of things to fit this part, so maybe they're trying to do something they can't.

I don't know exactly but I've been told it's the front lower ball joint, on the passenger side. Don't know if that helps.

Hi all, my local (and reliable) garage have noticed that one of my ball joints is worn and are in the process of replacing it. Trouble is they're struggling to get the right part, they've tried two joints from two different suppliers and niether fits.

Is there anything special about the 2005 fairlady import that would mean they are looking in the wrong places? The next step is probably to go to Nissan and spend a fortune on the whole unit, which I don't need and potentially still wont fit .

Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers

Thanks for the welcome

Hi all,

Last weekend I spent many many hours installing a new Pioneer head unit in my Z. Although I was successful (to a certain extent!), I have a query that I hope someone can help with.

The person who owned the car before me did quite an extensive entertainment install which is now very out of date. I have an aftermarket screen in the motorised dash flap, this screen plays either sat nav details from a DVD sat nav system in the glovebox, which was last updated in 2003, or the output from a DVD player behind the drivers seat.

I want to take all this stuff out as the new head unit does most things, but I don't want to affect anything that should be installed.

Does anyone have a picture or drawing of what the original wiring system should be. All the wiring is currently under the handbrake/ gear stick tunnel.

Cheers

Cheers for all the welcomes fellas

ty croes on you're doorstep !

Yep, that's one of the reasons I bought it...

Hi everyone, I've just bought my first Z and wanted to introduce myself. Looking forward to picking it up at the end of the week and driving the nuts off it.

I'm based on Anglesey in North Wales so hoping to use it on the track a bit and will hopefully be spending my weekends driving through the mountains.