175k miles. Car will drive onto a trailer but does not run well enough to drive. Has some electrical gremlin bullshit that I refuse to hunt down, my time needs to be spent on my other cars. This car is rwd with the exact same drivetrain and suspension as a Z31 300ZX. Everything is stock except for a Z31 MAS and ECU and right side-exit exhaust. Just changed the oil, Penzoil 10/30 and Baldwin filter. New cap/rotor and of last summer. Will not deliver, must come pick up.
Word, any rust on that bitch? What sort of electrical gremlins we talking about? Does it have enough power to light up the tires and drift around some corners?
There’s nothing mechanically wrong with the car except it could use rear trailing arm bushings. The electrical gremlin has been fucking with me since the day I bought it so I tried the Z31 ECU/MAS because the car used to spit more black smoke that an RTS bus. The strange thing is the Z31 ECU + MAS did the exact same thing so I tried using the OEM ECU with the Z31 MAS and the car ran tits, I’ve had it up to 125 a couple times. But after it sat for almost a year while I was trying to find a front control arm, it hasn’t ran the same. It spits and sputters pretty bad when it’s cold and now it won’t run with the OEM ECU, I have to put the Z31 ECU in to get it to start. Of course it still spits the clouds of smoke but at least before it actually ran smoothly, now it tries to but it bucks and a couple of times it fell on its face because it hit fuel cut-out.
I don’t know why or what the fuck is wrong and I don’t care. Electrical gremlins are my pet-peeve and I refuse to pull my hair out chasing them around. The ECU threw a MAS code but I know for a fact neither of my MAS’s are bad and if you go on Club-S12.org you will find that almost every SE(V6) owner is dealing with the same thing and no one can pin-point the exact problem. The engine runs strong as hell, when it’s running of course.
That’s all I can tell you, I know no more. If I can find the OEM MAS, it will be included but the Z31 ECU is plugged in right now but resting on the floor and the OEM ECU is mounted in the car. It’s very easy to go back and forth between the two.
While it sat it started to get bubbles on the arches, it appears to be coming from the inside so if you want this to be pristine, it will need body work. The underside is mint, I think it was a southern fleet car because there’s barely any wear on the brake and clutch pedal yet it has the high miles. Obviously this was a highway car. In certain light you can see that it’s been a hail storm but it’s only from the top of the windshield forward, must have been in a car port.
Oh yeah but with an open dif, dry pavement drifting is near impossible. I take it out in the rain to play around.
One of the top-speed runs I took it on. This is with the 17’s on it and the speedometer matches this wheel/tire combo perfectly, it was really doing 125. The stock combo reads way off.(I use the GPS on my BB to confirm my speeds)