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**The Evolution of Nissan's 300ZX: A Design Story**

The Nissan 300ZX was a car that embodied the spirit of innovation and style in the 1980s and 1990s. Its sleek design, which was led by designer Toshio Yamashita, played a significant role in shaping its success.

When Yamashita sketched out his design for the 300ZX, he aimed to create a car that looked both sleek and aggressive. To achieve this, he traveled to the United States to understand what made previous Z-car models successful in the market. At the time, American cars were becoming more aerodynamic and rounded, so Yamashita decided to take a different approach with his design.

"I wanted to make it look smooth and Nissan engineers nicknamed me Mr. Yashida because 'yata' loosely translates to 'no no no' in Japanese," Yamashita recalled. "I was seeking perfection, and I wasn't going to allow anyone to stop me from achieving it."

Yamashita's design team was initially hesitant about the 60-degree angle of the headlights, but he convinced them to experiment with smaller projectors and lamps to maintain that sleek profile.

The result was a headlight design that became a huge success. In fact, Lamborghini used the 300ZX's headlight in their Diablo model during the later years of production. The company even tried to hide this fact by covering the top portion of the headlight with carbon fiber, but if you pop off the piece, you'll see the Nissan logo.

**A Timeless Design**

The 300ZX's design has stood the test of time, and many car enthusiasts still admire its sleek lines and aggressive stance. Whether it's a twin-turbo conversion or a standard model, the 300ZX remains an iconic car that embodies the spirit of innovation and style.

As one enthusiast noted, "I love that car! It is as much of a pain in the butt to work on as I hear it is." With its combination of performance and style, it's no wonder why the 300ZX remains a beloved classic among car enthusiasts.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en300zx was an incredible car during its day packed with a lot of tech heavy features that put it ahead of its time even by today's standards it's a great car but unfortunately it was because of all those early 90s gadgets they gave the Fairlady Z of mixed reputation it's called character and it's what makes the 300zx one of the greats so today we're gonna look at some of those tech heavy character features slash flaws starting with its infamous twin-turbo engine then we're gonna move on to its four-wheel steering and then we're gonna finish up with its surprisingly sophisticated iconic headlights that one italian supercar builder borrowed for their own car let's get after I want to thank our sponsor for this week's episode a bumper-to-bumper rake on earbuds now I've had my set of rake ons for a few months now and they are the only earbuds I use seriously these things are great they fit good the battery lasts forever their sound quality is amazing and what's even better they start off at about half the price of those other premium earbuds times are crazy right now you're in close quarters with your loud ass family members zip it Catherine I'm trying to sell Samia buds anyways you can just take them out pop them in and they just drown them out I can't hear anything I can't I can't hear anything I can't hear Catherine screen mean at me now there every dayi 25-year buds are the best model yet they got six hours of playtime seamless bluetooth pairing more bass in a more compact design that gives you a nice noise isolating fit it also comes in some cool new colors go to buy rake on Comm slash bumper or click the link in the description below to get 15% off your order thank you guys for supporting the companies that support us here at donut we love you very much now for any non 300 the X fanboys or fangirls out there there are two versions of the 300zx the 1983 to 1989 model which is called the Z 31 and from 1990 to 2000 which is called busy 32 and that is the one we are going to be talking about today and the first thing I want to talk about with the Z 32 is the motor the VG 30 de TT if your brain goes numb when you see or hear engine model numbers like that join the club I've always been one to kind of glaze over those engine model numbers but it is surprisingly insightful when you break down what all those letters and numbers mean so first off the VG is the engine code that Nissan used for their series of v6 motors did they name it VG because G is the closest letter to resemble a six sure let's go with that let's start your conspiracy next is the number thirty and that number represents the engines displacement of 3.0 liters engine displacement is just a total sweat volume of all the cylinders it tells you how much air can be pumped through the engine and we can calculate that sweat volume as long as we have the bore which is the diameter of the cylinder that's this measurement as long as we have the stroke the distance at which the piston travels and the total number of cylinders now displacement is usually listed and leaders like it is here with the 300zx sometimes displayed us cubic centimetres which is used in motorcycles or cubic inches if it's an American muscle car next is the D which stands for dual overhead cams meeting one cam is used to operate the exhaust valves and the other is used to operate the intake valves and because this is a v6 there's actually four total camshafts in this motor making it a quad cam we're gonna get to that in a second as a whole type now the e stands for electronic fuel injection and finally the TT stands for twin-turbo hashtag boost creeps we started a game we were filming our series high-low if you haven't seen it after you watch this go check it out and then go to donut Mediacom and get your own boost creeps t-shirt they're friggin cool so now that we know what this engine is one of the features that made it such a unique motor was called in BTC or Nissan variable timing control before I can even explain what variable timing control is we need one explained the basics of a four-stroke engine and two how timing is controlled in an engine without veetc it'll help us appreciate what BTC does now a quick way I like to remember the order of operations and a four-stroke motor is SSBB suck squeeze bang blow it's the sexiest way to remember it and if you can remember that you'll never forget how a four-stroke engine works now if we start with the piston at top dead center or at the highest point in the cylinder as it moves down it sucks air into the cylinder through the intake valve above and the piston then travels back up to squeeze all that air if you'll get squirted in and that compressed air fuel mixture is in sparked and Bank a power stroke pushes the piston back down now in the final stroke we have to get rid of all that exhaust gas we just made by igniting that fuel and air and the piston begins to travel back up to the top of the cylinder where it blows all that gas out the exhaust valve and the process starts all over again so when we talk about timing we're talking about windows intake and exhaust valves open and close so how is that achieved that is the job of the camshaft so the camshaft has lobes at various spots along the length of it and as the cam rotates so do those lobes and those lobes then push against the valve to open them up now the location in the profile or shape of those lobes on the cam they control three things in regards to the valves they control the timing that's when the valves get open they control the duration which is how long the valve stays open and they control the amount of lift or how far the valve gets lifted off its seat by changing the shape of those lobes or their position on the camshaft we can alter how much air the piston pulls into the cylinder and win if we go back to our favorite donut equation of more air plus more fuel equals more power we can increase the amount of power we make by allowing the piston to draw in more air through the intake valve now of those three variables we're going to discuss the timing of the valve see when those valves open and close is extremely important it can affect the efficiency of your engine it can affect the amount of power it makes and at a very very basic fundamental level it even determines if your motor were even run or not now in most engines the timing on when the intake and exhaust valves open is consistent throughout the entire rev range of your engine and that is not always a good thing for instance when your engine is at idle you don't need a ton of air going into the cylinders not necessary right you're just sitting there idling but when you're ripping down the track and ringing out the motor you want as much air in as fast as possible so cam design is basically compromise between those two but what Nissan did with vtc is develop a way to get the best of both worlds so how did they do it on a standard engine the camshaft has a fixed gear on the end of it like I mentioned before that's the part that a belt or chain hooks up to which is driven by the crank the engineers over at Nissan did something very clever with that gear instead of using a solid gear they designed a multi-piece gear with a couple basic components now you have the main gear which the timing belt mates up to and on the inside of this gear housing is a cam phaser that's directly connected to the camshaft and that cam phaser that is the part that allows for variable timing that entire setup has passages for oil to go through it and it's pressurized oil that makes Nissan's veetc system work now when vtc is activated a cylinder would valve mounted on the back of the head presses on a check valve at the rear of the cam and normally oil can flow through here but now that the cylinder is blocking that flow of oil this forces oil into the cam gear which then pushes the cam phasor and remember the camshaft is directly connected to the cam phasor so when this happens it causes the cam shaft to rotate just a few degrees effectively advancing the timing of the intake valves and when I say advance I mean the intake valves open up sooner so at the tail end of our blow stroke right all the exhaust gases are being pushed out the intake valve is getting a head start by opening it up just a smidgen sooner so why would you want that right what does it mean it means you get improved low end power and throttle response which is great that load is just a calculation done by the ECU so it takes all of that data from the crank angle sensor from the engine temperature sensor from the throttle sensor from the neutral switch my point being is that all of this is pretty sophisticated stuff especially when it was developed in the late 80s I mean that is pretty incredible and on the flip side again this was done in the late 80s meaning if you have a 300zx you better have a lot of time and patience to troubleshoot any problems that may arise if any of those systems fail obviously it's not impossible cars today are more digital than analog but finding parts or people to know how to work on your 30 year old Z are getting harder and harder to find but hopefully by the end of this video you'll build some appreciation for the Z and you'll go out and you'll buy one you'll keep all that knowledge alive which by the way if you ever 300zx put a comment down in the video below tell me is it as much of a pain in the butt to work on or do you still love it for all its character that it has now aside from this neat little trick to optimize timing the main thing that gets people all charged up about the 300zx is its twin-turbo setup he uses twin garrett t25 turbo is putting out nine and a half pounds of boost I made the Z good for 300 horsepower and 283 foot-pounds of torque getting it to the end of the quarter and thirteen point seven seconds top down 155 miles per but that was electronically limited so check that off you go faster don't do it though I don't do it if you want what do I can to give you an idea how good that motor was in this car it made car and drivers top 10 list for seven years in a row and they compared this car in the magazines to everything but see for me tout the rx-7 beat out the 911 even it beat out the 3000 GT VR for any import car that was tested against the 300zx the ZX came out on top it's a great car and the next cool tech feature on the 300zx that i want to talk about is Nissan's four-wheel steering called super high kiss it's not called high cast it's called high kiss it's like high kiss and it stands for high capacity actively controlled steering and it is Nissan's way of steering the rear wheels now you may have heard of this before Nissan used it in their r31 skyline but it came standard on all the twin turbo models of the Z 32 now maybe the most dramatic example of rear-wheel steering is in the monster truck world we did a bumper-to-bumper on grave digger and James talked about it then go watch that after you finish this now they use rear-wheel steering so the big trucks can make tight turns in small arenas like this now the four-wheel steering on the 300zx is quite different in how it works as well as why Nissan installed it in the first place so first off why would you even need four-wheel steering well at low speeds if you have the ability to turn the rear wheels in the opposite direction of the front wheels you effectively decrease the turning radius of the car hence why monster trucks use it now for the 300zx this isn't very helpful as the system is inactive under 30 miles an hour so what is the reason the Z uses it well they use it in high speed situations so the Hika system on the 300zx only steers the rear wheels just a few degrees your front wheels on the other hand they can turn up to 50 degrees so it may sound like a few degrees in the rear is pretty insignificant but it actually helps out quite a bit when you turn all four wheels in the same direction going around a corner for instance it improves high speed stability and with all four wheels turning the same way you're less likely to have their rear aim kind of kick out also at high speeds your front wheels aren't rotated as much they're not really doing a lot of this when you're going fast so how does it work well the Z uses the super version of the Hika system the super version switched from hydraulics to electronically controlled system using an electric motor the ECU gets information from a few different sensors it looks at the speed of the car the steering angle and the speed at which the steering wheel is being turned so it'll detect this versus this from this information it works out how much steering input to apply to the rear wheels it sends a signal to that electric motor now the system can also monitor your intentions for corner you can read your mind so using data from all those sensors I mentioned before this is then looked up against a table of pre-programmed values that tells the ECU how far to move the back wheels this is continuously monitored throughout the entire turn and all of this happens in a fraction of a second by the way and all of this happened in the 90s this isn't Tesla we're talking about we're talking about Nissan the 90s me saw what happened to you where'd you go now let's talk about the front of the car so to achieve the iconic front end of the 300zx they had to figure out a way to produce an entirely new headlight design looking at a 300zx headlight today and you think no big deal but back in 1990 designing a headlight was such a sleek profile was a challenge generally speaking a lot of the times the design process of a new car starts out with form over function and as the build begins designers go back and forth with engineers and the to work out some sort of compromise but it keeps true to the designers vision but it still falls within the limits of what can actually be built by the engineers and the case of the 300zx the looks were a main driving force behind some of the technology incorporated into the car now when the designer Toshio Yamashita sketched out the car he wanted to make it look sleek but still aggressive he even traveled to the u.s. to figure out what people loved about the previous Z's and why they were such a success in the States American cars at the time were getting rounder and more aerodynamic so he designed a smooth edge Nissan and in his design he shaped the headlight so they made it up with the hood and the fenders clean and flush and the angle of the headlights for 60 degrees and at the time if you wanted to maintain that angle the only way you could accomplish that was the use of pop-up headlights but at the time we were getting away from pop-up headlights so when he brought his design to the engineers they were like we can't really do that we can make them like 45 degrees is that good and Yamashita was like no no no Nissan engineers nicknamed him mr. Yashida because yata loosely translates to no no no in Japanese you see Yamashita was seeking perfection and he wasn't going to allow a bunch of whiny engineers to stop him and as an engineer myself I can call us whining so he went out and he found very small projectors and gave them to the engineering team to use now projector headlights had been around before they were put on a Z but to maintain that low profile of the Z you know remember it was 60 degrees they had to have smaller project and lamps and bulbs and all that stuff so they can maintain that sleek profile now the lights were a huge success so much so that Lamborghini used them in their Diablo during the later years of the diablos production they went away from pop-up headlights and instead of designing manufacturing and getting all the regulatory tests done on their own headlight Lamborghini used under license the headlight of the Nissan 300zx fun little fact Lamborghini actually tried to hide the fact that they used Nissan's headlights by covering the top portion with a strip of carbon fiber but if you have a Diablo pop off that carbon fiber piece and you'll see the Nissan logo right there that's pretty cool thank you guys so much for watching if you didn't know donut has a show coming out every day of the week now we have a new versus show we have the deal is we got money pit with Zach Jobe who's just a beauty follow donut at doughnut media click that like button click the subscribe hit the notification button do you ever 300zx let me know about it put a comment down below hit me up on Instagram show me some pictures at Jeremiah Burton I love that car is it as much of a pain in the butt to work on as I as I here it is I don't know I don't have one but you can tell me I'll see you next week bye for now what's going on guys Jerry Miller from Springfield Massachusetts also with the Zebras drift team I have here my two Nissan 300zx is hey guys my name is Bethany Putney and today I will be showing you my 1990 Nissan 300zx twin turbo how you doing doing it media my name is Brent and this is blaster Z I'm a little biased but I think this is a timeless design I know what's up James Nolan all the other guys have donut media my name is Kevin from New Jersey it's my 1990 Nissan 300zx hi my name is long you know from El Monte California here's my 1991 3x slick top with a twin-turbo conversion oh oh I got something hold on oh dude do I got something for you dude look what I got got a little calculator so while Nissan engineers in the 90s were programming all this cool technology into the 300 Z you know what I was doing in the 90s Texas Instrument where my ti-89 fans at I was doing this eight zero zero 8s friggin so dumb I am embarrassed that I just did that and I know you're gonna use it and I wish I did but all right we good300zx was an incredible car during its day packed with a lot of tech heavy features that put it ahead of its time even by today's standards it's a great car but unfortunately it was because of all those early 90s gadgets they gave the Fairlady Z of mixed reputation it's called character and it's what makes the 300zx one of the greats so today we're gonna look at some of those tech heavy character features slash flaws starting with its infamous twin-turbo engine then we're gonna move on to its four-wheel steering and then we're gonna finish up with its surprisingly sophisticated iconic headlights that one italian supercar builder borrowed for their own car let's get after I want to thank our sponsor for this week's episode a bumper-to-bumper rake on earbuds now I've had my set of rake ons for a few months now and they are the only earbuds I use seriously these things are great they fit good the battery lasts forever their sound quality is amazing and what's even better they start off at about half the price of those other premium earbuds times are crazy right now you're in close quarters with your loud ass family members zip it Catherine I'm trying to sell Samia buds anyways you can just take them out pop them in and they just drown them out I can't hear anything I can't I can't hear anything I can't hear Catherine screen mean at me now there every dayi 25-year buds are the best model yet they got six hours of playtime seamless bluetooth pairing more bass in a more compact design that gives you a nice noise isolating fit it also comes in some cool new colors go to buy rake on Comm slash bumper or click the link in the description below to get 15% off your order thank you guys for supporting the companies that support us here at donut we love you very much now for any non 300 the X fanboys or fangirls out there there are two versions of the 300zx the 1983 to 1989 model which is called the Z 31 and from 1990 to 2000 which is called busy 32 and that is the one we are going to be talking about today and the first thing I want to talk about with the Z 32 is the motor the VG 30 de TT if your brain goes numb when you see or hear engine model numbers like that join the club I've always been one to kind of glaze over those engine model numbers but it is surprisingly insightful when you break down what all those letters and numbers mean so first off the VG is the engine code that Nissan used for their series of v6 motors did they name it VG because G is the closest letter to resemble a six sure let's go with that let's start your conspiracy next is the number thirty and that number represents the engines displacement of 3.0 liters engine displacement is just a total sweat volume of all the cylinders it tells you how much air can be pumped through the engine and we can calculate that sweat volume as long as we have the bore which is the diameter of the cylinder that's this measurement as long as we have the stroke the distance at which the piston travels and the total number of cylinders now displacement is usually listed and leaders like it is here with the 300zx sometimes displayed us cubic centimetres which is used in motorcycles or cubic inches if it's an American muscle car next is the D which stands for dual overhead cams meeting one cam is used to operate the exhaust valves and the other is used to operate the intake valves and because this is a v6 there's actually four total camshafts in this motor making it a quad cam we're gonna get to that in a second as a whole type now the e stands for electronic fuel injection and finally the TT stands for twin-turbo hashtag boost creeps we started a game we were filming our series high-low if you haven't seen it after you watch this go check it out and then go to donut Mediacom and get your own boost creeps t-shirt they're friggin cool so now that we know what this engine is one of the features that made it such a unique motor was called in BTC or Nissan variable timing control before I can even explain what variable timing control is we need one explained the basics of a four-stroke engine and two how timing is controlled in an engine without veetc it'll help us appreciate what BTC does now a quick way I like to remember the order of operations and a four-stroke motor is SSBB suck squeeze bang blow it's the sexiest way to remember it and if you can remember that you'll never forget how a four-stroke engine works now if we start with the piston at top dead center or at the highest point in the cylinder as it moves down it sucks air into the cylinder through the intake valve above and the piston then travels back up to squeeze all that air if you'll get squirted in and that compressed air fuel mixture is in sparked and Bank a power stroke pushes the piston back down now in the final stroke we have to get rid of all that exhaust gas we just made by igniting that fuel and air and the piston begins to travel back up to the top of the cylinder where it blows all that gas out the exhaust valve and the process starts all over again so when we talk about timing we're talking about windows intake and exhaust valves open and close so how is that achieved that is the job of the camshaft so the camshaft has lobes at various spots along the length of it and as the cam rotates so do those lobes and those lobes then push against the valve to open them up now the location in the profile or shape of those lobes on the cam they control three things in regards to the valves they control the timing that's when the valves get open they control the duration which is how long the valve stays open and they control the amount of lift or how far the valve gets lifted off its seat by changing the shape of those lobes or their position on the camshaft we can alter how much air the piston pulls into the cylinder and win if we go back to our favorite donut equation of more air plus more fuel equals more power we can increase the amount of power we make by allowing the piston to draw in more air through the intake valve now of those three variables we're going to discuss the timing of the valve see when those valves open and close is extremely important it can affect the efficiency of your engine it can affect the amount of power it makes and at a very very basic fundamental level it even determines if your motor were even run or not now in most engines the timing on when the intake and exhaust valves open is consistent throughout the entire rev range of your engine and that is not always a good thing for instance when your engine is at idle you don't need a ton of air going into the cylinders not necessary right you're just sitting there idling but when you're ripping down the track and ringing out the motor you want as much air in as fast as possible so cam design is basically compromise between those two but what Nissan did with vtc is develop a way to get the best of both worlds so how did they do it on a standard engine the camshaft has a fixed gear on the end of it like I mentioned before that's the part that a belt or chain hooks up to which is driven by the crank the engineers over at Nissan did something very clever with that gear instead of using a solid gear they designed a multi-piece gear with a couple basic components now you have the main gear which the timing belt mates up to and on the inside of this gear housing is a cam phaser that's directly connected to the camshaft and that cam phaser that is the part that allows for variable timing that entire setup has passages for oil to go through it and it's pressurized oil that makes Nissan's veetc system work now when vtc is activated a cylinder would valve mounted on the back of the head presses on a check valve at the rear of the cam and normally oil can flow through here but now that the cylinder is blocking that flow of oil this forces oil into the cam gear which then pushes the cam phasor and remember the camshaft is directly connected to the cam phasor so when this happens it causes the cam shaft to rotate just a few degrees effectively advancing the timing of the intake valves and when I say advance I mean the intake valves open up sooner so at the tail end of our blow stroke right all the exhaust gases are being pushed out the intake valve is getting a head start by opening it up just a smidgen sooner so why would you want that right what does it mean it means you get improved low end power and throttle response which is great that load is just a calculation done by the ECU so it takes all of that data from the crank angle sensor from the engine temperature sensor from the throttle sensor from the neutral switch my point being is that all of this is pretty sophisticated stuff especially when it was developed in the late 80s I mean that is pretty incredible and on the flip side again this was done in the late 80s meaning if you have a 300zx you better have a lot of time and patience to troubleshoot any problems that may arise if any of those systems fail obviously it's not impossible cars today are more digital than analog but finding parts or people to know how to work on your 30 year old Z are getting harder and harder to find but hopefully by the end of this video you'll build some appreciation for the Z and you'll go out and you'll buy one you'll keep all that knowledge alive which by the way if you ever 300zx put a comment down in the video below tell me is it as much of a pain in the butt to work on or do you still love it for all its character that it has now aside from this neat little trick to optimize timing the main thing that gets people all charged up about the 300zx is its twin-turbo setup he uses twin garrett t25 turbo is putting out nine and a half pounds of boost I made the Z good for 300 horsepower and 283 foot-pounds of torque getting it to the end of the quarter and thirteen point seven seconds top down 155 miles per but that was electronically limited so check that off you go faster don't do it though I don't do it if you want what do I can to give you an idea how good that motor was in this car it made car and drivers top 10 list for seven years in a row and they compared this car in the magazines to everything but see for me tout the rx-7 beat out the 911 even it beat out the 3000 GT VR for any import car that was tested against the 300zx the ZX came out on top it's a great car and the next cool tech feature on the 300zx that i want to talk about is Nissan's four-wheel steering called super high kiss it's not called high cast it's called high kiss it's like high kiss and it stands for high capacity actively controlled steering and it is Nissan's way of steering the rear wheels now you may have heard of this before Nissan used it in their r31 skyline but it came standard on all the twin turbo models of the Z 32 now maybe the most dramatic example of rear-wheel steering is in the monster truck world we did a bumper-to-bumper on grave digger and James talked about it then go watch that after you finish this now they use rear-wheel steering so the big trucks can make tight turns in small arenas like this now the four-wheel steering on the 300zx is quite different in how it works as well as why Nissan installed it in the first place so first off why would you even need four-wheel steering well at low speeds if you have the ability to turn the rear wheels in the opposite direction of the front wheels you effectively decrease the turning radius of the car hence why monster trucks use it now for the 300zx this isn't very helpful as the system is inactive under 30 miles an hour so what is the reason the Z uses it well they use it in high speed situations so the Hika system on the 300zx only steers the rear wheels just a few degrees your front wheels on the other hand they can turn up to 50 degrees so it may sound like a few degrees in the rear is pretty insignificant but it actually helps out quite a bit when you turn all four wheels in the same direction going around a corner for instance it improves high speed stability and with all four wheels turning the same way you're less likely to have their rear aim kind of kick out also at high speeds your front wheels aren't rotated as much they're not really doing a lot of this when you're going fast so how does it work well the Z uses the super version of the Hika system the super version switched from hydraulics to electronically controlled system using an electric motor the ECU gets information from a few different sensors it looks at the speed of the car the steering angle and the speed at which the steering wheel is being turned so it'll detect this versus this from this information it works out how much steering input to apply to the rear wheels it sends a signal to that electric motor now the system can also monitor your intentions for corner you can read your mind so using data from all those sensors I mentioned before this is then looked up against a table of pre-programmed values that tells the ECU how far to move the back wheels this is continuously monitored throughout the entire turn and all of this happens in a fraction of a second by the way and all of this happened in the 90s this isn't Tesla we're talking about we're talking about Nissan the 90s me saw what happened to you where'd you go now let's talk about the front of the car so to achieve the iconic front end of the 300zx they had to figure out a way to produce an entirely new headlight design looking at a 300zx headlight today and you think no big deal but back in 1990 designing a headlight was such a sleek profile was a challenge generally speaking a lot of the times the design process of a new car starts out with form over function and as the build begins designers go back and forth with engineers and the to work out some sort of compromise but it keeps true to the designers vision but it still falls within the limits of what can actually be built by the engineers and the case of the 300zx the looks were a main driving force behind some of the technology incorporated into the car now when the designer Toshio Yamashita sketched out the car he wanted to make it look sleek but still aggressive he even traveled to the u.s. to figure out what people loved about the previous Z's and why they were such a success in the States American cars at the time were getting rounder and more aerodynamic so he designed a smooth edge Nissan and in his design he shaped the headlight so they made it up with the hood and the fenders clean and flush and the angle of the headlights for 60 degrees and at the time if you wanted to maintain that angle the only way you could accomplish that was the use of pop-up headlights but at the time we were getting away from pop-up headlights so when he brought his design to the engineers they were like we can't really do that we can make them like 45 degrees is that good and Yamashita was like no no no Nissan engineers nicknamed him mr. Yashida because yata loosely translates to no no no in Japanese you see Yamashita was seeking perfection and he wasn't going to allow a bunch of whiny engineers to stop him and as an engineer myself I can call us whining so he went out and he found very small projectors and gave them to the engineering team to use now projector headlights had been around before they were put on a Z but to maintain that low profile of the Z you know remember it was 60 degrees they had to have smaller project and lamps and bulbs and all that stuff so they can maintain that sleek profile now the lights were a huge success so much so that Lamborghini used them in their Diablo during the later years of the diablos production they went away from pop-up headlights and instead of designing manufacturing and getting all the regulatory tests done on their own headlight Lamborghini used under license the headlight of the Nissan 300zx fun little fact Lamborghini actually tried to hide the fact that they used Nissan's headlights by covering the top portion with a strip of carbon fiber but if you have a Diablo pop off that carbon fiber piece and you'll see the Nissan logo right there that's pretty cool thank you guys so much for watching if you didn't know donut has a show coming out every day of the week now we have a new versus show we have the deal is we got money pit with Zach Jobe who's just a beauty follow donut at doughnut media click that like button click the subscribe hit the notification button do you ever 300zx let me know about it put a comment down below hit me up on Instagram show me some pictures at Jeremiah Burton I love that car is it as much of a pain in the butt to work on as I as I here it is I don't know I don't have one but you can tell me I'll see you next week bye for now what's going on guys Jerry Miller from Springfield Massachusetts also with the Zebras drift team I have here my two Nissan 300zx is hey guys my name is Bethany Putney and today I will be showing you my 1990 Nissan 300zx twin turbo how you doing doing it media my name is Brent and this is blaster Z I'm a little biased but I think this is a timeless design I know what's up James Nolan all the other guys have donut media my name is Kevin from New Jersey it's my 1990 Nissan 300zx hi my name is long you know from El Monte California here's my 1991 3x slick top with a twin-turbo conversion oh oh I got something hold on oh dude do I got something for you dude look what I got got a little calculator so while Nissan engineers in the 90s were programming all this cool technology into the 300 Z you know what I was doing in the 90s Texas Instrument where my ti-89 fans at I was doing this eight zero zero 8s friggin so dumb I am embarrassed that I just did that and I know you're gonna use it and I wish I did but all right we good