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Hi Even If you change to a rb25det box you need a differnt tail shaft (has different size spline) and different crossmember and also you have to chop the original zed crossmember mounts of for gearbox clearance. Also rb25det boxes are around $1600 just for the box. I dont rekon the rb20 box would last long behind the turbo motor either. I personally dont think its a great deal as it doesnt come with ecu or turbo box or cooler (which the wolf is about 1500 and box is about 1600 cooler 500??) You would be better of getting a halfcut and using all the std ecu etc. Ash

OK now I got a target day to get the rbzed done Hopfully I can be there Ash

I think these kits are a little dodge as the way the threaded section is held onto the sturt is not very safe. Would be interested to see a set on a car to seee how good the stay in place. Could be being over cautious but I thought the only safe way is to weld the threadded part on not use grub screws:) Ash

Hopfully completed soon Lurch!!! Just lots of small things to finish off now. Hopfully will take it for a run around the court in the next few weeks Im trying to chase up a second set of wheels so I can mount up my treaded tyres and maybe run it on CH plates for a cruse or two to iron out the bugs. Will have to jack up the suspension a bit and make up a removeable loom for the indicators and stuff Maybe I can have it ready for the Apollo bay cruise! Ash

Hi Evan Yer had to cut out were the bumper would usually mount to get the pipes through. Also You loose a bit of steering lock as the pipes come up through the wheel wells. Ok for race car but not so good on a street car Ash

More pics starting to take shape now

HI Lurch did a similar conversion with the r31 calipers and disks but have never heard of the bit you remove from the master cylinder!!! Thanks excellent write up Ash

Hi Lurch Havent polished it yet Ash

Ok thought Id better keep up the updates. Painted the car but still need to paint the side skirts and front flairs. should be done in the next week. Also got my big ass wing mounted!!! So once thats done I just need to do a bit of drivetrain work and start to finish the car off Ash

Nice looking wheels. Cannot wait to see a pic with them on the car Ash

Hi Glen73 Man its a small world are you still online racing?? Ash

Hi all Had a great time. Thanks to all that organied. Hopfully I can get one of my zeds going so I dont have to bring the work car next time . Sach that was a great save!!! ash

can you send to me sulio? Thanks Ash zr240 at hotmail.com

Na sorry dont have the mold for the headlight buckets Ash

Hi My flairs and rear spoiler are a direct copy of the original items Ash

The cheapest way to make 300whp is to buy a zed thats got 300whp:) Im not being a smart ass it really is cheaper to buy one that someone else has done all the hard work on and spent all the cash getting it RW etc. Ash

No Problem Craig I worked hard for that time so I guess im a little precious Ash

Well he definatly shouldnt be running triples of any decription! I hope he isnt as that would make the time not as impressive and also a big cheat. Ash

Here is the link to one of the meetings I did 1:47's http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?09/06/2002.PHIL.R16 sure its in 2002 I think it still counts! Ash

Craig I think you will find I was drivig the car when it did 1:47!!! I can get the refering pages from Natsoft if you want proof. The previous owner of my car did 1:50's So I think you might need to check your history!! I also have in car footage of my car (with me driving) doing these times and Im not 4 wheel drifting. But I guess it depends what you classify as drifting as there is always a little slip as you are exiting some of the high speed coners. Your comments do piss me off a little as I raced my car for quite a few years in MS before some tosser in a porche t-boned me and wrote my car off, so Im sorry if I havent got bags of money to chuck at my car (like your car) so its taken me a lot longer to get my car back on the track. Anyway I dont want to pick fights with people but I think there should be maybe a little respect and check there facts before posting. Also I think lurch has run some events aswell But im not 100% sure on what exactly hes done? So to sum it up I have the exp on phillip island, I have video and actually have some datalogged info. Ash

Come on nato play nice Craig I saw the lines and they were very clean. he was hardly even drifting at all coming onto the main straight and most cars drift a little coming out of that corner! The thing with Phillip Island is carrying speed through the corners and even though I had more grip and power in my race zed I still needed to keep as smooth as possible if I had any chance of keeping up with the turbo porsches etc. As you guys may know my zed got down to 1:47 at the island and that was on second hand slick tyres and a lot smaller budget than alot of sportscars. I figured out it would cost me just as much to run an historic zed as the rules are so tight you really need to have good tyres/ brakes and fresh motor. Anyways hopfully the new racecar will be faster but we will see Ash

Well he only had 195 semi slicks! And there wasnt alot of four wheel drifting (not visable anyway). Was just very clean lines and nice driving. The Panteras and other v8s will still blow the zed away as the are still a few seconds quicker. Ash

Hi nato Well it still suprizes me that a zed with std brakes (drums on the rear!) and too the sc rules can do it! Also it has to run the head that came with the car (E88 i think?) and as zedophile said its on 1.5mm overbore on his 2.6 block which would make it just under 2.8L??? (not sure if I calculated right) I agree on the bigger storke being not always the way to go as my old L race motor was not stroked and put out over 260hp aswell. I personally dont know of any z specialists in the eastern states or non i would take my car to Anyway Its one hell of a good setup zed in my book just would love to have a closer look one day Ash

Im just going on Friday to check out the new cars and have a look around Ash