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Yes I have to say I think the original design is flawed in that any holes straight through the bar would weaken it too much. As we all know there will be movement especially if there is not a solid mount on the front of the diff. This movement will fatigue the metal and eventually break or crack it where the holes are. Personally I think you might be re inventing the wheel. The earlier link to the alloy Bar in the States is good value given the state of the dollar at present. For me I still question that one because it has 8 screws that might make there way lose with the vibration. So as silly as it sounds my old moustache bar is going back into my car. Whilst I did break one of these years ago I think it might have been due to the movement and not having the front diff locked down. With this done (Brace) I think the original should be up to the task. Personal opinion only guys. Good luck with it as I will keep an eye on this thread and see where you end up.

Ahhh Sinisha I'm sorry to hear the bad news. :'( Nothing worse. Good to hear you got so many miles out of it. Still that's no consolation when the car goes off the road for maybe 3 months and countless hours running around to get her back to it's former glory. Good luck with whole rebuild. I guess this counts you out for the 5/12/09 BBQ. Still you better come out and see some nice Zeds. Room to bring along the family now. Ha

One held the electric fuel pump and the other side with no holes had the fuel filter attached.

Yeah the least the idiot could have done is butted the metal plate up against the other section and welded them together. That would have given it half a chance to last. But I think it was doomed anyway. :-\ They even suggested solidly mounting it with no rubbers/poly. Would have last weeks had I done that. Same guy that built it also put oil hoses around the wrong way on my brothers GTR around a year later thus causing self destruction after an expensive re-build. And yes guess who paid for their mistakes again. Sometimes I wonder how these people stay in the game? Lot's of BS I guess.

Well I had a custom Moustache Bar made up a couple of years ago by Melbourne Performance Centre in Bayswater and yes it has already broken. I had questioned the design and possible weakness at the time. What would a bean counter know. Yet I was assured it would be fine. Well surprise, surprise it has now broken. As a result the diff dropped, hence the half shaft fell onto the suspension arm cutting the rubber boot on the Z31 shaft. I took it back to him requestion a new one be made up out of stronger grade material and to get them to fix the half shaft. All they wanted to do was some half assed patch up job by welding metal braces all over it top & bottom. something I wasn't happy with. They also refused to fix the half shaft. Typical of the industry but I didn't expect this from Melbourne Performance Centre. They have Lambo's and all sorts of exotic cars in there yet can't afford to fix a problem they created due to poor design. Well that's more money down the drain for me and another customer done over. Eventually poor service and lack of support will catch up them. As it does with most in the industry.

Love the old and the new pic's Scoota

Ha Ha good question. Well I do a lot of surfing in the summer. And it's cheaper than my car including overseas trips. Also try to go away camping every 3rd weekend or there abouts. So my Car usually takes third place to these hobies even though it is the most expensive. Go figure.

Itinery amended.

Hope you've got a spare 20K.

No worries Scando we are happy to have another Zed along for the Track day. We have done the drive to the Air Walk a few times before. Awesome roads. We shall see who is interested in that drive closer to the time. Keep in touch as I will want to confirm numbers for the track day before Xmas. you should take a few days off work and join us for a few days. Cheers.

Good to hear you are in Bruce. Don't pay now. Just pay before Xmas. Even at the 5/12/09 BBQ if you are coming.

Well guys we have locked in some dates for the big tour of Tasmania. We will do a slightly different route to last time. The trip will also include a day at Symmon's Plains. 9th Tues Catch boat accross to Tassie 6.30pm 16th Tue to boat 6.30pm for our trip home to Victoria. 17th Wed Arrive in Melbourne 6.30am So to all you interstaters Tassie/SA/NSW people let us know if you are interested and of course you Vic people. Cost around $1,500- all inclusive approx. I will put together an itinery and accommodation etc for everyone. So the ball starts turning for this awesome trip. Stop talking and dust off your Zed for a memorable trip. A deposit of $50- will be payable before Christmas. You get that back on the boat. This is only so I don't waste my time organising people who almost have no intention of coming as that makes life complicated. something I don't need. Note: Could be changes to days driving destination but will be all confirmed or locked in via direct email if you know what I mean. Cheers

3.7 should do it.

I have a Cams Approved 8 point Roll Cage in my Zed. I think it is a bit of a grey area with regards to the intrusion bar accross the door area. My guys suggested that it should be legal if the bar is at the same height are the seat. Which mine is at it's lowest point of the cross X. I think that section is subjective. But I have been pulled over heaps of times by the cops and even had my car through the RTA for another issue and they never said anything. But if worst came to worst I would chop mine and make it removable. But so far so good. You need also to keep in mind most Targa Tassie road reg vehicles have full 6 or 8 point roll cages in them with cross's over their doors and are street legal. good luck with it.

Deposit of $15.00 for a Cap from OOZLA. Bank Fee of $2.00 Bank Balance as at 14/10/09 is now $567.18

There also was some discussion of a slow leak in one of his tyres. Either way we all banded together in an effort to get Dale's car onto a trailer and onto the boat. We never leave one of our men/cars down and out in the field! Dale jumped in a number of cars for the remainder of the trip.

I want a red one. :-\

Zedman is on the money. Put up a motion detecting light and a camera. I had problems with my neighbors and that fixed my problem. Along with a couple confrontations. Ha Ha. You won't need the camera motion detectable. Just leave it on recording in a loop.

Let me tell you with a big and reasonably heavy motor in the car like this one it would be advisable to run a cage. Of course you can get away with it in any Zed for a while. But a cage will make a huge difference in a car with a heavy load up front. Especially when the motor is moved back as far as you can get it with out touching the fire wall. After I did mine the car was transformed. You know part of that natorious bump steer is caused by the body simply flexing not just the bush,s, steering arm angles etc.

Having said that I think some people on this forum are members of the NDSOC or another. But if not then I guess no car. :-\

We (Auszcar) have a big BBQ and car display booked in 5/12/09 for all the Zed owners in Melbourne. Some might even travel from interstate this year. Depends on whether you like showing the car off to the mass's or just other like minded enthusiasts. Having said that I dare say some members will rock up to the Docklands. But if you have to decided between one or the other we are aiming for more than 26 Zeds this year. :-)

Hmmm might be a bit of melted paint coming on. Looking at the photo's and the great fabrication work underneath I was thinking that might have been the time to do some power steering. I know, I know one thing at a time. Hopefully you won't need to go down that path. Looks good though. We will have to see that one at the Jag Club one meeting when finished.

Yep looks like a great car.

Had a good night, nice to meet you Mike.

I will be there for sure. Hey Rev maybe you might want to say a few words on behalf of us all in prayer on the day?