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OK we had a meeting last night and since the Grampians Accommodation I was after was booked out it was decided that we go to Mt Buller. There are rooms available at the Mt Buller Challet. Can you please either respond on this forum or email me private if you are interested in coming along. then I can give you details of times, meeting places etc. Plus I can book some accommodation. I should have my in car camera working for some nice shots. Cheers

Sorry Even but the dates are locked in and we already have a number of takers so I hope you can still make it. I have found that if I keep changing dates to accommodate people then the trip will never go ahead. So once they are down they are locked in. As for the 3 day long weekend I am up for that next year. I am happy to organise it if we can get enough people who indicate they are willing to take a day off and make it a big weekend. :-) Feel free to rock along to the meeting this wednesday night in rowville if you are interested in coming to the Tassie trip or to play a part in nominating which direction we drive to on the 10-11th Nov Weekend.

I think they are but why don't you ask them. I just ordered a few things from the States and I had to check a few things with them via email first. I got my stuff from the Zed Store. They are pretty good.

You might be better with an electric fuel pump. I am not sure what level your motor is at but I know a lot of people opt for an electric pump. I use a Holley Blue electric pump but might be over kill for you, not sure.

I am not doubting Jimbo's route is a good one. In fact that was my first option over 3 days. But given the interest and limitation on people getting a day off we decided to stay with a weekend option. I still think 7 hours driving in one day gets a bit tiresome (Melb to Harrietville 5.5hrs, 45min to top of Hotham, ?? to Omeo) Not including stops. But feel free to organise the trip sometime and see if we can get the numbers. I would be in it for sure over 3 days. . Sounds like we have a good group ready to go on the weekend 10-11th anyway. Cheers

Yeah I thought it would be a pain as well so I left mine as normal rego. For the sake of a few hundred dollars I didn't want any restrictions using it when I wanted to.

G'day Laura, Great to have a fellow V8 Zed on the forum. Unfortunately I can't help you with the wiring problem. But if you have issues with drive train, diff, rear end, motor, exhaust, steering set up etc then I should be able to help. Good luck with it all. It's a big task to get the car up to scratch but well worth it when you do. Chhers

I would have thought the internals would be of a different configeration. Like the cam etc? I don't know much but I would have thought a Patrol motor was built for a different purpose than the Zed motor. Even though it is the same capacity I would have thought it might be different internally. But I am only guessing.

Hi Jim thanks for the suggestion and whilst I know they are great roads it would be to far for a weekend drive. Something like that needs to be done over 3 days. That Sunday would have us driving for 7-8 hours not to mention stops. Way to long in a Zed. Whilst they are nice they aint a Commodore cruise mobile. I aim for around 4 hours driving. My experience in 3 (6 day) Tours of Tassie the feed back from people is they like to take their time, cruise, stop, chat, eat etc. Arrive in plenty of time to look around set up at the bar and get ready for dinner. Ha. You are more than welcome to come along if you can make it.

Mate you are a cheeky bastard dubbing in that audio. A bit of extra work as well I am guessing. Sounds good but I may not beleive everything I see on your videos now with all this dubbing and speeding up. Ha.

Hey that looked great guys. Just in time for the November cruise. Can you tell us exactly what you are using, again. And i using a remote mic what part you used, how much it cost. Is that it running back into the bonnet? Sounds awesome. I might have to get one as well.

I think just to make it easy on everyone we will just make it the weekend. Although Evans idea of leaving Friday arvo is a great one I think it will become too much hassle to ensure everyone is right to go by taking half a day off work. So having said that let's work on meeting at 9.00am Saturday morning at a place to be advised. I will ring around and try to find out what accommodation is available at both The Grampians and Buller. That might help me make a decision. Either way it should be relatively cheap if a few of us share. I still plan on having a meeting at the Stamford Hotel in Rowville 7.30 Wednesday 17/10/07 to lock in plans for this trip and also the Tassie trip next year. So feel free to come along for a beer and throw in some of your own ideas. I am flexible and will always do what the majority want. I am similar to most of you. Don't care as long as I am cruising in my car. Cheers

Hi guys. Well lets lock in the weekend date of 10-11 Nov for sure. Give or take a day either side depending on interest. I was planning on having a meeting with a few guys on the 17th this month to lock in a route. I might move this forward. You guys might want to let me know here what you would prefer. At this stage I had 3 routes in mind. 1) Head up to the Grampians for the weekend. Nice roads up there. 2) Head up to Mt Buller stay in a Chellet for the Sat night. 3) Head up to Mt Hotham as perviously mention but this would need to be over 3 days given the distance. One night at Bright and the other at Mt Hotham Chellet. I am happy to go with the majority so let me know what you would like to do.

I am always keen to see another V8 Zed on the road. So that one has my vote as well Paul. Keep it a manual as not many lights down there so pretty easy driving. Mick we are definately heading down to Tassie in early Feb'08. Got a few Zeds, GTR's and twin trubo 350Z coming down. PM me or send me your private email address and I will send you the itinery. See if you can get a week off as we will be down there for a few days. :-)

Pretty awesome footage. Being a lay person I always wondered what the hell goes on in there. Now I know. Cheers

We are looking at doing a day at Baskerville. Going to be some awesome cars there.

I would imagine you should be able to get an engineers certificate pretty easy down in Tassie. $600- + I reckon. On another note we are heading down to Tassie in Feb'08 if either of you are interested in a week long drive on those great roads. About 10 of us going down. Let me know if you are interested. Cheers (sorry to chime in there but I thought it might be relevent to Tassie)

Mine works great.

I guess that's my point, you aren't going to get a car that weighs 1,350 kg with over 500 bhp. If you are a V8 man in need of some awesome power and don't have $400,000- then the Zed isn't a bad option. Mind you to do it properly you will still need to spend some serious dollars but still be well in front.

Ha Ha you guys crack me up. It always surprises me how many varied comments we can get. From the purist Zed man to the outlandish. But there is no denying that thing would go. You have to remember that to build I light weight car with a V8 in it, the Zed shell was perfect. To do it in another car would not have the same appeal or style. And to buy a similar sized V8 car new would cost well over 250K and still not be as fast. Each to there own but I am always open to the odd Zed on the cutting edge. There are plenty of stockies around but not many in the world to this level. Cheers

This is an interesting or should I say informative "how to instal ZG flares". I know a few people on this site want to put them on. So here is the step by step intstructions. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=113064 Hope they don't mind that I stole it. :-)

Check out this Zed in the States. The chrome molly space frame is awesome. Truely a work of art. Enjoy. Cheers

A 2+2 isn't as tweaky in the corners as a coup. I am not so sure about the rear without a bumper either. But you can always do as I did and mold the bumper onto the body for a more modern look. I already had a fibreglass bumper so it made it relatively easy job before painting.

The car looks OK but if you are talking about re painting then I tend to agree with Gonzo. I reckon you will need a new bonnet looking at the damage. For 10K you will most likely get a nice body, paint, suspension and mags worth 10-15K alone.

I would just take the battery out of the car and cover it over. Don't bother starting it. Could do more harm than good. The car will be fine just sitting there. You could roll it back and forth 1-2 feet to stop a flat spot on the tyres but even that isn't necessay. Also make sure you have anti rust coolant in the radiator. On your return before you start it, that's when I would do all the work. chank the oil and filter plus plugs. buy a new battery and the tyres should be OK after a long drive. I leave my car for 4 months at a time on accasions and it starts first time every time I want to take it out. As long as it is locked away in a dry area she will be fine.