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Yeah Gordon was flying. His fastest time at the Island on Radials. He was pretty happy. He did a 1.50 on slicks about 6-7 years ago. Mind you he is a bloody good driver. I would love him to take mine around the track but he isn't to keen since it isn't his car and cause of the HP. I think I was the only car in my class so I guess fastest in over 5litre doesn't mean that much. Thanks for the info.

Hey nice photo's. I think the Dat Nat's is held every second your. I heard I got a trophie but buggered if I know what for. Will find out later. Some nice cars there. Great venue and the weather wasperfect.

Well he did say that he would accept some with rust which I thought was nice of him. I actually wouldn't be surprised if he landed one. There are some wrecks around that people can't get rid of. Bit of a cheek though!

Mine was around $1,500- which included labour to pull everything off and re fit. My guys are expensive but I always get top quality work. They have Jim Richards Porche in there at the moment. I am at the point where I rather pay a bit more and get it done right the first time rather than some wnnabe doing a half assed job. You would save a heap if you do the labour for fitting it your self. Form me I am a lay person when it comes to that stuff. I am not a big fan of doing the major work on the car I'd rather be driving it.

I got a 3rd party to make it up for me and charged me a lot of cash. You might be better off using the measurements and getting someone to do the same for you over there minus the hefty bill.

I must say it looks pretty neat.

My advise is that if you buy a Turbo Zed then you will be jumping back into the fire. Unless you know a shit load about turbo's and their workings. Remember my brothers L28 can beat twin turbo 300ZX's on the track so the extra work and money on a turbo may not be all it is cracked up to be. My advise would be to buy a Zed for around 5K and know that you will have to spend 5K straight away to cut out the rust repaint and change rubbers, seals and bush's. Then start on the motor more than likely a L28 with triples. Another 5K. If you don't want to spend more than 15K on this sort of car then you will never get what you want for 10K. My brother is tossing up whether to sell one of his 240's (Stock) a bit of rust etc. Been in his guarage for years. But he is growing tired of doing them up over a year or two. But like I say pay someone to do it over a few months and it will be clean and free of rust. I have a contact of the bloke who did mine if you need one. Good luck.

Congratulations on selling the car. Who knows we might see it in Vic one day. I hope so cause I love to check out other V8 Zeds. Those NATIONALS can be a draw card for many interstate cars. That other Zed looks like a pretty nice car. They are hard to find these days in such condition so who knows someone on the forum might snap it up. Sometimes you've got to spend a little more cash but it can save you in the long run.

Yeah I think I read the same article Nato. Wondered how he was still running. I too have been running a stock rear end with just a chain over the diff for the last 6-8 years. But things were wearing or losening. Mind you I did crack a moustache bar long, long ago. Needed a replacement. Probably as a result of a burnout putting too much pressure in place unsupported or set up for big HP. I suppose I am just raising awareness of other things that can be done if you are striving for bigger, better, best case scenario.

They look great. I have a set similar on my car. Mind you if you are saying you will be launching the car trouble free think again. Sure you won't be braking any half shafts. But the next thing for you to look at would be the Diff mounts. Being the moustache Bar and it's bush's and also a chain or brace similar to what I posted over the top of the front of the diff. Only then will you be launching the Zed hassle free. Just something to think of later down the track. Remember our works in progress never end.

I think Alpha Fibre glass make them. Give them a call. I gave mine to my brother. It's sitting in his shed but he wants to put it on his new Zed he is building.

Yep that's what I would be doing. Hang out with the chick's at Spotlight they should have a huge range so you might find something close.

Probably not. R200 LSD's are hard to come by these days and cost over $1,100-. I just got one at that price and spent $400- doing up the internals. So more than likely it would be a standard open diff. You might have struck it lucky but most likely not.

I even ordered the G/Box mount yesterday and got it by mid arvo today. Not bad. Looks perfect for the job. Man with all this info at hand people would have to be crazy not to do it. Easy and relatively cheap since all the research and testing is done.

Excellent Aaron good searching. Just what I was after. I have taken a copy and will go over today to make sure we get the right one. Cheers

Yeah good point. We couldn't find the GM mount here in Aus. But my guy reckons he found something that will do the job just as well. I haven't sighted it yet. I just hope it is polyurethane. Maybe you can give me details of yours and where you got it just in case his is no good. Then I can follow up one similar to yours?

Hey Aaron, it's all made up ready to be powder coated in the next few days. The diff is being swaped around as we speak and then the rear mount upgraded. Hopefully the boys at MPC will finish it by the end of the week. I will be heading over tomorrow arvo to check on the progress.

Yep I reckon that time at Baskerville is flying.

Yeah I will continue my research including on HybridZed since I am not doing this mod for another 4-5 months. Diff mount first.

Yeah not to complicated. I will give it to the boys and hopefully they can knock it up pretty quickly. I am glad I found it rather than us trying to have to re-invent the wheel. Not sure we would have come up with this. So hopefully is will eliminate most if not all the vibration in the car at full noise. The chain served it's purpose for the last 10 years but time for something a little more detailed. Just another unseen mode that will make a huge difference to the cars driveability.

Well guys my search on the Net has paid dividends. I am getting this diff mount made up next week whilst we are installing the new LSD. No more vibration under full accelleration. Car should run pretty smooth. Check out this site. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=95128 http://alteredz.com/drivelinemods.htm#Differential_Front_Mount I will let you know how it goes.

Why is it easier to do with the MX5 rack. I thought you had to cut the cross member with the MX5 rack?

Yeah keep me posted as well I am definately up for one. Although I would maybe prefer the rack from the 1.8 Subaru! I presume it might be a little bigger , stronger etc presuming there is a difference.