Awesone news for all involved - and Z lovers alike I'm sure that the Z will treat you well Can't wait to see it on the telle!!!! :zlove: :zlove: :zlove:
Yep TasZedder, Speedweek, Inside Speed, Fox Sports and more! Info below Each round of the 2007 Toyo Drift Australia Series will now enjoy an unprecedented three hours of national television coverage including two new stand-alone programs on Fox Sports and Channel NINE. The new television package for each round will include:- ? a 1-hour show on ?Speedweek? (SBS) on Sundays at 12noon ? a 1-hour show on ?Inside Speed (Fox Sports) on Wednesdays at 8:30pm ? a ?-hour show on Channel NINE on Saturdays at 12noon ? a ?-hour show on Fox Sports on Thursdays at 7pm The new ?-hour shows on Channel NINE and Fox Sports will go to air the week after the ?Speedweek? and ?Inside Speed? telecasts. ?This is an exciting step forward for the sport, the series and in particular for all of the DA teams and sponsors. We now have one of the most comprehensive television packages of any form of motorsport in Australia.? said Drift Australia?s Wayne Boatwright.
DriftZ has landed!!! DriftZ finally turned up at Barbagallo at 5.00pm Sydney time. It has been unloaded, and now (4.15pm WA time) Tom and the boys are working their magic fitting the new 1 piece shaft. Practice and qualifying is tomorrow (Saturday) as well as the Super Drift eliminations. Sunday is the Drift Australia Championship and hopefully the DriftZ and Scotty will do us proud. Cheers Greg
Confirmation that the Sureflow Drift Zed has landed on WA soil and is straight back under the spanners.... again! Here are a selection of the pics I took today after about 6pm (about 2 hours after it arrived on the trailer) Tom (PZP) and Scotty (Zweet)got right into it trying to install the one piece tailshaft. Came up against a brick wall when they found the original bolts were too long and they needed shorter high tensile ones (with cap heads) While Tom removed the original bolts Scotty went off to buy new ones but wasn't able to find any with Cap heads so we are left to find some tomorrow. I've got the early morning task of seeing if I can get some bolts from the local bolt shop then drop them off to the track pronto!!! Tom pretty much was under the car for the 1st 2 hours I was there poor bugger.
It's a pain in the ass when a simple task such as this does not go to plan... if only the bastards who sent the driveshaft sent the bolts that go with it... so much for a bolt on application! I was quite disappointed that we didn't get to install the driveshaft today, not to worry, i've got a backup one piece to install tomorrow morning... Hope to see a load of action photos on the forums in the next couple of days...!!!!
i don't know where you took your driveshaft but it's happen the same to a friend in france and he ordered it from Z1 in USA Good luck for tomorrow, do your best
Brad you were up early , off to sit on the bolt shops doorstep, your a champ I bet none of the other Drift cars get VIP treatment by the locals like the Drift Zed Keep me posted
Yeah we all were. I even had to go fetch my NISMO 2-WAY LSD. (that I just happen to have sitting around) funny that. But then to be faced with more brick walls, quite depressing after putting in so much effort. I am sure some one will do the honors of filling in. I need a bunch of beers
hmmm... went like hell for the time i saw it on the track, then it sorta wandered off out back and spent the rest of the day with some1 digging round underneath.. hope shees iight to be running 2morro... :zlove:
after all that water pump need replacing on drift Z !!!! poor scotty (both of u) , hopefully he can go couple of laps 2morrow. on a positive note he was saying drift z handles pretty well so at least thats big plus. Hope fully we can grab a water pump anywho I'll be up tomorrow morning l8r I need a beer too arrrrr SHAKE n BAKE!!!! ohh yeah lols got nice pic for u caz... send me email address...
Things done to the Dift Zed today include>>> Tom and myself get up early and head off to different locations to get some cap head hi-tensile bolts for the new tailshaft. We both end up in Balcatta with me heading to the place Tom has just bought the parts from. I'd been to 4 places already! Head/race to track Re-install Tailshaft assembly Re-install exhaust system Scotty takes for drive but we all can immediately hear a loud clunking in the diff, very bad. Back up on stands, rear wheels off, diagnose problem to be diff for sure. Decide after Zweet offers full locker for the Zed- legend, but even more so how many 2 way lockers are just laying around ready to be used at the drop of a hat?!? Zweet shoots off to get said diff. (from his place just around the corner -even more luck cos everywhere else is miles away from Waneroo!) Tom and I take out exhaust (again) and tailshaft (again) and diff. Zweet comes back with diff. We re-tap the rusted tailshaft flange holes which have severe rust on them. Fill with oil, Remove speed sensors (weren't needed, originals not even connected anyways) Re-install diff Reinstall tailshaft Re-install exhaust Put wheels back on. Scotty gets in and takes her for a spin, big smile on his face! Zweet, Shaq and myself take off to get best photo points to take pics of the Zed in maiden flight. Zed does 1 lap then disappears into pits, then comes back out again. Does one more then goes back in again. We all head back to pits and find the Zed back under the spanner with a high temp problem. While waiting for the motor to cool down Scotty;s Dad REATTACHES the front sway bar links and fixes an oil filter relocation plate leak. Pull thernostat pipe off and find... NO THERMOSTAT!!!! On later diagnosis the water pump has been found to be leaking also! Enoughs ENOUGH!!!!! Seriously, if ppl are going to send a car off to be raced you could at least make sure the thing is COMPLETE and at least driving properly. The diff would have been definately known about when driving on the truck it was that bad!!! A simple jack up of the bum and run in 2nd gear is all we needed to do to diagnose it! When the oil got dropped out of it 4 teeth came with it! Another thing is the fuel lines are just bulging out under pressure. The amount of workshops that have worked on this thing and not put back together a solid package and sent out that half baked PILE OF CRAP to the other side of the country should be ashamed of themselves. Only through the charity of members of THIS FORUM is it even running let alone looking like competing. F#cking amateurs, we should have loaded it straight back on the truck!
