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CeJay

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Ok was wondering what people are running, as mine appears to be on the way out.

One piece or two piece? I have heard the UAS one appears to be quite good? Also is anyone running a tailshaft loop with the one piece? Noticed more vibration or harshness etc?

Also who did the work if you had it done locally?

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Mine's a custom single piece. Made by a metalworker in Hume. Don't remember the name of the place, wouldn't go back there anyway. I'd say a competent diff shop might be able to make one. Engineers could do it too.

It uses a Z32 300ZX TT front yoke and V8 Commodore/Falcon universal joints (used to have Mazda RXsomething uni's but it ate them pretty quick), and you must have a tailshaft loop on a single piece for it to be legal.

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Yeah I pretty much knew I'd need a tailshaft loop to make it legal, plus I don't want the tailshaft digging into the ground if it fails. Probably getting one made up at UAS in sydney, due to the BS parts situation with the gbox at the moment.

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????

1 week job turns into 3 weeks of bullshit due to nissan spare parts retardedness. My advice if you deal with any major parts with nissan triple check the part numbers and double check it fits. Not the shops fault, just have a very low opinion of nissan japan now.

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any vibrations?

you'll need to have it rebalanced every couple of years.

Not that I can tell, just seems to be a background whine which I assume is the tailshaft. Delivery is smooth and nothing that feels like a vibration. Didn't know you needed to rebalance it, would every 2 or 3 years do? Would of been good if UAS had told me that.

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Running the UAS one seems to clunk a bit at low speeds eg reversing outa the driveway

Can be a bitch to remove if you let the back uni thingo come apart as you remove it, be warned!!!

Other than that all good though

Am not running a tailshaft loop and passed rego like that though thinking about it it seems very sensible to run one

edit: did ya get UAS to make ya up a tailshaft loop??

Would be interested in price maybe they would do em cheaper if they had to make a couple

Group Buy????

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