ZT-R Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 (edited) Well i reinforced the area with 2x2 steel tubing but i am still slowly ripping the front diff mount area out of my car. What are you guys doing? R230 twin turbo diff. Edited November 1, 2015 by ZT-R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewZed Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 No pictures of the destruction? Guaranteed to get more responses. Assuming that you have an RTZ style mount and the bolts are tearing the holes? Or is it something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Yup, need pics. Are you referring to the front xmember for the rear lower control arms that also holds the front diff mount? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZT-R Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 This style... pretty much where it bolts to the car. I probably need to go in and line the area with 3/16 plate and make my own but i made a subwoofer box out of my tool storage area so i don't have access to that area. i'll get some pictures the next time i have it on the rack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZT-R Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 this isn't mine. I am thinking about doing some like that with the upper brace. mine is cracking the sheet metal where i drew the lines. i put the little 2x2 inside and welded that. it also ripped out the front most bolt treads, not sure how I'm gonna address that yet as you can't get to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewZed Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 That's for the short nose R200 or R230. Not a great design. The nose of the diff is lifting on a short lever arm, with the mounting bolts in to the frame as fulcrums (fulcra). It's been critiqued (criticized?) before. Make a better title, with the diff style in it, and a description and you might get some recommendations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZT-R Posted November 2, 2015 Author Share Posted November 2, 2015 r230 is what i run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 What you need, IMO, is a cradle that locates the front and rear diff mounts and bolts to the chassis (might have to make a new mounting point, sounds like yours is pretty F'd. If you look at this guy's pics, you might find some inspiration. https://www.facebook.com/TSSFAB.US/photos_stream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewZed Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 (edited) Looks like the mount you're using is the TTT mount. Surprising that they sell that. https://technotoytuning.com/nissan/260z/complete-r200-r230-rear-end-conversion-z-car Arizona Z Car has (had?) another mount style. It had some minor issues, Word was that they were working on another design. Might be worth a call. Or you could fab up something similar. It puts the diff nose load perpendicular to pieces that can handle it. He used to have pictures on his site but they're gone now. Maybe working on a patent or something. Or maybe they have problems. Who knows. Here's where the pictures used to be - http://www.arizonazcar.com/lowarms.html Used to be here also - http://whiteheadperformance.com/1971-datsun-240z-restomod-rear-suspension-build-wilwood-arizona-z-car/#prettyPhoto Somebody's cleaning up their IP path. Edited November 2, 2015 by NewZed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeemuM Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 (edited) This is mount that I did for my shortnose R200. Don´t have any cracking issues yet, but could be so because I don´t have much power. However that design put lots of stress to those 4 bolts. Edited November 2, 2015 by TeemuM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewZed Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 this isn't mine. I am thinking about doing some like that with the upper brace. mine is cracking the sheet metal where i drew the lines. i put the little 2x2 inside and welded that. it also ripped out the front most bolt treads, not sure how I'm gonna address that yet as you can't get to it. Just noticed that your picture in #5 has the center brace up to the body. That changes everything. I think that other stuff is in the way though, so not as simple as it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 He used to have pictures on his site but they're gone now. Maybe working on a patent or something. Or maybe they have problems. Who knows. Here's where the pictures used to be - http://www.arizonazcar.com/lowarms.html Used to be here also - http://whiteheadperformance.com/1971-datsun-240z-restomod-rear-suspension-build-wilwood-arizona-z-car/#prettyPhoto Somebody's cleaning up their IP path. Try the way back machine: https://archive.org/web/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewZed Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 (edited) I don't really know how that site works. It did tell me that the Whitehead link was saved one time on January 28, 2013. Probably by me in a Hybridz thread. Arizonazcar was saved 107 times and none of the old snapshots show the diff mount. It was referenced in the other thread so the picture was there at that time. Not sure the Wayback snapshot shows the old data or the new. Edited November 2, 2015 by NewZed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewZed Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Found a picture from the Arizona Z Car site. Lot of images though, don't click unless you have time. Grabbed a picture. http://www.arizonazcar.com/cars.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 LOL. Forgot about that one! What a crappy idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZT-R Posted November 2, 2015 Author Share Posted November 2, 2015 That looks simple though, haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nisssmo510 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Did you get yours from T3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZT-R Posted November 4, 2015 Author Share Posted November 4, 2015 yea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nisssmo510 Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Oh snap. I just ordered that. Mine is r200 hope I don't run into issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98blackbell Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Nice to have the HP with this problem. Any way to box in fab and connect to roll bars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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