I have no words to describe that workmanship. Wow.

From someone who welds maybe two times a year. I do better welds than that. 😮 Thanks for sharing 👍

Bloody hell Trev, that would test your faith in human nature. Thanks alot for sharing this us mate. 👍👍👍👍👍😎 (HOKITIKA STH WESTLAND NZ)

Hey trevor, Im not surprised from what you found in your video, and this is why I don't trust any mechanical shops for performing work on a 300ZX here in Australia as there is little to no experienced 300ZX mechanics to choose from and instead I do all the work I can myself much like youself to know that the job was done right everytime. Luckily for me my JDM 300ZX imported in 2006 does not have this kind of intrusion bar install and there is no damage to the inner door skin frame like what you have shown in your video. What I have had done, is a pair of square hallow tubes have been welded together and installed inside the door much like yours and then bolted to either side of the inner door skin. I see this setup as structurally sound and I am confident it will protect me incase of a side impact accident. Also to add to this, my install was done by a importer who I brought the car from directly here in Melbourne and I have no complicance plate to show this install was done which I am not concered with at all. Im curious as to why you didnt look into going for the later model B pillar seat belt conversion which would be a more structural and practical seat belt setup. With my december built NA JDM model the lower mounting point was all installed from the factory but the upper b pillar mount was just a round hole in the steel. I took the car to the importer who I actually brought the car from a year after to have the later model seat belt conversion done and all they did was weld a high tensile nut to a steel plate, and slide that plate down the top of the b pillar into place where the factory hole was on the b pillar and then pot rivet the plate to the steel. I know it might not sound like a perfect factory install replication but I am confident that even if the rivets were to break off during a lockup of the upper seat belt mount the steel plate wouldnt be able to break through the steel on the b pillar so I am not concerned about jeopardizing my own safety in my own car with this setup. I do have a couple of spare later model seat belts and some spare upper b pillar trim pieces suited for the install if your installed.

Kin hell. If you hadn’t seen it you wouldn’t believe it. Quite a few comments on this post mate. Took me ages to go through hitting the thumbs up on all of them and the replies. I always do it but, man it’s taking me ages🤣. All the best mate👍

WTF, thats Horrendous🤬, i'm going to have to pull my door trim panels after seeing this. Thanks for highlighting it. Nice Repair by the way.👍👍👍

I'd say "Unbelievable" but actually, knowing how many Shonksters there are out there, I'm not all that surprised mate... Great repair! 👍👍

Gees, so depressing. Australian compliance Industry together with our compliance authorities - what a team! Shit inc,

You would think we would get use to the constant rubbish past-life fabrication discoveries ....... but even this still surprises me. 1st class repair! 👍👍😎👍👍

Holy crap Trevor. That's absolutely crazy

You have done well Trevor I can imagine the swearing that went on while you were welding those doors good job, Mate.👍👍👍👍👍👍

Wow, What a terrible job! Total unsafe! Nice job on the fix!

What an absolute joke of a job, and people got paid for it too! As always the Australian Z legend back at it letting us know. I recently had my Gallery gaskets done on my 370z using your guide! Thanks heaps!

Holy shit...but as always you overcame the problem...I seriously admire your tenacity. Just an aside, how is the anti intrusion bar secured at either end?

Hi, Trevor yes, that is one hell of a shit job on those doors that is for sure, but having said that it is a really crappy place to mount seat belts does not appear to be a lot of strength there from new, But I could be wrong.🥴🥴🥴🥴

Well spotted, that is so bloody dangerous. I hope you can track down the shop that did this and shove those bars where the sun don't shine. Have you thought about transfering the the belts to the pillars? You will find the threaded holes are already there to mount the belts.

0.50c birdshite weld, and some dodgy "engineer" charged >$500.00 to sign off on it Welcome to vehicle modification in Australia 🤣

Wow, that was safer before the retrofit than now. How did this pass an official inspection, or who got paid. Can you chase this down, there should be paperwork for having that improvement done.

That was quite the cleanup task... Thanks for making the video! Great to see what sort of crash structures are added into doors. Any chance you could share some rough material dimensions of the crash bar? Going to be making something like this in the future and I'd appreciate a rough reference point as I plan this out.

A wonderfull example of chook shit welding. Do you reckon this was done in Japan or a rough as guts job here in OZ?