Just because that worked for you doesn't mean it will work for everyone. If it did, the instructions to modify the stock z-bar would explain exactly that. They don't. No reason for TTI to tell you how to modify a stock z-bar, doesn't make them any money. And yet they do, and that's not what they recommend. Could be it won't work on everything, could be because it negatively effects the clutch linkage alignment, or it could be that it changes the ratio since the arm is effectively shortened by bending it.