Airbag Posted March 30, 2008 Report Posted March 30, 2008 Me and the old man made the most of the sunny sunday and fitted some sierra rear discs and calipers to the capri. Also i have done more body prepping ready for the respray. Still alot to do........ All fitted, looks much cooler then drums Had to make a bracket up on the pasenger side for the brake pipe Also had to make an extra hand brake cable braket, ignore all the ugly welding, made a whole in the floor and needed to fill it in Front end all prepped Door and wing prepped passinger side Wing, sill and half the rear panel prepped. Going to replacing the drivers door as it's to far gone Trial fitting new 3 point harness, this is the next job!
lotusless Posted March 30, 2008 Report Posted March 30, 2008 looks like you've been busy, how long did it take you to do the disc conv?
Airbag Posted March 30, 2008 Author Report Posted March 30, 2008 looks like you've been busy, how long did it take youto do the disc conv? we are always busy on the car took us about 3 hours yesterday and most of this afternoone
Copey Posted March 30, 2008 Report Posted March 30, 2008 like the rear disc conversion!! how hard was if to do?
Airbag Posted March 30, 2008 Author Report Posted March 30, 2008 like the rear disc conversion!! how hard was if to do? pretty straight forward to fit, I got them off ebay and they were already attached to the modified half shafts. So it was a simple case of taking the old ones out with a slide hammer, put the new ones on and then bolt it all together. Then you just need to make up a couple off brakets as shown above and plumb it all in.
Airbag Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Posted March 31, 2008 hmmm, very tempting...cheers I've just found out that the discs are off of peugeot 406 (front) as sierra discs wont fit under a 13" wheel.
richie_stix Posted March 31, 2008 Report Posted March 31, 2008 i assume you have uprated the front too cos otherwise the back would lock up rather undesirably under hard braking... so what you runnin on the front? this looks like a bit of a bargain upgrade, would be interested to know what you have done with what? cheers rich
Airbag Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Posted March 31, 2008 i assume you have uprated the front too cos otherwise the back would lock up rather undesirably under hard braking... so what you runnin on the front? this looks like a bit of a bargain upgrade, would be interested to know what you have done with what? cheers rich Hey, yes I have uprated the front, I have fitted some Wilwood 4 pots and I am going to fit some bigger discs once I find some suitable. I want to keep my 13" rims so I am having to make the best of the space available. If the back end does lock up then I'll add a bias valve and fix it that way. The main hurdle to fitting the rear discs is the hubs on the half shafts have to be modified. I was lucky because mine came with the half shafts and hubs already done
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