So what are you up to? You fit the 335s today? Im lost !!?!?°
Thought you were waiting to see how the 330s were at bedford?
We have floated the existing 330's Daz
Had a good day on the car yesterday, Feeling a bit fragile after Tonys wedding on Saturday (top day out), the perfect sunshine and shorts weather inspired me to get up and get out working on the car by 9am
I got the front up, and stripped the discs off.
AP 330 x 28 rotors on solid bells:
I stripped these down, and started to assemble the new 'Badger Bells' using the AP bobbin kit.
first 4 to check it all lines up:
And all 12 bobbins fitted loosely:
You can see how the floating system works here:
The disc is held on 12 bobbins, which are prefectly fitted to machined slots with around 1 thou of movement in the slots.
The bells are exactly 8mm thick, and the bobbins are 8.25mm tall, so when the bobbins are bolted up to the disc, the disc can move side to side on the bell by 0.25mm.
0.25mm doesn't sound like a lot, but if you look at it as 10 thou", it's a fair bit!
All fitted
Found the cause of my recent ABS issues whilst I was in there too, the wire had come unclipped and had rubbed on the wider slicks at ADI:
All repaired now.
And summer shoes back on for bedford next week:
At this point, Jardo popped over to say hello, and seemed confused as to why there was a cat going mental inside the car!
Eek! i'd opened the car earlier to grab something, and next doors cat lilly must have jumped inside without me looking! The car had been shut for 2 hours, and I hadn't heard a thing. poor little cat was going nuts! Thankfully no damage to car or cat though. Phew.
Took the car for a test drive and all is well, brakes are working brilliantly, with no ill effects from the floating. Some people say they're more noisey without spring clips, but I havn't noticed anything so far. can't wait to test them out on track!
last thing for the day, I decided to fit my new dual core alloy rad. probably started this one a bit late as I didn't get in until 7, but it's done, and the car is ready for Bedford.
Old rad out. Will be keeping this as it's only 18 months old:
View through the front with a big hole:
New alloy rad to go in, almost twice the width!
And it's in, almost no sign that it's there with the bumper back on, but I know it's in there