12mm thick WBP used here Daz, I found a few places selling ply, most of the sheets of 12mm were 5 ply, but I found this at Wickes and it's 7 ply WBP. It's lasted really well to be fair.I think I'll see the year out on this one then make another over winter.
A little update now, feels like ages since I've done anything on the car, even though it was only a week ago when I went to Ace to weigh it.
as we know, I bought a set of Hard-Brakes titanium pad shims, to act as a thermal barrier to stop heat transfer into the brake fluid.
Ti is around twice as good as stainless steel for this application, so my 0.5mm ti shims are around as effective as 1mm of stainless.
as I had the shims to hand, and some stainless strip, I decided to double up and make some stainless shims too
After a few minutes on the grinder:
And cleaned up with the flap wheel:
Purely for interest, I decided to measure and weigh the 2 types of shims:
First up, the Ti shims, 0.5mm thick:
And the stainless shims, 1mm thick:
A single Ti shim weighed just 16g, so being double the thickness, you'd expect the stainless to be around double the weight....
However, the beauty of Ti is pretty obvious here. A single stainless shim is 57g, so getting on for double the weight per unit volume!
Total weight added by the shims was 293g, hardly the end of the world if it solves my issues!
Next up was a delivery from Opie Oils:
And that completes what is hopefully the remedy to my long brake pedal issues:
I got all set up to go:
And the ****** Eezibleed broke!
One quick trip to halfords for a new one:
and we were off.
I fitted the shims up front first, seen here overlaid onto a pad;
And in the caliper:
I then hooked up the Eezibleed, and bled all 4 corners and the master cylinder until the blue was gone and replaced with golden Motul fluid.
With that done, I hooked up the laptop,and cycled the abs pump a few times:
Then bled all 4 corners again, Cycled the ABS pump AGAIN, and finally bled all 4 corners one last time, and the master cylinder again. Probably a bit over the top on the bleeding procedure, but I REALLY want this to work.
Last job was to clean up the calipers before putting the wheels back on;
And thus concludes todays jobs. fingers crossed all will be good when I get to test it at Goodwood in a few weeks time!