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Old 24th March 2010, 07:57 AM
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been watching this with intrest as im fitting up my brakes this weekend!

did you use the seight cable of the westfield shop adrian?
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Old 28th March 2010, 10:31 AM
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Sorry, I forgot to reply to this one! I used the seiw one at £22. I found that if you fit it to the plate at the rear o the tranny tunnel, then cross the cables over so they make an x over the diff, then the cable ends fit onto the calipers perfectly. I've used rubber lined p clips to secure the outer cables to the top of the chassis rails above the rear suspension. I've madeit sound much more complicated than it is, if you get the cable in your hands, it just kind of falls into place. By the way, I took dogwood's advice and slotted the holes in the mounting plate, meaning you can fit the cable much easier, and without having to cut it. Hope that helps.

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Old 22nd May 2010, 11:45 PM
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Oh bugger... I've just red this!!!!!!!! I brought my rear uprights from 3GE over a year ago now, had no idea....

What are my options? I have access to a decent milling machine so cutting the welds off *could* be done but its a huge amount of effort

Could just buy new ones with the right angle and suffer the cost...

Is there deffinatly no way it can be done with the plates as per the book in the vertical position?

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Old 23rd May 2010, 09:38 AM
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Hi Josh

3GE do a drum to disc brake adapter plate

3GE disc adapter

This may help you to work around your problem
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I think someonse said you can mount them upside down on opposite sides?
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Old 24th May 2010, 11:42 PM
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I was searcing the web for the exact same problem, I have hit lucky though, my uprights were from AS motorsport, and they are slightly different design, the mounting plate portion is totally round, so I have found that I can just rotate my bearing carrier to the desired position, punch, drill, and tap, et voila I get the calipers in a better position

couldnt for the life of me work out how on earth you got that handbrake cable to route and actually work in the designed way of the book, not that the book covers much regarding the braking section anyway
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Old 25th May 2010, 07:19 AM
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Oh bugger... I've just red this!!!!!!!! I brought my rear uprights from 3GE over a year ago now, had no idea....

What are my options? I have access to a decent milling machine so cutting the welds off *could* be done but its a huge amount of effort

Could just buy new ones with the right angle and suffer the cost...

Is there deffinatly no way it can be done with the plates as per the book in the vertical position?

Josh
Exactly the problem I had - and I bought a new set from 3GE as I didn't fancy mounting the calipers upside down. Now all I need to do is find someone who'd like to buy a set of the book spec ones.

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couldnt for the life of me work out how on earth you got that handbrake cable to route and actually work in the designed way of the book, not that the book covers much regarding the braking section anyway
does the book car use drums?

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Old 25th May 2010, 10:21 AM
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yeah the book car uses rear drums
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Old 25th May 2010, 04:05 PM
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The book car uses drums & if you use the same setup from the donor, with perhaps smaller wheel cyls from an escort as I did, you shouldn`t have any problems with brake distribution. The Iva tester who checked mine said everything calculated spot on, not that I could decipher it, he also added that a common problem is people using rear brakes that are TOO good,typically rear discs, thus upsetting the distribution figures etc. I can only imagine the trouble you may have trying to check whether your brakes are too good or not good enough at home, or even worse to sort out a fail afterwards. I took the view it was hard enough to pass the IVA anyway without making it harder for myself, best to keep it simple and modify later if you must.
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