rear disc.

[Steve Kerswell]

Well its finished, rear disc from a Golf fitted on a Ford axle'd kit car. He bought a kit online and it all went well, but, the following problems needed addressing that was not in the job slot. First, the handbrake linkage needed a fair bit of modding, no problem for me but the owner couldn't see it. Second, and more importantly, the disc displace a fair bit more fluid then the cylinders they replaced, so we needed to think that through I had a bigger master cylinder on the shelf and it sorted it. It was .625 now its .75. Pedal is very firm now where as before it took a double pump. Overall the guy is impressed with the results, his rear brakes were shot and the drums had been skimmed a while back. He replaced the seals 12 months back but they were showing signs of weepage under pressure. Was it worth the money? maybe not, but the car stops really positive, no lock up unless you make it. Taking it to our friendly MOT man to see how it stops on a machine. If the bits came available I would consider fitting it. Mk2 Golf rear disc and calipers. Quick spin in a lathe to set them up for the Ford shaft, and the rest was nuts and bolts and a bit of brain work :-)) hence headache :-)) my head hurts:-))

[Steve Kerswell]

No idea, it was about £60. Couple of laser cut brackets, 2 New disc and the calipers off the rear of a scrappy mk2 Golf. Think he got out for £120, plus my favour charge :-)

[Dave Adams]

http://www.locust.org.uk/knowlegebase/reardiscs/reardiscs.htm
Interesting link on this subject..

[Steve Kerswell]

Thats a long winded way to do it? interesting to get dimensions of brackets though, and he had to do the machining same as we did.

[Steve Kerswell]

A quick update to say this has been a great success. No overbraking as we thought might happen. Took me for a spin and that Pinto on bike carbs seems indecently quick, good job it now stops as good as it goes. So another happy customer, then it rained and we had to stop play :-)) Singing Robin Hood etc.

[Steve Kerswell]

The head is the fuel injected thing, was told no need to go big valve, they are big enough so the ports are cleaned up and matched for volume etc. Camshaft is very fast road, I've forgot the reference but have it here somewhere, vernier adjuster. Ade's electronic set up for the ignition. A light flywheel and balanced with the clutch, he claims this is one of the best improvements he has spent money on, being so light it spins up so much quicker, down side is more braking required to slow the motor down. Bike carbs with 1.6 drilled jets and secretly modified needles by Jefferies tuning empire. The exhaust is a one off and still work in progress. Dumped the side pipe and went full length, gained better pick up etc. but feels he has lost some fast mid range acceleration. then all rolling roaded twice to get it right. This car is going semi comp. this year at hill climbs and sprints but road legal. I will be copying the engine spec loosely on my Pinto, finances permitting.