Yeah chrome imo too. I can do some photos for you if you'd like :) I'll be snapping lots at the cruise anyway so make sure your car is there!
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Yeah chrome imo too. I can do some photos for you if you'd like :) I'll be snapping lots at the cruise anyway so make sure your car is there!
Should be :) Sounds good, always wanted some good non iPhone photos of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by saMfish
Good day today, Had the car less than a day and all ready got it back on jack stands and in pieces :O. Car must have sagged a fair bit since i changed the coils over as im back to hitting the oil sump on curbs and this has happened :)
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...MG_07791-1.jpg
Anyway today was the start of installing the brembos up front and new discs and pads on the rear.
Car started out like it was trying to fly.
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0780-1.jpg
Then took off all the wheels so it looks like someone stole em
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...MG_07832-1.jpg
Started on the rears as i had to paint them to match the brembos up front. Unfortunately there was a 4week wait for red brembos so i had to go with black. Might respray them later on sometime.
Cailpers removed, pads off, trying to remove the pain in the ass that is the discs. (still unsure on how they are that stuck on there) 3 jaw pullers are a savour for anything like this.
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0792-1.jpg
Everything taken off the rear
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0793-1.jpg
Everything taken off the front.
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0797-1.jpg
Rear calipers ready for respraying.
Before:
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0799-1.jpg
Wire brushed and cleaned:
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0800-1.jpg
Painted:
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...MG_08051-1.jpg
And dangling on the rear hub:
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0811-1.jpg
Thats as far as i got today. Plans for tommorow include fitting new rear discs and pads, fitting new callipers and discs on the front, Fitting the braded stainless steel lines, then pumping 2lt of fluid through the system. Hopefully i cant get it all done.
Decent effort to get the guards caught considering the wide body.
all this talk of brakes makes me want some!!
Looking good!
Well today was..... Insanely frustrating.
Not bad in terms of progress but just one BIG road block.
Once again car started out like this
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0813-1.jpg
Everything had been taken off so it was simply time to start installing. First were the rears, Not too hard untill i tried to push the pistons back only to realise you have to turn them at the same time. Another trip up to auto one to find a tool that i had to modify to work. Guy reckons you would only have to turn it, but nope on a VW you have to turn and push! Yay! other than that pretty simple.
New and old discs and pads
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0815-1.jpg
Disc and caliper on
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0817-1.jpg
Modified cube and g clamp and screw driver!
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0820-1.jpg
Then was the fronts turn. Was fairly simple as all i had to do was remove the brake line at the inner wall and install the new one all ready attached to the calliper.
New and old
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0824-1.jpg
Caliper and disc on
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0826-1.jpg
Stainless steel brake line
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0827-1.jpg
How the car looks with them on.
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0832-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0833-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0834-1.jpg
All that was left was the rear stainless lines which where a bit of a PITA as the clips are bastards to put on.
New and old
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0835-1.jpg
New
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0836-1.jpg
Old
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0837-1.jpg
And finally the car with the wheels on :)
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0838-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0839-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0840-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0841-1.jpg
And what caused the entire day to be in vein
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...IMG_0843-1.jpg
So. That leaves me with not a lot i can do. Options at the moment include spacing the callipers with washers which i have no idea if it will give enough clearance, wheel spacers which i think are illegal, Milling the callipers down which runs the risk of ruining them, Machining the inside face of the wheel which i just wont do or going back to stock. Thank god i have a driving course and cruise next week :(
oh bummer!
how much do you think its touching by? like how many mm to clear it?
Dont think that much, Its currently stopping the car a fair bit but it didn't do any serious damage to either. Hoping the washers will give enough clearance :(Quote:
Originally Posted by dylan8
don bother with washers mate, just put some spacers on. If they are not massive (and i dont think you'll need massive, prob 5mm max) noone will even know that they are there. My mate went over the pits with spacers on the front and passed
Yeah they didn't do enough. Apparently according to auto one up to 5mm in WA is fine (God dam sometimes i love backwards WA). Only problem is i don't know to go 3mm or 5mm, suppose its not much difference. Might just go 5mm and buy some hub centric ones from dub addiction. All is not lost thank god.Quote:
Originally Posted by balkanac
damn! VIC is nothing afaik!Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Door Shenanigans.
check how much the wheel bolts stick out the back of the wheel too, might be able to get out of ordering new bolts for the spacers