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Kitty the Red GTi
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well thats that done! full day at it yesterday,
fitted 63mm scooby studs, 20mm spacers, vented grooved and drilled front discs, dimpled and grooved rear discs and ebc red stuff pads all round, fitted my goodridge braided hoses on the rear along with newish calipers off my old blue gti.
ive got goodridge front braided hoses to fit but the fittings on the front of the car were rusted to fook and wouldnt budge after leaving them overnight to soak in wd40 and going at them with wire brush and vice grips, so new pipes in a week or two then to fit the braided ones.
bled the system with dot 4 for the mean time, dot 5.1 when i get the front hoses done.
took her a run up the street, slapped the brakes on......holy moly doughnuts! she stops dead and and they pads haddnt even bedded in!
got wrapped up about 8pm, washed her, stuck 20 quid in and went for a blip.
on the way out i could hear a metal on metal noise.... the dust/heat shield round the disc was rubbing against it.... but thought to myself.... meh, itll be ok, itll wear down and go away.... it wore down allright.... the bloody disc that is, (120 miles later) there is now a ring round the middle of the inside platter ffs. not bad but you can feel it if you run your nail along it. lesson learnt!
overall conclusion....
with the widened wheel base, albeit 40mm, she seems to stick to the road better, havnt pushed it too hard in the twistys yet but time will tell. (our nurburgring is closed at the moment)
the brakes are razor sharp, if it were a bike youd be over the handle bars, you need to feather them now compared to the way they were before.
worth every penny and hour of work spent!
sorry for the long winded post!
fitted 63mm scooby studs, 20mm spacers, vented grooved and drilled front discs, dimpled and grooved rear discs and ebc red stuff pads all round, fitted my goodridge braided hoses on the rear along with newish calipers off my old blue gti.
ive got goodridge front braided hoses to fit but the fittings on the front of the car were rusted to fook and wouldnt budge after leaving them overnight to soak in wd40 and going at them with wire brush and vice grips, so new pipes in a week or two then to fit the braided ones.
bled the system with dot 4 for the mean time, dot 5.1 when i get the front hoses done.
took her a run up the street, slapped the brakes on......holy moly doughnuts! she stops dead and and they pads haddnt even bedded in!
got wrapped up about 8pm, washed her, stuck 20 quid in and went for a blip.
on the way out i could hear a metal on metal noise.... the dust/heat shield round the disc was rubbing against it.... but thought to myself.... meh, itll be ok, itll wear down and go away.... it wore down allright.... the bloody disc that is, (120 miles later) there is now a ring round the middle of the inside platter ffs. not bad but you can feel it if you run your nail along it. lesson learnt!
overall conclusion....
with the widened wheel base, albeit 40mm, she seems to stick to the road better, havnt pushed it too hard in the twistys yet but time will tell. (our nurburgring is closed at the moment)
the brakes are razor sharp, if it were a bike youd be over the handle bars, you need to feather them now compared to the way they were before.
worth every penny and hour of work spent!
sorry for the long winded post!
shaggy_master
brapp brapp!
So where's the pics of the stance bitch!?
Yea chris, the brakes were mad... I think i will have to invest in all this shit...Where did u get the studs from again?
got them from mtec on ebay, will give you a link later
pics of stanc3 are to come, cameras in the car and i cant be assed gettin up, have to go to the 'duff to get a cb aeriel soon so pics will follow later
pics of stanc3 are to come, cameras in the car and i cant be assed gettin up, have to go to the 'duff to get a cb aeriel soon so pics will follow later
studs were from here
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Subaru-Wheel-..._CarParts_SM?hash=item414e107694#ht_500wt_956
got the spacers off eddie on here but there is a kit on ebay, obv the almeras need studs rather than the bolts that come with this set:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Universal-Whe...rim_Nuts_ET?hash=item3efe17f6d3#ht_500wt_1182
pics to follow later on
edit:
infact these look identical to the ones i got off eddie
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/20mm-Alloy-wh...ultDomain_3?hash=item45eeed3169#ht_1746wt_939
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Subaru-Wheel-..._CarParts_SM?hash=item414e107694#ht_500wt_956
got the spacers off eddie on here but there is a kit on ebay, obv the almeras need studs rather than the bolts that come with this set:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Universal-Whe...rim_Nuts_ET?hash=item3efe17f6d3#ht_500wt_1182
pics to follow later on
edit:
infact these look identical to the ones i got off eddie
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/20mm-Alloy-wh...ultDomain_3?hash=item45eeed3169#ht_1746wt_939
furry muff
sweet update, upgrade to brakes are always WIN!
dd
dd
cheers tommo, i really am a lazy bar steward... been out in the car a few times today and still havnt bothered liftin the camera out lol.
you still running the nismo fpr?
you still running the nismo fpr?
may i take it off your hands?
ok some new updates from the work done at the weekend.... so here we go
ST4NC3
ST4NC3
got the koyorad fitted yesterday and redone the coolant. not much of a change in temp but i couldnt get the rad fan to come on.... it does work btw, had it working when i view the car before buying it. so that show the rad working! drops to below half when driving along
hello mate did you have to do anything to the g60 rims to get them on or do they bolt strait on
i would love t get a set of these banded and painted matt black
would be good with the metallic burgundy!!!
cheers andy
i would love t get a set of these banded and painted matt black
would be good with the metallic burgundy!!!
cheers andy
ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
your stealing my idea lol
had to get the centre bore made bigger by 2mm
almera bore is 59, vw bore is 57 if i remember correctly
EDIT -
got the g60's bored out. took them to my dads mate who has his own engineering place
got them done in a CNC machine
your stealing my idea lol
had to get the centre bore made bigger by 2mm
almera bore is 59, vw bore is 57 if i remember correctly
EDIT -
got the g60's bored out. took them to my dads mate who has his own engineering place
got them done in a CNC machine
cheers thought that would be the place
your safe for now as i'm just about to get some standard gti alloys
but still toying with the idea as they'ed look soooo good
i don't know the paint code of my car but it's burgundy and metallic but have not seen another mera in this color
thanks andy
your safe for now as i'm just about to get some standard gti alloys
but still toying with the idea as they'ed look soooo good
i don't know the paint code of my car but it's burgundy and metallic but have not seen another mera in this color
thanks andy