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[slindborg]

Epb would be better.

[techieboy]

No which is even more worrying

Although tomorrow is quaife Diff and new FD firing day oh how I love gearboxes

Deep joy.

[techieboy]

Epb would be better.

Seriously? I hate them with a passion.

[slindborg]

Epb would be better.

Seriously? I hate them with a passion.

No, you hate the way they are controlled

When done right they are the mutts nuts

[Mangham54]

The Jag XJR had an interesting rear setup.

Aston Martin, too. Probably the same parts bin.

Wilwood make some nice 2 and 4-pot calipers with a integrated spot caliper. It's either them or HiSpec that also make a caliper that takes an optional bolt-on spot caliper as well.

I spoke with Geary a while back about rear caliper options... The problem seemed to be focussed on a rather unsupportive bolting pattern of the hub and how willing people are to reach for their chequebook for a real solution to the problem.

[techieboy]

Yeah, that and the fact that Geary's rear HiSpec rear calipers with integrated handbrake mech used to bend when used. The conversion bracket is a decent solution to getting some uprated calipers on the back and there's no issue with supporting that 2-pot caliper. A spot caliper alongside that would have no additional load implications (unless you drove with it on but the pads are so small they'd disintegrate within a couple of miles).

[techieboy]

Epb would be better.

Seriously? I hate them with a passion.

No, you hate the way they are controlled

When done right they are the mutts nuts

Bring back foot operated parking brakes I say.

[slindborg]

I'd sooner use my heels on the floor than anything from lospack

[Sticky]

Although tomorrow is quaife Diff and new FD firing day oh how I love gearboxes

You do need that number

[The Batman]

the vockster came round today as i decided my vx wasnt quick enough

Due to the awesomeness of the m32 to change gears and diff we didnt have to take the box off it can be done in situ

sooo out come the diff and looking into the box to see some lovely vxr gears



but they where not nice enough so out come the gears and prepared the new gears. I retained the VXR 6th gear for overdrive



then decided as the diff was out might aswell fit a quaiffe!



fitted brand new OEM bearings to everything as again might aswell while its all out!

[GeorgeBC]

Not having to take the box off, wow! Id of had the fecker off then found out afterwards it was possible to do it without removing . Is it all built back up again now then?

[Sticky]

What gears did you swap to?

[The Batman]

vocky is a master at swapping internals in the box, he did it to his about 6 million times :lol yup yup all back together even stripped the wiring harness on the engine so have loads of useless sensors and an ecu that i may set fire to

[The Batman]

What gears did you swap to?

1 - 5

kept 6th the same

[Sticky]

What gears did you swap to?

1 - 5

kept 6th the same

From what box?

[The Batman]

1- 5 from a corsa vxr 6th from the astra vxr

[JG]

that looks like good fun Do you have to enlarge/regrind/clean up/do anything to the surfaces on the cast sections?

[The Batman]

just clean the surfaces and then resplodg'em (technical term) them back together again

[JG]

[CocoPops]

Neil loves a bit of Splodge!