Been quite a while since I done an update on the car, with all this weather no proper car pictures could be taken, but I decided to refurbish my brakes and get new pads, fluid and fit my braided lines and give them a proper clean up and a coat of paint to freshen them up -
What it looked like when cleaned, the usual fade and peel of the brembos was doing my head in so allot of degreaser and a power hose later they were looking better -
I have no photos of the steps of sanding and priming due to them trying my patience with a few pistons seizing; now I know why I thought my brembos were crap! I got the pistons free and cleaned up and inspected the o-rings just for peace of mind even though no leaks were visible. So the hunt was on to find a kit as my dust seal caps were shot -
After speaking to brembo and a company down beside Silverstone I was having no luck, a quick call to willie and he mentioned he got his from Sere motors cheers david and willie. Then I got told they only had the dust seal caps for a LCR, so then a search on the forum and a call to Badger5 we worked out that the pistons were the same size so in theory the dust seals should fit. I went ahead and ordered them and they fitted like a glove. Now I had working callipers they were stripped down to finish sanding and get some paint on them.
So father was out with the compressor again and the finished product of the brembos back to their former glory. Quite nice with the new
stickers in place and quite a few coats of lacquer
The rears were also done but no photos of them unassembled.
The new pads and new braided brake lines with stainless fittings (supplied by Camerons Autotech in Cumminestone, really impressed with their place) were fitted to the front and rear and new fluid
Front
Fittings for the front
Rear
The brakes are now a lot more responsive and in the future epileptically grooved disks are on the cards to put the shackles on hybrid power, for the minute the standard brembo disks have plenty of life and do the job just fine.
I am annoyed I never took any photos of the car once I did a two day clean of the car, but it was just thrown out of the garage into rain afterwards
I used the below products and the car looked better than new -
I'm sure you know the procedure so not going to bother with them but the last touch, lime prime and banana armour work wonders
I have also been beginning to collect parts for some hybrid treatment so I am getting nice pile of parts building up! One sun strip later and I got Willies old LCR maf so I can take out the LCR element and fit my
Ibiza one (Willie makes a grand cuppa). Thinking about de-screening the housing to maximise airflow but still reading up on the pros and cons.
Then a call to Backdraft and I got a 2nd hand set of Bam injectors with 30k miles from a TT cheers Alex -
With Xmas and everything coming up the parts buying and mods slowed down also due to having the 60k service coming up i have started to collect parts for that thanks to RobDon for the timing belt, the cars only done 54K but better to be safe and sorry and get a metal impellor water pump in there. Need to order the pump and tensioner kits as i already have the rest.
Then the hybrid build will commence. The joys of modifying
Thanks for Reading
Wilz