I wanted bigger brakes than Cortina, and less weight.
I wanted readily available and inexpensive disks.
Engineers like the fact that front and rear brakes come from the same donor car.
I also thought this was not a bad idea, so kept with Pintara stuff.
The Pintara callipers are cast alloy and very light.
Pintara 1990 R31 Disk Rotors and Callipers over TE Stubs.
Cortina Stubs
Commodore Bearings
Pintara Oil Seal
Pintara Disks Machined Down to 243mm OD.
Calliper will bolt onto the opposite side of the upright so
flats were machined on the front side of the mounting holes.
Clearance holes need to be drilled out of the threads in the
stub axles themselves.
It all fits. yeee ha!!!!!!
Small spacers are
required between the calliper and the stub axle. Washers will work OK
Approximately 3mm thick
Piston 52 MM OD
including dirt.
Brake line bracket welded in place. Mounted at the
front and rear. I'm also starting to play with the front steering
rack.
The upper casting is
half the original escort rack link rubber uni thingy (please excuse the
technical terminology). I have cut through the solid steel
revets where the rubber was in order to secure the plate with nylock nuts
and high tensile bolts. Then the
Commodore steel section was welded to the plate for the uni joint to attach
to.
Here you can see how it will attach to the rack.
However
the rack is not yet set up to height, SO this is all temporary and in theory
only.
This is the upper bearing that will support the steering
high in the engine bay.
Yep it's overkill however the bearing has 2 grub
screws that will tighten onto the steering shaft and it was only $30
complete.
The UNI joints and shaft are straight out of a Commodore.
I think it was a VR or VS.
This position is not finalised as I'm still sorting out the
rack position.
It will all go something like this.
Perhaps a little
lower. However I need to avoid the brakes. I'll probably cut the
uni from the end of the crushable shaft and weld straight to that.
