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Hi Ed if you already have it on the stand and have the sump off, I would take the heads off aswell, you can see what is going on then :shock: , it would also mean If there is a sticking valve or somthing you won't do any more dammage. I am assuming you took the plugs out before you turned it over? T...

Hi luke looks good to me, you should be able to tune some anti squat in with those brackets, and take it all out if you want, (I would use a little for getting off the line and for good ballance comming out of corners). What are you planning to use for latteral location, panard rod, Whats linkage, A...

the point i was trying to make in my very first post on this thread, and since, but seem to have totally failed, :D was that there are very different types of break use and as a result materials and caliper design differ as a result (and yes fassion, bling factor and cost of manufacture all come int...

Gav I think you may have the real point here, on that front the Hispec six pots are even more bling in the pub for not unreal money.
Mike

No dig taken Ian the use of ally in modern sports and salloon car brakes is IMO a matter of fassion and not best material for purpose, the fact that they use so much of it I think validates my case! have you seen the size of a set of audi A6 SR calipers, dont tell me they are built that size other t...

I'm sorry I have got to say it, for this use I would go for Cast iron over ally every time, and a fairly heafty caliper at that. An ally one will boil your breakfluid, you wan't somthing from a heavy pasenger car or a road sports car (928 porsche or rears off a 911, 7 series BMW jag somthing like th...

Hi midilight sounds a better caliper than the Dynalite, if you are starting from scratch then go that route, for street strip I would still go for as big front disc as you can, a twin master cylinder pedel box would be a good investment if you are fully from scratch, and don't bother with a servo(th...

As above, I would go with the 285 discs (if you can get 310 discs under those wheels I would go for those) use the calipers you have and remount them, get some good pads, fresh clean break fluid (and thoroughly flush out the plumbing) fit good flexible lines (earls or similar), make sure you have th...

hi depends on the block! 2 piece oil seal 350 is internal ballanced, 400 block all exteral ballance, later 1 piece oil seal blocks are external ballance. aftermarket cranks come all 4 formats , i.e internal and external ballance 2 piece and internal and external ballance 1 piece. on Ebay you can get...

There was quite a good article or two in PPC last year on doing flaired wheel arches on an escort, it might be worth getting the issues and having a read as their method seemed good and you ended up with a set of arches and partial moulds, otherwise a look at the SSC stylus and their wheel arch upge...

if you have a look through the old forum stuff on 14cu ECU's you will see that Bill is giving very good advice here, (read Ian Anderson's stories) this ecu is very limmited and an "improvment" in one bit always ends up with a bad idle or stuttering or hunting. (then the thing thing goes into "limp h...

I think with a 302 in there you will need bigger brakes, even though you are starting with 2.8i bits. I would start with the bigger discs first, as surly you can do this but just remount the 2.8i calipers. See if this is adaquate. If you then find this is not enough then add the willwood calipers. B...

Hi For replacment of guides you'll need a stepped "Drift" that you can insert down the valve guide hole that has a sholder on it that will push the guide out, using your press. appart from that it is a very good idea to heat up the heads in the oven first, about 150 to 200C (makes it exciting anyway...

Hi Ian, I stand corrected on the Sierra Diffs then, interesting as the info came from an remanufacturer who did many makes of diff, maybe they had alot of ford sierra diffs to get rid of? Ally cat, a live axel is getting out of my knowlage, other than the RR axel has the diff offset. The 9" ford wou...

while researching another project I was told the 2wd sierra cosworth Diff was pretty well unburstable, I assume the 4wd version is the same unit and therefor is much the same. I was also told the ordinary sierra/granada diff was also pretty strong (especially in higher ratios, ie the diesel ones) an...