My WIP 1600 16v Track motor - Page 2

lee303 · 12-11-2007, 21:02

solid rack mounts are great, just remember to fit the plastic packers behind them or the rack can move about, alot

t45_ste · 12-11-2007, 21:20

I thought you were against them? Due to the fact if you hit a kerb there nothing to absorb the impact? Im all for em, they look cool, nice and light and tighten up the steering what more do you want for £25.

lee303 · 12-11-2007, 21:22

i have them on mine so dunno why you thought that, they rock

t45_ste · 12-11-2007, 21:40

Good stuff. If there good enough for you. Thanks for the guidance on the rear susp. Will make up a set of spacers at work, probably outa titanium have tonnes of the stuff at work (benefits of working for a firm that produces jet engines

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lee303 · 13-11-2007, 14:51

nice, just make sure they dont touch in the middle of the joint and they'll load the joint correctly

t45_ste · 15-11-2007, 16:37

Had a quiet shift at work today so made a start on polishing my sump No real need im just a tart and like things clean

. Also started to make some titanium spacers for my rear coilovers and some titanium brackets for the golf rear calipers. Heres the sump:

fearless · 17-11-2007, 18:04

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Originally Posted by t45_ste

Thanks

Its from Harry Hockley Motorsport. Heres a link for the corsa http://www.hh-ms.com/database/index....bCategoryID=22

You've got to carefull with some of the stuff Hockley sells - sometimes cheaper to buy the genuine item

http://www.montgomery-motorsport.co....sa%20Parts

Quaife gearlever £325

A mate who's building a Corsa C Super1600 had quite a lot of parts off hockly recently - All excellent quality - however the plain black steel sequential gearlever that hockly supplied was quickly sent back when we found out a Sadev machined alloy sequential lever was roughly the same price !!!!

Dave

lee303 · 17-11-2007, 18:14

thats where i got my gearlever from

fearless · 17-11-2007, 18:20

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Originally Posted by lee303

thats where i got my gearlever from

Cheaper than buying it direct from quaife

Unless you know a man that can

Dave

lee303 · 17-11-2007, 18:26

it was at the time as they bought all of quaifes stock! they were £25 cheaper including delivery iirc

t45_ste · 21-11-2007, 17:20

FInished my bushes off this aft at work for the rear shocks. Had to turn a stepped bush that fits inside the rose joint due to the rose joing being bigger that the 10mm bolt. Still to finish the rear caliper hangers. Also making some titanium door handles every litle helps

lee303 · 21-11-2007, 17:29

ideally you want both sides of the spacer to fit nside the rose joint, and to have a small gap in the middle so they dont touch each other, this way you load the rose joint the way it should be loaded
pics of the door handles?

t45_ste · 21-11-2007, 17:41

The stepped bush doesnt exeed the width of the bush so never touches the other spacer. Its only like having SPACER - 10MM BUSH - SPACER. I could part the step from the stepped bush and have 3 seporate pieces. It Nips the rose joint when tightned. Havnt go any pics of the handles. Cant take a camera to work. Will get some when finished. If you like em i could knock you a pair up for free? Doesnt cost me owt

lee303 · 21-11-2007, 21:21

sounds good, love to see some pics when they're done

i see what your saying about the spacers, but if your making them from scratch, i would have had both going into the rose joint, and if you part the inner spacer from the outer ones, then you wont load the joint as its designed to be loaded, in relation to the inner radius on the ball of the joint, dont think it will cause any worries in this application, but for stuff under lots of load, its worth doing imo
dont mean to nit pick though, and am jealous of your ease of access to free titanium

t45_ste · 22-11-2007, 15:43

I see what you mean now. The material is an absolute pain to work with! Notr realy much of an update, recieved my arp head studs and just ordered full gasket kit with 1.3mm metal head gasket and steel rollers and new cam belt. Finished one of my hangers for the rear calipers :

lee303 · 22-11-2007, 16:19

bitch to work with it may be, but its titanium!

**Benn** · 22-11-2007, 18:25

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Originally Posted by t45_ste

Sorry for being dumb, but what is it?

fearless · 22-11-2007, 18:31

Looks like a mounting bracket for a rear caliper - 4 holes to the left are where the stub axle mount through - the two to the right look like caliper mounts !!!

I'm sure Ste will correct me if I'm wrong

Dave

t45_ste · 22-11-2007, 18:53

Correct

. Im using golf mk3 rear calipers- as per the build manual. The reason its all blue is so that i can scribe on it.

lee303 · 22-11-2007, 21:27

i think you should change your user name to Ti_ste

**Benn** · 22-11-2007, 21:31

Ah i get it, very cool.
Why the golf ones? surely mk4 astra use the same kinda set up?

fearless · 22-11-2007, 21:32

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Originally Posted by lee303

i think you should change your user name to Ti_ste

Lee - So you were the only person paying attention when you had to learn chemical symbols at school

Dave

lee303 · 22-11-2007, 21:33

yeah, kinda had to pay attention in science, my mum was the science class technician

alistairolsen · 22-11-2007, 21:34

the mk4 astra still uses gay handbrake in drum bollocks doesnt it? the golf one, while prone to seizing, fit straight onto nove stub axles and have a disk handbrake

**Benn** · 22-11-2007, 21:38

No thats the point...
it uses the calipar and disc as the handbrake.