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I will actually go mad if I have to point another person to here. It's not hard to use the search! :nono: The Apparently Invisible Suspension Discussion Thread and yes, you do have to read all the pages!

Cheers to everyone who helped with this issue, cookies and group hug to follow. Soaked the bolts in the good stuff and let to stand for 5 minutes. Next, attacked with the Erwin at 50% torque to avoid shearing. Voila. All 3 loosened up real nice, so I MC Hammer'd round the edge to mark the bracket out plus sprayed through the hole as a locator. Guess who :wave: Stencil seemed to work quite well, think i'll waxoyl the chassis under here after I sort that little patch out. and it's off. Had to snip the hardline going to the OSR bracket mount. This is routed under the heatshield UNDER the exhaust so having a small poolet trying to work out how i'll replace that one easily. Maybe drop the box off: it needs a new clamp on it anyways! Which one should I put back on? :bonk:

cheers for all the help, future updates on this in the project thread. And it's good news :grin:

Just sprayed up the carriers and had a :pale: moment.... are the carriers the same? I'm guessing/hoping so!

cool, glad it's sorted! suspension bolts shear a lot cos they are exposed a fair bit along their length.

there's plenty of talk about them on this forum let alone others! They replaced mt 2ft breaker bar even though I used an extension over the top once :grin:

Pics of the george:

I will be doing seals on them yeah, I have a set ready for the other caliper. The dirty lucas came off the Plum, it's in good nick so i'm painting / resealing and putting it back on. It does have a strange looking white plastic stop on it which the handbrake mech hits at the limit. The clean girling came off the 92 K plater I cut up in April, it worked fine too so it has already been painted and resealed! Yan, what should I look for on the calipers, which one do you think is the mk3 item and which the mk2?

I have no reason to think they are not straight, just looks like a good thing to change! :shrug: Cheers for the advice people. I could clean up around them and then spray some hammerite over the top to mark a silhouette perhaps... hmm.

btw, if you haven't seen a bracket off the car they do actually have OVAL holes in, so there is a lot of weight to Pete's argument!

After I posted up pics of my rear brackets and how I was going to change them over, pete_griff rightly mentioned that I would need someone with alignment tools to put the new brackets on for me else there's a chance that the beam won't be perfectly straight on the chassis. Here are my brackets: I have a brand new VAG N/S bracket (one with the BPR arm on) but I might as well take this back for refund if I'm not going to be able to fit it myself, as I don't have the beans to pay for labour at the mo. I'd tidy and protect the current brackets if I left them on, that's for sure. Any thoughts welcome! Cheers, Jon.

Cheers Steve, that's the answer I was looking for! Can get on with scrubbing up the Lucas now. In a non gay way.

OH yeah, started the car up yesterday for the first time in 2 weeks. Still got switch issues, but it ran up fine after missing a little to begin with. Left it to idle until the oil was at 66 and then shut it down.

Hi team, Just realised the two calipers I have to put on my rear beam are different: a girling and a lucas. Are there any issues with using one of each caliper or should I really have a matched pair? Cheers, Jon.

Pressure!! :pale: I would think that as the swept volume has gone up by 1/18th (1.8 to 1.9) then the air intake may increase slightly as it has another ~100cc to fill per stroke? I haven't modelled a bottom end yet, will see what I can do :|

110 isn't really high for oil, it won't start to disintegrate until way beyond that. what was your coolant temp at the time? perhaps you had an air pocket in the oil system although it should disappear very quickly as the oil pump works every second the engine is running.

Ha ha yeah, just being silly ;) good one corradude! although a little bittersweet...maybe there really IS a conspiracy :shock:

Nice on sonicriot. Is the metal wing attachment a crub feeler? :nuts:

:lol: I think it's about Rob cross-dressing and then getting it on with Tom. aka last saturday?

secret rendezvous! :shock: I'm running just a cable tie on the back box as the rubber died. It's a plastic one too, but the rear box doesn't get hot enough to melt it ;) although saying that I might just get a rubber hanger for the MOT...

Mine is very late. I'm still waiting for it :scratch:

Suspension sags, so your 40 may end up a little lower. This has been covered plenty in the suspension thread. As for me, I am undecided over these two. Let me know what you think: or decisions, decisions...

To Do List Small things: Paint offside caliper and replace piston seals (see pic below) Clean out rear wheelarches, Order reel/s of copper brake line, Assemble shock absorbers (pre-requisite coil springs not here yet) Clean up rear beam brackets, fit new CM and RSP along with front engine mount, fit PAS lines and route through RSP, clean up and refit PAS pump, waxoyl front and rear hub stoneshields, attach front stoneshields, paint/prep front NS hub, Big things (not Westwood): Fit new brake lines with help from Pete_griff, Waxoyl front end (wishbones, cavity in rad support panel, etc) Attach rear beam, Assemble stub axles et al on rear beam, Get MOT. And teh pics: Will be painting my good OS caliper tomorrow and replacing the seals. But, is it ok to run a girling and a lucas caliper? How the arch started... Rear arch cleaning has commenced. Not amazingly easy with a brush and cloth, but it's not too bad. Cleaned the inside of the arch lip really well. Definitely do not want to have to get new ones welded in :nono: Chassis design leads to a nasty water trap up top in the arch. I guess it's not too bad as it's on top of the sealer after all. More pics as and when.

good stuff Jonathan, your experiences with the new cam will certainly help others make up their minds, taking one for the team so to speak! :thumb right: where does the single injector go then, I'm guessing somewhere after the TB - perhaps the main plenum?

and you have a corrado as your weekend car? :cuckoo: sorry for the off-topic, thought I'd PM'd that! :bonk: