Terry,
This conversion was pretty straight forward. The only areas I had to modify was
to make a small sleeve to space between the ball joint location diamter into
the bottom of the strut. This was required due to the fact the Bluebird strut
had a larger location diameter than the std P510. You could maybe get away
without doing this on a road car. The only other thing I did was put threaded
sleeves on the struts for the adjustable spring seats. The 910 strut is a bit
shorter that the 200b ones I had in there before. These brakes fit under some
of my 13" wheels & all my 14" ones. There is no need to swap the struts side to
side as I've heard mentioned on the list for some of the other conversions.
These brakes are pretty good with Pagid pads in & don't fade at all. I had
thought they were pretty good with some Lucas metal pads in but the Pagid pads
have transformed the braking on tarmac stages. Pad changes are pretty easy as
you only remove one M8 bolt & loosen the other to swing the body of the caliper
& slip in the new pads.
If you need to know anything more just ask.
Regards
--
Ritchie Williams
Terry wrote:
> Richie,
>
> Is the rally car a 510? (1600) I presume it is and if so could you give us a
> run down on how easy it is to fit the 910 or S12 Gazelle ventilated front
> struts and discs (these are the same in Japan & I presume also in NZ). I
> have occasionally come across these and was curious if they were an option
> for the 510 but as no one has done it around here that I know of except in
> the early S1 910 which came with solid rotors in Aus.
>
> tia,
>
> Terry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ritchie
> Williams
> Sent: Friday, 10 November 2000 12:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Brakes
>
> Errol,
>
> Do you think it would be possible to use these Z32 calipers on a smaller
> disk.
> I have been thinking of putting them on my rally car but wanted to use 14".
> I've got 910 Bluebird struts which have vented disks at present & had been
> thinking of putting these on the rear to replace my 240Z drums & getting the
> 4
> pots for the front.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
>
> --
> Ritchie Williams
> Manager - Design Technology
> Vertex Pacific Limited
> 696 Te Rapa Rd
> Private Bag HN3044
> Hamilton
> New Zealand
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>
> Errol Smith wrote:
>
> > Zac,
> > If you got the pad so the outer radius is at the outer extremity of the
> > disc that would be acceptable I would think. Try a 300mm Mercedes rotor
> > (cant remember which model), as they use a good cast iron alloy similar to
> > brembo.
> > An alternative is to mount the calipers on the opposite side to the
> > original lugs on reversed struts. Make a mounting bracket that bolts onto
> > the holes where the dust plate used to mount. You will have to drill and
> > tap some extra holes as well to make it strong enough and use countersunk
> > head high tensile bolts. This is the same method that was used to mount
> > Commodore calipers on Datto struts back in the dark ages
> > Cheers
> > Feral Errol
> > ----------
> > From: Zac Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Ozdat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Brakes
> > Date: Friday, November 10, 2000 1:51
> >
>
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