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Originally Posted by burgo
but you don't want to say without spilling your beans! lol
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Originally Posted by burgo
but you don't want to say without spilling your beans! lol
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Originally Posted by philip
I saw those calipers in the RD catolgue.
I'll probably stick with the english axle as its easier found and will be ok for 175bhp I'll be running and I can always upgrade to a quaiife diff.
If I kept the vaux brakes rear would I just use a set of 5 stud front discs and the a correctly spaced hydramechanical caliper?
I leave calling your mate for now as we are talking well over a year away and some kind of solution is bound to present itself but :beer:
well im using an astra gsi rear discs with the wilwoods on my corsa...ill let you know how i get onlol
well my thinking being you don't need the shoes etc so surely easier just to use a front disc or not maybe? lol I've never seen a escort setup in the flesh or detailed enough pics tbh.
the wilwoods only accept upto 12mm thick disc, so needs to be solid, so thats why im using the rear discs from the astra on the rear of mine with those calipers
The latest RD catolgue has a page about a new caliper they've designed themselves and are £69.50 and can take various disc sizes. 21/22, 23/24 & 35/36 I think they were. Nothing on their website tho. The page does say they were under development at the time of going to print so specs may vary.
All the GSi's ive stripped have had IRS too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benn
Wot about Nissan 200sx S14 SR20 lump box running gear etc.....stupidly easy to work on 200 ponnies out of the bag.
Hundreads of peeps in UK use em for drifting (me included) weld the diff away you go. Or use the std LSD still light em up or nismo diff etc....
Very, very reliable and 400bhp is esay to get from standard internals with about £2k thron at it! Would be different to all the ford ones out there.
youre thinking to difficult..
a R25 gearbox from an opel omega A 2.0i (isnt it a carlton in the uk?) fits straigt to a c20xe. and its a small short gearbox. i know, cause we used it for the SEH n my mates opel kadett C coupe.;) and that was a 1.2 originally, so it had the small tunnel.
loads of carltons on the scrappy's here, so easy to find another if you break it.
only thing to keep in mind is that there are 2 versions, cable and hydrolic clutch. iirc theres also an R28, but thats also hydrolic.
also, i'd use a manta 1.8s oil pan, and if you cant find the pick up pipe, an xe one is almost the same, you can sort that within seconds by bending it a little.
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Originally Posted by mayhem
Someone else mentioned using the omega box - is it only the 2ltr it was fitted too? Hydraulic isn't a problem as will probably convert to a floor mounted peddle box.
Ref using 200sx stuff, again its another option. I'd rather keep it vaux as much as possible tho tbh. Someone also said about using 924 running gear where the gearbox is acyually on the rear axle to help with weight.