Ooooooh Shiney Bits

[Nodzed]

Postie bought me a present today, more on this tomorrow.

 

[andyglym]

Postie bought me a present today, more on this tomorrow.

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I could have done with those bad boy's on the Welsh run last weekend

 

[Shelly]

Can't wait to see the photos when you put them on your Z

 

[Nodzed]

I could have done with those bad boy's on the Welsh run last weekend

Was she smoking

 

[Low Rider]

Those bad boys look well sweet mate.
Are you painting them

 

[Nodzed]

Those bad boys look well sweet mate.
Are you painting them

No way they's shiny man

 

[Nodzed]

Those bad boys look well sweet mate.
Are you painting them

Probably going to have to paint the rears though

 

[Shelly]

A lovely red or blue colour would look lovely
I'd love mine painted

 

[andyglym]

Was she smoking

40 a day! New discs and pads all round recently too. Note to self, save for a brake upgrade in a couple of years time. That aside, ran like a dream for a nearly 19 year old car.

 

[Sean d]

Hi @NODZED what the score fitting them, do they fit the original cradle and do they take bigger discs

 

[BMBabe]

Owwwww nice love new parts

 

[Nodzed]

Hi @NODZED what the score fitting them, do they fit the original cradle and do they take bigger discs

They're ///M calipers and I've got an ///M so I hope so, its a straight swap.I'm changing them because I have a sticking caliper and its a real pain. Not sure what or if there is a difference for the non //Ms would have thought the 2.8s and 3.0 litres would be the same size but I dont know TBH.

 

[Sean d]

They're ///M calipers and I've got an ///M so I hope so, its a straight swap.I'm changing them because I have a sticking caliper and its a real pain. Not sure what or if there is a difference for the non //Ms would have thought the 2.8s and 3.0 litres would be the same size but I dont know TBH.

Thanks for that pal, assumed it was an upgrade

 

[Brian H]

They're ///M calipers and I've got an ///M so I hope so, its a straight swap.I'm changing them because I have a sticking caliper and its a real pain. Not sure what or if there is a difference for the non //Ms would have thought the 2.8s and 3.0 litres would be the same size but I dont know TBH.

The ///M had different calipers to the rest, your calipers have 60mm pistons and fit discs 315mm x 28mm so not a straight swap for us boys and girls.

 

[Nodzed]

I said there would be more on the shiny bits today, and I learnt a valuable lesson as well

Several months ago I fitted some nice grooved Black Diamond discs to each corner and new Red Stuff pads all round and was very excited to try these out in anger, but I was a good lad and bedded them in gently, then came the first hard run ...and .... chronic brake shudder that just got worse
To say I was peeved is understatement. Naturally I assumed I had a duff disk so onto the supplier who quite rightly asked what the run out was on the disks, well I didn't have a run out gauge so had to beg one of a mate. (in the mean time I went on the New Forrest run and got talking to @Lee who suggested that I may have a dodgy caliper , nah thought I the brakes were fine before the new disks and pads, got to be a bad disk. So checked the run-out = 0 on the O/S just under 2 thousandths on the N/S well within tolerance.

Now I start thinking to myself maybe @Lee knows more about this than me So bullet totally bitten and two new calipers ordered and fitted this evening .......... and guess what .......... NO brake judder So here's to Lee who I should never have doubted, you are the Zed guru and thank you for the heads up (even if I didn't quite believe it at first

Hmmm My Lesson? Don't assume you know everything.

I'm off home now for a huge slice of humble pie

Here's some pics