Ah!!.. makes sense now with a few numbers threw in (cheers @Liam Shaw ) and I think I recognise the car in the 2nd batch of pics.. AEZ ----?.. Belonged to a top notch autotester, and big gentleman of a bloke?
If those wilwoods have 1.72" pistons (43mm?) then they're huge compared to OEM MX5 ones... a surface area increase of 92% for caliper piston.. lol. You'd need a .625" or .7" to work with them. @swervygerdy , that reassures me that a .5" would be best suited for our 31-33mm MX calipers. Regarding 'pad knock back' that Pete mentioned, your handbrake adjuster within the OEM caliper can prevent excess play. You adjust them to leave just enough clearance to avoid binding when the brakes warm up as per normal servicing (nipped up to firm, then off 1/4 turn is nice). You just need to check adjustment every now and again (literally a 2 minute job).
We've turned this into a 'check out my wand' thread...
So is anyone else out for Cookstown or is it an RMS no show?.. It's with great regret that we wont be out! (Stupid holidays ffs!)
Not sure what mx5 it is or who owns it but the pics were given to me by Ashley Lamont (who is like you discribed) to help with the bracket fitting so it's likely his. And I must say you have a fair sharp eye to recognise exactly what car it was lol. I assume the clue was the grey wheels in the last picture?
Yea I realised 1.72" was way off shortly after I posted it when I went back to work lol.
I'm not for cookstown either. Would like to but a couple of bills need paid and I start uni 2 days later so it's a bit of a busy time. But the entry is in for Larne. Hope it's as good as everyone says it is although there's apparently only 5 different tests (19 in total). Probably be like dungannon were 4 of the tests are run twice in each direct or maybe tweeked a little and the other run 3 times in the one direction, but it's hard to know and not really that important. This is my first year in the lanes so every event in new
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