New brakes!

Good news. An upgrade kit has arrived for the front brakes. Tim and I spent a fair bit of time a few months back trying to get BA Falcon PBR callipers to fit. We tried a few discs and mocked up a calliper mountain. We had something that looked like it would work with modified VT Commodore discs. It was super-tight in the 15" wheels. Just when we were about to order parts and start to design calliper mounting plates, we stumbled across this kit on ebay at a good price. It's for a Ford Cortina. For the amount of messing around we'd have to do to DIY this, we jumped on this auction.

The seller (free plug for upc.online) was excellent and agreed to drill the hubs and discs in 5 x 112mm PCD (to suit current wheels) and 5 x 114.3mm PCD to open up more wheel options in the future. The kit arrived this week and looks like fantastic quality. I just did a quick test-fit this afternoon and it fits perfectly (except the wheel studs are different thread).

Damn happy with the result.

They make the wheels look even more crap.

Other than this, work has been fairly slow over the past few months, but we have managed to finish a few jobs. First up, the throttle cable is done. We decided to run it under the engine as this keeps it away from the exhaust and gives a nice radius bend.

Secondly, the clutch slave cylinder has been fitted and works. Tim bled it himself using the yellow strap in the picture above. Haha

Thirdly, I've knocked up a bracing for the alternator mounting bracket. There was far too much flex in it before, so I've braced it back to a bolt on the head. It still needs tidying up and painting.

During one of my stints in the garage, I couldn't help but introduce Bianca to the GT40. Gotta start em young...