No Crust Racing

I'm listening....

Had a shed sesh with another NCR dude as he hobbled around on his healing broken leg helping here and there, had a few whiskeys as we went, good times. - Power brace fully complete, brackets welded in nicely I think, minimal clean up needed and quite happy with how this came out. I think these shit all over the Nismo option for strength. Left them hanging to fully cure. Will go back in this week I'd say, hopefully it's all still square.... A mate suggested I should have used weld through primer on the section I tapped and left clear to minimise risk of rust which is great advice, should be OK on this car anyway given it'll see minimal water but still good advice. - Finished the M12-M14 job, no issues there. I was ultra conservative, steady pace, light/medium pressure and bulk cutting fluid with lots of breaks. The nicest I have ever been on a bit and it looks mint still, then my neighbour comes over (the one who runs the distillery) and tells me has 3 of these on hand I could have grabbed... lol I note the caliper runs pretty close to the disc on the outer side and I'm concerned the caliper has the wrong offset to the rotor, but I wont know fully until the pads go in, hopefully have those in the next week or 2 if what Intima says is accurate. Would you expect the caliper/rotor relationship to be dead set in the middle? I should have taken some pics. - Test fitted rear brakes, the bolts I got are too long, but the washers are very thin. I have thicker washers on hand but may still need to nick a little off the end. On the side I tested the caliper "looked" pretty square to the rotor meaning the brackets I welded on should hopefully be good. - Finally remembered to remove the cut up dust shields fully. In retrospect, having a fully intact set could have been good for modifying to receive brake cooling ducts, what have others done here? I had them cable tied to the LCA's/Hub etc. - Started cleaning up the fab bench and worked out how I'm going to fit it in.

I'm still shocked it got this far. Have been chatting with John Boston about (Track School) who's business is now basically on hold until something is done.

+for HANS, very easy to snap ya neck with a helmet on.

That's hot 😍

All perfectly valid

17x9 might be pushing it or are you saying it already fits? I thought the Evo caliper is larger overall also, It's considered the superior Brembo in this size I think.

The Evo setup isn't too much bigger so I think you'll be OK. Did you go the 350mm rotor option? I can't remember. Did you hit up eBay or some special vinyl brake decals place?

Well I didn't have emry paper so I just did a Duncan and sent it... slowly... with lots of cutting fluid. One side is now done and it wasn't as bad as I was thinking and the caliper mounts up nicely, still have 1 side to do but was doing this in between coats of paint on the inside of the castor brackets. Left a nice lip for welding also which is the next step then the whole thing can be painted and reinstalled. Brakes look tiny now but there's excellent clearance around the caliper which can only be a good thing. Has any ever tried those ebay high temp caliper vinyls? I was thinking of getting some basic white outline NCR logos for the calipers to give them some flair. Also got some new MTB flats, first time with "proper" shoes. A mate has some new gray laces which should tone them down as he;s keen on the blue ones lol. They sound like Basketball shoes on the floor boards lol they feel really tacky.

As in rough up the surface with it?

40 here, last month

It's impressive really.

No, just... 😅

I have no idea how old you are brotato, but you sound unhip 🤣 At 40, yeah I moved out last week 😉

Is this all some boomer shit I'm too Millennial to understand????

Hold up... Did Duncan just tell me, in his own way, to send it?!

This thread delivered....

ok found it, for others it's here - Now I get ya.

HPR is what/who? Also, FMD that adds up quick!

Not a heap of time last night and one of those sessions where you spend an hour but the outcome seems like a few mins work. Finished straightening up the castor brackets, ensured castor arms still go in and smoothed off and cleaned up the mounting surface ready for brackets to be welded in. Spent the rest of the time roughing up/cleaning up paint/grime/rust but couldn't find the metho to prep so didn't get to throw some paint on the inside before the bracket gets welded in and I have no access.

Legend, good work. This forum needs an app again, doing this shit on a mobile browser does not tickle my balls at all. @prank why no more app? $$??

I'm missing some things then as I thought it was an under 10k job. Still MUCH cheaper and better outcome than a manual sequential IMO. The TCU is what, 2500 or so? When I looked at transmission they seemed to run about 4k (really depends on age/condition and what it came from, this is for ZF8HP70, 75 and above are much more expensive but I'm only 4cyl). Where's the rest go? Bellhousing adapter? 1-2k? Tailshaft 1k? Wiring ??? I doubt she's reading this, thankfully neither does mine. This is a safe space here

OMG I am so dumb, I do have a drill press... but that means removing the hub... probs worth it. OK need to focus on meeting lol

Might go have a look, i do have cutting fluid here. It's more about getting it square. I don't have the best laser eye leveler.