Today was a short day at work.... left at 1pm and went shopping again...
the vband finally arrived from ozzy. the guy at cummins gave me a good price and then said "is it for a car" and looked at me, i smiled and said, "yeah, its going into my ute" he grinned :-)
while there i viewed my first hy35w, which is supposed to be the same as mine (the one rebel uses) and it appeared smaller. i'm thinking it must be because of the funky compressor housing. an optical illusion.
it was one a traditional B series...
also in the show room was a marine C just like the one in our boat. it had surprise surprise an hx40m on it. the label was long gone from our one, so i didnt know what it was... interesting stuff. for those that dont know, the C is a 6 cylinder 8l making between 200 and 500 hp depending on application.
i also picked up the 3 sheets of 17mm ply that i need to line the deck and make the sides from. 7 ply H3 treated and quite flat...
the rest of the time between 1pm and 530pm i spent inside a f ing massive 4wd and light commercial wrecker. i asked to take some measurements and they just let me look around by myself. the utes and vans and rvs were stacked 3 high all through it and surrounded by piles of diffs and gearboxs. there was a HUGE box sitting in one of the chassis. WAY bigger than the W series toy boxs and the R mazda box WAY bigger. it whatever it was was 4wd. when/if i go back i'll figure out what it was.
the mission of course was to figure out what to do for brakes!! mondays experience at the track emphasized that the stock rotors (which i already replaced with brand new brembo blanks and custom mintex m1166 pads...) will NOT be enough for that engine and me behind the wheel.
i found some suitable rear rotors for sticking with 6 studs. however i could only find 6 stud rotors for the front that were too big or two small.
instead what i found was that late bongos have 5 stud front hubs and some of them have the 10 bolt diff and 5 stud rear too! what does this mean :
i may be able to just buy a set of hubs and axles and just install them. this would ease the rotor and caliper situation a great deal. the most i can fit inside the chrome terrano 15's is a 300mm rotor. so anywhere between 280 and 300 will be fine and about 30mm thick. they ought to keep the heat down and the pad replacements further apart.
first a little humour :
i told the guy "thats what i call them too" "why do you have a honda if thats what you think" he said "i have it because i hate them and want to beat on it" nice :-)
on to the point :
what i did to my girlfriends brakes! this pad began the day as half a custom m1166 race pad. after only 70 kms of 165ps output and 1030kg chassis weight and of course me ;-) it disintegrated! the other three were crumbly round the edges (normal for heavy use) and cracked across the centre (also normal) this one just said "enough is enough" and quit. i felt it go into the first corner the one time i took her out in it for a few laps, and went easy for the first few corners. the peddle seemed to recover, and i carried on. i did 5 laps on it and this is the result. a 1mm or so imprint in the back of the backing plate of the pad, and the friction surface peined over from being smeared by the rotor. i couldnt get the clip out! i almost couldnt get the pad out of the caliper. moral of the story, if brakes the size of the utes cant take 500km of NA 4age use, then they sure as hell cant handle double that power and more weight in the ute. i dont want to change them that often. even with only 3 functional pads, and that thing slowing us by melting itself, i managed to pass quite a few cars. so big brakes for me.
not good enough for a mad bastard like me obviously.
this may need an edit...
fred.
