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Basically the caliper only really fits in one place - even then see how close the allen head mounting bolt is to the hub carrier casting.
I wondered what would happen to braking forces depending where the caliper was mounted, did some googling and found it didn't matter. On a bike, the torque reaction can be used.
The best analogy for me was imagine the hub with a circular mounting plate where the caliper can be mounted anywhere through 360 degrees - the resultant force on the hub is always the same.
Ideally I'd have liked to put the caliper at 2/3 or 9/10 o'clock as that's where they normally are, but mine is down around 7 o'clock. But reading more into it, apparently race car engineers like to run calipers low on the hub to lower c of g - and if it's good enough for the likes of porsche, it do for a van.
What Merc did you pull the calipers from? I've looked at the ML brembo 4 pots because they're reasonably cheap but no further on a non-VAG braking upgrade.
What Merc did you pull the calipers from? I've looked at the ML brembo 4 pots because they're reasonably cheap but no further on a non-VAG braking upgrade.
Mate turned up today to have his T4 looked at and he brought me a present....
The cover plate thing that goes over the battery ECU area - tidied up my engine bay even more.
He bought it from cali campers, he bought 2, the side cover and a washer bottle and think he paid £30 for the lot. Blooming sensible price not too much scene tax!
Went out to a bonfire party tonight drove the T4 and just love barelling along in it.
Looks cool, much better than your ropey old alloys
I don't need to look cool - the more you know, the less you need to show
So after a bit of a cry about not being cool, I decided to clean my bland dullsville audi 5 spokes up.
Then I coated then in some paramose (think nitromors before the tree huggers made it dolphin friendly) and hit them with the pressure washer
Another cupole of coats of paramose and blasting and they now look like this.
Now I don't know if I want to focus the cleaning a bit more and bring the polished faces back up or just continue with the original orange paint plan...
While I have the wheels of I thought I'd best test them over the new brakes , and eyeing the two items up side by side didn't look good.
Thankfully the wheels fit over just perfect...
Don't think 16s would fit, it might be pretty damn tight, nothing with much dish either as the back of the spokes run pretty close.
Yes Dave - about 10mm!
Last edited by regcheeseman; 19 November 2017, 11:27 PM.
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