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5-5-2009
This update was over a few months, but I continue work on the car.
I have on order 60 mm springs 250/12 for the rear and 300/10 for the front that I will use with the original shocks. The schocks are strong enough because I have adjusted them tighter and after pushing the rear or front down it raises only slowly, overdampened so stiffer springs are possible. These springs will not work with standard suspension because the car will sit to high, I have longer distance front shocks mountings and in the rear I will need to move my new upper shock mount higher. With standard suspension shorter AND stiffer springs are not possible, they will come loose and the retaining half-rings will fall out during a "Dukes of Hazzard" jump.
Also I need to prepare the engine and busy with making a pulley adapter for the SC.
Mark E and (if he is reading) Will de Groot, can you tell me what drive ratio you had/have? I decided earlier on 2:1, 7000 engine rpm = 14000 SC rpm.
I have a 2300 or 2400 cc SC and am aiming for 1 bar/14.7 psi over. Maybe I should start conservative with a smaller drive pulley.
Also I can't find a proper 8 grooved pulley but it seems no one has problems with a 6 grooved belt?
5-7-2009
The handbrake calipers arrived. They were supposed to be big enough to accept 32 mm brakediscs, well they were 32 mm wide without brakepads, with the pads only a 28 mm disc fits, so I made spacers from a 4 mm steel plate.
Rest of the install was straightforward. There was a 13 mm thick spacer in the caliper that also provided radial mounting holes, but I removed it. The mounting bracket I made is simply a 3 mm thick steel plate, drilled in the right places and trimmed to size. It mounts were the 13 mm spacer was, together with a stack of washers that positions the caliper in the right position, the outer pad close to the disc. I went to the local hardware store and got 3mm steel cable and the guide wheels. The cable will go from left to right like original and through the original guides so the rest of the handbrake system doesn't need to be changed. Works very well, very solid, great clamping force, confidence inspiring. Another problem solved.
I leave the caliper blank aluminium, you have to really look to notice it, maybe if I paint fake holes on it it is even more camouflaged.
