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Well since the vette wheels ain't gonna clear the brakes, iv committed to go the hard way to some cool wheels, ex 7 series bmw, 2 piece 18x8 18x9.5 style 42s made by bbs,fronts are spot on flush to the guards at +20p, rears are gonna need diff given the chop chop about 25mm each side, should look pretty sweet in gunmetal or dark silver centers & high polished lips something like the pic with the bbs centers & show off the fancy brakes at the same time

have seen an l300 setup under dash of a mk2 escort , yeah pedal throw acts to push backwards on the booster instead of forwards, another way is to engineer a bracket with a bellcrank mechanisim and have booster sideways under dash like these https://www.rrs-online.com.au/under-dash-booster-kits

I've seen van master/boosters used a few times where space is an issue , hiace or L300(pic), gets the whole assembly out of the engine bay, could be an option to give dual circuit boosted

Problem is the knockoffs all have dud offsets usually around +43- +50 to suit the gen 3/4 commodores, BBS can be worse in the low 20s for bmw which wont clear the guards, to get fitment i want/need worked on 18x8.5 +31 for the front & 18x9.5 +38 there is an option to custom order 1 piece om-1 simmons in offsets to suit,not to badly priced, would do gunmetal centers not gold style 42 look cool but pricey to buy and then need lips & barrels standard they are +21 ish offset in an 18 do makes for odd sized lips

So stoked with how the paint came out, my painter has done a wicked job , it was gonna be white over silver until i found the bmw brown, wanted to look like it could have been factory just a little bit flashier, fits with the 80s theme with the brown interior, looking at wheel options just incase the new brakes dont fit under the c4 wheels couple of contenders are OM-1 3 piece simmons, BBS LM or possibly bmw style 42 but would need custom lips/barrels

prob be best to get the microtech hooked up to a laptop and have a look at accel enrichment & injector/timing split before ya write off the microtech Gav at HPR is a bit of a wizard on them. I have had a run lately of bad microtech x4 igniters, have been deleteing them and going to ign1a coils. if ya do decide to go link let me know il sus you a good price and can sort repin of your existing loom although judging from that amount of tape usually means the loom will be hiding some gremlins, if its one thing iv learnt wiring modified rotaries, they are the top of the table for home job twist n tape & bad soldering

1st big outing since being put back together, 800km round trip to fielding and back via horopito for palmy swapmeet, cruising along averaging 12.4L/100km is better than when it was NA (although was boschs finest jetronic 80s fuel injection then) , love the torque curve this thing has now just rolling up on boost in 5th pulling up the big hills around taihape. such a mint day to cruise home on saturday

Fusion 360 is pretty easy to pickup, especially compared to autocad of old (i hadn't touched cad for nearly 10 years), has a few quirks but watch the basic how to videos on their website and you'll sus most of it, iv been able to sort it out well enough to get accurate 3d print prototypes sorted before I CNC machine them (downside for my wallet i now have a 3d printer)

New printer works pretty good, printed dimensions are spot on, now waiting on bolts to test fit and check what i measured is correct, probably not... but hey that's why it's 3d printed

and down the rabbit hole of 3d printing i go... , brought an ender3 v3 se to have a play with got the adaptors version 1 ready to print when it arrives fronts for the evo brembos Rears to suit the z32 calipers & cutting the backing plate to fit

Cool thanks i like the bolt on idea myself, just wasnt sure on cutting the backing plate mostly, I could weld and NDT easily, we have NDT capability at work, could get it done when I'm doing my front coilovers

@cletus interested on your option of this for brake setup, fitting z32 rear caliper to commodore diff, the aussies just cut and weld the plate to the backing (pretty sure not ok here) so drawn up this bracket, would be 17mm thick with a 5mm step on one side (still 12mm thick) to make mounting flush with existing backing plate for correct caliper to disc alignment. would need to cut back old mounting to red line and drill new holes would be threaded m10 same as factory caliper Will also check in with my local certifier once I have fronts modeled and 3d printed mockups to test fit as well

got setup with fusion 360, free for 3 years personal use -starting to get the hang of it, have to unlearn all the old auto cad 2010 electrical stuff

Hey all the tech boffins probably been asked before but my searches aint delivering been a while since iv had access to cad software (previously done a bit with auto desk for electrical drawings) Whats the go to for home use modelling software thats user friendly and not "one million dollars" *insert dr evil* a year? looking for ability to 2d/3d model good enough to 3d print prototypes brackets (guess il be going down the i need a 3d printer wormhole) & send files for cnc machining /cutting have a top model HP envy laptop so shouldn't have a problem running most software

May have got a bit carried away with a brake upgrade to do a few track play days... evo8 brembos for the front on 320x32 vz thunder rotors, and z32 twin pots for the rear on 280mm vented vn group a rotors, all brand new bits makes a nice change to having to rebuild old manky brakes Should be pretty easy job to machine up adaptors to suit