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just getting back to the diff caliper mounts (on a to be certified car )....can they be made out of 10mm alloy? or is it best to use steel. thanks again for any and all help

had planes to convert the mk5 to 5 speed this weekend but managed to partially de-glove my fun finger on Wednesday at work so was going to make it hard to do...even got a cheeky look at the bone just sitting there as they peel the flap back. so thought i would start making a template for the caliper mount on the old mk2 rear end. even tho i am pretty much make everything again i am going to try and get it cert approved the 1st time. asking checking the hobby car manual and asking on our tech page i have decided to go 10mm plate , 1 piece , flat with no offset. and bolt on via all 4 bolts that hold the axle to the diff housing..so just need to make 2 brackets.

It is just a flat piece no off set . I have decided to go 10mm and the bolts are 8mm. So that should be sweet ay. Thanks again man

how about the rear caliper mount being held on with 3 out of the 4 bolts that bolt the axle on the diff housing?

ok so i have asked around and looked threw the hobby car manual and i cant find a thinness of the material needed for making brackets for mounting rear calipers (in a drum to disc conversion ) can anyone tell me if there is a minimum thickness ? cheers

i wont be doing it mate...its just for a road car.

cletus.....whats the go with welding a bracket to the diff housing to bolt the caliper to.

do you mean the master cylinder instead of cables?

well that answers that. thank you very much mate ..much appreacted

hi all. this may have been asked before and im sorry if its been asked 100s of times. but is it legal to have a hydraulic handbrake .? and i dont mean a sweet as fuck drifter drifter jobby i mean for instance an escort with a factory handbrake in the factory position with the factory CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK but instead of hand brake cables a master cylinder and hoses .. cheers

started looking into the old girl again now the new house and garage are sorted. i wanted a frame to make it easy to roll around the garage to work on...to be able to get the motor and box out as well as the back end. i also wanted to bolted through the jacking points

have decided that i love my mk5 the way it is (apart from the 5 speed that will be going into it.) so i m going to put the turbo pinto into the mk3 build. we were playing with a few things today and decided that we should try the setup on a running motor for tuning before we slam it on a fresh rebuilt motor. that when i thought about the shitty old pinto sitting in the mk3.....fuck knows what its like but i can turn it over by hand so it will run. its missing heaps of shit including a clutch,p,plate gearbox and drive shaft but i will need then in the future so may as well get some now. so far replaced the manifolds to check for fitment ...removed the dizzy and replaced with efi dizzy...all in all its a good fit. will have to sort out wiring as well as thats a fucking mess.

mmmmmmmmmmmm kissing cousins

Out of all the cortinas the.mk4 and mk5 Are the closest looking to eash other

very true.

i dont need the full set......unless a mk1 or a mk4 crossed my path .cheap or cheaper

hmmmm hyundai......intresting.

Getting there..

discussion https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/57595-dpns-mk3-discussion/ so ive known about this car for a while now..pretty sure its been sitting in a container at work for close to 2 years and in a store room before that. i have thought about buying it a few time (as the mk3 is possibly my favorite shape... ) but never had the room ..we have since bought a house with a 4 car garage so its only human to full it. so i was at work last week and was asked if i wanted it (for a very very very cheap price) or its of to the scappy . i didnt want to see that happen and i thought worse case build a purpose build burnout car. havnt never really seen it apart from the front end . well to be honest now i have it home its very fixable it does have the origanal plates and tags (died 20 years ago) and is a factory 73 with a 2.0 pinthoe .the dash is mint....fuck all rust apart from the back end. so i am thinking of sripping it back to metal panel by panel and sorting them as i go till have a mint straight rust free shell and go from there. i do want to get my mk2 done next year but while i wait for parts the mk3 is just my time for now.. so heres some pics.

discuss here

yeah same mate...i love that mk2 and im building it for me. as for the mk3 i seen it a few years ago but its been sitting in a container at work for that amount of time....i know there is lots missing and the reg is now dead. the girls have wanted me to build a car for burnout comps so was thinking that could be worse case... if its repairable might look at a mild resto and revin. i do want a mk3 but knida got my heart set on a mk3 wagon.

well its been about 15 mouths since i actually worked on this (not just fucking around with it.) ..we said we would have an awesome holiday last xmas as it will be the last for a while so stopped working on it and saved .,took 5 weeks of work over xmas and we took the kids on a road trip around NZ...... during this time the wife and i decided it might be time to bite the bullet and buy a house.so we decided that what we would do this year ...so once again i put the old girl on hold till we had our own home. we we finally managed to buy a house .....so our gilrs have a place to call home and so do my projects.(twice as big as the last garage) i had done 2 trips to the new house and i could kinda see the mk2 in the old garage. and the 1st time she has been out side in a while. and after move all my shit i have come to the conclusion the old garage was the fucking tardis as i have no idea how it all fitted... as its fulled the new garage. so once i get all of this sorted i will be back into it......normally i would have sold this off agers ago but i love it to bits and i bought the mk5 after xmas to keep me amused .. also bought a mk3 last week so i will see what thats like when i get around to picking it up. cheers

the might vaz2102

so fucking mint.......man i wanted this thing so much.. good luck with it man...best car in that feild

been gather bits here and there for a new motor build for the old girl. new belt new gaskets sierra efi dizzy (hall effect) 205 long block (cheers karl) low mount maifold ,evo turbo, falcon cpi on pinto manifold once i pull the motor down ill cheack bearings and rebuild. cheers