Alpine White G60

quicksilver said

Clean bay that, who did your paint work mate??

Somewhere in hemel hempstead by recommendation

i was never happy with my brakes, one disc was warped which made them bind, lucky i had a spare set, but also the spacer brackets were really bad and i had to half the pads so they could fit.

also the company that fitted them (designer dubs) drilled out the the hub mountings for them to fit. cf_emoticons__BangHead:cf_emoticons__BangHead:so i stripped them back and decided to fit the vauxhall 280mm setup, this way instead of using shoulder bolts, i could just tap the thread to m12

the carrier mounting bolts were soo loose i just pulled the bolts out by hand   pics





what a simple swap, its crazy how it all fits together.. straight off a calibra turbo, until i went to put my wheel back on that is

FAIL!

not sure which direction to take right now, thinking to get 280mm brackets again and open up the bracket holes or sell this conversion with the hubs and start again with an audi 256 setup

  

That sucks mate, sounds like you had your work cut out there.

Will 256 be the easiest option?

Damn George !!…. NIce to know you still got the motor and still tinkering with it…can't remember when it was the last time I saw her and be good to catch up when it's done.

Hairyarse said

That sucks mate, sounds like you had your work cut out there.

Will 256 be the easiest option?

nope, easiest option will be to drill out my calipers to m12 and go back to 239s        

campaignjerry said

Damn George !!…. NIce to know you still got the motor and still tinkering with it…can't remember when it was the last time I saw her and be good to catch up when it's done.

thanks mate,

probably about 5 years ago, i drove it a few times after the 16v carb conversion in 2012 locally but havent taken it to any shows for years. Rims are still mint, havent polished them yet lol

campaignjerry said

Damn George !!…. NIce to know you still got the motor and still tinkering with it…can't remember when it was the last time I saw her and be good to catch up when it's done.

I think the last time I saw it was about 2006 at E38!!

Hi George loving your g60. What radiator and intercooler are you running? Radtec?

thanks rich, the radiator was a universal one off ebay, i think its a polo alloy one but it has a 60mm core.  I got the filler head welded on at a local fabricators and bought the stant cap too.

the intercooler is a mercedes sprinter one, it does the job at £65 although its a very tight fit

managed to locate some new hubs, prepped them and painted them, just waiting for them to dry, pretty chuffed they came with solid backplates as i never had any but slightly annoying the opening for the ball joints appear to be for 15mm so have to buy new ball joints.cf_emoticons__BangHead:still on the hunt for the audi 256 setup if anyone has any message me please

Hey George, did I buy a pair of recaro's off you about 3 years ago?

golf looks wicked. 

small brake downgrade conversion complete

hubs/backplates painted with por 15 paint
new bearings ball joints and track rod ends

back to original new 239mm pagid discs and pads

not looking forward to how they perform with no servo  

       

Looking good George. How come you didn't consider the g60 280mm brakes?

What was the problem with the Vauxhall calipers mate?
I ran the same calipers on my blue mk1 over 15's without a problem.

P.S. I think I bought a flywheel and starter motor from you years back

I want to fit some teardrops at some stage so 280mm will not fit,
the vauxhall 280mm setup i bought for the sake of it ages ago so thought id put it on to get me through the mot as a temp thing as my calipers were comming loose off the hubs due to worn threads.

they were catching on the bolts of the split rims on the inside of the wheels and spacing them out would make the tyres catch on the arches

lol everyone buying things off me

new rims

Ooo tear drops, unusual to see on a MK1. Nice!

This is awesome! Hard to make a G engine look minimal but you've done a stunning job!

Loving the teardrops   

Matt

thanks guys, shame the tyres are 175 50s, plus the previous owner thought he was smart smothing off the lettering off the sidewall???

will change them after ive abused them   

im after 1 center cap for the teardrops as one of them was corroded. needs to be corrosion free