All four ready for clear, waiting till the missus goes out so i can then put them in the oven without any hassle.

 

Good job with those brakes, looking good.

My forged rods arrived today.. not much more left to buy now. Decided to stick with my pistons and get 19mm to match the wrist pins rather than use the spare set of pistons i have that are 20mm. For the power i'll be running i don't think there is a need to go any further internally.

 

Edited 14 March, 20179 yr by pip_vrs

Fascinated to see the rear brake solution, hurry up Phil!!

16 hours ago, Lofty said:

Fascinated to see the rear brake solution, hurry up Phil!!

 

Haha i am too!! Not sure what disc to use yet either. 256/288/312, personal pref would be 288 mainly for asthetics but i'm not sure yet. We will see soon 

There is a firm in Germany who sells brackets to fit Porsche rear four pots onto the rear of our cars, but you also have to run the OE rear caliper as well to retain the handbrake, looks messy with two calipers on the back imo.

 

what you doing regarding the handbrake Phil?

1 hour ago, Lofty said:

There is a firm in Germany who sells brackets to fit Porsche rear four pots onto the rear of our cars, but you also have to run the OE rear caliper as well to retain the handbrake, looks messy with two calipers on the back imo.

 

what you doing regarding the handbrake Phil?

 

Think philip had that kind of set up on his octy

 

dont need a handbrake on a race car though 

3 hours ago, andsoutham said:

 

Think philip had that kind of set up on his octy

 

dont need a handbrake on a race car though 

Phill does though because it has to pass an MOT as he drives to and from the track. So yes, he'll need a handbrake.

1 hour ago, Outofthi5world said:

Phill does though because it has to pass an MOT as he drives to and from the track. So yes, he'll need a handbrake.

 

Fit a couple of normal calipers for one day out of the year... Jobs a goodun

I think Phil should go all out yolo, cars like the Jag F-Type have 2 so why the hell not  just paint one black  

6 minutes ago, Hyphons said:

I think Phil should go all out yolo, cars like the Jag F-Type have 2 so why the hell not  just paint one black  

Na, paint them different colours and make 'em stand out! In fact, fit three.

Yeah I used to run 6 pots and 4 pots with R32 caliper on my octy..

But not worried about hand brake for the Fabia, so a second caliper is out of the question.

Can't you get an in car line lock for when it's on trailer etc 

2 hours ago, TrevorB33 said:

Can't you get an in car line lock for when it's on trailer etc 

 

Why?

 

It's fine without a hand brake, just can't do crazy hand brake turns at mcdonalds

Cayenne calipers on the Octavia Phil??

Yeah. 350mm front discs and 310mm rears. Stopped well 

What was pedal travel like and feel with them?

Exactly the same as standard, feel was perfect and very progressive. Litrally popped your eyes out it used properly. 

Well the Brembos are now done and up for sale. Check out the classified section 

 

 

cleaned up the brake pins for my rear Brembos too whilst i was at it, should slide in better and look a lot better.

 

Well started on the engine and hit a snag.. the forged rods dont fit inside standard pistons. The pistons are tapered and the standard rods are tapered too, can be seen in the pics. Now i'll probably do what i planned to start with and buy forged rods with 20mm wrist pins to fit my 'spare' pistons. Last pic shows how the 20mm ones are alot wider. 

 

The front of the block is minging, oil and dirt. Started to clean it up, need to get some proper cleaner to get it off then some paint.

 

Looks like its been dropped in a river haha I'm sure you'll have fun cleaning it off...

2 hours ago, skodalad said:

Looks like its been dropped in a river haha I'm sure you'll have fun cleaning it off...

The rear is nice and clean though.

 

Sprayed up the front and picked the dirt off with screwdriver. Needs a proper degreaser/gunk on it though. 

4 minutes ago, pip_vrs said:

The rear is nice and clean though.

 

 

Mine was as bad as yours mate, Mainly oil on mine from a badly fitted return pipe