Hi People,

Over the past few weeks I have been a bit busy with the cinq:
Fitted Rear Powerflex Suspension Bushes
Got my Radius Arms powder coated
Fitted new EBC Drums (had them powder coated) and Shoes
New Backplates, Brake Cylinders, Stainless Brakes Lines, New Copper Brakeline and new Handbrake Cable.
Undersealed the whole rear of the car as well, not sure if much underseal had been put on the car from new.

Anyway, here are the photos:

David

:worship: cant even begin to describe what an ace job you've done there fella, dont do things by half do ya

Love it, was Brian helping?

Liam

bloomfieldliam said:

Love it, was Brian helping?

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No actually He was on his Holidays when I done most of this, he gave a hand with bleeding the brakes. He was away the same 2 weeks as my parents, so with me have a drive and two cars to myself I decided that I better get round to doing it. It would have been done earlier if it was not due to a few days of rain in the middle of the two weeks.

David

im with ghost on this one, that is a legendary job! :worship:

couple of questions tho:

how much did the arms and drums cost to get them powder coated?
where did u get EBC drums from and how much?

EBC stuff from www.needforspeed.co.uk

Arms cost me 50quid to get powder coated, cause of all the blasting required, drums i think were about 10quid each, mind they have burnt off already though. This is because my new brakes need time to settle down.

HTH

David

i just looked at prices for rear drums an shoes..... oh my god, soooooo cheap, this is a must when i upgrade my brakes!!!

anyone know how much arms are to buy? i am sure i saw somewhere reconditioned arms with powerflex bushes already in them???

sorry mase bad news the feeyat guy that was doin them has stopped now rob might b able to sort you out though?

peaster2k said:

No actually

He was on his Holidays when I done most of this, he gave a hand with bleeding the brakes. He was away the same 2 weeks as my parents, so with me have a drive and two cars to myself I decided that I better get round to doing it. It would have been done earlier if it was not due to a few days of rain in the middle of the two weeks.

David

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It does look brianesque but I salute you, shows what can be done with time and patience.

All Cinq modifying should be like this!

Liam

bloomfieldliam said:

It does look brianesque

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Yeah, cheers. Well after knwoing each other for 4 years and going through a lot as friends, something was going to rub off sooner or later.

David

My earlier reply wasn't conveying what I meant really, you've done very good work in the style I like, taking time, thinking through stuff and knowing when to use professionals, didn't mean to belittle your work by referring to Brian.

Liam

bloomfieldliam said:

didn't mean to belittle your work by referring to Brian.

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I knew what you were getting at, no point in doing things by half measures in my book

David

are the ebc drums grooved?if so its a decent price.once i get some cash the turbo's getting a full brake overhaul

custard boy said:

are the ebc drums grooved?if so its a decent price.once i get some cash the turbo's getting a full brake overhaul

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waiting till you got cash for brake overhaul? hope your not running on standard kit at mo!

custard boy said:

are the ebc drums grooved?if so its a decent price.once i get some cash the turbo's getting a full brake overhaul

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No they are not.

David

Don't worry Alex, custard just jams a big piece of wood under the car and closes his eyes!

Liam

its okay i just throw out a big anchor unfortunatly the turbo is running standard brakes at the moment though im only using it round town so not a big issue for now.
punto GT calipers/discs plus a rear brake overhaul soon though

sorry bit off topic but i noticed you got the powerflex bushes in....how easy was it to get old ones out and new powerflex in?? can you notice a difference??

I burnt all of the old rubber out, once the rubber was burnt enough it just pushed out with a screwdriver. But that leaves a metal insert that is fitted in tightly, to get this out I heated it up with a blow torch (that's what the black marks on the arms are from) while I had the whole arm in the vice and then while it was hot got a 30mm socket (that i had ran under the cold water) and lined it up wit the metal insert and hit it out. Inserting the new bushes was easy, you can start then by hand easy enough, then I used the vice to push them into the arm correctly.

Little tip, start the bush into the arm without the metal insert in first, once you get the bush started then start the metal insert into the bush and then clamp it all in the vice and tighten the vice up. Well thats what I did. Lots of copperslip as well.

I can notice a big difference, feels a bit more firmer over bumps, but not in a bad way. and not more knocking

HTH

David

peaster2k said:

Yeah, cheers. Well after knwoing each other for 4 years and going through a lot as friends, something was going to rub off sooner or later.

David

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Nice job, Dave. We might be in the cold old North-East but we know how to set a standard....

Tosh