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by **Stoned** on Sat Nov 01, 2003 8:47 pm

Right. Last weekend MadcatCraig came over and brought and fitted rear discs for me. I cannot say thank you enough for this since he worked on my car in utter freezing conditions and never moaned once. The man is a real trooper. He didnt even complain when he ended up having to stay in Pompey overnight due to complications slowing the conversion down.

So big thank you to MC.

He brought his camera with him so I grabbed some random shots. Gave me something to do other than find screwdrivers and make tea for him :lol:

Off with the drums!

Random pics of err my car and the tiles on the ground. Arent they nice

MC hard at work. That's his Fez on the right. Bloody fast for a 1.4!

Getting there. Notice the fairy cakes wrappers :lol:

I couldnt find anything decent to feed him so he lived on tea and cakes for the day lol

Getting there

Looking sweet!

Random pimp shot of the Fez. I cleaned it up especially for his visit.

Moving onto the other side now. Sun is going in.. oh dear. Getting late and no where near done

Craig says at lunchtime when we started 'Fitting the discs will take a couple of hours. Then the handbrake cable maybe another two'
LOL
Let's see if he's right

Oh there is nothing like it. What these pictures do NOT bring accross is the utterly mental cold. It was a frost that night and there he is working in a bloody teeshirt outside. By this time I was concluding it wouldnt be done that evening and was working out where he should stay. Luckily as it turned out his Dad has a house nearby.

The next day.
Result!. Discs and calipers on. Sadly I forgot to take photo's earlier in this process but it's probably just as well for you lot, or it would take you a year to load all the pics :lol:

Greenstuff pads. Pity I dont have those on the front yet :rolleyes:

A pic MC took

And another he took underneath the car. Not sure why he took this. Perhaps he was pleased he had found something with dirt on it :wink:

w00t!

Sweeeet. I got discs!

Already getting dark again. Bloody winter

Another, I'm in the background caught on camera at last lol

There yah go!

Another huge photodiary for you.

Once again thanks to MadcatCraig. He's the dude!

by **1600power** on Sat Nov 01, 2003 9:52 pm

excellent bit of work u've done there lads!! so have you noticed much improvement in your braking?

by **Stoned** on Sat Nov 01, 2003 10:07 pm

Actually no. It's been compleatly undrivable ever since they were put on :lol:

But's thats because the FRST master brake cylinder is hopeless for all round calipers. I'm hoping to upgrade to an Escort brake cylinder this weekend so I shall let you know if there is a difference afterwards.

Cheers

by **SPo0n** on Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:03 pm

ewww not keen on the green bits!

by **DaveZetec** on Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:22 pm

Stoned, throw some soil on that car or something, drive through some mucky puddles, please! thats too clean :lol:

imho fiestas arent heavy and dont really need rear disks but they do look nice! and are hardly going to hurt braking

by **MikeyXR2i** on Sun Nov 02, 2003 1:22 am

Chris, least you got em on, one thing though, on the passneger rear caliper on the sliding pins, the rubber dust seals are missing, or did you put em on later?

by **SantaHul** on Sun Nov 02, 2003 4:16 am

love those tiles :wink:

by **Stoned** on Sun Nov 02, 2003 9:26 am

lol Santahul. Glad you do. I jetwashed them all a few weeks before to bring back the colour in them :lol:

Mikey well spotted, i'll check that out as there was a rubber seal laying about somewhere.

Sp00n: The green bits are better than the black dust you get with the OE pads mate, that's why I got em. Greenstuff pads are ace for low dust.

Yeah you dont need rear discs at all, I'm not doing this to improve braking, just to make the car look better. In my own opinion you cant have a top car with drums on the back. If VW see fit to put them on the Golf then I reckon the Fez should have them too.
The only problem with the conversion is it has pushed the wheels out 15mm either side so the tyres are hitting the arches again

by **Ben_frst** on Sun Nov 02, 2003 10:02 am

stoned ur car is mint i dont wanna put pics of my car up now :lol:

seriously m8 we'll have 2 meet up sumtime u can give me sum ideas

by **rajaboyuk** on Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:10 pm

sweet job fellas!!

Does make it look better!!

Well done

by **Stoned** on Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:23 am

Well uprated Escort brake cylinder is on!

However the brakes arent any better

Just one of many things that went wrong yesterday whilst working on the car

by **Tomdom** on Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:04 am

cars looking amazing!

by **Stoned** on Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:05 pm

Tomdom :cars looking amazing!

Not at the moment it doesnt!

The rad leaks, the gasket for the thermostat also leaks water. The pipework doesnt quite fit and i'm throughly pissed off with the whole thing.

It's in pieces on my driveway.

Grr

by **Tomdom** on Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:09 pm

ahh sorry to hear that

well all i ment was it looks much nicer than in previous pictures

i wasnt keen on bits of it b4 but it all suits the car, clean!

by **MikeyXR2i** on Tue Nov 04, 2003 6:24 pm

Chris, you need to find out why the brakes arent any better, even if you need to test my brakes to see how different the setup really is.
Maybe your biasing valve have been played with.
The only thing i can think of is you have a big problem with air in the system, the brakes should absouletly be Shhitt hot with the Escort Master Cylinder and i mean HOT!
Another tip, check each wheel is coming on with the foot pedal, to make sure all 4 corners are coming on.

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