SEAC rebuild

[De Tomaso]

Now in the very capable hands of Ian at Track V Road to complete the car to a high standard with improvements and upgrades as necessary.

Thanks to those here that have made some very good suggestions in answering my questions previously that and those from Ian who has a wealth of experience with these cars.

[De Tomaso]

...and to the few who've not seen the fanatical fruitcake that I am.

Spacers being made to make up the gap left by removing the discs from the original inboard set up, currently temporarily made up with washers.

Edited by De Tomaso on Thursday 4th December 06:33

[Adrian@]

The spacer could be the old discs simply by machining them down. Q. what are the new castings? A@

[De Tomaso]

S-type Jag Ade.

[Stick Legs]

Pulling up a chair...

[Adrian@]

I looked before I asked and I could not see what it was...cool. I am just gathering rubber bushes and running gear parts for my SEAC chassis (86 car) 280DH and it needs a diff ratio change too, I was not thinking of changing the disc set up as the car has only got a 2.8. prior to the body being lifted. I am going through the pictorials to add real details (bolts/threads etc.) to them. A@

[De Tomaso]

Ade,

It maybe worthwhile as you're a DIY guy unlike me so you get all this done at cost.

Hubs will need machining so as far as the S-type conversion goes it's not plug 'n' play :-)

I wish the SEAC had a Chim or Griff chassis so one could move, change or delete the centre silencer box that nearly always bottoms out in these cars.

Alan got a new narrower centre box made which from memory gives him an extra 1/2 -1" ground clearence.

Also, due to my 18" 275mm wide rear tyres inner wings were moved inwards and new fuel tanks were fabricated but, were increased in height to fill the void above the standard stock tanks and in effect have actually increased the overall fuel capacity!

I like old school low 'N' wide.

[Wedg1e]

My old Tasmin is (or was) at TrackvRoad... not sure there's much left of the original car though.

[keynsham]

What is the benefit from going from inboard to outboard discs apart from ease of maintenance? Doesn't it increase the unsprung weight?

[Stick Legs]

Inboard rear discs are a hangover from 60's racecar technology.
There were deemed to be better for packaging and unsprung weight, but once in a closed car almost universally suffer from poor heat dissipation and nightmarish maintenance issues.

The miniscule gains on a 1000kg+ car of reducing unsprung weight are negated the first time you cook your diff seals.

[De Tomaso]

Rich, All what SL said + they look good.

Seriously though on these cars the stock brakes IMHO are not the most awe inspiring for a V8 powered fag packet of a car when you need to put the anchors on in a hurry.

[Wedg1e]

Stick Legs said:

...nightmarish maintenance issues.

The best that can be said is that they are easier to work on under the Wedge than they ever were when secreted away in the pressed-tin beam of a Jag.

Possibly even worse than that, Lotus on the Elite and Eclat used inboard drums, which means major work to access...

Edited by Wedg1e on Thursday 4th December 18:03

[mrzigazaga]

Good to see the beast in the hands of good people... been too long