Rear disc conversion

[Que1]

Hello all,
I'm re-building a 94 chimp and changing a few things on the way.One of them is solid rear discs to vented and wanted to know if i can do away with the regulator that is mounted above the diff? I beleive that TVR did away with these on later cars,but i wanted to double check
Cheers
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[joospeed]

they didn't do away with it .. it's just much smaller and attached to the front part of the T splitter at the rear pipe split. don't go large discs rear without going big discs front also .. in fact keeping the std rear discs and going bigger front discs will restore the balance somewhere near where it should be .. at the mo you'll have a big rear bias .. not nice

[Que1]

Thanks for the advice, i should of mentioned that the front discs are 280mm 40 groove with green stuff pads. will this make a differance?
Cheers
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>> Edited by Que1 on Sunday 18th May 01:54

[shpub]

You may also need to change the rear upright to take the bigger disc. Makes it rather an expensive operation.

[Que1]

Your spot on SHPUB,found this out yesterday,the vented are 275mm and the solid are 250mm .Never mind back the drawing board.
Thanks again
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[joospeed]

still not a problem though .. get down to the local TVR breakers (OK mail order!) and get the complete caliper and bearing/mounting flange assembly, the uprights are the same .. the caliper is wider for the vented disc and the extra diameter is accomodated in the longer mounting flange which is integral with the bearing carrier anyway. simple conversion.

[Que1]

Thanks to JOOSPEED and SHPUB for the top advice.Well appreciated Managed to get hold of all the parts that are needed, so i'll be putting them together this weekend. Just one last question, are there any advantages on fitting a manual brake bias valve or will the orginal regulator do the job?
Cheers
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>> Edited by Que1 on Sunday 25th May 16:23

[Ballistic Banana]

Q1 if u wanna hand on Monday i will be about give us a call.( plus i wanna peak at the chimeara) have u got the body back yet??

BB

[Que1]

The body hasn't been done yet BB.They have been busy at there end so i have joined the waiting game. Still got a few bits to sort out with the trim and i'm looking at changing the dash to something that's a bit differant Soon as it's back i'll be straight on the blower.It's looking like Tuesday until i can do any more work on the chimp,but thanks for the offer mate
Cheers
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[Ballistic Banana]

I should think they are the amount of TVR's that were damage this winter gone.

Keep em sunny side up Guys

BB