Broke the diff, so thought I'd upgrade the brakes...

[dnb]

I found a few scary noises coming from the transmission ever since I replaced the clutch. It turns out the next weakest item has now broken - the pinion bearing in the diff is a little sloppy.

So while the car is off the road in pieces (again) I decided to upgrade the brakes to 324mm discs and Brembo 4 pot calipers.


I know the caliper is upside down. It's only fitted to measure distances for the adaptor brackets I need to make.

It'll be nice to have bigger discs at the front than the back. The brake balance might be right even when the brakes get hot then. I don't know what posessed TVR to put 260mm discs on the front and 273mm on the back, other than they had a job lot of 15" wheels to use up...

Next up is the track-day exhaust when customs finally let me have my parts.

Maybe I'll even get around to finding someone to put a Quaife ATB in the GKN diff case...

[spend]

Put a cooler on it, simple convection works on mine and the extra volume of oil helps to boot. I think Dave Porter has various parts to rebuild - so you might be able to get one of the 'racing' back covers off him.

[HRG]

I've got a proper engineering drawing for my radial mount brackets if it'd help you. My discs are slightly smaller, but you'd only have to alter your dims to suit.

[2Munkys]

They look nice Dave; and an appropriate shade o Rimmel Lippy to match the interior of course. Such an eye for detail!

[dnb]

HRG - yes, such a drawing would help very much!

Thanks

[DustyC]

If you find a good solution for the GKN diff please let me know!

(Edited to add "please!")

Edited by DustyC on Thursday 9th October 13:51