Well I've been a little scared of this point to be fair. The brakes in my opinion are the single most important part of any car. Its all well being able to go fast and get to a top speed quickly, but it all counts for shit if you cant stop when Mr Honda pulls out from the golf club in front of you, without looking!!!
So after a couple of hours in the garage with the radio on, i have managed to strip down the handbrake calipers, rebuild them and tart them up a bit with some smooth hammerite. I had done a trial fit prior to paint finish, and i have replaced all the pads also. So i can leave them overnight to harden off and fit them tomorrow.
The next stage of the build is the brake lines, this has to be done properly, and cant be a half arsed gash job. So i have invested in a pipe flaring kit and some small pipe cutters. I haven't spent silly money, as it will be another one use tool as i shouldn't need to be replacing brake lines at any time in the near future of the car being finished.
So i went for it following the guide and have started on the front brake pipe connecting the two front calipers together. This involved drilling the chassis and fitting a "T"piece to split the line from the master cylinder to the two calipers. this was done using a riv nut, as i want to be able to get easy access to the lines in the future when at some point the lines will need replacing, and if they fail IVA i can rip them all off and start again.
So with the chassis drilled i have gone crazy with loads of waxoil in the box section, for two reasons 1. is to help prevent rust and water retention (but the chassis is sealed so would be very hard to get water vapor in) 2nd is that if by any chance my flares weep and fail IVA i will have to drill out the pop rivit heads on all the "P" clips to remove the brake pipe. This will then leave the body of the rivit rattling about in the box section of the chassis, so hopefully if i do need to do this the waxoil will give them something to stick to. (probably thinking to much into this, but i hate rattles and squeaks in cars, so I'm not taking the risk)
Now i have finished bending and flaring the brake pipe, as you can see on the picture right i have alot of securing to do using the little rubber P clips, these need to be rivited every 6" for IVA pass, I'll be doing it every 5" to be on the safe side, but i wont be doing any of them until just prior to the engine going in, as i don't want to start drilling holes in my chassis in the wrong place.
Now you can see i have fitted the handbrake calipers and rear brake lines, obviously lots of fine tuning to do with the handbrake when setup. Fingers crossed my brake flares don't weep!!!
Also have just offerd the fuel tank up and quickly secured, this is just to get some space back in the garage mostly, but will probs come off when i go round to check all the torque settings on the suspension setup.
Had my little helper also today, why don't AK make a chassis with ISOFIX ??? now that's an idea!!
Now i have finished bending and flaring the brake pipe, as you can see on the picture right i have alot of securing to do using the little rubber P clips, these need to be rivited every 6" for IVA pass, I'll be doing it every 5" to be on the safe side, but i wont be doing any of them until just prior to the engine going in, as i don't want to start drilling holes in my chassis in the wrong place.
Now you can see i have fitted the handbrake calipers and rear brake lines, obviously lots of fine tuning to do with the handbrake when setup. Fingers crossed my brake flares don't weep!!!
Also have just offerd the fuel tank up and quickly secured, this is just to get some space back in the garage mostly, but will probs come off when i go round to check all the torque settings on the suspension setup.
Had my little helper also today, why don't AK make a chassis with ISOFIX ??? now that's an idea!!
