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The Elford installation loses all the factory fitted emission control stuff and the Nikki 4 barrel carb and rats nest so most of the old connections in the standard engine loom are redundant.

To tidy things up, I got another s3 engine loom, identified which wires I still needed and cut out the ones I didn't and rebound the loom.
I also incorporated the wiring to the ignition retard system into the new loom as well instead of the micky mouse wiring that Elfords used.

Here's the old s3 I've taken off...





and here's my dedicated Elford loom...





I forgot to take a picture of it installed in the engine bay.... I'll post one when I have..... it looks great.

When I first collected this car from the seller last year, a garage called GRS in Bournemouth, I set off to drive it back home and the 1st time I used the brakes, they nearly put me into the hedge as only one front brake seems to be working.... I since discovered that although they had just had the car mot'd and gave me the pass cert, they conveniently 'forgot' to give me the intial fail sheet on which there was an advisory that read 'front brakes only just met the front brake imbalance requirements. It would appear that the braking system requires adjustment or repair'.

I'd have thought that as the advisory related to a braking fault, they'd have the decency to pass that info on... tossers!
As the journey progressed through the Cotswolds, and as I was now taking it easier after my earlier scare, the brakes seemed to free off a bit and not pull quite as much and after a couple of hundred miles, they seemed much better.

Since then, however, whenever the car is parked up for any period of time, the offside front caliper sticks again and as I've also discovered, via the vosa mot check, the mot advisory re the brakes, I've decided to sort them out once and for all and rebuild them.
As I've still got the brakes off Keiths old car, I've decided to refurb those and then put them onto my car to minimise the down time.

here's when I stripped the calipers earlier in the year...




the pistons were seized solid and had to be pumped out with a grease gun







The calipers were cleaned up and painted, the pistons and bores cleaned up and checked for damage and a rebuild kit purchased...





Here's the 1st caliper reassembled..... I'm putting the other one together tomorrow.




I bought the rebuild kit from here...


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£26.00 delivered next day... very impressed with Bigg Red.

Found a set of Ferodo pads on ebay for the good price of £6.00 and bought these...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0720547213

I've already got the flexible lines that I bought last year for my project car but never fitted so they can go on this car when I swap the calipers and pads next week.

They look great Ian, I have been thinking of using these kits for other cars.
Was the quality of the kit as good as they look?

myatt1972 wrote:They look great Ian, I have been thinking of using these kits for other cars.
Was the quality of the kit as good as they look?

yeah, excellent

I used these kits when I rebuilt both my fronts ane rears, two years latter still going strong so therefore recomended.

Dibs

Cheers for the write up Ian.

With my hunt for hotter brakes having fallen through for now, I was about to start searching for re-build kits. You've done the hard work for me!

Edit: In fact Bigg Red appear to be based about 5 miles from me, so I'll pop in and see them!

Or you could just buy the fully recond ones that I have for sale.

Cheers for the offer Brian, but for now I've got plenty of time but less money so re-building my own works well for me.