I grew up in Southern California, just north of downtown Los Angeles.  When I first moved to Phoenix,  AZ, I thought I’d be back to California in a few years.  31 years later, I have a house and yard that I’d never be able to afford back home.  It’s sunny over 300 days a year and yes, it does get hot in the summer.  I’d rather pay for air cond…[Read more]

Well, I’m committed to the POR15 patch route – my kit arrived today.Meanwhile, since Roy coined the TDr acronymn, I’d like to propose another…Sloppy (or Silly, or Stupid) Original Builder — SOBI muttered that a few times, during hours spent on my knees using an angle grinder with either a cutoff wheel or wire brush cleaning up after the guy.…[Read more]

Ok thank will try to get there sounds like could be nice time

YAHHH!

You could send the calipers back? Mine do not interfere with the wheels; yours shouldn’t either. Tell Cip1 or whoever what your problem is and see if they can make it right.

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If my wife questions me about why I’m spending money on a running car, I simply show her the Macy’s bill.  Problem solved.

I think that the disks will be best. I had drums on a previous kit car and went to hit the brakes when a car in front of me lost their hood. My car swerved into oncoming traffic and I narrowly missed an accident. She got new disk brakes the next week.As for the new front end, my mechanic said that the disk kit would move my tires out a couple of…[Read more]

Another reason to love my Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess.

Carlisle show is May 20, 21, 22

I have the EMPI front discs and the narrowed front beam. The mechanic told me that it was narrowed to the max, but I don’t know how much that is/was. Certainly never indicated that the discs would widen anything, and it’s much narrower now than it was pre-anything. It makes a nice realistic stance, but I use 165/15 tires on OEM 4.5 VW wheels…[Read more]

Rick so now you are telling me I have a third option. I think option 2 with a bag of rocks will be the most practical. Or I go back to option 0 which would be to reinstall the drum brakes and just consider the conversion kit a sunk cost until I want to go for new wheels, tires, narrow beam and associated front suspension hardware. My wife keeps…[Read more]

Where did you buy the new light socket?

Thanks for the great advice and pictures! What a cool idea. It just prooves once again the value of tdreplica.com!

Ive been told that when you convert the front drums to disk that it is also a good idea to install a narrowed adjustable front end with dropped spindles. My mechanic said that it would also let me get rid of the box of rocks that was used to lower the front end. The narrowed front end would offset the few inches that the new disks add to the…[Read more]

Where us Carlile and when .I am not up to date on that event.remember I am new here.

Thanks David and John,

As I understand it, the problem was due mostly to the use of “positive earth” i.e. positive grounding as opposed to negative grounding. My first car, a 1964 MGBGT that had been converted from positive to negative grounding.I was told that with positive grounding, a series circuit was used. All fixtures were fed by one wire from one to the next…[Read more]

I proceeded with the install of the disk brake conversion kit yesterday and was pleasantly surprised at how easy the whole process was.  Until I went to bolt on the wheel.  Turns out the caliber casting is proud of the face of the rotor and as such will not allow the wheel to turn.  So I have the option of buying a wheel spacer and longer lug bo…[Read more]

Tom

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Ric,  

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