The Restoration Page 3
Brakes and exhaust have been developing slowly, but recently the car has taken second place to thesis and caravan work. She does have all her panels back on though:
The brakes are finished! To summarise... Keep the Corona calipers (this keeps the braking bias as factory), except, machine up some 8mm spacers to make them a bit fatter. Increasing the width of the calipers means that you can fit a set of RA60 vented and slotted rotors into them (almost the same size, and exactly the same bolt pattern to match them onto the Corona's hub stub. Add in 16mm spacers between the hub and rotor to set it up at the correct dimensions, and a reconditioning kit for the calipers, and it's all done - as can be seen by the following pictures:
Old left, new
left, new right...
Main other development has been blowing up two fuel pumps - I was unlucky - dirty fuel and old bearings - the new one is going fine... exhaust and interior...