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 pete wood
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| posted on September 13th, 2005 at 11:01 PM |
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Formula Vee guys, what do you do for back brakes?
Are they stock type 1, or are you using the early type 3 rears?
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| posted on September 14th, 2005 at 09:31 AM |
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Pete
Most guys seem to go with the 1 piece rear hub/disk and use a variety of different calipers ranging from stock ATE thru to god knows what. I think
there is a generic single sided caliper used on lots of Korean and taiwanese small cars that is popular.
Sublime to ridiculous is an appropriate term.
I used stock T3 front disks with the hubs gutted out to form "slip on" disks and I machined down a pair of T3 rear drums to flat plates that disk
simply slips over and sandwiched by the wheel.
I machined a round 6mm steel plate to replace the old brake backing plates and then welded steel blocks to that to carry the calipers.
When the time comes to replace the disks, Ill use the one piece disk/hubs.nn[ Edited on 13/9/05 by tassupervee ]
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Im not a complete idiot, quite a few parts are missing....
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| posted on September 14th, 2005 at 09:37 AM |
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the early 1200 Vees used the stock Beetle rear and front brakes didnt they
The new supervee class allows for dics ??? is that right
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tassupervee
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| posted on September 14th, 2005 at 09:50 AM |
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F-Vee 1600cc must use disks all round and they are optional on 1200 F-V now.
There are only fairly loose rules for the brake setups. Disks cannot be made of composites,vented or drilled. Thats about it really.
The class is simply designated Formula Vee 1600. Supervees is a yank class i think. Very highly modified.
Formula First is a development 1600 class popular in the US and a few of them running in South Australia and they insist on stock VW disk and caliper
components.
These were the rules I (mistakenly) believed were in force when I built my brakes hence all the stock components.
Historic (Group V) regulations insist on the old T1 drums all round for cars up to and including 1974.
Not too sure about the intermediate historics tho '75 to '86. Prolly stay with drums on them Id say.
There you go!
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| posted on September 14th, 2005 at 10:17 AM |
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| posted on September 16th, 2005 at 10:16 PM |
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In fact traditional 1200 Fvee & Historics are allowed to use the wider 1300 drums with the webbed face to aid braking efficiency. Howver, we are
limited to using T1 brake shoes.
Following a number of cracked drums we have to use a plate that bolts on the face of the drums to spread the load and help strengthen the drums.
Regards
Murphnn[ Edited on 16-9-2005 by Murph ]
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