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I've had good luck with the EBC Greenstuff pads - no squeal using both Brembo calipers and also Hispec calipers. Might be worth a try. Good advice here - chamfer the leading edge of the pad...this puts the center of effort a bit farther to the rear of the piston center and can help. The RTV...

Beautiful car. Thanks for posting the pics here Pat.

I've got a used body you can take off my hands if I can find a suitable replacement. It's an original body - vintage 1967, has a lot of miles on it with a lot of scrapes and dents, one bad knee and two eyes that don't see as well as they used to......

On the contrary Larry, there are very viable means to move away from fossil fuel based transportation right now. As in now, immediately. Just for example, the technology behind EV cars has progressed tremendously over the past several years and there are very viable means at both the personal...

Fantastic work there Andy, looking good. Keep the pics coming.

Yup, I'm following you here Randy, and that does make total sense. The last time I had an LSD apart I replaced the (worn out) plates in my LSD-equipped porsche 915. I noticed there was some "cupping" to the plates, which makes sense as this provides the pre-load to the stack. It looked to be...

Anyone have an experience with this??

Interesting. I can see it both ways - just a moment around an axle centerline......but also the same vector at different distances from a trailing radius arm pivot point. Hhhhhmmmmm.....still confused.

Rick, the stock Esprit brakes really are a weak point of the car. As I recall, they're Toyota calipers from a Corolla. There are some excellent kits to upgrade the calipers/rotors to two and four piston, with larger vented rotors. The kits aren't too expensive. Let me know if you want a...

Question is: does a leading caliper have any effect upon rear suspension dynamics v. a trailing caliper? Assume a trailing radius arm type rear suspension. Thanks in advance.

I have always been under the impression that a clutch pack type LSD has a "built-in" design feature that provides more lockup when it's called upon. What I mean is that while the clutch plates allow a certain amount of slip based upon friction surface, stack pressure, number of plates, state of...

It's easy and convenient to blame the owners of coal and oil (ie. Dirty Energy) for some (or most, or all in some people's opinion) of the fault of environmental pollution...but the fact of the matter is that it's not Dirty Energy that's at fault. It's the people that create a market for dirty...

One thing you should check is to ensure you have a matched set of IDA’s. IDA’s of different series have different progression holes drilled in the bore by the butterfly, which changes the AFR from closed to WOT. More than one set of IDA’s out there that don’t match......

Dang, I just finished replacing the hard lines with all new nickel/copper hard lines with bubble flare. Didn’t occur to me that flexible braided could be used instead. It took some serious time to re-do all the hard lines!

The amazing and storied GT40. Only 112 of these amazing cars were originally made, and only 163 of those survive to this day..... What a comedy of false originality.

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Just going back to the OP's question - ditto what's been said.....don't use stainless hardware in the suspension. Stainless is fine where it's not bearing a significant load, and can be helpful in those places particularly in a corrosive environment. Good quality grade 8 from a reputable...

The EPA, like any other governmental agency, is subject to the whims of agency leaders and the occasional failings of the rank and file staff. It's not perfect, never has been, and never will be. However, the EPA has done an incredible job of reigning in the worst of the polluters and...

Highly recommend the audi transaxles for an economical and light weight alternative to the ZF and other good options. They're cheap, and pretty robust. I wouldn't put one behind a 427, but for a small block with modest hp/tq they work well. I know you can put a porsche LSD in the older audi...

Absolutely beautiful car Mike - what a stunner. That's is one sorted out GT40. Whoever buys it is getting a heck of a car.