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A common solution is to use a supplier that will make you a cable to order. These are the beefier kind as referred to above and often used in commercial vehicles. The advantages are that you can also get very good heat sleeving fitted and also choose whatever ends you want. A common route for...

Something similar happened to a Renault UN1 box. The box also broke in two halves. In that case the big pin (about 1/2 inch dia) holding crown wheel and pinion in place slipped out and a bit like putting a bar through the spokes of a bicylce wheel whilstin motion, the box internals stopped...

More than I have done in the last 12 years! Serious engine crane in the background of the group picture!

I have had a GTD since 1990 now so have skin in the game! GTD made approximately 400 chassis/cars. They supplied comprehensive kits if you bought the full kit down to the last self tapping screw. Stopped production a long time back, bit of a messy and sad end to a good product. The car has a...

Sounds like you need to play with the sizes of master and slave cylinders or as Roy Smart did for his car was to fit a servo to the clutch system.

AK seem very happy to quote me for rear suspension uprights and parts to upgrade my GTD items.

GTD cable shift problems are caused by a couple of potential factors. Heat damaging the cables as directly under the silencers so insulate this area. Also ensure you have Heim joints on both ends of the cables as they are way more precise. If you still want to change the transaxle then the...

I have a 10g switch mounted on the chassis by the door hinge behind the dash. From a Jaguar I beleive but can't remember which one. Only ever triggered once when spun off a track during a competition and went across some very rough ground at speed! Not a lot of effort to fit and a good safety...

Well done Glenn. Did Tammy drive too?

There was a spectacular moment for Dave Parker when we used to hill climb and sprint in the GTD 40 car Club. At Wiscombe he was full on it when the 1/2 inch (or so) pin in the differential and planetary gears moved and locked his gearbox solid in an instant. Unfortunately he was doing about 50...

I just bought replacement fuel pumps from Rally Design, cheapest place for the same item about £90 each inclusive VAT delivered. I think Europa Parts sells the basic fuel meter assembly?

I had a good long chat with Neil a week or so ago and would echo the nice chap comments above. Sounds like they are still "unpacking the boxes" after their taking on the SGT40. I was looking into a rear brake upgrade on my GTD (with SGT rear chassis conversion) and Neil said they would be very...

Happy retirment Mick and Carol! Good luck to AK Sportscars with the new addition to their stable, you have a great product in the SGT. Would an AK40 then be a smaller version of the AK47? Shouldn't be an issue really as they have the AK427 already!

Aha found some smaller 2 pot Alcon calipers with 44.5mm pistons. If using these on 11 inch discs then I could get a 65/35% set up which if fine tuned a bit with bmc sizing OR balance bar adjustment can easily move % towards 60/40% or 70/30% depending on what I want the pedal to feel like ie...

Thanks for the calculator links in this thread, have been using them on my car. One thing it showed me was that i am seriously underbraked at the rear of my car compared to the front. And there I was thinkning my car stopped pretty jolly well! In putting the data into the calculator the one...

Lol, Brian you are what our family would call a spoodler! (not the urban dictionary meaning!) Happy Christmas all!

Consider hand brake cable mounts before you paint!

Simply changed all connectors in the loom on my GTD where needed to, mainly the ones outside the cabin. Used modern water proof ones. Didn't remove the loom but you may need to create space to access all loom ends. But if its easy to remove the loom to do this as the car already in a million...

As RB would do the opposite of Merc and gain track position without merc having any certainty that the race would restart as it eventually did. Screwed if they came in, screwed if they stayed out. In the first lap incident, i think RB definately had had a pre race discussion about what would...

Haven't changed them for a long long time but I thought the rear brakes were from a Granada Scorpio Cosworth? Might be wrong so don't rely just on my input please.