AWD-T3-VR Lexcen

[Judge1 FrazerParticipant new zealand1983 VB LSA MG9 6060 6 speed View build HERE Member since: February 5, 2016 Posts: 775]

Cool Ian great achievement

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

Thanks Guys! 

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

In related news 

Gave the Tonner a bit of a birthday, after 125.000 KMs the pads were almost gone and the front rotors looked very second hand, new pads all round and it’s good to go!

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

After giving the Tonner the brake birthday the other day to save any sibling rivalry and bitching I upgraded the Lexcen front brakes at last..

This has been on my mind since it’s first tarmac event, it’s good for one lap sprints but that’s it so it has ruled out track days at any of the big circuits..

As the old brakes barely fit under my autocross wheels I was a bit stuck, but I had a plan, my last 5 parcels for the year arrived today so I could finish it all up.

The plan was much bigger brakes both calipers and rotors, but I didn’t want to be bleeding brakes at each change..

Sourced some Dry Break fittings made the new caliper brackets and away we Go! No longer does the Ute have better brakes than the race car, while it uses 6/4 calipers on the same 355mm rotors to get them under the factory wheels I had to use slimline calipers.

This results in less swept area but still effective, the Lexcen has no such compromise.

[WraithParticipant View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 50]

Wow that’s going to be like night and day. Good job.

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

Thanks Wraith, it’s not like it stops badly now, the problem is there’s just not enough rotor mass for multiple stops, if you look how Blue the small brakes are that’s from a Dirt event early in December…

I also have some Option Pads, street pads for the single Lap sprints and some Ceramics for Track days on real Circuits! (something I haven’t done before due to the old brakes)

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

Both pairs of calipers bled up perfect, Dry Break fittings work as advertised, new pads are bedded in roll on 2019 

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[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Man, been away from here for a while and missed this, you have some serious fab skills.  Nice work.  So those fittings literally mean you don’t have to bleed them at all? Interesting to see this evolve over the last year or so, like night and day, love it.

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

Yep 1/4 turn bayonet fittings, no bleeding at all 

The package I bought came with RDA one piece VE Rotors Brembo Calipers, pads and the Hardware,I also got a set of EBA Red Stuff Ceramic pads for Track days,  I took the 2 piece DBA 5000 2010 Camaro Rotors off the Tonner fitted them with new Rotors to complete the Lexcen upgrade.

I used the RDA’s on the Tonner after boring the centre hole to VZ size and installed new Wilwood Pads all round and that freshened up the Tonner brakes, they haven’t been touched other than swapping front to rear pads in 8 years and 125,000 Km’s.

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

Ready for the new season/year, just add fuel!

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

Ian, Where abouts you buy your fittings from? I’m trying to source some bulkheads and inverted flares to suit the vz master for mine. But I wanna try and find them in black if possible. Ever seen any?

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

I usually just jump on Aeroflows site and dig through their listings till I find what I need then eBay it using that part number, they always have a black alternative for each fitting.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Its not a massive or costly job to get parts re-anodised in black if you get stuck Cav.  I did on my injector adapters.

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

VRSenator065 wrote:

Its not a massive or costly job to get parts re-anodised in black if you get stuck Cav. I did on my injector adapters.

Yeah that’s was my last resort. If it can’t find anything.

Im most likely going to make my lines and then get them coated anyways.

Im struggling to find some 3/16 in hard drawn.

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

Is this Brake pipe Cav?

 

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

Yeah for my brake lines.

I would like it in hard drawn if possible.

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

I’d go stainless if I were doing it again.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

I did mine in stainless, looks scmick as, little harder to work.  If I did it again I would probably have borrowed or made a tube straightener.  Now I have a 3D printer i prob would have made one.

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

VRSenator065 wrote:

I did mine in stainless, looks scmick as, little harder to work. If I did it again I would probably have borrowed or made a tube straightener. Now I have a 3D printer i prob would have made one.

Main reason why I want hardline. So I don’t have to straighten it.

What stainless did you use?

What sort of gizmo could you make?

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