vectra vxr rear vented discs and caliper conversion astra g

[evocarlos]

That handbrake cable will be less prone to rusting . I've seen a similar Astra/Vectra rear brake setup before. Nice, good work Carlos

thanks dave
the issue i had with mine before was the cable rubbing thru on the trailing arm then water getting in as you say that will never happen here unless the wheel takes a bite lol

Nice work there Carl, will be interesting to see what you think of them once they are bedded in.

thanks matt i do think they will be a good addition to the system

Don't be a chav and don't be testing it out in the local supermarket car park with hand brake turns

lol what am i 12


stopped at the local paint supplyers and got a shot blasting gun ive bought a 2nd drivers caliper for the pin that broke


new pins to fit the calipers the right ones this time lol


after runing the car the pads look like there in the right place so the modifcation to the caliper braket are right

 

[milo]

thanks dave
the issue i had with mine before was the cable rubbing thru on the trailing arm then water getting in as you say that will never happen here unless the wheel takes a bite lol

thanks matt i do think they will be a good addition to the system

lol what am i 12


stopped at the local paint supplyers and got a shot blasting gun ive bought a 2nd drivers caliper for the pin that broke

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What the sand blaster going to be used on?

 

[evocarlos]

raid array just failed on the pc cant do s**t on me phone so going to sleep

the 2 above pictures are new spring clips the right ones and the disc pad location

 

[Matt]

raid array just failed on the pc cant do s**t on me phone so going to sleep

the 2 above pictures are new spring clips the right ones and the disc pad location

Ah s**te! What's failed, a single disk? I've had issues with the raid on my NAS at home, and had to rebuild the data on one of the disks.

 

[evocarlos]

What the sand blaster going to be used on?

to clean the 2nd caliper up before painting now the holes are welded up

Ah s**te! What's failed, a single disk? I've had issues with the raid on my NAS at home, and had to rebuild the data on one of the disks.

not sure computer locked up then locked me out no "ctrl-s**t-esc or ctrl-alt-del"" did a hard reset power button for 5 secs then once it restarted it had a t fit at the bios screen then showed one drive as a non member
ive had to unmember the drives and make a new array (2 dirves in raid0) it all seams to be working now got windows 7 x32 on but just getting my usb prepped then going to reinstall x64
only b*****d part i did not have the softwear installed for my wd passport so automaitc back has been off for the last 3 months or so good job every thing on the computer was just just about engines and specs and random meme pics lol all the photos i had are all still on my phones and backed up on my passport

in a few hours it shold all be running again fingers crossed
cant find the mobo disk 217mb download for the lan drivers !

 

[evocarlos]

11gb worth of images off the phone lol

ok bit of an update to the conversion
2nd o/f/s caliper came today but its not a genuine gm so its not getting used the pin for the hand brake arm cam in handy tho


welded up the hole after drilling the broken pin out


pilot hole


5mm hole ready for the pin


its a tight fit just as its supposed to be

 

[Sjdickso]

Carl, what RAID was it ? Lost a few disks myself and wish I had backed up, my mate runs 2 backups a day via scripts to cloud storage.

I remembering 10+ years ago doing a spanned disk what a bad idea that was it went pop

 

[evocarlos]

Carl, what RAID was it ? Lost a few disks myself and wish I had backed up, my mate runs 2 backups a day via scripts to cloud storage.

I remembering 10+ years ago doing a spanned disk what a bad idea that was it went pop

its raid 0 running 1gb/s over 2 ssd's i wanted to install a 3rd drive and run raid 5 span and backup but the speed is pish
i do have the backup off the wd passport it save new files as there created i just forgot to set it up last reinstall

 

[Matt]

I've got 1TB cloud storage with Microsoft Onedrive that came with my Office365 subscription, so I'm in the process of putting my 500GB of stuff on there that is on the NAS.

 

[evocarlos]

I've got 1TB cloud storage with Microsoft Onedrive that came with my Office365 subscription, so I'm in the process of putting my 500GB of stuff on there that is on the NAS.

remembered to install the wd software this time its on all time continuously backing up new created files of importance


lol a little off topic but had to be said

 

[evocarlos]

ordered a new hub so took the wheel ,caliper ,carrier ,hub off then decided to modify the mounting plate for accurate dimensions and better fitment without washers
as the mounting holes for the carrier were enlarged to move the hole up i decided to fill it up


like so this will also be ground down to a flat surface for the bracket to bolt to


the top edge was also thicken up to give it more strength and give the bolt more meat to clamp on


slag chipped off

 

[evocarlos]

and now its done all tidied up
bolts now have metal above and theres no more washers


24mm think both sides


about the same size as the 2 washers that were there

 

[evocarlos]

modded the dust shield
cut the lip off


hammered the lip flat


cleaning ready for painting

 

[evocarlos]

im not convinced might just buy the vec c dust guards


also ordered the HEL vectra vxr full braided hose kit

 

[Matt]

im not convinced might just buy the vec c dust guards
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also ordered the HEL vectra vxr full braided hose kit

Might as well if you can get the Vec C ones to fit.

 

[evocarlos]

Might as well if you can get the Vec C ones to fit.

only thing i need to do is cut out where the holes for the caliper mount is then they would fit


would look like this im still not sure lol

 

[evocarlos]

im made my mind up lol sticking with the modded astra guards
will get the black paint out later

new hub came no more dronning lol

 

[evocarlos]

measured up the modified back plate


then painted it


and painted the guard

 

[evocarlos]

finally got round to sorting the 2nd caliper out


and the 2nd backplate modded and painted


the passenger side is all bolted back on with the new hub


just waiting on the stainless pipes so i can fit both calipers then bleed the system
steps to follow
modify the 2nd caliper bracket
rebuild the caliper

 

[evocarlos]

well that went quicker than i thought lol
2nd one rebuilt


and the modification almost done