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Morning team, Just had been the rear pads fall out on the sighting laps, could someone let me know what side of the caliper the pad retention/slider bar goes in? Top or bottom for both OS abd NS corners Currently driving home to get bits with the hope to be out later

Discs are cheap if you are using brembo HC discs. My advice would be get some better brake cooling and clean out the grooves I the pads at the end of each day.

Dare I ask - how much? does anyone know how they compare the RC8s?

Where do you chaps buy the ds1.11 pads from? I've got no reason to change at the moment but it's nice to know

Unfortunately it would probably be cheaper running RC6 in manlier callipers!

Pfffff RC6.... RC8s are what it's about, we run them all round with slicks. Still trying to get a bit more cooling though, we'll be there soon. Pads aren't the problem though, it's the fluid that gets raped.

This was the car http://www.classic-auctions.com/Auctions/24-05-2012-ThePavilionGardens-1313/2001RenaultClioV6Trophy-34854.aspx

Sequential, 310hp and a lovely race car build. Ex works team that last competed Silverstone 6 hours October 2012. Lovely Phase 1

Any idea what the cause was? Has anyone had a good look at the bolt fracture surfaces for signs of fatigue? You might be able to spot them with the naked eye, check the bolts and around the flywheel bolt threads first. Pray the fracture face didn't get clatted in the ensuing chaos!

We still have half a horn and a carbon canister, haven't got round to removing it. We grew properly desperate on the brake cooling front, maybe it's just us not being arsed to change fluid every 6 months. Resulted in this monstrosity, ducts feed into wheels. Yet to be tested on track A...

Might just be my eyes but looks more like anti dive to me

Good effort, looks tidy! Did you leave a bit of clearance for thermal expansion?

Wait, is there no fluid behind the wall that needs fettling? Is it just a solid lump?

That's unfortunate

I'm personally pro centre spigot, bolts are turd loaded in single shear. A thread is just a massive stress raiser! Hideous engineering practice.

Space them out with a couple of washers if the bolts are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the hub

No guidelines on gap, the disc shouldn't creep too much mechanically. Are the caliper bolts parallel or perpendicular to the hubs?

This often happens on race cars. If you leave it long enough it will stop touching. I'll be honest if it's as slight as it looks I would just fettle the calipers a tiny bit. It's not ideal but will fix the problem and if done carefully it shouldn't harm them. I've filed corners off AP...

Try giving it another bleed. The ABS systems are a bit to bleed if the garage made them dry

For no scientific reason what so ever I'd be tempted to get the Sachs revalved/shimmed for track use and give them a whirl. I guess the no scientific reason bit makes me a hypocrite

They work well, bit of a mid range bench mark above a lot of standard coilovers. To note they are well below cup racer or so I've been told. Having been in a mk3 Cup racer I'd say it was a fair chunk better in the vd department than the phase 1 on AST2s

It is a 2 in 1 knob. They're inverted mono tubes so inside out to give them a relatively high bending stiffness. They are AST 2s, I think the 1 also only has the single knob only it has them on the top.

I will only use spacers with a chamfered bolt for bolting to hub and steel inserts for bolting the wheel to. Threads are massive stress raisers as are counter bored cap heads. I know in the scheme of things they are massively over engineered but I'm paranoid and believe in good engineering...

Toyo R1Rs are great value in 205/50r15

Lots of cars scrub on full lock, can be exacerbated by wheel spacing

Looks good! Planning a next step?

Because legislation is much more lax if they write that. Same reason most pads aren't for road use, even if better than road counterparts. It will be fine, I've gad sone in my car for a year and a half

We normally swap the fronts each time we do pads, they cost nothing in comparison. Just left on in emergency

Old discs were in the bin, in fairness I'd say they were on the minimum when they came off. 3mm was with a factor of safety

Nope, less than 3mm thinner than news ones when looking set total width though