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When is it?

10th June 2012

Not sure if I may have missed it on here somewhere but is the club or anyone planning to attend the Bromley Pageant this year?.

Hi, can anyone confirm if these have now gone please?
 
Thanks
Paul

Does anyone happen to know where I can source some decent rear calipers or rebuild kit for a series 3? :xconfused

Pistonheads today.....

http://pistonheads.com/sales/3009408.htm

Wasn\'t this the car the popular Don was planning on purchasing? :Giggle

I hate to be a vulture, but if they must be scrapped, then I\'m sure someone from here who\'s fairly local to the cars could be arranged to go get valuable bits. I for one would be interested in either of the front bumpers, and I\'m sure the elford turbo parts would be readily snapped up.

Like Steve said I\'m sure the parts would soon go to good homes should the cars end up going as spares and I too would be interested in the TWR front bumper should Steve prefer the other.

The only thing the kit doesn\'t include is the steering idler arm bush. I kinda hoped it would s it includes all the other bushes to do with steering/suspension, but I can also see that it\'s kinda different type of bush.

Thanks Steve, will remember that when changing them.

Hi Paul,
the kit was totally complete.... all bushes, anti roll bars links, crush tubes, lube, the lot and fantastic quality.... nothing else to buy. That was what put me off the UK and Aussie kits, having to buy extra parts to complete the job... no such worries with the ReSpeed kit.
I paid £140 delivered which included the purchase price ( I bought the full $160 kit), the shipping, import duty and vat.
In order to get the price down, I ordered a kit together with Steve-A and as Billy at respeed shipped both kits together in one box, we shared the shipping, vat and import duty which gave us a total cost of £140 each.
 
Your best bet would be to try to find someone else who wants a kit as well and share the shipping with them.
 
Thoroughly recommend the bushes though.

Thanks Ian, will probably e-mail them and see what they think.

I think when I looked, the rubber bushes from Mazda were quite pricey so I went for polybushes in the end...
Here\'s the ones I bought...
 
http://www.rx7fb.com/dir/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=105

Ian
 
I\'ve decided to go with the bushes you purchased at Re Speed but can you just confirm it is a complete kit and that there is nothing else I would need to buy from Mazda as some others have had to with kits from the UK. Also I noticed you paid about £140 to the door, was that including any import duties?
 
Thanks
 
Paul

Fronts Paul?
 
First you release the caliper and pivot up out of the way. 2 hook type springs sit over the top of the pads; these just about fall out. They\'re single ended springs by the way, not broken at one end.
Then get a bit of side play on the pads with a lever to enable them to lift out, complete with the shim backing plates still on. (I think they\'re what you mean). Shim plates will be well rusty by now.....
 
Reassembly is the reverse procedure except you need to compress the pistons back in to accept the thicker new pads....I used a heavy duty pair of dogs (thanks Lidl...£3 or £4 browse find), with a softwood packer. Need to watch the Master Cyl for overflowing at this point.
White brake grease very sparingly on the rubbing edges of the pads, a minimal white grease film on the shim plates to hold rust in check, then struggle to fit the pads/shims back in. That\'s if they\'re the full size of the backplate like mine were (Mazda ones were trimmed back to allow easy fitting). The full size ones will still go in with a bit of gentle tappy tappy.
 
Firm up brake peddle then send wife out to brake test and to check wheel nuts are on. Job Done

David, thanks for your reply which was great but I don\'t believe I explained my problem very well, sorry.
I should have mentioned it\'s the rear brakes. I took the calipers off and there are two small clips, one at the top and one at the bottom of the pads that run across the width of them and appear to clip on the inside and outside of the caliper and are bent up on the inside of the caliper so it looks impossible to pull them out without causing damage to them. Probably as clear as mud!.
 
Having checked a Haynes manual, that appears american it mentions nothing about rear discs only drums so thought they my have been the same as the front discs but are not. Just to clarify I have an 84 series 3 if this helps. I\'ll try and post a pic of the problem pads and clip in due course.
 
Thanks again David
Paul

Can anyone possibly advise how to get the retaining brake pad clips out from the caliper without breaking them. Went to change my pads the other day and didn\'t want to force them as they looked like they might snap. I\'m hoping I was just having a bad day and that I couldn\'t see the obvious solution.
 
Cheers
Paul

I think when I looked, the rubber bushes from Mazda were quite pricey so I went for polybushes in the end...
Here\'s the ones I bought...
 
http://www.rx7fb.com/dir/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=105

Thanks Ian thats a great help and quite reasonable having looking at some.
 
Many thanks again
 
:Thumbs-up

Hi folks, does anyone know any good suppliers of rubber bushes as most of mine have perished. Can you get a complete set for the whole car or do you have to buy individually?
 
Any ideas gratefully received.
 
Paul

 
 
Awarded to John Wyatt,congrats,but who are you?

 
I don\'t really know John very well but met him and his beauty of a car at last years Bromley Pageant, his FB was lined up with the other cars from the forum so others must know of him. That car is spotless.

Mine are 257mm on my series 3. Are you after replacing yours only I am and have been looking for a while now for some cheap ones if you know of any decent traders.
 
Cheers
Paul