My M60 318is.

[JGood]

Lookin good! Gonna make it to bfest this year?

[dirty30]

Some recent pictures:

My 318 and steve blunts chebbie swapped e12 at VIR



Random AC delco building in Winston-Salem



Random vintage at the vineyard

[dirty30]

I've searched ever since I put the 5 lug stuff together with the Ti rear. With the manual pedal box the bias has to be set to the front to compensate for the larger brakes. Now with the M stuff in the rear I can back the bias off the front because the distribution will be more like what it is in an E36 M. I will also have the play around with new masters, probably going with 7/8 front and 3/4 rear wilwoods.

[canakami]

Nice! I've had an easier time finding rocker horse crap than those.

[dirty30]

Finally found a crazy deal on the missing link to my build. Behold, my M coupe trailing arms!

[dirty30]

Replacing the IX's odometer gears (and breaking the new ones in the process)



Put stock front and rear seats back in the 318is

[dmoney(AB)]

Ya my pedal is very firm
Maybe an inch of movement
No feedback when I'm standing on it.

I am going to take the calipers off and make sure they are not seized or something stupid like that.
Basically looking for an excuse to go with a couple bbks lol

[dirty30]

dirty30,

I have run my car a few times now and have found the brakes aren't very strong.
Almost like I couldnt make a panic stop. How have yours been?
I figured I could almost lock them up but no such luck, even with the bias cranked to the fronts.
any insight?

Mine have felt fine, I am holding off doing any further fine tuning until I decide what to do as far as the brakes go. I want to get a more balanced set-up whether it be Z3M rear to match my E36 M3 front stuff or go back to 4lug and get Massive's kits in the front and rear.

Is your pedal extremely firm with little to no feedback when braking hard?

EDIT:

Here is a chart I was using initially when I was having problems with bias, it is a spreadsheet that you can use to input your vehicles info and it basically spits out a front and rear master size when you have entered everything in...

http://www.gt40s.com/forum/gt40-tech-chassis-brakes-tires-wheels/35856-spongy-pedal-new-wilwood-setup.html

its a few posts in under "bremsbalancekalculations" or something like that

[dmoney(AB)]

dirty30,

I have run my car a few times now and have found the brakes aren't very strong.
Almost like I couldnt make a panic stop. How have yours been?
I figured I could almost lock them up but no such luck, even with the bias cranked to the fronts.
any insight?

[dirty30]

That iX looks really clean. Get some video of the AWD battle!

I need snow!!!!! Or mud. Mud might be more fun.

[dirty30]

That's Garagistics test mule.

[Javier h]

Does this car belong to a member?

speaking of M60s....

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/cto/3620726827.html

[JGood]

That iX looks really clean. Get some video of the AWD battle!

[dirty30]

I've had a severe case of car ADD lately. I pulled apart my quantum syncro only to find a massive amount of rust in the rockers. Ill save that car one day.



So I kicked it out of the garage when I found a pretty clean 88 IX coupe for sale.



Not sure what to do with the IX yet. I probably drive it around town until spring then tear into it and assess what it needs. Has some rust, but haven't all IX's lived a hard life? I need it to snow so I can chain the syncro up to the IX and see who was the real AWD champ in the late 80's. I've got money on the ole VW.

Put some wheel spacers on the front of the silver car. Yawn. Haven't been able to drive it for weeks because of all the salt on the roads. Driving me insane.

[dirty30]

Has the pedal effort increased with the manual brakes?

Did the pedal travel increase compared to stock?

Pedal effort isn't far off from stock. The pedal placement is ideal as well. The pedal travel depends on what size masters you are using. A larger bore yeilds shorter travel but increased effort and brake feel. A smaller bore yeilds longer pedal travel but decreased effort and a "spongier" feel. I am satisfied at the moment but I have been toying with the idea of swapping back to 4 lug and using a massive kit front and rear. It will allow a proper front/ rear bias with massive's rear kit as opposed to the 318ti stuff I am running in the rear. Also its balls cold in VA right now and I haven't driven the stupid garage queen in a few months.