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RE: Oversize Brake Pad for MGB

To: randyr@starwave.com, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Oversize Brake Pad for MGB
From: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 96 20:42:33 GMT
>After reading the last issue of Practical Classics magazine a story 
>about uprating the MGB, they recommend the following for uprating 
>the brakes, go to a Princess 4-pot caliper (I found out that a 
>Princess is a model of '70 Austin, have no idea about availability) 
>and pad from a MGBGT-V8.  This must be the 8 I was thinking of that 
>the guy had told me about - not a TR8, but a MGBGT V8.  Any way Moss 
>lists the V8 pads for about $80 a pair, so I guess I am back to 
>square one.  Any information you have would be appreciated.

Clive Wheatley has *four* V8 pads for UK Sterling 15 in a recent 
price list, so someone is pulling someone else plonker.

I am sure I read somewhere (Paul Kile?) that the V8 caliper and pads 
come from a Ford Transit "If it can stop a fully laden Transit ...".


PaulH
73 Roadster (HD&H)
75 V8 (DD)


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