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Re: Rear Disk Brakes

To: davidr@sunset.net
Subject: Re: Rear Disk Brakes
From: miq@teleport.com
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: millerls@ado13.com (Larry Miller), pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com (Gerard Chateauvieux), spridgets@autox.team.net (Spridgets)
In-reply-to: <004301bf14de$ad2bfe60$29328ed1@davidr> from "David Riker" at Oct 12, 1999 11:21:59 AM
Reply-to: miq@teleport.com
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
David Riker says:
> 
> At the Hayward British car meet this last summer I got to talking with a guy
> who had a much less expensive solution to our rear axle upgrade challenges.
> He took a bone yard RX-7 3rd member, and had it narrowed to fit the
> spridget.  If I remember right, that gave him stronger axles, better seals,
> limited slip, 3.7 axle ratio, and rear disc brakes with an e-brake, all for
> less than the cost of racing axles.  Sounded worth looking into.

I have one of these on Frankensprite.  Axle is from a 1984 RX7 GSL-SE hub
to hub it cost me $75 at a wrecker, I had a tranny/driveline shop narrow it
for $400.  Just had to weld the perches from the BMC axle to the rx7 and it
bolted in.

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Miq Millman   miq@teleport.com  
Tualatin, OR

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