Deposit placed on a slabside!

[S1013]

Originally Posted by AndrewB

Thank you everyone! I have called Peter a few times already with questions and he has been fantastic. I told my wife that I swear he was the third brother of Click and Clack. He had me laughing pretty good a few times ("Give me your wife's name as well so we know who really owns the car") -- I love it, I could talk to him for hours.

The TKO was purchased this morning from Liberty Gears complete with their upgrade kit.

S1913, vented rotors? Very interesting. Mind giving me some more info on that? I was literally just about to buy replacement rotors.

RockBit, I was quoted 11 months.

You split the Jaguar calipers, insert a spacer and build new crossover lines to accommodate the wider rotors. I had some difficulty locating the rotors as race shops were very pricey to make up custom rotors and the custom Jaguar shops like CWI are no longer around. I found a place in Australia through a Jaguar forum that sent me both the spacers and the rotors.

[patrickt]

Back in 2005 or so, when I was spec'ing out my build, I am pretty sure I remember Doug chatting with me that for the FIA (and presumably now the slabside), the hydraulic TOB was the only real option. Since I was having a 427 car built, I didn't dwell on the subject. But I'll ask now, are you absolutely sure that the more recent FIAs and Slabs can now accommodate a traditional external slave and fork?

[tkb289]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Back in 2005 or so, when I was spec'ing out my build, I am pretty sure I remember Doug chatting with me that for the FIA (and presumably now the slabside), the hydraulic TOB was the only real option. Since I was having a 427 car built, I didn't dwell on the subject. But I'll ask now, are you absolutely sure that the more recent FIAs and Slabs can now accommodate a traditional external slave and fork?

Good question, I am sure Bob will chime in soon.

In 2011, for ERA2136 (with QT Bell housing / Iron block 302), I went with an external setup from Mike Forte and it fit, don't know if things have changed with the newer ERAs. It was a generic kit, so I did modify the setup slightly to tweak the geometry a bit, to get it to work the way I wanted it to. The hydraulic TOB would probably be easier to install, and should be quite reliable as many production cars use them. The advantage of the external configuration is should it leak, it's a lot easier to fix than the hydraulic TOB. Just one more choice to be made when building a Cobra ...