Go Back   AstinaGT Forums > AstinaGT Talk > Your Rides/Project Worklog

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 03-12-2012, 08:33 PM   #101
Mad Mat
HONEYWELL REPRESENT
 
Mad Mat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Salisbury - Inner City
Car: 1997 BA Hardtop - Had a 2003 BJii J48 Sport20, and 2x bg SOHC astina hatches
Posts: 5,011
Send a message via MSN to Mad Mat
Quote:
Originally Posted by HAIGHIE View Post
looking good man, with the coilovers how much pretension are you running on your springs?

and where did you sorce the bolts for your engine stand? i'm have what you could say trouble in finding them
I can't remember what size thread they where, but i think they where 2x90mm long with 1.5mm threads and 2x80mm with 1.5mm threads and where I got my bolts from was this nut and bolt shop on evens road in Salisbury


Quote:
Originally Posted by SLY 323 View Post
How does the car break now with the new setup?

Liberty calipers? GD hangers etc etc?
It's great but I'm not using any of those parts listed that's all..
__________________

1994 323 BG Hatch 2005-2007 Crashed into truck
1991 323 BG Hatch 2007-2008/9 SOLD
2003 BJ SP20 J48 Hatch 2008-2011 Regretfully SOLD
1997 BA I4 Sedan 2012-CURRENT
1985 BF 323 Hatch 2014-2015
SOLD
1989 MX5 2015-2015
Mad Mat is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 09:12 AM   #102
SLY 323
Senior Member
 
SLY 323's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Wollongong
Car: 95' Mazda BA 323
Posts: 747
What did you go with?
__________________
Too many Mazdas. ♡
SLY 323 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 09:34 AM   #103
Mad Mat
HONEYWELL REPRESENT
 
Mad Mat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Salisbury - Inner City
Car: 1997 BA Hardtop - Had a 2003 BJii J48 Sport20, and 2x bg SOHC astina hatches
Posts: 5,011
Send a message via MSN to Mad Mat
Quote:
So not a lot has happened over the last couple of months. I finally got my v6 astina hubs so I could finish off my Front Big Brake Upgrade. Got my hubs on the 22/11/12, removed the hub axels and bearings, pressed fitted new wheel bearings into each hub, press fitted one hub axel into one of the v6 hubs. Now here is where I can stuck. My spare I4 hub had a drive shaft stuck in it. So after a couple of days of trying to remove the drive shaft to use the hub axel, I ended up snapping one of the caliper bolt holes on the hub. How I did this u might ask... well I my have got a little pissed off and used a mates 3T bench press. And yer the hub axel did move... so in the bin it went (with the drive shaft still attached to it). So after some thinking I remembered the passenger’s side hub on the car was my spare hub, after the first attempt of fitting mx5 brakes to my original hubs I may have drilled out my calipers bolt hole threads on my hub’s before double checking the measurements. I still had my original hub on the driver’s side. WIN so off it came. Removed the hub axel, and installed it on my driver side V6 hub. Yay all sorted. So bolted the new Hubs in with new ball joints, and then installed the calipers and new braided brake lines. i also used 2005 mazda mx5 turbo disc's which where 4 stud and the same as my 4 stud dics but 270mm in size. I went with a DBA 4000 series T3 dics and a QFM HPX brake pad. My new eunos 800m calipers are also a two spot caliper too which work really well, also had them rebuilt and painted Mate red.

Looks the BOMB now



this is them sitting behind my rims looks good i think..






and just a random photo there too
read all of this and it will tell you

edit sorry i left out what calipers i was using oops
__________________

1994 323 BG Hatch 2005-2007 Crashed into truck
1991 323 BG Hatch 2007-2008/9 SOLD
2003 BJ SP20 J48 Hatch 2008-2011 Regretfully SOLD
1997 BA I4 Sedan 2012-CURRENT
1985 BF 323 Hatch 2014-2015
SOLD
1989 MX5 2015-2015
Mad Mat is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 12:56 PM   #104
project.r.racing
Senior Member
 
project.r.racing's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: n/a
Car: n/a
Posts: 10,929
reckon 15s would fit over them?
project.r.racing is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 01:17 PM   #105
Mad Mat
HONEYWELL REPRESENT
 
Mad Mat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Salisbury - Inner City
Car: 1997 BA Hardtop - Had a 2003 BJii J48 Sport20, and 2x bg SOHC astina hatches
Posts: 5,011
Send a message via MSN to Mad Mat
Quote:
Originally Posted by project.r.racing View Post
reckon 15s would fit over them?
I've been told yes. But I do have some 15s at home that I can test fit just to be sure
__________________

1994 323 BG Hatch 2005-2007 Crashed into truck
1991 323 BG Hatch 2007-2008/9 SOLD
2003 BJ SP20 J48 Hatch 2008-2011 Regretfully SOLD
1997 BA I4 Sedan 2012-CURRENT
1985 BF 323 Hatch 2014-2015
SOLD
1989 MX5 2015-2015
Mad Mat is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 01:49 PM   #106
SLY 323
Senior Member
 
SLY 323's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Wollongong
Car: 95' Mazda BA 323
Posts: 747
Any reason of the choice to go 800m calipers over liberty ones?
__________________
Too many Mazdas. ♡
SLY 323 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 02:39 PM   #107
Mad Mat
HONEYWELL REPRESENT
 
Mad Mat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Salisbury - Inner City
Car: 1997 BA Hardtop - Had a 2003 BJii J48 Sport20, and 2x bg SOHC astina hatches
Posts: 5,011
Send a message via MSN to Mad Mat
Quote:
Originally Posted by SLY 323 View Post
Any reason of the choice to go 800m calipers over liberty ones?
As far as i know there two spot and the liberty one are only one spot. also the 800m calipers have a much bigger pad area too. with this combo i use ALL of my dics space. not one mm is not used. i wont even get the usual 1-2mm lip that most people get on there dics as they where down..

plus a mate had done it to his bg before and highy recomended it
__________________

1994 323 BG Hatch 2005-2007 Crashed into truck
1991 323 BG Hatch 2007-2008/9 SOLD
2003 BJ SP20 J48 Hatch 2008-2011 Regretfully SOLD
1997 BA I4 Sedan 2012-CURRENT
1985 BF 323 Hatch 2014-2015
SOLD
1989 MX5 2015-2015
Mad Mat is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 02:43 PM   #108
project.r.racing
Senior Member
 
project.r.racing's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: n/a
Car: n/a
Posts: 10,929
dans old red bg?
project.r.racing is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 02:55 PM   #109
Mad Mat
HONEYWELL REPRESENT
 
Mad Mat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Salisbury - Inner City
Car: 1997 BA Hardtop - Had a 2003 BJii J48 Sport20, and 2x bg SOHC astina hatches
Posts: 5,011
Send a message via MSN to Mad Mat
Quote:
Originally Posted by project.r.racing View Post
dans old red bg?
yep. but these are different brakes not his old ones.. as he used just those calipers on his v6 hubs and discs and pads from memory..
__________________

1994 323 BG Hatch 2005-2007 Crashed into truck
1991 323 BG Hatch 2007-2008/9 SOLD
2003 BJ SP20 J48 Hatch 2008-2011 Regretfully SOLD
1997 BA I4 Sedan 2012-CURRENT
1985 BF 323 Hatch 2014-2015
SOLD
1989 MX5 2015-2015

Last edited by Mad Mat; 04-12-2012 at 03:06 PM.
Mad Mat is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 03:41 PM   #110
himynameisbunny
AstinaGT Regular
 
himynameisbunny's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Sutherland Shire, Sydney, AUS
Car: 97 Astina BA
Posts: 432
The Liberty RS Turbo calipers are two-pot.
himynameisbunny is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 04:00 PM   #111
Mad Mat
HONEYWELL REPRESENT
 
Mad Mat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Salisbury - Inner City
Car: 1997 BA Hardtop - Had a 2003 BJii J48 Sport20, and 2x bg SOHC astina hatches
Posts: 5,011
Send a message via MSN to Mad Mat
Cool now I know. But I wasn't very keen on going the RS calipers. Want to keep everything mazda. Also I have a funny feeling that the eunos calipers have a larger pad area then the RS turbo... Ill see if I can find the info
__________________

1994 323 BG Hatch 2005-2007 Crashed into truck
1991 323 BG Hatch 2007-2008/9 SOLD
2003 BJ SP20 J48 Hatch 2008-2011 Regretfully SOLD
1997 BA I4 Sedan 2012-CURRENT
1985 BF 323 Hatch 2014-2015
SOLD
1989 MX5 2015-2015
Mad Mat is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 04:04 PM   #112
Mad Mat
HONEYWELL REPRESENT
 
Mad Mat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Salisbury - Inner City
Car: 1997 BA Hardtop - Had a 2003 BJii J48 Sport20, and 2x bg SOHC astina hatches
Posts: 5,011
Send a message via MSN to Mad Mat
This is the liberty pad



This is the euno's pad

__________________

1994 323 BG Hatch 2005-2007 Crashed into truck
1991 323 BG Hatch 2007-2008/9 SOLD
2003 BJ SP20 J48 Hatch 2008-2011 Regretfully SOLD
1997 BA I4 Sedan 2012-CURRENT
1985 BF 323 Hatch 2014-2015
SOLD
1989 MX5 2015-2015
Mad Mat is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 04:37 PM   #113
phildough
Banned
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Brisneyland, Queensland
Car: 2002 Mazda Frankenstina
Posts: 2,868
Eunos 800 pads FTW
I am going to be doing a similar thing with my car next year, I wont be going down the Mazda 6 brake route as I have found something that fits easier and requires no modification to the hand brake cables and has a larger pad area than the 6 brakes do.
phildough is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 04:42 PM   #114
marcs_sp20
Moderator
 
marcs_sp20's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Ipswich, Queensland
Car: 2002 Mazda Astina SP20 2006 Mazda 6 GY Wagon
Posts: 9,769
Ive been made aware that cx7 rotors/calipers fit the gg/gy 6, and they are bigger again. Will do some more research into it...
__________________
[URL="http://www.astinagt.com/forums/vbpicgallery.php?do=view&g=590"]
marcs_sp20 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 04:51 PM   #115
BG1.8sp
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Sydney
Car: 2009 BL MPS
Posts: 2,300
Quote:
Originally Posted by marcs_sp20 View Post
Ive been made aware that cx7 rotors/calipers fit the gg/gy 6, and they are bigger again. Will do some more research into it...
Andy is in the process of doing the cx7 turbo/ cx9 upgrade
__________________
BG1.8sp is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2012, 05:18 PM   #116
project.r.racing
Senior Member
 
project.r.racing's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: n/a
Car: n/a
Posts: 10,929
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Mat View Post
This is the liberty pad



This is the euno's pad

Quote:
Originally Posted by phildough View Post
Eunos 800 pads FTW
yes and no.
havng 2 pistons push the smaller pad might actually give a larger pad to disc surface area than the 800M option.

either way matt has increased his braking force by a far bit. 5% larger rotor and then a big piston and pad to boot. good options either way you go.
project.r.racing is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-01-2013, 10:46 AM   #117
Mad Mat
HONEYWELL REPRESENT
 
Mad Mat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Salisbury - Inner City
Car: 1997 BA Hardtop - Had a 2003 BJii J48 Sport20, and 2x bg SOHC astina hatches
Posts: 5,011
Send a message via MSN to Mad Mat
It’s been a while since I have updated this. So here goes

I have my Cusco adjustable tops ready to go into tomorrow,

I got my 4agze drift shafts reco'd and ready for installation,

I bought replacement rally gt4 spec bearings for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th for the Toyota box,

Found a Mazda astina wiring manual cheap as chips so I can finish off my engine loom,

Bought all my 3 inch mandrel bends for my exhaust, all my flanges, my 200cpsi cat, my x force rear muffler and my middle muffler,

Going to paint some parts for the engine bay tomorrow,

Also finish modding my vf10 to fit onto my gtx housing. Just need to get some new gaskets for it.

picking up my Profec B spec 2 EBC tomorrow aswell. that should keep everything nice (boost whise) while i run the BP26 ecu.

I also tested out the front breaks the other night at Mt Nebo, man ow man they work a treat. I don’t think I need a brake bias adjuster as they work perfectly


Also still looking for steal wheel nuts, so if anyone knows where to get some please let me know
__________________

1994 323 BG Hatch 2005-2007 Crashed into truck
1991 323 BG Hatch 2007-2008/9 SOLD
2003 BJ SP20 J48 Hatch 2008-2011 Regretfully SOLD
1997 BA I4 Sedan 2012-CURRENT
1985 BF 323 Hatch 2014-2015
SOLD
1989 MX5 2015-2015
Mad Mat is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 24-01-2013, 12:53 PM   #118
ghetto3
Senior Member
 
ghetto3's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: north coast nsw
Car: 97 ba 1.8 323
Posts: 799
Did you say 800m calipers sit down on v6 hubs/ no mods?

Did you say mazda astina wiring manual...!!!
I would say "i have a firstborn, she'd be good for digging coal and stuff" but that would be in poor taste... but a real wiring manual!
ghetto3 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 24-01-2013, 01:14 PM   #119
TheMAN
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: USA
Car: .
Posts: 2,623
Quote:
Originally Posted by project.r.racing View Post
yes and no.
havng 2 pistons push the smaller pad might actually give a larger pad to disc surface area than the 800M option.

either way matt has increased his braking force by a far bit. 5% larger rotor and then a big piston and pad to boot. good options either way you go.
eunos 800 has dual piston calipers too
__________________
Protege FAQ, the best 323/Protege/Mazda3 resource enjoyed worldwide for 10 years
TheMAN is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-02-2013, 11:48 AM   #120
Mad Mat
HONEYWELL REPRESENT
 
Mad Mat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Salisbury - Inner City
Car: 1997 BA Hardtop - Had a 2003 BJii J48 Sport20, and 2x bg SOHC astina hatches
Posts: 5,011
Send a message via MSN to Mad Mat
So under the advice of a member on the forum, i have sent my bp26 head off to be cleaned and stripped down, pressure tested, and port matched. then im taking my series 3 NA head in and they are going to take everything out of it, relap the valves, new shims, check the cams, etc.

so at the end of the day i will have a bg26 head that pressure tested running NA series 3 cams and valves all for much less than $1000.

Ordered my bpt gasket kit to. now just to decide to go with the standard head gasket or something else.

Have to order new piston rings, main bearings, and big end bearings. to rebuild the bottom end. and thats it.... i think lol

so overall ill have a very nice flowing head for my VF10 turbo and a stock bottom end, which should see me get around +200hp. which is all im chasing out of the BPT anyway

EDIT: still have decided on what pistons ill be running yet.. the bpt ones (8.2:1) or my na ones (9.0:1). As they pistons are made from the same quality steel. and the rods are the same too. hmmmmm ideas guys???
__________________

1994 323 BG Hatch 2005-2007 Crashed into truck
1991 323 BG Hatch 2007-2008/9 SOLD
2003 BJ SP20 J48 Hatch 2008-2011 Regretfully SOLD
1997 BA I4 Sedan 2012-CURRENT
1985 BF 323 Hatch 2014-2015
SOLD
1989 MX5 2015-2015

Last edited by Mad Mat; 11-02-2013 at 12:19 PM.
Mad Mat is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +10. The time now is 08:01 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
2001- 2010 AstinaGT