Getting air in there is one thing, it would probably need some more holes somewhere to let the air (and heat) out....

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Modify your brakes void your insurance, if you have an accident and someone gets injured and the accident is investigated, hope to God it wasn't your fault.

Illegal for non mechanics to touch brakes and steering let alone modify them.

Silly person at the insurance company silly.

Steve

Hows this....

Yesterday Suncorp, my employer, made a $7b bid for Promina (owner of Shannons). Can someone say staff discount?

Sweet!

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But he's thriving and striving and hugging the turns.

DrMini has a good point about venting the hot air out.

This made me remember a story I heard about drilling holes through the friction surface of the drum. I guess it's equivalent to drilling holes in disks.

I think it was something that was done in the days before disks were around.

It was meant to be a very useful modification on its own (no need for cooling pipework).


Cheers,

adve

What do you mean by that??

ROFL!!!!

he was only suggesting cutting and welding the backing plate, not the drum or shoes or anything....

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

i was going to say something about that but i didn't want to doubt the engineers..

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Does everyone realise that currently we are more regulated than either the USSR or Maoist China at the height of their regimes.

It has always been illegal to repair vehicles for a fee without holding a trade qualification number. I know that motor supply shops (supercheap, autoOne etc) will only sell seatbelts to licenced fitters. I wasn't aware about Brakes or Steering though as kits for each are readily sold over the counter, such as rod end, brake pads, master and wheel cylinders etc.

Unless something has changed very recently, Mike is right- we are still allowed to work on our own vehicles.
Probably also we are still allowed to help others work on theirs. As long as you don't start charging people, ie running an illegal car repair business.
BTW I believe you can run a business building engines and gearboxes for example, without being a licensed motor mechanic. As long as you DON'T work on the car itself.
Some of the best engine builders around are Fitters, not Motor Mechanics.
No names, no pack drill...

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

At this moment in time, I would be very suprised if the engine reconditioners such as Higgenbottom and Gem actually employed any trade qualified motor mechanics at all. The engine work is largely done by labourers, who do have a mechanical bent, who are supervised by qualified fitters.

The engine fitting (into the cars) is mostly done by by contract where a team of labourers is again supervised by a couple of mechanics and the focus is on getting the engines into the cars and running in the shortest possible time.

Added to that it can be argued that a car owner working on his/her own car can be more meticulous than a motor mechanic working under time/cost restraints such as in some nameless new car dealerships.

I think the main problem both in ex USSR and China to this day is the lack of proper regulation (over mechanical work, roads, roadworthiness and traffic rules), not too much of it. That would account for the staggering traffic death tolls and pedestrian deaths in these countries where even when some regulation exists nobody bothers to enforce it. Sometimes aussie style regulation is a good thing.

Communist USSR and China were not what I was defending - I think both have a lot to answer for in a lot of different directions.

I do, however, think we here in Australia are over regulated. The regulation extends far past roads etc. It goes into such non-descript areas as vegetation practices of farms etc to people getting fined for having for sale signs on their cars without having an advertising permit. For example. Much of the regulations have been imposed by lobby group pressure from groups who have vested interests. I dont believe in Anarchy but I do believe in common sense and in some cases we are at the boundaries of it.

I agree to some extent - car signs, signs in your own yard and that type of thing are not going to hurt anyone. Vegetation practices can be though - as well as then the public purse is expected to come along and help them out with salinity and erosion problems. Not that all would be so ignorant to remove vegetation where it is needed but many do.

Are you serious? People have been fined for displaying "for sale signs"? Thats crazy.

Yep and it's the councils that fine you. Work that one out logicwise, I can't...

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.