Grubbster

Just got my feeler gauges out to measure the gap, at the closest point (the rear stay) there is 5.1mm clearance on mine, I'll stick some photos up later. I never weighed the ZZRs but when loading them into my boot they did feel noticeably heavier than the CR500s that I loaded at the same time.

I'm just on the CC anthracites, nothing unusual.

I'm not home till tomorrow but I can measure the gap on my car for you, it's more than a couple of mm from what I remember.

That linnk is to the aero wishbone, but yes the standard ones are £174 each which makes the complete widetrack upgrade kit look a bargain at £437.

Mines the same age and in bits at the moment so I'm giving it a coat of satin black hammerite while access is good. Por15 is better I believe, but I haven't got any so hammerite it is.

Standard wings will be fine. The race wings don't have the facility to thread a side repeater wire down the tube (there's no hole for it to come out through) and I think they are slightly lower than normal but I don't have any to compare with (so possibly not able to clear a taller tyre like the Academy CR322s). Other than that they look just the same, satin black, they fit the same. To the untrained eye I expect they'd look identical. I found that the standard wingstays put the wing quite a long way from the tyre with a CR500 - too big a gap. So I had mine 'cut and shut' so they site snugly around a CR500 but they couldn't then take a ZZR! So I've just gone to race stays which will take either tyre and hopefully won't sit as high as the standard ones do. So the much shorter answer to your question is that if you have standard or race wing stays and standard wings then you'll be able to fit the 185/55 R13 ZZRs.

I've just replaced my wing stays (removed custom cut and welded ones) with race ones and can confirm that the 185/55 R13 ZZRs fit ok - I just fitted a wheel to be sure.

If you get underneath with a light you will see there is a little recess in the edge of the socket that the bearing and spring clip goes into, you just need to poke a tiny screwdriver into here and you should be able to lever the spring clip out. On mine this was the easy bit, getting the bearing out was a bit of a faff though.

Ah, TADTS

I think I've found the answer! It was obvious all along! Take it to Tom at New Techniques, he fixes everything I can't!

Thanks for the tips, a new toy would come in handy! Yesterday I considered getting a new dedion but luckily CC don't have any so I saved a few hundred quid. I really wish I hadn't bothered trying to replace the bush, I don't think there was anything wrong with it but I thought it was straightforward and only a couple of quid so I thought it was worth doing while the dedion was out why did I bother??? I'll see if I can find a local place with a decent press. I'm very short of time and need to get the car back together in a couple of weekends so most of what I'd wanted to do just won't get done.

Thanks Mark, this is another job I wish I hadn't bothered with! I'll find a local garage to press it in for me (once I've got a new one).

Yesterday after much swearing I managed to get the old bush out (heating, hacksawing and bashing method) and today I'm trying to get the new one in. It is certainly an interference fit (as measured with digital calipers) so I froze the bush and heated the dedion where it goes in but couldn't even get it to start. So I filed a chamfer on the end of the bush and put a little greas on it to help get it started and managed to get it to start going in but it won't go. I tried pulling it in with threaded bar and socket, no joy, big G-clamp, no joy. The only thing that started to work was whacking it with a club hammer - this made some very slow progress but has damaged the end of the bush (I'll get another new one) so what else should I try? I hear of people changing these with the dedion fitted to the car - how on earth???? Or could it be that CC supply different sized bushes and I've got the wrong one? It measures 27.16mm diameter and the hole to put it in is 26.9mm - 27.2mm (slight ovality). Or how much is it for a new dedion - for the time I've wasted trying to do this that would have probably been better value!

Well that took a while! 3 and a half years to be precise I've only just got around to doing this, what a bugger it is getting the old bush out of the dedion! Another of those jobs that probably didn't need doing, but as mine is 12 years old I thought it best to change while I have the car in bits. So, how do I get the new one in? At the moment the bush is in the freezer, I can heat the dedion whwere it fits, anything else?

Not really something to worry about, you may get some corrosion there but as you suggest it's probably the least of your worries. If you wanted to do something different you could run an earth lead with the positive one and earth it elsewhere (in the headlamp maybe?), but personally I wouldn't worry about it.

Second dibs please if Tom changes his mind.

As mike says the fuel tank is just earth bonded to one of the rear wing bolts. The only heatshrink I can think of is the dreaded headlamp wiring that has to be sleeved and threaded through the mounting bracket and 2 grommets each side.

Mine is upright, in the powervamp ali mount, fixed to the scuttle panel next to the heater, in front of the passenger. Do you have something else there? I moved the interia switch to the drivers side.

Just weighed my complete unit (no pads) 2.86Kg

He likes to talk. Builds great boxes though

This is what they've emailed me - Helix do a road organic clutch that will take 130 lbs feet of torque and also a race paddle kit that takes 160 lbs feet Bassd on the torque I should go for the race one really, just wondered if it feels any different to drive.

For my impending clutch replacement Helix offer a standard plate or a paddle type that can withstand more torque (I have a high powered K). So wondering whether to go for the paddle type - will I notice anything different in use? Anything else I should be aware of?

With a 1900k I'm guessing you are revving pretty high, have you swapped the alternator pulley to reduce the speed it runs at? Just a thought, maybe not relevant.

292 is the strong stuff (only available in white), 291 is useless.

Same here Tim, I was wondering where I could put it! Glad it's gone, takes that problem away.