ep70 starlet rear disc conversion.
Right, not getting that Carina, so can’t go changing the engine just yet, want to try and get it done before the 24th of this month but any way though I’d try and get a the rear disc’s on the car once and for all.
You can’t just throw on the hubs and discs from the turbo, the axle/stub is the wrong size, you may be able to find new bearing’s with the right size inner race but i didn’t have the money and i wanted to cut something up!
Before i starting i knew i had to reposition the panhard rod mount over to the other side of the suspension, there just in opposite places from each other on the ep80 and ep70.
Clever me decided to make sure the whole thing fitted with my 13″ wheels. They did by the way.
Panhard rod there in front of the rear axle, attached to the car on the left.
ep80 axle, panhard rod connector thingie on the left.
At this point i measured nearly everything ,axles length, bolt hole sizes, bushing spacing, arm width the lot.
looks like about an inch extra width, i can live with that.
ep70 rear axle for the chop
CHOP!
Some profiling will have to be done to get the stub on the axle, I want it a bit higher to raise the roll center and thus the roll resistance. but as high as I want it and it will clout the chassis so this will do.
It was all going great until this point. the one thing i didn’t measure was the arm length! both ep70 and 80 have the same wheelbase how stupid of me for assuming that the arm were the same length. Nearly chopped out the rear arch’s and turned it into a high rise off roading apoc car.
Then it feckin snowed. bumhats.
At this point i should have given up and either found the right type of axle or spent the money on new bearing to fit a ep70 axle. But sod it if i hadn’t spent the day writing out this plan and measuring everything and doing calculations and shite. Bastard was going on the car.
At least this weld turned out nice, I’ve spent to much time playing with our mig, arc welding is nice,
By the way as it turns out i needed to have the rear arm shortened by 79mm between the snow and moving indoors I had done it by 81mm, tomorrow i have to do the other arm and get it the right place vertically as well. Assuming i can get out there on my bike in the snow.
