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Poundland finest for me!
And polish up with Autoglym metal polish

I tend to use Mikalor clamps

My old mans clutch has gone on his v70 d5, cost me £780 quid for the parts at trade price

All genuine Volvo
That's clutch, pressure plate, dmf, new mounting bolts, new slave cylinder and oil

Yeah you can't go wrong with it and it lasts so well.

Found the hard nattys blue wax gave a better finish than the liquid but it's still good
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I would assume the fuses are to protect certain circuits, such as main feed to small fuse box, ecu, etc

If so I would leave them in place , in not familiar with Volvo electrics so don't take that...

Yep make sure you earth the battery in the boot and also make a earth up from the block to the body.

I have made a few kits for other cars and tend to use 135amp continues draw cable.

Keep...

A good enamel paint

if you can provide mw with the lengthes you want them made too i can make a set up.

can do them in a choice of colors
red
blue
black
silver

ends are all heat shrinked etc

has any one else done this yet?

im going to make one up and attach to the rear bank of my v6 today

i have just done this on my 406 v6 coupe, opend it right up.

as for the gasket rather than gasket paper make it from 3mm ptfe, helps to reduce heat transfer between metal parts.

the next step...

id say its defianlty worth doing!

its one of those mods that is cheap to do but does have large benefits!

i have them on my car, one running to each cylinder head (its a v6)
one to the...

upgrading earthes is very popular on the jap scene

the likes of hks and spoon do kits for the impreza and evo, not made from anymore than 8awg cable and they charge alot of koney for it.

i used...

dont just limit yourslef to the alfa calipers, also look at the fiat 20v coupe, 406 v6 coupe and variuos performance renaults,

they all have a different way to mount to the car, spacing etc
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oouch not good mate

Fit a set of braided lines and new fluid whilst your at it.

and suitable custom braided lines from me.

Cheers niles, you have a pm ref rears.
I can have custom length ones made for £27 the pair or £52 for front and rear deliverd
cheers

but copy the dimensions from the cast mount in to a cad program and replicate them in billet.
So long as the bolt hole centres line up and the thickness is the same to keep the disc centrd in the...

there you go, should be a nice simple upgrade then!!

Surely with the number of members on here some one works on or knows some one with access to a cnc machine etc?

Several years ago a peugeot tuner had some custom caliper carriers made up, that...

If your getting fade then changing the calipers for multi pot items wont help.

To combot that you want some decent fast road pads, mintex 1144 ferodo d72020 i think or pagid rs 4 2 blue pads...

Cheers for the recomendation guys.
Yeah i can do either two or four line kits.

Also make sure when fitting the disks you clean the mateing face up on the hub, if there is any rust or dirt here it can show up as a distortd disk.

Dpends on your budget.
My favorite pads are pagid ds 4 2 bluepads they work great from cold and ive never got them to fade even on track.

Could you not try a mikalor clamp?
I know alot of people who use them on boost pipe work