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CHOPPED wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2018 9:17 pm mate im sure i can organise you a t shirt
i know the presedent of the club
i believe hes a bit of an arsehole but i get on with his wife pretty well

president of the year mate

Cheers
Nathan

Hey Nomad
Does your master cylinder have 4 pipe positions 2 at the back and 2 at the front if so mate what were the fitting sizes as Im sure yours is almost identical to the one Im going to use and I assume that you blanked one of the back ports as you only need one going to the back?

Regards
Neil

Can't see the old photos mate they are all gone.

FireKraka wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 11:32 am Hey Nomad
Does your master cylinder have 4 pipe positions 2 at the back and 2 at the front if so mate what were the fitting sizes as Im sure yours is almost identical to the one Im going to use and I assume that you blanked one of the back ports as you only need one going to the back?

Regards
Neil

Hey Neil,

yeah mate i have an XB Falcon Master, the front brakes (rear of the master cylinder) has 2 ports, one at the side and one on the bottom off memory... and the rears (front of the master cylinder) has 2 also... then there's also the port for a brake pressure switch.

i have one brake line from each going to an adjustable proportioning valve, and then one of each blanked off, and the brake pressure switch blanked off since its redundant.

The brake fittings are 3/8" UNF (24 TPI off memory), and as for the blanks i was advised to flare a bit of pipe and use a brake nut, then cut the pipe off flush with the nut and braze it so you don't get any thread leakage and it can lock down tight.

hope that helps mate

Cheers
Nathan

Cheers mate my master is different then I forgot that you used a xb one but the principle still the same and good idea about the blanking.

Again thanks

Neil

No worries dude, cant see there being anything too different in there

Keep chugging along looking forward to seeing it again

Cheers
Nathan

NoMAD wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:35 amThe brake fittings are 3/8" UNF (24 TPI off memory), and as for the blanks i was advised to flare a bit of pipe and use a brake nut, then cut the pipe off flush with the nut and braze it so you don't get any thread leakage and it can lock down tight.

The XA/B/C masters are 3/8-24 UNF, with the long (deep) flare nuts. They are also a funky ball flare (not the normal GMH double flare).

Cheers,
Harv

Got any updates on this Nomad? Thought I spotted it in one of Blacky's Nationals photos...

Cheers, Joe

Yeah - every time I see a post update on this thread I am expecting to see a smiling NoMad holding a set of plates - its THAT close to finished ......

Decided to have a week or 2 off after the nats... but back into it check the list of everything needed for engineering.... so hopefully booking that in shortly...

haha blacky don't stress mate you'll know as soon as its done, i mean half the parts were yours at some stage

but here's a little one from the Nats carpark in the mean time

Cheers
Nathan

Well everything's full steam ahead on trying to get some plates on the car... off to the engineer on Friday fingers crossed everything's good.

However i did get my Dyno reading and tune that's required... can't recommend Brendan at HBS in Byford enough.

the numbers for those interested... ignore the right column, the red line was the off the trailer at 120, the blue was the 4th pass off memory after a few tweaks here and there

Cheers
Nathan

Pretty good for a mild 253 looks like you will be ready for our next cruise night on August 3 !!?

Gotta be happy with that! Now hurry up and get it regoed so you can lower it properly....

Devilrod wrote: Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:26 pm Gotta be happy with that! Now hurry up and get it regoed so you can lower it properly....

Indeed... needs some meat as well has a traction issue

Cheers
Nathan

Good luck at the engineers today mate look forward to hearing how you got on.

Neil