Front end of the car

Some images of our progress on the front of the car.

As you can see like the back we have had our callipers painted. For the front disks we decided to out source and get some cross drilled disks. In real world situations the holes are meant to let the heat dissipate from the disks so that they can cool down faster. They are usually seen on Porsches and big Bentleys, these big heavy high performance vehicles have a lot of weight to stop therefore the brakes will be under more strain. The Zero is by design very light, so the only reasoning behind having them is that they awesome!

They were fitted in turn with the yellow callipers and top wing bracket. These fit together quite nicely, One thing to note is that the top of the wishbone has to be tapped out as it is full of powder coat. We did have a tap and die set but it wasn't big enough for the thread, In the end we took it back to GBS for one of the guys in the workshop to clean it out.

Nothing too tricky to fit at this point, We bought a braided hose for the front brake calliper and the fit straight into place. The hub in which the cycle bracket sits in was a little stiff to fit in. Because the hub had a thread in it we screwed a bolt in and placed an offset washer on the other side so that when the bolt pushed against it it prised it open in order for the cycle wing to sit inside it. The Track rod ends and suspension were also assembled at this point but I will go through these two separate elements in more detail in another post.