An S3 with rear calipers?

[blues3]

Didn't think these were a standard fit?!?
Pick up a set of brake pipes from Ebay on ...... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250890362731?ssPageName=...

Thinking that there wasn't a rear caliper version on the S3 but when I got them they were completely wrong for the back trailinh arms.

Anybody had any experience of this?

Cheers

Dave

[techbotics]

AFAIK no Standard S3 has rear disks just S4 and V8.

My S3 does but that's another story. We know more out our cars than a lot of classic generalists. It looks like they should be able to sort you a set but I would talk this through first to make sure you get what you need.

Cheers Damian S3

[blues3]

UPDATE:

Contacted the seller (Sam), nice chap and very helpful. He will accept returns (Obviously less postage) but does not have the pattern for the standard S3.
If I can dig out my old pipes I'll forwrd them to him so he does have the pattern; or, if someone has drawn this up already it would be useful.

Cheers
Dave

[Gerald-TVR]

Does this help??? Cant swear to the accuracy and I forget who did it originally.

[blues3]

Hi Norman, does what help?

Cheers

[Gerald-TVR]

blues3 said:

Hi Norman, does what help?

Cheers

Cant you see the image which shows all the brake pipe specifications? If not send me an email and I'll forward it to you.

[blues3]

Hi Norman,
Thanks for the mail. I think pipes 9 and 10 are wrong, in as much that they should be ended Male / Female.

I've knocked up a little schematic if anyone would like to check it and respond then I'll drop it on to my website (When I can get it moving again)

[Barkychoc]

Note original spec unions in the green circle are imperial - and yes that means the trailing arm rigid pipes are imperial at one end and metric at the other. Be very careful because one way round the imperial and metric fittings do seem to fit together OK.
Metric fitting often but not always have a little nick in the corners of the nut.

[blues3]

Thanks for that. So the pipe from the rear drums has an imperial fitting at one end? The flexy or at the drum? Or do you mean from the 'T' piece to the trailing arm flexy?
If the latter I assume that I could replace the standard T with a metric fitting.
Cheers...

[Barkychoc]

Everything in the green circle - so those 2 flexis are imperial where all others are metric, the inboard end of the rigid pipe on the trailing arms, and the rigid pipes from the T to the trailing arm flexi are imperial aswell as the T itself and the connection on the end of the pipe from the MC.

[blues3]

Thanks, so Norman's table is incorrect in parts?

What an odd set up, yet another bit of TVR eccentricity.

[Gerald-TVR]

blues3 said:

Thanks, so Norman's table is incorrect in parts?

Not mine found it somewhere and kept it!!!