Litton Corse build with 2.0l Lancia 8v TC

[Lancialulu]

I have been asked to post some photographs of my rear uprights. My car is a very early Litton using the Beta front upright at the rear. Steve Greenwood arranged for it to be modified by removing the bottom ball joint and welding a tube in it's place to connect the wishbone.
I have Leda adjustable struts with an elliptical camber adjustment facility. I just about manage to reduce the camber to -1 degree. I really should buy replacement adjustable top mounts for the struts.

Paul, although my car is an early Transformer it seems to have similar rear struts with those (near useless) camber cams and Leda shock absorbers. We should compare when we meet up! How much droop do your struts provide??

[Paul Eustace]

I have now finished the rear brake upgrade on my car. I have replaced the very tired Lancia Beta rear brakes with a HiSpec solution.

After speaking with Alex from HiSpec I decided on HiSpec UltraLite 4 pot calipers and HiSpec 300mm x 24mm ventilated rotors with custom bells.

I really wanted to remove the hand brake cables from my engine bay as the central tunnel was really crowded and a nightmare to access. The HiSpec Electronic hand brake Spot Caliper was a very attractive solution.

I checked and double checked I had the required clearances between the wheel and the calipers and the hand brake caliper to the inner wheel arch liner and chassis. Then I placed the order with HiSpec....

When the calipers and rotors arrived I set the calipers up on the rear hubs and fabricated caliper hanger brackets.

I was very pleased with the outcome as the calipers are bang on the centrelines and the handbrake works just fine. Due to the awful weather I have had very little chance to bed the brakes in but Spring is not too far away.



The little red button on the extreme right of the centre console operates the hand brake.
Currently awaiting delivery of the flexible hoses to plumb in the hydraulic handbrake.



My next major project in the installation of a LifeLine Zero 360 3kg Mechanical in car fire extinguisher kit. When I install this I will redesign and vastly simplify the centre console. This version originally supported the mechanical hand brake and this limited the height of the console.

[Paul Eustace]

Here is my Lifeline 360 fire extinguisher kit recently arrived from Merlin Motorsport. I hope to find time to install this over the next week or so.



Lifeline recommend fitting the external fire extinguisher control and and battery cutoff control on the front scuttle. If anyone has any advice on locating the external controls of fitting the kit please let me know.

[Redline]

Mine's a ListerBell, but here's where I put mine.



Not that I'm a pessimist or anything, but I also put the decals onto the bulkhead underneath the bonnet (in case the bonnet is

not there when you want to know what's what!).

Mark

[Guy Mayers]

When I converted to LHD a couple of years back I moved the wiper to the other side of the scuttle plinth. That left a gaping hole from the original spindle position so I used that for the plumber in extinguisher button. I guess you could put a mechanical system pul handle there too?
Guy

[Allora#2]

Here is mine!

[Paul Eustace]

Well I have now installed a Lifeline 360 3kg fire extinguisher. I selected this system as the kit includes everything you need and uses Novec™1230 suppressant.

The push fit pipework is really easy to use although I did buy some additional 90 degree elbows to make the pipe runs as neat as possible.

I fitted the cockpit nozzles into the footwell on the heater air distribution box. Two of the engine bay nozzles are located either side of the engine with one of these pointing at the exhaust system. The third engine bay nozzle is aimed at the carburettors. The fuel tanks get plenty of coverage.

Whilst installing this system I took the opportunity to redesign the centre console and improve the gear change mount points. The gear change is much improved.