Re: Strange rear brakes
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 10:12 am
The rear brakes are if anything to good on an Elan as they are always under- loaded versus the standard fronts.
You may have replaced them if one of the following applied I believe.
1. The hand brake annoyed you as it always went out of adjustment ( because you did not know how to set it up right)
2. The brakes suffered major damage and you could not get the parts needed at an acceptable cost. In the early 80's Lotus could no longer supply many spares and the specialist replacement market had not yet established itself and not many cars were at wreckers for second hand parts, it was the low point in Elan parts availability in my experience (at least here in Australia)
3. You just thought you could do it better and enjoyed doing the modifications.
4. You misdiagnosed the over performance of the rear brakes as under performance and wanted to replace them for the wrong reason.
cheers
Rohan
You may have replaced them if one of the following applied I believe.
1. The hand brake annoyed you as it always went out of adjustment ( because you did not know how to set it up right)
2. The brakes suffered major damage and you could not get the parts needed at an acceptable cost. In the early 80's Lotus could no longer supply many spares and the specialist replacement market had not yet established itself and not many cars were at wreckers for second hand parts, it was the low point in Elan parts availability in my experience (at least here in Australia)
3. You just thought you could do it better and enjoyed doing the modifications.
4. You misdiagnosed the over performance of the rear brakes as under performance and wanted to replace them for the wrong reason.
cheers
Rohan