ahebron Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 I've been slowly working on Vitesse 6 during our lockdown. Yesterday I fitted the front GAZ shocks and the lh Canley vertical link. My front hubs had been powdercoated many years ago and were looking pretty awful with rust flaking the pc off. I decided to clean these back to bare metal and repaint with rustoleum black, I also cleaned the stanpart front discs and gave them a coat of the black paint and zinc paint on the braking surfaces to try keep them from corroding while the car is still not being driven. Assembled the various bits and pieces and noticed the dust shields on the calipers didnt look that good and when touched crumbled. So into my parts department to see if had any calipers kits on the shelf which I didnt but was surprised to see I had 4 x Girling 12SP calipers for the Vitesse 6 and 3 of what is in the following photo. They all look the same, will fit onto the Vitesse caliper mount but are about 1/4 inch further out from the disc. The piston is bigger than the 12SP but these calipers have no obvious id number on them, are they Girling 16? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 sorry cannot open the photos but the bolt centres on 12 is about half a hole closer together than 16 they need a different caliper mount then there is type 14 used on herald and spitfires which will fit mounting for type 12s pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonMember Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 I can't see any of your photos either. I think you're hosting them on a site that doesn't allow access for other people. Check your settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahebron Posted April 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 Sorry dont know whats going on there as its all good on my machine but it could be something to do with Google Photos. Hopefully I have attached them this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 Looks like a 14 to the left and I would have said first off that those are 12s to the right, going by the shape, but the mountings look wrong, unless it's just the photo - one up, one down? It will say on them, somewhere - see photo - look on the sides or around the mounting holes. I'll stick with the initial guess; one 14 and two 12s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 from the pics i would echo colins clues Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave.vitesse Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 They don't look like M16 type. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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