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Subject:[subaruvanagon] RE: Upgraded Brakes
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:51:09 +1300

>Simon says...
>>  How are you chaps getting on with the SA brakes??
>>  Any problems? What pads do you use??
>>  Any tips??
>My 1989 syncro clearly stops better than before and resists fade much better
>than before.  You will need 15" wheels to accommodate the larger disk and
>caliper.  The pads appear to fit the Merkur TI.  While your at it bag a set
>of headrests from the a merkur.  They fit and they are tiltable.

Of course the "Mercury Merkur" was the badge applied to the US-market
Ford Sierra. Dunno if it used the normal Sierra brakes, though.
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

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