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Old Mar 31, 2012 | 08:00 AM
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Earlier I already changed the 240 mm front brakes for 260 mm brakes. Now it was time to replace the standard rear drums for discs.

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Removed the exhaust, towbar brackets and the shocks.

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The whole rear beam was being replaced by this:

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The beam from a Granada Cosworth 24v, with lsd, 18 mm arb and also disc brakes.

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And with the beam fitted. The shocks have been replaced by Koni shocks for a Sierra Cosworth as the lower fitment is different than on a standard Sierra. It still has the 5 stud Granada hubs.

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Removing the Granada hubs is a bit of a pain. The Sierra hubs have a hole in the drive flange to undo the bolts to the arms, but the Granada doesn't have that.

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I had to modify the towbar brackets a bit because the 7.5" diff didn't fit.

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And changed the Granada hubs for the Sierra hubs. I fitted the smaller bearing carriers as I was going to fit the 253 mm solid discs instead of 273 mm.



And the discs and caliper carriers fitted.

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The rear beam now also had the mounting holes for the ABS sensors. Unfortunately my shell didn't have the holes for the sensors.

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Fitted the calipers to both sides.

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And the exhaust back on.

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I didn't want to cut the ABS cables, so I drilled the holes for the sensor cables in the floor.

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And the car back on its wheels.

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The rear camber was a bit negative now as the Granada arms have slightly more camber than the Sierra ones due to the higher ride height.

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To fix the camber problem I fitted a couple of shims in between the bearing carriers and the arms.
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