well finally sorted today, been a busy bunny over teh weekend.

new petrol tank
new fuel pump
new poly bushes fro the front
new baily header tank
new swirl pot
re routing hoses for the turbo water cooling which were looped on them selves.

any way, the brakes lol well what can i say they look brilliant realy fill the wheel up nicely however they didnt work.

the problem was from what we can gather not just one single problem but 3 smaller problems.

for those of you that havent done this set up and arnt confidant u can complete it DONT DO IT as nobady will help ie ATS, KWIK FIT, FORD ETC as they cant be bothered with going over someone elses work which i can see were there coming from.

my set up origainlly was standard calipers up front with ferrodo pads and grooved disc that the previous owner installed the wrong way around pmsl with a sierra 4x4 rear disc conversion with goodrige hoses all round.

the rear calipers i was led to belive were new 2 years ago however after inspection they turned out to be alot older and the sliders were sieved/ clogged up.

the brakes befor were to be honest not that bad and the only mk3 escort ive had in 9 years were i havent warped the discs, the pedal was pretty good however there was abit of travel but nothing excessive.

the main problem after instaling the st 170 set up was the brake pedal feel it basiclly went to the floor which isnt good lol.

we changed the master cylinder and servo for one that i took off a working car 2 months ago took it appart and made sure all the seals were ok etc then fitted it to the car, bleed the barkes with the old jam jar and transparrent pipe so we could se the bubbles coming out.

we pumped through 1 litre of fluid dot 5 and made sure all the air was out of the system but the pedal feel was stil crap but my mate whos a mechanic who helped me bleed the system said the pedal went crap when i tryed bleeding the rear calipers.

we then found that one of the pipes to the master cylinder was weeping fluid and then found that the end of the union was split so had to cut the end off and reflair a new joint.

we then took the rear caliper appart and inspected it the pads were in a pretty poor state and as i said the sliders were also sieved on the passenger side so we freed them up and took a trip to halford to get some new pads.

we the bleed the system again and the pedal feel is basiacly the same as what it was when it started befor i installed the st170 set up
i will let u all know what its like once the brakes are fully beded in.