Pics of my car...getting lots of makeovers., 7th gen short shifter installed Options

[lubu]

Doing some major mods on my car, will update this thread regularly...










BTW im doing a gt4 conversion i already got the gt4 hood but im tossing between the stock gt4 and the c-one bumper (pic below),which one shoule i get. Im thinking of c-one...



This post has been edited by lubu: Aug 21, 2008 - 6:45 AM

[azian_advanced]

good post... i understood pretty much everything you wrote. what you did is the best way to go about it. threading the knuckle and getting bolts with threading that go all the way up to the head of the bolt would be something i would do if i were to do this brake conversion so that the knuckle and caliper are more secure.

if, and only if, you had kept the original diameter of the rotors and extended the caliper with a bracket (or whatnot), and although the contact surface of the brake pad to the rotor remains the same, you gain brake force due to increased leverage (but gain in rotational mass from the larger rotors). but certainly that would be the more difficult way to do this conversion.



so basically, the minimum steps are:
-get new caliper bolts and nuts to mount the caliper to the back of the knuckle (get ones with more threads so the nut is less likely to loosen itself)
-trim the rotor from 315mm to 297mm (might as well get them resurfaced if you get used ones)
-grind the inside of the caliper mounting locations from 16.5mm to 10mm
-get st205 brake lines (might as well get braided ones) and bleed the system


doesn't seem so bad. i might even try this some day..

[lubu]

good post... i understood pretty much everything you wrote. what you did is the best way to go about it. threading the knuckle and getting bolts with threading that go all the way up to the head of the bolt would be something i would do if i were to do this brake conversion so that the knuckle and caliper are more secure.

if, and only if, you had kept the original diameter of the rotors and extended the caliper with a bracket (or whatnot), and although the contact surface of the brake pad to the rotor remains the same, you gain brake force due to increased leverage (but gain in rotational mass from the larger rotors). but certainly that would be the more difficult way to do this conversion.



so basically, the minimum steps are:
-get new caliper bolts and nuts to mount the caliper to the back of the knuckle (get ones with more threads so the nut is less likely to loosen itself)
-trim the rotor from 315mm to 297mm (might as well get them resurfaced if you get used ones)
-grind the inside of the caliper mounting locations from 16.5mm to 10mm
-get st205 brake lines (might as well get braided ones) and bleed the system


doesn't seem so bad. i might even try this some day..

To sum everything up.
For the rears:
Pretty much bolt-on except the 5.5mm spacers for the caplipers.

For the fronts [quote from az_ad]:
so basically, the minimum steps are:
-get new caliper bolts and nuts to mount the caliper to the back of the knuckle (get ones with more threads so the nut is less likely to loosen itself)
-trim the rotor from 315mm to 297mm (might as well get them resurfaced if you get used ones) + you can probably trim them down to 300mm if you wish.
-grind the inside of the caliper mounting locations from 16.5mm to 10mm
-get st205 brake lines (might as well get braided ones) and bleed the system

One more thing and this is the most expensive of all, you might (most probably) have to get a new set of rims as the old ones wont clear the caplipers.