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Old 01-25-2010   #14
Andrew7dg
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: St. Paul
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Re: Beater Eagle Summit

So the car is kind of at a stand still right now due to crappy brakes...



This is what the 3g CSM brake look like... Kind of crappy and no one has the rotors around for them, or carry calipers, or master cylinders....
They are clamped to the hub by 4 bolts. You have to remove the hub if you have to remove the rotor. Sucks... Weird design coming from mitsubishi...

I really need input here!

This is the time where I decide to go 4 lug or 5 lug non clamped rotor

I might as well convert it over to a free rotor while this is happening

If 4 lug I could just modify the hubs (grind down the edges so a rotor will fit over the hub) to work with another rotor like this





Then later I could do the 2 piston VR-4 rotor but would have to find 15" 4 lug wheels (which I don't have)

If 5 lug, I would just have to go to the u pull yard and pull 5 lugs plus brakes plus rotors which there are plenty out there

The negative side is I would have to do the back and Convert my drum brakes to disk brakes and modify the parking brake somehow... which there are parts out there but eventually I would like to go AWD anyway.
For right now I would like just to keep it FWD because I don't even have the 4g63 swapped into it yet.

I have 5 lug tires. DSM tires with good tread.

The main question is with the 5 lug, can I / should I use dsm wheels and tires? Or are they too big? Would they even fit underneath?
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