Yeah, I decided yesterday was a nice day to go for a drive to make sure everything was solid after having basically the entire front end apart.
I drove up 47 from Anoka to Malmo, then cut across to 65 and drove home.
I realized I probably should have had the rotors turned while I had it apart, they're non-vented disks so there's certainly a few thousandths to spare.
But, they are coming off this winter anyway when it gets bigger calipers and vented disks.
While on the subject of brakes:
These 4 piston calipers from a toyota 4 runner:
http://www.autozone.com/brakes-and-t...03_5913_11642/
http://www.autozone.com/brakes-and-t...03_2362_11642/
And these vented rotors from a non-turbo 300zx:
http://www.autozone.com/brakes-and-t...8705_172993_0/
Will bolt in place with a spacer made that goes between the hub and rotor. Which is awesome because it's inexpensive and the caliper/rotors are available at any autoparts store. Hawk and other places make performance pads that fit the calipers. It's never going to be a roadrace car so it should be fine. Even if it was, all but one of the guys I talked to at Road America who were there road racing 240/260/280zs ran this setup.
I could go simpler and there is a different toyota 4-piston caliper that will bolt right up and use the OEM disks without any other modification. The one other guy at RA I talked to went this way.
Wilwood makes a 1" master that will work, with minor modification to the firewall. This needs to get changed because you have to move much more fluid for the 2-psion calipers vs the singe pistons. Also the rear will get changed from drums to disks.
http://www.amazon.com/Wilwood-260-87.../dp/B00EANSS52
Pretty cheap for all the brake I should ever need up front.
Article about the swap here:
http://driven-daily.com/s30-toyota-brake-upgrades/
The rear will be fancier, as it's part of the deal for the rear suspension change. It's still not super expensive.
Wilwood calipers:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/wi...FQyoaQod0xQLKw
Wilwood rotors:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/wil-160-0277
Rotor hats:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/wil-170-10040
This article from LSXtv is basically exactly my goal. Just with an 8.8 based IRS instead of a 4-link. Granted, that is a pretty big difference.
http://www.lsxtv.com/features/car-fe...n-into-the-8s/
Added all the links for my personal benefit later on.
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