Big fat brake upgrade

[bjowett]

It is on the back burner for at least part of this season. There are quite a few other projects that need attention first. I did manage to throw some brake vent/scoops on to the stock splash shields, and will probably throw some hotter pads in the calipers.

I did get around to looking at various rotor sizes. Wilwood and Coleman Racing produce some very nice affordable HD directional vane rotors. I like Brembo stuff the most, but I can't find a good list of rotor sizes from them on line. The Wilwood/Coleman stuff runs roughly $75 - $130/ depending on size. Machining the hats to mount the rotors to the hub would be easy. The larger challenge lies in spacing the caliper out further should a larger diameter rotor be used.

Another option could(?) lie in 13" rotors and calipers from late 100 series, but you will need 17"ers to run them.

If you are interested in an upgrade, I can start going on it again.

 

[Junk]

I'm definitely looking into something. I happened to find this post back on like page 36 as I was going through looking for 100 series posts to move and it reminded me you were looking into it.

 

[NW-sickboy]

I too am interested in Knowing what you find. If you end up doing a larger rotor and have to have something machined maybe you could get a few sets done and offset some costs and do a group buy..... keep us posted

 

[Junk]

may also be worth a while to Tewl since he runs a machine shop. Who knows, there could be some more demand for it and if he gets it set up on cnc he could quickly whip out some sets (ok, well, it may not be quick and not exactly whip out, but you know what i mean).

 

[RavenTai]

[quote author=the shed guy [Aus/CAC] link=board=2;threadid=10809;start=msg98114#msg98114 date=1075763190]
Camburg make six pot calipers and bigger rotors can be done by any decent race brake supplier for the cruiser. www.camburgengineering.com they are on the acc page I think.

Once you replace the front calipers with something decent, you can then move the front 4 pots to the rear with DBA rear rotors.

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are you saying that the front FZJ80 calipers bolt up to the rear axle? a friend of mine has a buggy with a FZJ80 Full Floating rear axle, he has hand "cutting brakes" one for each rear wheel but they are not very effective, we were talking about trying to get calipers with more piston surface area, if the FZJ80 front calipers will fit that will be the ticket