All,
Sorry if I have been bombing the list recently; I think I must be smelling
Spring in the air.
Topic for today's discussion is replacing the front stock brake calipers
with 4-pot Wilwood Superlite II calipers (about $210/pr).
The stock disk has a thickness of 0.5". The stock caliper weighs 10.5lbs,
has 3.5" bolt mount centers, with 1.024" mount offset.
The Wilwood Superlite II weighs 3.75lbs, 3.5" bolt mount centers, and for a
disk with 0.5" thickness, has 1.151" mount offset.
Can I shim the Superlite II 1.151" - 1.024" = 0.127"? If so, how? Could I
use washers, or would I have to machine a plate from aluminum stock? This
would then be a bolt-on job, at considerably less cost and weight than using
the Toyota pick-up truck or Jaguar XJ-6 calipers. Looks cooler too.
Shane Ingate, with Spring Fever in Maryland
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