hey man that looks great cant wait until its finished.I really want to do the conversion as soon as possible.

 

SWEET!


John

 

awesome

 

Hehe, great news.

 

I can imagine how long the line will be for those that want these.

 

OK, I finally got it mounted up on the workbench swingarm today and here are some more pictures. I need to order some new steel braided brakes lines, because the ones I ordered for the Taurus caliper won't be long enough now. I may just order the fittings and make the lines at work so I can figure out exactly how long they have to be, so I'm not guessing I also included some pictures of the kit mounted up with the stock 15" steelie!

This is the only mod to the swingarm:
Notice this is bent,

This is straight, that is all the mods to the swing arm!

Notice the caliper bracket had to be machined, about 3/4" had to come off of it!


Caliper Bracket:

Brake rotor. Only mod to it was about .050 out of the center pilot!

Scion xB rear hub. modded around the spoke area!

Now everything going together, AGAIN!!




Plenty of clearance between the kit and the swingarm!

Now mounted witht he stock 15" xB steelie!

 

glad to see it all coming together

 

the only thing that scares me away a bit is that the rotor is just a solid chunk of metal, no venting through the middle but then again 90% of all stoping power is on the front anyway so... but this looks GREAT! what kind of alluminum did you use for the caliper braket? no welding done so i'm guessing 2024 for strength?

 

most cars that have rear rotor are solid

 

this is a must have mod

 

As swartzautoman has already stated most rear brakes are solid rotors. I may machine some up with slots, but as of this moment I just want to get it on and tested! I used 7075 aluminum for this bracket, but may go with a steel bracket after it has been tested. As far as welding aluminum, I wouldn't ever use a welded aluminum bracket on anything to do with the brake!

 

This looks awesome. An under $500 price point would be even more awesome.

 

After many many months of looking at this thread i thought it was going to die and nothing was going to get finished like half of the things on this forum. Im really glad to see this kit coming together and you should start making a waiting list because i will DEFINITELY be on it.

 

Holy crap! I really want em. Those look fantastic.

 

Yeah, I'm sorry it has taken so long, but its been one problem after another. Now that I have the actual brake part done, I'm gonna focus on the ebrake cable. I ended up buying a universal e-brake cable kit. But I am still determined to get the stock one to work, if I can. As far as a list, your right there are alot of people emailing me about getting these. But, I would really like to get this on and make sure everything is working like it is suppose to before even announcing these being available. When I install it, I will more than likely start a new post to post the installation, results, maybe a video, and a list of people interested to get started on kits.

 

I got Dibs on the 2nd kit! lol

Its good I said dibs.

 

amazing job, cant wait to see it all installed. Def wanting a set!

 

You can't call dibs!








Thx








Ian

 

Ill take the tenth one...just to make sure all the kinks were worked out lol

 

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