1G Big Brake

[CrazyM]

So one thing I'm not 100% sure on is, on my 1990 Laser RS can I use late 92-94 front and REAR brake set ups to do the brake upgrade?

Thanks, Mike

 

[TheWanderer]

I asked the same question awhile back, and to the best of my knowledge the answer was no for the rear brakes. Front ones are fine, but the rear brakes on the late 1g and 2g were different. Early 1g rear calipers had the emergency brake built into them, whereas the 2g ones didn't.

If hope this helps clear things up, and if I am wrong I apologize for my bad info. Feel free to add to my reputation though if it is helpful

 

[90laserRSfwd]

The rear brakes are all the same on the 1g fwd cars. They are DIFFERENT from front wheel drive vs all wheel drive though. I'm not exactly clear on what your asking but I assume you were meaning to ask if you could swap the rear brakes off the 93+ cars (the ones with the dual piston front calipers), and the answer is you can, but why would you want to, it's not going to yield any gain you would notice, the piston sizes in the fwd rear calipers and awd rear calipers are almost identical. They mount different but the rotors are interchangable if that helps at all. Just do the front brakes and you'll be a lot happier. Don't forget the best investment you can do with your brakes is s/s braided lines and some good pads. Not the $40 POS's that you get at your local Pepboys / Advance / O' Riley's / Etc.

-Jayce

 

[RipperXX]

I agree, I went from stock 90 awd brakes which would fade extremely fast and would barely lock up the tires if you stood on the pedal to the 93+ dual piston setup with TCE drilled & slotted rotors and Hawk green compound pads and what a nice change. The car actually stops!


Kind of worried about the rotors though after all the horror stories of drilled/slotted rotors cracking/decentigrading/ flying apart etc. If I could go back and re-purchase rotors I would just go with some Brembo rotors. Not that the TCE's have given any problem, they work great but you need to keep an eye on any drilled/slotted rotors for cracking.

 

[andy4g63]

I don't know about rear,but front, yes. The difference is: you going to use brakes from 93-99 AWD turbo cars, or NT dodge Stealth/Mitsu 3000 GT. Your best bet is , go with slotted/only/ rotors.

 

[joshs1074]

i used rotors and calipers off of a diamante the rotors are bigger and they have dual piston also the brakes off of a 300gt sl will work

 

[Supa Dexta]

And the awd ones changed half way thru the yr in 92. The emergency brake mount won't fit from one to the other if you have the wrong bracket. My car is a may 92, and when I ordered in a 92 caliper it wouldn't fit, so I got a 91 and it was the same.

 

[CrazyM]

ok thanks alot guys! one more question though, does it matter if I'm taking them off a car with ABS or not. My Laser does not have abs..