Resolved 2G Which rear brakes do I have?

[Aproductions]

ive been trying to find this out but cant find out the answrer anywhere. anyways i have a 1999 eclipse gst and i wanna know which rear brakes i have, disc or drum. thanks and sorry for the noob question.

 

[rich3389]

Uh disc... its not hard to walk by the car and look. Oh and I am in Pen argyl if you need help working on that hoopdee give me a PM

 

[Aproductions]

yeah sorry but i havent looked and when i was looking at ss brakelines it say drum or disc for eclipse gst. anyways thanks.

 

[steve]

Only the really low end cars got rear drum brakes.

All the 2G turbo cars have what's call "drum in disk" rear brakes but what that's describing is a disk brake with a drum parking brake built in to the rotor disk. The drum parking brake is mechanically actuated to spread the shoes inside the drum like a normal drum brake just smaller.

All the 1G's have what's called an integral parking brake that actuates the caliper piston mechanically to provide the parking brake.

 

[Aproductions]

& thats why you are a dsm wiseman. thanks

 

[Grescht]

Only the really low end cars got rear drum brakes.

All the 2G turbo cars have what's call "drum in disk" rear brakes but what that's describing is a disk brake with a drum parking brake built in to the rotor disk. The drum parking brake is mechanically actuated to spread the shoes inside the drum like a normal drum brake just smaller.

All the 1G's have what's called an integral parking brake that actuates the caliper piston mechanically to provide the parking brake.

Was there any of the 2g's that came without the drum in disk setup?

Originally I thought it was a 95 only thing, but then I realized that I have them. I wonder how the Evo's rear brakes work. I've thought about doing a swap in the past but I dunno.

 

[steve]

All of the 2G disk brakes have a drum in disk rear parking brake. If you look at the newer Mitsubishi cars, if they have rear disks, they also have the same style parking brake inside the rotor. The early 95 AWD cars were different in that they have a vented rear rotor and caliper to match much like the 3000GTs did but they still had a drum parking brake.

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[Redwidow]

The only 2Gs that came with drum brakes in the rear are the 420A models and not all of them. I believe just the RS version of the N/T came with drums

 

[steve]

98 Eclipse RS / Rear Brake Drum to Disc Conversion

Non Turbo DSM Mods

 

[PneumaticDEZ]

98 Eclipse RS / Rear Brake Drum to Disc Conversion

Non Turbo DSM Mods

Thank you