Brake Rotor Question

[ACM]

All these replys are great, very informative. Unfortunatly 800USD turns into 1000 CAD for me, plus added shipping and GST AND PST (an extra 14%), plus brokerage fees if shipped by UPS/Fedex I'm probably looking at approx 1300 CAD. I'm only 19, I'm going to Univeristy full time and don't work enough to afford that. My front rotors are warped (have been since i bought it) and my rear rotors need replacing aswell and I'm definatly going to go with a high performance pad.

What i need is something cheap, I can replace with all stock parts (except for performace pads) for about 400 CAD alltogether. Now I have a little more than that, I can spend up to about 600-700 CAD. For me, ordering off the internet for brake packages is not practical due to extra shipping costs, brokerage fees, and tax.

I am going to buy all parts seperately I know a guy at a local parts store that can get me some pretty good discounts. I think i'll end up going with the stock one pistion caliper that came on my car, make my own mounting brackets, and go with the 276mm Mitsu 93+ AWD on the front and the Alpha Romeo 166 276mm rotors on the rear and performance pads. I would go with the 93-94 calipers but in BC theres only 2 autowreckers that have them and i can't seem to find any in the classifieds/ebay. The cheaper one wants 150/caliper (no guarenteee)....so that ain't happenin. In store i can get them for 120/caliper....plus a 60 core which is no good.

I've priced out the rotors and pads with my stock caliper, and it'll come to about 475 dollars but; seems to the jump from 276mm to 300+mm will be a huge cost increase. Unless somebody can come up with a 300+mm rotor that will work I thnk i'm gonna go with the above.

Same approach we RG500 owners use to get our parts, but in reverse.

Find someone trustworthy south of the border, order your parts and ship them to your compatriot. Drive down to your cohort, collect the parts, drive back home and fit them. If you're particularly sensitive, fit said parts to your car at your colleague's location and then drive back.

Cheapest solution for you is a set of generic rotors (NAPA etc), Mitsu 2-piston calipers from a junkyard and the best pads you can afford - Porterfield R4S for example.

Besides, with the collapse of the US dollar on the foreign exchanges it's almost a 1:1 exchange rate now, so your CD goes a whole lot further now You're actually rich compared to a few years ago !

Charles

 

[c5chris]

Just installed the Cobra 2001 PBR kit last week. Few details:

225$US for calipers with stock pads from the Cobra
34.50$US for the rotors (the pair)
160$Can. brackets and rings and shipping

I bough Porterfield R4-E for track use also.

On the 2G you need a bit of grinding in the back of the steering knuckle to make it flat and fit the brackets, a few shims= 0.4" between the brackets and calipers.

YOU NEED ABSOLUTELY the bango bolts, but SS lines will fits with the banjo bolts.

Awesome braking power and for my purpose a lot more thermal capacity in 13"x1.10" rotors. Will fit any 17" wheels even stock ones.

We want pics of your setup!!!

 

[Todd TCE]

Im interested in hearing more of that Corvette brakes on the eclipse. I have a few sets of rotors and calipers that Im not using and would be good if I can retrofit them on the DSM.

Todd (TCE), I know youre an expert on this, any way I can do it?

Sure, here: www.baer.com

 

[Raph]

My friend with the vette brakes loves them, he has Axxis Metalmaster pads and during our driver training he experienced no fade, nothing. Some of the civic's out there had glowing rotors but not him. anyways, back to the options available, i found a few on Brembo's website; they have a great "search by dimension" tool. anyways, this is what I found:

Stock 91 Talon TSI AWD

Fronts:
Diameter 256mm
Thickness 24mm
Total Height (what I called offset earlier) 45.1mm

Rears
Diameter 256mm
Thickness 10mm
Total Height 49mm

As for Big Brake options:

Rears:

Alpha Romeo 166 (Brembo part#08.6768.10)
Diameter 276mm
Thickness 10mm
Total Height 51.7mm (a slight difference but can be made to work)

BMW 518i, 520i ect.. (Brembo part #08.5174.30)
Diameter 300mm
Thickness 10mm
Total Height 61.1 (bigger difference from stock, but its only further back, there is no obstructions)

For the fronts:

i can only find DSM 276mm brakes from 93+ AWD


So from this I can put a full set of the 276mm all around, but I'd really like to find a 300+ front rotor so i can use the BMW 300mm rotors in the rear. (i don't want to have larger brakes in the back than in the front)

The thing I noticed is that they do not have a lot of sports cars listed (Chevy Corvette and Ford Mustang just to name two) does anybody know the thickness of Mustang brakes; or any other make model with rotor thickness of 24mm?

sorry to bring this thread back from the dead ... but this is how we roll in germany...
standard awd 2 piston calipers, with brackets and rotors from the mitsubishi outlander..

making a nice 295mm rotor..
you need Outlander Rotors
Outlander Brackets
the pads are the same as any tsi/gsx ..

cheapest big brake kit money can buy imo ( you only have to get the brackets from the dealer..the rotors from autozone)


edit: the brake rotorshave to be the larger outlander turbo brakes(295mm')..all other us models have the 3g eclipse rotors (a mere 278 mm)