I want to improve my braking but I don't need a baer brake system for 1300....I was thinking that i could get some 1LE rotor and make a adapter for the caliper to move it out some that way it would have more leverage. They do this all the time for motocycles......I could have the machine shop here make the adapter......what kind i metal would be good.

 

it would be cheaper to use aftermarket rotors with better pads ..or wait 2 months and call steve spohn for 1LE !!!!

TVP

 

would it now....all i really need are the rotors.....and I heard C5 fit.....

 

Attached are 2 views of the missing 1LE front brake conversion part. Let us know if you can find a machine shop to make it. It needs to be made fron 4140 steel then heat treated to Rockwell 60.

 

Here is the other one:

 

I must be doing something wrong. Here it "should be" again:

 

Camaro6spd you are a bad boy!LOL!
So american, always thinking of a way to get things done different!

Lets all wait .........till the brackets are offered by our moderator
and buy them from him he is a sponsor of the board and we could all be doing something good buying the brackets from him!

We ordered a set at Thunder Racing, also a sponsor to this board!



6spd you got mail!

 

german-motorsport, is 100% correct. Lets wait and see.

 

I wasn't talking about a 1LE caliper too, I am trying to make this a cheap as possible, sort of a middle of the road type of conversion.....All I want are large rotors for more leverage....The adapter would bolt up to the stock caliper.....All you would need was to get some 1LE rotors and the adapter....hummmm, maybe Gm has some other Large rotors that will fit but just need a braket to adapt them.....Something off of a truck maybe?

 

how about using a corvette rotor?

 

Where in the hell am I gonna find a C5 in a junkyard....lol A Gm rotor is a rotor....If you want a performance one take the truck rotor and get it cross drilled and slotted....bingo a C5 rotor.

 

Hey Andy whats all the gobbly goop about 4140 steel and heat treating to 60 Rockwell. First of all the pictures you supplied are both of cast parts and secondly maximum hardness for 4140 steel is 50 Rockwell without case hardening of some kind. Case hardening could bring the outside layer up to 60 Rockwell but it would only be about .030" deep. By the way why do you want to harden them anyway?

 

I am looking into it...not going too well for mass production tho......

 

They must be hardened to prevent the brake pad metal backing from eating its way into the caliper carrier. I was at one time thinking of manufactuing the caliper carriers. I was told they made from 4140, and the samples I sent them were 50-60 Rockwell. know that when I did my upgrade last year. I could not get the brake pad retaining pin,which is also very hard. Into the caliper/pad/carrier assy. So before I finally realized that I had to remove a slight amount of metal from the brake pad for it to fit. I tried to force (yes that means hammer) the pin into place. The caliper carrier was so hard that it ate the HELL out of the pin. It damaged the pin so bad that I had to get a replacement.

Thanx,ANDYZ28