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Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Tue, 23 December 2003 00:42
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Specs:
300mm X 32mm (Light) Curved vane 2 piece rotor, with alluminum Hat.
Billet Wilwood Dynalite 4 piston Calipers (Staggered Bore)
Steel Braided Brake lines
Race Pads or Sport/Street Pads (many compounds available)
Does not affect wheel offset, or space wheels out
Rotors available Slotted, or blank
http://www.technotoytuning.com/misc/brakekit.jpg
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Perth
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Tue, 23 December 2003 00:45
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I didn't think the Wilwood calipers were legal for road use in Australia, or is that only some of them?
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Tue, 23 December 2003 00:46
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Yeah that was my first thought.. Can anyone confirm that?
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Tue, 23 December 2003 01:37
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That looks bloody fantastic, how much does a setup like that cost though?
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Tue, 23 December 2003 01:43
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In any event, that's an engineers wet dream.
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Tue, 23 December 2003 01:49
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$1200 US... Not cheap, but for what it is not too bad either.
I figure this Nissan 4 spot upgrade im working on wont come out of much change from 1k.
If it was all legal, would be thinking some AE86 struts in the RA28 
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Adelaide
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melbourne.victoria.austra...
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Tue, 23 December 2003 05:42
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i think we need a standard brake upgrade for the ae86 for everyone.
yes they do look extremely nice but notice the brackets for the brake caliper mount - very interesting.
anyone know if those rotors are interchangable with a ta22?
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Tue, 23 December 2003 23:40
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The nissan 4-spot upgrade is still a good option. i just finished the upgrade on my ae86 and it only cost me about $700 including the discs calipers and billet steel hubs, it was a pretty easy upgrade and was a very easy 5-stud conversion to match my hiace rear end. now i can use 5x114.3 rims allround and skyline rims are the perfect offset.but you could always redrill the discs and hubs to 4 stud
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Wed, 24 December 2003 00:11
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Mate do you have more info about this? As I have a set of Nissan 300zx 4 spots sitting at home and matching rotors.
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Wed, 24 December 2003 03:09
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are they the same as r32 skyline ones cause thats what i got
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Wed, 24 December 2003 03:13
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Yup they are identical.
Some questions that come to mind..
Did you use r32 rotors? If so, how'd you go mounting them over the face of the hub and not behind the hub like standard?
Was it hard to make brackets to mount the caliper to the original caliper mounting points?
Many thanks!
Joel
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Wed, 24 December 2003 03:38
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the conversion uses ra40 struts,r32discs and custom billet hubs.the disc slides over the hub and has the right offset so that the ra40 caliper brackets can be easily modified.
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Wed, 24 December 2003 03:49
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Who made up the hubs for you? So do you have to make a new bracket for the caliper or the ra40 is spot on?
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Montrose, VIC
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Wed, 24 December 2003 11:18
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I've jsut been working on mine the last couple of days, using Nissan 4 spots (r33), r33 GTR V spec (brembo) rotors, 5 stud conversion, etc. All up cost actually hasn't been very much so far, but unfortunately I can't comment on how well they work for a few weeks yet as I don't have my car going again yet. I'll hopefully have some pics in the next few days to share with you all though 
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S.E suberbs, Vic
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December 2003
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Wed, 24 December 2003 22:58
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Any sujestions for a relativly easy upgrade? like mostly bolt on parts or straight forward machining work? sorry for the vauge question
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Perth
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July 2002
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Re: Opinions on this AE86 brake upgrade
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Thu, 25 December 2003 11:49
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| TurboRA28 wrote on Tue, 23 December 2003 08:46 |
Yeah that was my first thought.. Can anyone confirm that?
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They don't have rubber boots over the pistons for a start, ADR's require the boots. They're really for race use only. However I know of a few guys using them on the road without a problem. You need to be prepared to rebuild them if you do a lot of dirt driving or drive in shit a lot.
FYI the calipers shown are Dynalite, $350 each, discs are worth $300 - $400 a pair.
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....mmmmmm yummy