Pics of my car...getting lots of makeovers., 7th gen short shifter installed Options

[lubu]

Doing some major mods on my car, will update this thread regularly...










BTW im doing a gt4 conversion i already got the gt4 hood but im tossing between the stock gt4 and the c-one bumper (pic below),which one shoule i get. Im thinking of c-one...



This post has been edited by lubu: Aug 21, 2008 - 6:45 AM

[lubu]

Here is the rest of the ST25 front brake conversion.

I could have trimmed to the rotor to 300mm but I went with 297mm and you will see why later.
Trimmed and resurfaced, just like new.



Ive heard that for the ST185 conversion the rotor hits the lower balljoint so 4mm spacer is needed but...lucky for us, it clears the lower balljoint by a few mm.



The OEM bolt is too short now so I went and buy 4 new nuts (with nylon tips) and bolts, it really doesn matter how long they are just make sure that they cover everything and you are good to go. The only thing that you need to be aware of is the threading of the nut, be sure to buy smaller thread mine is 1mm, so that the nut doesnt vibrate and lose-off. The capliper now mounts the opposite way meaning that it goes behind the mounts on the knuckle and the mounting procedures becomes extremly difficult. Because first irst you'll have to put the rotor on and then the capliper goes on, and by now there is really no way to slide the nut in from the front, you could go and slide it in from the back to make thing easier but you cannot hook the nut into place due to the tight space. (if you thread the mounting holes on the steering knuckle then everything will be easier)
I had to chopped mine off abit so I can manneuver them later.


So the capliper went on and we can see that there is a slight offset, I needed to bring the capliper out by a few mm, the offset is actually worst than whats showing in the pics.


I had no choice but to grind down the capliper mounts...this is the most time consuming part because at the start I dont really know how much I should grind, so I started grinding mm by mm and test it after every mm so see if it centered and from 16.5mm down to.....10mm..YUP you got that right a whole 6.5mm off.


At this point its about 6pm and I started at 3pm, 3 hours of pure back-bending, stomach aching and god knows how many times I swear...LOL but the show must goes on so now I need to reassemble everything. To do this I let the rotor lose and pulled it out all the way to just before it drops off, now I put two pre-cut bolts into place but didnt let them protrude to the other side just level with the other side will do. Next I slided the capliper, carefully to the rotor and positioned so the mounting hole lined up. Next I used a flathead screw driver to push them out to the other side.


There is another way of doing it, you will need to part the caliper into two halves then bolt on side to the knuckle then slide the rotor in and bolt the other side on.
If you did everything right the rotor whould align itself to the center of the cap, just a matter of bolting the nuts tightly into place. I used two wrenchs, one for the nut and the other to keep the bolt from rotating.
...and here it is, yes I do need some new brakelines. Bleed the brake and there you have it, the ST205 brake conversion.



Just a quick note on azian_advanced's post, as you can see the contact between the pads and the rotor is excellent, all of the area on the pads are contacting the rotor so dont worry abt sacrifying that 18mm (its actually 9mm but it counts as 18mm when you measure it as diamter's)





NOTE: Im dead tired so if any of the above is not clear let me know and Ill try again.

This post has been edited by lubu: Aug 9, 2008 - 9:54 AM