ST205 Brake upgrade completed !, ST205 brakes on AT200 / ST204 Options

[Culpable04]

Details will follow later, hopeful;ly later today. I still need to work some more on the car but not the brakes, I have an issue with my driver side control arm that needs to be fixed, but brake-wise I'm done.




quick teaser

15 mm spacers was needed to clear MY wheels
calipers HAVE to be grind off and spacer was used to push the rotor OUT 3 mm in order to clear ball joint.
Rotor is based on a Cadillac Catera 2001
and I used Stanless steel brake lines and were just perfect, not too long and not short at all


I'll go over the whole thing later.


BTW, I did install the rotors backwards I was tired and overlooked that, but I'll fix that sometime during the week.

This post has been edited by Culpable04: Jan 4, 2010 - 12:46 PM

[Culpable04]

I finally got some time to take a few pictures for you guys

the very first step is to grind 3 mm off the caliper bracket ( no pic of this )

then thread tap the knuckles ( refer to my previous post for full details on this )

then install extended studs ( if wheel spacer is needed to clear your wheels )

then slide the 3 mm spacer in place



then slide the rotor in place and wheel spacer if applicable



then bolt your caliper in place



besdies the pictures, you'll need extended brake lines, try to get some SS lines at this point.


also I wanna clarify a few things.

the celica non GT4 can take any size of rotor not just 300, the issue of hitting the ball joint will come only if you have a disc that goes to far IN. as long as the offset os right you can go with ANY size of disc you desire.

also I said before 297 mm disc would not be big enough to clear the pads, but that's wrong, after further inspectiong we realized I was doing all the testing on a 5th gen knuckle, the 6th gen is slightly bigger, this almost unnoticeable difference makes 6th gens knucles fit PERFECT with 297 mm disc.

also make sure you have a good alignment, the clearance left between disc / ball joint is the bare minimum needed to avoid contact, if you are experiencing negative camber, you are at risk of hitting your ball joint, my aligment is set at 0 degrees and no issues, I'll go back to have a little camber on them for better handling, but I wanted to make sure at 0 degrees there were no issues.

also this brake set-up will fit with 16 inches wheels, but, the clearance is VERY tight, so tight that your balancing weights may need to be re- position at the very edge of the wheels to avoid the caliper to knock them off. I had my wheels balanced and I told about this issue to the tire tech and he was able to balance the wheel and place the weight where they don't come in contact with the caliper.

If you feel I have left something out, let me know.

if there are any question, please post them here, don't pm them to me, as there may bve others wondering the same thing and I could answer to everyone here ONCE instead of replying the same answer a few times.