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]

note to anyone doing this


buy new brake shims ( supra TT ) along with the pads.



may seem basic but with all the excitement of completing this, I forgot to buy new ones when installed my pads, so you can just imagine how they sounded like, finally saturday I got the shim kit ( US$21.00 from the dealer ) and installed it Sunday, quiet and firm brakes, I coudln't be happier with the result of this. is not as hard as it may look once you have all the parts is just as hard as a regular brake job. If it wasn't so cold out I would do some 60 - 0 tests to get some performance numbers to compare with the stock brake system, but that will have to wait for better weather and bettter going power.

I guess eventhough I had the bad brake noise due to lack of shims, is also good to mention that all this time I've been driving my car with these brakes and other than the noise, no isses have been developed or noticed,

Hopefully a few more of you go this route instead of BBK for 1k or more, I agree with those who think the stock brakes do a good job, but the extra stopping power is not bad to have, specially if your car is accelarating faster than is was meant to. These brakes will come handy for auto X and road course in the spring time.