how to: Mr2 to GT brakes at a reasonable price, Bolt on Caliper Change. Options

[njccmd2002]

FIRST OF ALL DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. DO NOT HOLD ME RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, "FOR OFF ROAD USE ONLY, NOT HIGHWAY"

After that nice disclaimer....


Ok im tired of looking at 500 dollar calipers. Yes it would be nice, but what about the people that dont have money.

anything other that our poor piss single piston caliper would be nice..

but there are double piston calipers from some ss3 celicas, yeah!! even more rare that hens teeth.

(well maybe not)


regardless of that issue, i will not spend 1899 on a big brake kit on a car that is not going to the track, i rather eat that money in bigmacs.

So imagine a bigger car, bigger engine. Those brakes stop that car, it must stop the celica. Hmmm larger car. So it must be an upgrade. Yes by 25% or 50% its still upgrading even if it gets 10%.

so i ordered from fleabay, after weeks of pictures and pictures.

got it today and see both brake pads together



now that i got your attention, lets see more pics





almost same size, a little larger and wait it gets better..



yes that's a celica bracket from a 97 gt, but there is a problem, the cliper mounts are 3/4 of an inch inside the caliper... aprrox..




so i compared the brackets... side by side



they are almost identical except the point where the caliper bolts...

no its not easy to bolt the bracket into the celica because of the mounting points..



however its funny how the caliper mount points are identical,



so most calipers points could be identical... meaning its junkyard time...

there are two options, get another celica bracket and cut those extended studs and figure if it works..



or find a bracket from another toyota that bolts to our hub and has the same caliper mounts but in a different position.

OR! something you can come up with to help this......

And please no "Just get st205 calipers" replies, This caliper was 25 bucks on ebay. Big difference.

I will let you all know where this one comes from but for now, i just want you guys to get itchy. I bet culpable knows!!! LOL

no, this is not world domination, i need your help, this might turn out great, or it may not work.....


Once we figure out the bracket, it may just work with the celica rotors...

This post has been edited by njccmd2002: Jun 23, 2011 - 10:10 AM

[Culpable04]

of course, a car should be setup to the driver's taste, but my point is that, This " upgrade " should be called an upgrade. in a perfect world you would want all 4 tires locking at the same time as this would make all the tires work just as hard stopping the car, but in the real world the front needs to be locked just slightly before the rears, so depending on the weight transfer due to suspension and engine position and of course drivers taste we should modify the bias to make the best out of the setup,. if you look at most adjustable proportioning valve setups they are use to lower the bais on the front not to increase it, as manufacturers go for a very safe number making sure the front will locked up before the rear even when we are using crappy tires on the front. so for race / track where tires will be properly maintained they aim to bring the bias closer between front and rear while still keeping the front locking first.

let me hear what you think, as this is not what " I know ", is just what I've understood from some reading I've done and I can be very well misinformed or have misunderstood the data, so some of you should support / contradict what I'm saying so we can all move in the right direction.