Brake upgrade options? Options

[revelsumgt]

Hi guys, I own a 7AFE 1996 1.8 ST

My rear hand brake is too high and my rear brakes are starting to give me crap.. it looks rusty and old..

Time for a re-build!

So my question, what rear brakes are available for me? I'm after more upgrade then stock...

Size? Just any info so I don't get the wrong stuff

Thanks

[Galcobar]

Toyota uses a drum-in-disc setup to provide an emergency brake system on vehicles with rear disc brakes.

The emergency brake assembly is entirely different from the drum brake assembly.

To do the swap and keep a working emergency brake, you need:
1) disc brake backing plates (this is where the caliper bracket and e-brake both attach, very important)
2) e-brake assemblies (springs, shoes, etc attached to backing plate)
3) e-brake cables for the disc brake system (you can use the cable from the drum brake system, but you'll have to reshape the cast metal piece on the end to match it to the new backing plate)
4) rear calipers
5) rear caliper brackets
6) rear rotors with built-in drum (calipers, brackets and rotors need to match years)
7) soft brake hose for disc brakes (drum hose is too short)

The easiest way to do this is to pull the items off a donor car. There are two basic ways to put the backing plate et al on your car. You can remove the entire rear knuckle from the strut and replace it with the rear knuckle from a donor car. Or you can unbolt the rear hub from the knuckle, allowing you to replace the backing plate alone. If you remove the hub, which is my recommended step, you will need to purchase replacement O-rings for when you re-install the hub.

The fifth-gen brake systems (but generally not individual parts) are interchangeable with the sixth-gen, except in one respect: the centrebore. Fifth-gen hubs are about 1 mm smaller in diametre than the sixth-gen hubs, so fifth-gen rotors cannot be mounted on sixth-gen hubs. However, fifth-gen hubs mount just fine onto sixth-gen knuckles, and will have no issues mating to the stock wheels.

For 5SFE-powered Celicas:
Front rotors
90-91 255 mm diametre, 22 mm thick, 54 mm centrebore
92-93 277 mm, 25 mm, 54 mm
94-99 275 mm, 28 mm, 55 mm

Rear rotors
90-93 269 mm, 10 mm, 54 mm
94-95 269 mm, 10 mm, 55 mm
95-99 269 mm, 9 mm, 55 mm

This post has been edited by Galcobar: Mar 14, 2012 - 10:55 PM