Its coming along. Spindles are getting tapped and calipers are getting touched up just a small bit more. Waiting on a quote for the brackets, spacers are in the mail. I am making it out of 6061 t6 which with how thick it is should not be a problem.
15" 6 piston brembos build thread
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Has the machinist cut any metal yet?
Not yet. Guy jacked the price on me so Im sending it to another shop to see what they can do.
From the pics I see areas of improvement you may want to consider will post later. What did the machinist quote the job at?
He was looking just above 500. What areas are you thinking of?
I see places where stability of the caliper can be improved. Note the faced-off mounting surfaces on the caliper in the first photo above and all that additional surface area beyond the mounting holes not being used to resist the caliper from rotating on the mount. The caliper will have an offset axial load against those mounting points. During hard breaking the caliper will want to twist on it's mounts and will be more inclined to do so with such a small clamping surface between them not taking advantage of all the flat machined mounting surface.
Just something to consider
Just something to consider
The amount of surface area is equivalent with the spindle.
Got the brackets today and they fit great. Hopefully get the rotor spacer tomorrow.
Got the brackets today and they fit great. Hopefully get the rotor spacer tomorrow.
Got everything mounted today and drives great.
Looks incredible
15" rotors on 18" wheels
nice! :rockon:
nice! :rockon:
Does it feel like you are overloading the mc at all? Id imagine those huge calipers are displacing a ton of fluid..
No the pedal feels pretty good. It might be a tad soft but it might need a little more bleeding. Nothing at all out of the norm. Although one thing I did notice is it comes to a stop! No more crappy brakes haha.
Damn! Those discs are like a x-large pizza! lol!
Got everything mounted today and drives great.
What size are those front tires?
285/30/18 all around
These really look good but are you concerned about adding all that rotating mass and unsprung weight with a 15" rotor. I would look into some two piece floating rotors to get rid of those heavy 15" stock rotors. Full Tilt Boogie has a 15" floating rotor weighing in at 20.9lb's compared to the stock 32.4lb's. They are not cheap but they will at least get you really close to our stock 13" rotors weighing in at around 19lb's.
Yeah, I would love too. But its all about money. I dont have a 13 big ones lying around to do rotors.
Well how much are YOU going to charge??
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