[Supras] MKIV front brake conversion on eBay

[Phil L.]

I had a cracked rotor... and replacement rotors were going to be at 
least a month away... in the end the conversion took me about a month to 
get on the road and even then it wasn't fully sorted....

if i'd researched it properly, i probably wouldn't have done it... i'm 
sure there are better packages available for less outlay...


Jeff Mohler wrote:
> What an effort for better brakes...did you consider different pad 
> compounds first?
>
>
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> On 3/1/07, *Phil L.* <fil at arach.net.au <mailto:fil at arach.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     you can bring it back a bit by using the mk4 lower control arm as
>     well... but that will throw in even more castor...
>
>     my setup is mk4 lower wishbone, otor, caliper and steering knuckle...
>
>     you then wind on as much neg camber and pos castor and you can...
>     and if
>     you can, put a spacer in the upper wishbone assembly to ever so
>     slightly
>     reduce the positive castor (it's not to change suspension angles
>     really,
>     it's to stop the upper wishbone foulling on the strut... they come
>     very
>     close but don't appear to touch without it, but i put one in just
>     in case)
>
>     the abs doesn't work anymore (error light only comes on at 75 kmh
>     or so,
>     so i beleive it's because the sensors are throwing out signals at
>     different rates... either that or my dodgy splicing means the front
>     sensor signals get blurred at higher speeds....)
>
>     anyway.... handling with the new suspension angles is pretty decent, i
>     did have to wind the tie rods in as far as they'd go, but other than
>     than most of the settings being on the limit, it's not too bad...
>
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