Yes, thats right.
The brakes finally arrived after the courier company miss-placed half of my 5-stud conversion in another truck. As you would imagine I was rather thrilled that I had actually received the complete brake setup.
Pics:
Thursday the 18th, I got the car loaded at 7am and was quickly on my way to my mates place to commence the 5 stud conversion. As you could imagine, the brake conversion is one of the few toughest jobs to do on a car. All thanks to dazza, the 5-stud was on its way and we started by removing the front rotors, calipers and hubs in preperation for the 5-stud and R33 brakes.
Three hours later, the fronts were done and we begun on the rear. Unfortunately the rear was tougher than we initially thought; having to come across our first major problem, we had spent from 4pm till 11pm tackling the problem and finally installing both rear control arms, r33 drum, hubs and rotors. At that point, all that was left to do before we had to bleed the brakes was the installation of the R33 handbrake cable and rear calipers.
Comparison of rear stock rotors to R33 gts-t rotor
After countless hours spent on drilling the right brackets (with a blunt drill!) to fit the handbrake cable, we decided to pack it in and call it a night. Leaving the car on all 4 stands sitting in the street.
The next morning I drove around at 11am to notice, dazza had finished the 5 stud conversion and successfully mounted the handbrake cable to a proper strength. All that was needed was a good brake bleeding and we were on our way! Note, brake bleeding isn't as easy as it sounds for new brake installations. Roughly two hours spent on bleeding the brakes till we achieved a smooth, crisp pedal response.
Overall the end result is sensational, the braking response is just wonderful, though the pads need a week or two of bedding in.
Heres pics of the end result, enjoy!
The brakes finally arrived after the courier company miss-placed half of my 5-stud conversion in another truck. As you would imagine I was rather thrilled that I had actually received the complete brake setup.
Pics:
Thursday the 18th, I got the car loaded at 7am and was quickly on my way to my mates place to commence the 5 stud conversion. As you could imagine, the brake conversion is one of the few toughest jobs to do on a car. All thanks to dazza, the 5-stud was on its way and we started by removing the front rotors, calipers and hubs in preperation for the 5-stud and R33 brakes.
Three hours later, the fronts were done and we begun on the rear. Unfortunately the rear was tougher than we initially thought; having to come across our first major problem, we had spent from 4pm till 11pm tackling the problem and finally installing both rear control arms, r33 drum, hubs and rotors. At that point, all that was left to do before we had to bleed the brakes was the installation of the R33 handbrake cable and rear calipers.
Comparison of rear stock rotors to R33 gts-t rotor
After countless hours spent on drilling the right brackets (with a blunt drill!) to fit the handbrake cable, we decided to pack it in and call it a night. Leaving the car on all 4 stands sitting in the street.
The next morning I drove around at 11am to notice, dazza had finished the 5 stud conversion and successfully mounted the handbrake cable to a proper strength. All that was needed was a good brake bleeding and we were on our way! Note, brake bleeding isn't as easy as it sounds for new brake installations. Roughly two hours spent on bleeding the brakes till we achieved a smooth, crisp pedal response.
Overall the end result is sensational, the braking response is just wonderful, though the pads need a week or two of bedding in.
Heres pics of the end result, enjoy!
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