Thread: **Z32 Calipers in a B13**

why isnt there room exactly? Im having a hard time picturing what wouldn't clear.

I will try to post some pics in the next day or so. It would be alot of work to get the caliper to work. You would have to do some cutting and welding on the steering knuckle.

damn nust be a way

I appreciate all the input but we need to figure this one out on our own. I also have a hard time believing that it wont fit or that a bracket can be made.
I think it is ridiculous to run two different pattern wheels.

I want to design a kit that either utilizes a bracket that uses factory mounting holes or a kit that includes a new knuckle. I will not create a kit or bracket that will require two different bolt patterns, this is unacceptable.

I guess I am missing the point ... are you saying that we can use B15 "hubs" and bolt them to the B13 "knuckle", redrill the B15 hubs for the B13 pattern and the calipers will fit??



What I think you are tryinig to say is that you can use B15 knuckles on the B13 and the caliper mounting bolt holes will accommodate the Z32 calipers??

As you know, the B15 knuckles do not put the caliper in the idea location, the caliper does not surround the entire rotor.

We are going to develop a kit that utilizes the B13 knuckles, hubs and Z32 calipers. It may require installing our knuckles which have new mounting tabs welded on.
Here is an example of where we did this to put Vette calipers on a Lumina.




Or on a sunfire where we were able to use brackets

Bluebomber,thats some tight work....EMPTY YOUR PM BOX
Lets get this going!!

the Z32 caliper does cover the whole disc surface, I dont really see the problem of using the B15 knuckle other than having to reduce the diameter of the rotor a lil bit. But I do think a spacer will make life easier, I had to work on this from scratch so I worked with what I found.

For all of you guys looking forward to do this upgrade, DO IT, is not the looks, the braking power is out of this world for such a small car, after 6 laps of track racing on a boosted car (big turbo) I swear i could touch the calipers and without burning my finger.

no it does not... look at the pictures earlier in this thread. the pad hangs off the edge of the rotor... so its going to rip pads apart with the edge of the rotor....up until the pads hit eachother, making your brakes useless. and i dont know about you guys, but im not about to start grinding on a brake pad to re-shape it. thats just retarded, not to mention that you would then still have 2 of the caliper pistons off-center from the rotor, adversly effecting heat transfer.

Machine the diameter of a rotor. Wow! Im sorry I will never do that. Lets see what we can determine.

would this parts list be the same if you wanted to use spec-v brembos?