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Day 19 - 1/11/2004

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It was very warm today. Somewhere in the mid-20sF. I decided to go do some junk yard hunding for rear disk brakes. I went armed with a set of cars that use basically the same bolt pattern. Most were General Motors cars. I ended up getting the front calipers and removing one rear system from the Cadillac that used to be in my driveway. Figured I could at least use parts and pieces, maybe reverse engineer things.


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This was yesterday.

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My garage roof is sagging a bit, but it is keeping the snow off the car!

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The snow started melting today. I was thinking of taking my Purple Two out, but I don't want to wrap it around a tree, so I took the truck to the junk yard.

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So this is what I found. This is the Cadillac rear system and the front calipers. One disk from the fron and one from the rear. I'll get new disks once I get everything built up. I'll be getting these Performance Friction rears

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The rear fits perfectly on the front hub

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From left to right -

1995 Cadillac Rear
1987 MR2 Rear
1986 MR2 Rear

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Here they are stacked up. Swept area is much larger on the caddy version

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Here is an 87 rear caliper installed. I'll need to make an adaptor plate

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Another view. With this setup I'll be able to use the AW11 emergency brake setup.

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and another

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and another from the bottom.

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Here is the caliper adaptor installed.

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The stock AW11 rear pad should work perfect. I may have to do a bit of filling to get it all lined up.

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Perfect alignment

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And another.and the AW11 pad fits fine on the disk.

 

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I was afraid the center hole would be different. But it fits perfect.

 

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