AE101 Calipers onto '86 hubs

[PuGZoR]

Hey all,

I was thinking of throwing my AE101 calipers onto the hachi for a bit of the stoppy stoppy action. They're big beefy mofo's. Was just wondering if someone had a template or design for the brackets you'd need to replace them. I know I'd need to get some blank discs drilled to suit the pattern, but the calipers are too massive to let go to waste...

Any help much appreciated.

[rthy]

do you have a pic of one of these calipers?

[PuGZoR]

Not on me... I know the mounting pattern is probably only around 6-7mm difference in length between the two stock bolt holes in the AE86 hub, but I know it needs to be raised off the disc more, and the fact that the disc is chunkier needs to be taken into consideration.

[rthy]

i had a ae101 caliper (same side twinspot) with a 406 disks and custom bracket

[PuGZoR]

Yeah, the bracket design/template/thingo is what I be needing. Almost to the stage of frustration where I'd be willing to hand out sexual favours.

[PuGZoR]

406 being the DBA part number?

EDIT:

According to the DBA database, these are the stats of the AE86 and AE101 stock discs, or what they have as a replacement anyway.

A= Diameter (mm)
B= Original full height (mm)
C= Original disc thickness (mm)
D= Minimum disc thickness (mm)
E= Centre hole diameter (mm)
F= Number of bolt holes

AE86
Front Solid / DBA No. 700
A: 234 B: 38 C: 12.5 D: 11.5 E: 64 F: 4

AE101 (No mention of Levin models: so stock AE101's available here in AU might be different... this listing is for AU grades only!)
Front Vented / DBA No. 711
A: 238 B: 48 C: 22 D: 20 E: 55 F: 4

Now I just went downstairs and measured the stock AE101 Levin brakes and they're a massive 274mm.

This is all well and good knowing this, but they don't list bolt pattern, only number of bolt holes, making finding a set discs that use 4x100 a little bit harder...

[Hen is a total nutcase]

Designing adaptors is a bit of a coant. Expect to spend plenty of time with some verniers, graph paper, lots of parts and preferably a few beers.

I don't think it'll be worth doing it "just because you have them there", unless you can find a suitable design.

And expect to screw up the first prototype or two if you design them yourself.

Hen

[PuGZoR]

Yeah, I've already met my friend Mr Frustration trying to just get measurements and figure out exactly what I'm going to do where, lol. I think I need to go find some disks to suit the studs before anything else, then take it from there. Will be much easier than just imaging where the disk actually is. If I can successfully design a set of adaptors though, I'd be considered a god amongst men though, correct? Lol. Might even be able to make a few bucks out of manufacturing them.

[rthy]

i had problems fitting the caliper with 15" albino rims

[PuGZoR]

Yeah, just thought then I might need smaller-than-stock discs, just to fit it into a 15" rim. Won't need to be too small, but they will need to be smaller than stock probably. Meh, will investigate further...