Leon_pp
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- France (zip: 51330)
no, direct fit cause 10x100 hoses, i know i have this setup on my race car
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anyone know how much these rotors actually weigh?
Have any of you guys tried sport brake pads? The stock brakes are really great on a 140 series unless you are racing. Having sport brake pads, some drilled or slotted rotors, and stainless flex lines will give you incredible brakes for the street. Use a good DOT4 brake fluid as well.
The next stop in my experience would be to follow the suggestions above to use vented rotors. But that would only be needed for racing or lots of mountain driving in my opinion.
Any update on the Willwood + 164E rotors project?
We have been endurance road racing the General Leif(1971 142 w/155whp), links in the signature) for the past 10 years and when we upgraded the front brakes we put 240 ATE front calipers on with the 164E vented front rotors. These rotors are not readily available anymore so we are actually interested in switching to something that's lighter and more available. Currently we use stock Volvo pads(240 front, Girling 140 rear) and they work just fine with our ducting, but don't last long enough with the rear brake bias turned up a bit. We can get 14-20 hours out of the front, but only 8-10 hours or so out of the back. Rotors last way longer than that, or at least, we run them way longer than that. We have also used Cobalt racing pads and they were awesome in addition to lasting longer, but they are more expensive and it's hard to say for certain if they make up for it. They might, and they do reduce maintenance time, for sure.I've been looking into options for ditching the stock brakes (and physical throttle linkage) in the 144 racecar. Looking at dual master cylinder pedal boxes with real proportioning and throttle cable provisions.
The pedal box isn't the hard part (measure and find one that fits and mount it) but I was wondering if anyone had seen/made brackets to adapt on a set of modern motorsport calipers. Rotors shouldn't be too hard, planning to get aluminum hats made with the right bolt pattern and hat height, rings are dime a dozen.
So... anyone already been down this path?
Have you confirmed availability with them?VP has the rotors for a very reasonable price although they're only sold in pairs and the price is for 1.
Have you verified, or is that just what their website says? They may indeed be available, but we got the last ones off RockAuto a couple years ago and many other sites don't show them in production anymore.CVI and Skandix have them too.
If I remember correctly, we had to shave off some of the mounting surface of the 240 calipers to get the alignment proper on the 164 rotor and we also had to make custom hard brake lines from the calipers to mate them to the 140 lines.164 vented disc with 240 vented caliper, only have to redrill hole for bolt in calipers, and direct bolt on