Thursday, May 27, 2010

Rear Brakes Installed

Got the rear ARP studs installed:


Milled the OE Brembo 2 piston calipers:







Installed with new rotors:





Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Rear brakes

Rear brakes consist of 09 STI 2 piston brembos:


04 STI rotors:



Milled .160" on the drum lip to clear the backing plate:







Nice increase in size:



Just need to mill a bit off of the caliper ears now..

Monday, May 24, 2010

Stasis

So the proper offset hats are in production but x months out.. Instead of waiting I had a couple of .060" spacers laser cut that sit behind the hats spacing the entire hat/rotor out.





Jared@Stasis swapped out the 28mm rotors for 32mm rotors free of charge.

The main issue all along has been a miss-communication about the calipers. The mono6 I'm using has a 38mm centerline to radial mount whereas the mono4 is available in 36mm or 38mm. Initial conversations with Stasis indicated they were using the 38mm. Turns out they use the 36mm. So I'm still .0787" offset. That's fixed by milling .040" off of the caliper bracket. Swapping out the .060" hat/rotor spacers for .020".





328mm 4 piston Brembo GT



6 piston Alcon/Stasis



Sunday, May 16, 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Suspension

Installed a roll center & bump steer correction kit:





Finally got the Bilstein coil overs put together and installed




Fronts are based on PSS9s with different spring rates and valving




Rears are motorsport coilovers with custom upper mounts that I made




Shrader valve just clears!




The bolts are impossible to reach by yourself so I tacked them in place




Rear installed




The rear shock is inverted to reduce unsprung weight too




Front installed




Lowered to car 1" up front and .750" in the back for a 26" arch to ground at all 4 corners. Going to align it in the AM.

Stasis is sending out a new hat and rotor set with proper offset. They actually are sending a 370mmx32mm rotor rather than their normal 28mm rotor. More weight but also more thermal mass :)

Thursday, May 6, 2010

In the mail

So new hats from Stasis are in the mail as are a nice shiny set of Bilstein PSS9 front struts with the same valving as my previous inserts. No pics at the moment. Just waiting on parts now. Next track day is June 1st...