my rear disc brakes

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If anyone's interested I know a guy who's got a couple sets of old/used aspire drums that could be cut up for this. Of course, he wouldn't be responsible for what you did with them. Feel free to pm me.

[russian]

Very creative!

We both know this was done before

[TominMO]

Very creative!

[russian]

On the one hand, you add a 1/4 inch plate between the beam and the axle stub/spindle. On the other hand, you remove drum disk back plate, which is maybe 1/8 or a bit less around the axle stub.

[chrisofna]

How much offset would you say that adds?

[russian]

So we take aspire drums and cut the unneeded part of them to turn them into hubs



take a 1/4 inch steel plate and some mazda mx-3 rear brake calipers and rotors
(that probably means a v6 mx-3), bolt the caliper to the plate through some sleeves with some 50mm class 10.9 bolts


paint calipers yellow


And we are ready to roll!

Escort GT/Protege LX calipers seems to be compatible in terms of how they mount, but use slightly different pads.

I wanted aspire drums for the aspire bolt pattern anyway - but see how close the holes are to the edge of the drum (and the drum side is dictated by the brake rotor diameter) - seems like festiva drums would not work.

No E-Brake in this design - I live in a flat state and my e-brake is broken for a while already anyway

PS: wonder if anyone would be interested to buy a bolt-on kit consisting of these brackets, sleeves and hubs? But that would probably be $199 shipped, and you will still need calipers and rotors.