Aspire Swap/Bendix Ceramics/PGPLus

[Burnrate]

Hi All,
Been working on getting the front brakes ready to go under the festy.
Got the Bendix CT3 pn/D446CT front pads and the Raybestos PGplus pn/66468 front rotors for MTX. Got the whole strut/knuckle sitting on the bench. Got the calliper fully compressed (no really I do!). New rotor is on.
Problem: I can get the pads in place but they are tight up against the rotor. They go in easy but you could not slide a piece of paper between the pad and the rotor. Anyone running this setup? I see Packrat you are running these rotors. What pads are you using? I dont think they will work this close. The pads seem to be awfull thick. Are there MTX and AXT versions of the PADS? Any suggestions.
Thanks
Eric

[Gforcefd]

Depending on which aspire you got the setup off from depends on the thickenss of the rotors.

ATX have thicker.

Also I have put pads on cars, that looked like they where touching, but infact once they set in place worked great.

[mattswabb]

There are MTX and ATX calipers and rotors. The pads are all the same.

Does the rotor spin free?

[Burnrate]

Matt,
Can't get them all the way assembled because one of the guide pin holes is too small / mis-shaped. I could drill it but I dont want the parts guy saying I modified it. Going to take them back and look at another set. They might turn freely but its going to be very close. MTX caliper 94 aspire; MTX rotor new. I don't think the aspire I took them off of was an SE but that question kept coming up in the ordering process. What is an aspire SE and could the calipers be different?
Thanks
Eric

[packrat427]

I will need to look at the brand of the pads that I installed on there . It has been a while , but the were close if I remember .

[Burnrate]

Took the pads back. They did not have another set of the bendix to look at. Ended up getting the friction masters. They were about a mm thinner on each side. The went on just fine but they are not the quality of the bendix.