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i just accepted an offer on our other house yesterday (we’ve been carrying 2 mortgages for 8 months) so as soon as we close the car is going on jack stands and I’m going to get right to it.
Excellent. I am not looking for 15+ inch rotors because I dont want the unsprung mass, but I am a fan of your work and look forward to seeing the progress. I have always liked the OEM brembos and would like to couple the CTSV Gen2 or equivelent as you have pointed out (thank you) to a 14 inch rotor (maybe C6 Z06 or something else with a more desireable offset). I will be designing and machining my own caliper adapters. I have access to a CMM anytime I need it at work (I am a mechanical engineer), so I can reverse engineer any factory suspension component with high precision and export it directly into CAD to draw up my caliper adapters. I have done it on most of my vehicles with great results That being said, if you want to collaborate on this let me know.
Excellent. I am not looking for 15+ inch rotors because I dont want the unsprung mass, but I am a fan of your work and look forward to seeing the progress. I have always liked the OEM brembos and would like to couple the CTSV Gen2 or equivelent as you have pointed out (thank you) to a 14 inch rotor (maybe C6 Z06 or something else with a more desireable offset). I will be designing and machining my own caliper adapters. I have access to a CMM anytime I need it at work (I am a mechanical engineer), so I can reverse engineer any factory suspension component with high precision and export it directly into CAD to draw up my caliper adapters. I have done it on most of my vehicles with great results That being said, if you want to collaborate on this let me know.
Congrats on selling the house!
You know, I'm really interested in that as well. the only reason I didn't go for it is because of the rotor situation. I don't think V rotors will work without modification.
I designed and had brackets made for my G8 with CTSV2 calipers, so I don't see an issue with making adapters for mount the calipers.
maybe it would be worth buying a rotor to look at, since they're only $70 a piece or something like that the last time I looked.
I know the 15.4" rotors will hurt performance short term, but if I'm going to have to piece together a weird rotor, it might as well be a wild one.
Last edited by work_truck; 10-22-2018 at 07:51 AM.
Yeah I took all the ads down, I'm swapping out all the brakes and suspension on my old beater ranger, then the Corvette is going back in the garage and I'm going to tear into it again.
I'm not real sure that these are going to fit under the C5z wheels, but I'm really hoping they do.
Picked up something with a 6.2 and Magnetic Ride in November:
Corvette has been banished to outside parking (at a work garage here)
While I go through the entire suspension on this:
Which belonged to my dad, and is kind of the last thing I have of his. Its got ~350k miles on it and can barely go fast enough to stay on the interstate with its 8 plug 4cyl. Its been sitting by my garage for about 6 years while I try to figure out what the heck to do with it.
But we're about to start remodeling our new house and I need something that can make it back and forth to the dump. which this will be perfect for.
Last edited by work_truck; 01-04-2019 at 07:27 AM.
Those Rangers are great!!! Wish I had never let mine go. Wife traded it in 9 years ago with 200k miles on it!!
Last of the line with the twin I beam front suspension. Basically indestructible.
Good luck with that rebuild!
Those Rangers are great!!! Wish I had never let mine go. Wife traded it in 9 years ago with 200k miles on it!!
Last of the line with the twin I beam front suspension. Basically indestructible.
Good luck with that rebuild!
its been interesting to say the least. this weekend I have to grind off the leaf spring brackets to mount up the new ones. then I can start on the front.
Picked up something with a 6.2 and Magnetic Ride in November:
Corvette has been banished to outside parking (at a work garage here)
While I go through the entire suspension on this:
Which belonged to my dad, and is kind of the last thing I have of his. Its got ~350k miles on it and can barely go fast enough to stay on the interstate with its 8 plug 4cyl. Its been sitting by my garage for about 6 years while I try to figure out what the heck to do with it.
But we're about to start remodeling our new house and I need something that can make it back and forth to the dump. which this will be perfect for.
I had an '89 Ford Ranger as a beater 10 years or so ago trying to keep my then '04 GTO off of winter duty. That truck got 290k on the clock before the ORIGINAL clutch went & blew a passenger side front brake line, replaced clutch w/ junk yard pull + new front lines/pads went another 10k before i had other issues w/ not passing inspection due to exhaust leak didn't wanna put any more $$/effort into it, but those trucks are solid as F
So I bought a cheap pair of 20mm spacers off ebay to try and figure out what I can get away with wheel wise.
Volk offers a new ZE40 for the FK8 civic (type R) in an 18x10 +37. looking at some online calculators (because I'm retarded) it looks like this would net me about +14mm of poke from the current set up. The rear I'm sure will be fine with this, but I don't know if the front can take up a half inch and not look silly. We will see.
(and I don't even know if these will clear the brakes)
06-06-2018, 07:48 AM
That being said, if you want to collaborate on this let me know.
