When did they change turbo brakes?

[Stupink]

Got my old J-reg 92 struts with disks/calipers etc on it.. they have koni and eibach on them, so i want that on my scrapper.

Thinking the easiest way is to swap the lot. but not the calipers that way i dont have to bleed the brakes.

But then remembered early ones had a different brake setup by a few MM..

the scrapper is a K reg, i think a 93.

The disks from the J reg are nicer disks so i'd rather swap the disks, but will they match the calipers on the kreg or will i need to keep the kreg disks/calipers?

I'm not going to be doing the job at home, hence asking first before i strip the car down and find i need extra bits i didnt bring.

[tazz666]

just try changing the caliper calipers

[tazz666]

that should of been caliper carriers

[RobbieV]

Early are 284mm and late 288mm and i think the change over was around the face lift time 95/96ish.

[Stupink]

Ahh.. hopefully you're right robbie, I havnt measured them, but i just looked at them by eye next to eachother, as much as you can with one on the car still with wheels on etc. they looked the same.. but i had it in mind that it was pretty much only the first spec 92's that had smaller brakes.. unless there were 3 changes, which i dont think there were.

sounds like if i just drop the lot downt he workshop i should be able to mix and match anyway and chuck something on there.. worse case scenario is just spending a few more mins and splitting the struts to swap the inserts/springs anyway lol.

[RobbieV]

Just checked V6Calibra.com and it states there that V6/Turbo brakes were improved from 284mm to 288mm in 1996.

[Stupink]

woo.. nice one. cheers robby, sounds promising for a straight swap then

[Rusty_CallyT]

yeah changed pretty much on the facelift

[Phantom]

I'd agree with the T chassis change as on mine someone has put 284mm disks on so when the pads wear they curl over the edge of the disk and scrape

[Stupink]

well no problems, swapped the fronts over today. direct swap as predicted cheers guys

Just got to do the rears next dry day, clean it up and get some new tyres on it. then its all finished. actually looking like a propper car again! lol.