Cascade Crew

alloy · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:02 pm Post subject: And they said it couldn't be done

Gotta love the nay sayer's on TGO who said I couldn't put LS1 brakes on a small bearing 9" rear. That's all I needed to hear. As you can see it can be done. You think this will cure my brake bios problem of having not enough rear braking power???

chevymad · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:11 pm Post subject:

Brake HOG! Why don't you leave some calipers for the rest of us! Laughing

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:07 pm Post subject:

Dude, two calipers per rotor, and one of them air-driven at that! Shocked

alloy · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:09 pm Post subject:

Haven't you ever heard of air brakes? Wink

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject:

I would think the compressor might put a little bit more hurt on your smallblock than it would on a diesel. Razz

alloy · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:14 pm Post subject:

I'll get an electric one like for air horns. That should be sufficient to work them. Won't need much with two calipers per wheel Very Happy

91RSVert · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:56 am Post subject:

I use to have a boss that said anything can be done. Its a matter of how much effort/money you want to throw at it.

Looks like you just had to make some flat bracket? Or am I looking at the wrong caliper?

Xophertony · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:00 am Post subject:

Effing nice work there bro. now do the world a favor and take realy good measurements and post them online so others can follow in your pioneering footsteps!

Alloy = Number 1.

alloy · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:09 am Post subject:

Well I have the bracket design for the wilwoods, it serves as a bracket and a spacer. I went with 5/16" thick, should have went with 1/4" since I ended up facing them off to 1/4" anyway.

Other things like plugging the backing plate holes and redrilling them really don't require measurements. There is a lot of machining involved on the backing plates, and I had to turn the axle flange down .125 in diameter so the parking brake shoes would fit over the axles. I also had to get some aftermarket axle retaining plates, and I used some extra axle bearings to make some bearing spacers. Also as you can see I made rings to fit over the axle centers so my rotors were hub centric.

I can duplicate this again, but telling you here how I did it all would be almost impossible.

Get the rear and the brakes and bring it over and I'll be happy to help you. Better yet get some wilwood calipers and have a really cool double caliper setup and then I wont be the only brake hog here Thumbs up