Am changing to a rear 2 pot conversion on a classic (95wrx)

Need to know how people have got around the problem of the disc guard being to small on the bigger discs.

Any help would be appreciated as we have now hit a brick wall on doing this conversion

Many thanks

 

Cut it off

Banny

 

Not done mine yet, but believe it has to be drilled off.
When I done my front Brembos, I just bent the lip out.
IS that an option?

 

Some good threads for you:

Nissan 2pot rear caliper with Subaru Backing plate install - NASIOC

Brake Supersticky: brake upgrade FAQ, tech in, Brembo info, and other upgrades: - NASIOC

Don't know if you have to login or not. Worth it though.

 

that is what we thought

 

I don't have rear guards with my Brembo's Chris, not had any adverse affects at all.

 

Cheers Simon
We were just wondering if we could hack them off without any issue and it looks we can

 

Well I've not had any and my mechanic was not concerned removing them... think of it as a cooling aid

Just bare it in mind in heavy rain and have a dab on the brakes just in case they are wet from time to time.

 

no problems with removing mine,did the conversion 6 months ago,just angle grind out the spot welds..

 

We drilled mine off, pointless with the bigger discs

 

Thanks for your replies Guys and thanks Swiss for posting this In the last 2 weeks I've fitted big front brakes to 2 Skylines and bent the disc guards out of the way but the disc guards look quite substantial so I wondered if I could just trim them I'll have a go at trimming them tomorrow with my tin snips

Thanks

 

There are, IIRC, about 6 rivets. Just drill out carefully, takes about 5 minutes all in, then repaint the bit that it was attached to with Black Hammerite, Smoothrite etc.

Use a sharp drill about 8mm will suffice.

 

I managed to trim the lip off with tin snips so they are all fitted now thanks

 

I hope you haven't made a mess PALMER

 

Put it this way, Cliff did part of one of them

 

oh dear god

 

Could have been worse, at least I wasn't involved...