rear brake upgrade

[bensho92]

I was thinking
(which is very rare thumbs_u ) if you could take the front brackets,rotors, calipers and pads of the 95 sho and put them in the back of the 89-92 sho everything seems to be the same except the size of rotors calipers etc, i didnt try it yet but it looks like the brackets from a front 95 sho will bolt right up on to the rear spindle, if anyone has any clue about what i just said, please respond.
thnx ben

 

[RStalveyARFF]

if I remember correctly, the 94-95 and 96+ brackets have a wider bolt spacing than the stock rear brackets, and they would sit too low, hence the phantom adaptors that are out there.

 

[sdpatt]

Upgrading the rears would be for the sake of appearances only. The rear brakes do little compared to the fronts and the stock setups are more than capable of locking the tires. Spend the time and cash if you wish.

 

[jthomas68]

sdpatt:
Upgrading the rears would be for the sake of appearances only. The rear brakes do little compared to the fronts and the stock setups are more than capable of locking the tires. Spend the time and cash if you wish.

I have to disagree this time.I drove an SHO with the rear brake upgrade just yesterday.There was quite a noticable difference in stopping,and i wasn`t aware it had the upgrade until after the ride.BTW,the owner of the SHO is the one who invented the "phantom" brackets.To do the upgrade,you`d need the brackets,and machined center rings because the center hub hole is too large on the fronts.

 

[RStalveyARFF]

can you put me in touch with this person Jeremy?

 

[jthomas68]

He is here on the forum,and well known in the SHO community.Josh also has a few sets of everythnig needed,but neither will sell them because they don`t want to take responsibility for any problems due to brake modifications.

 

[RStalveyARFF]

I'll get them out of Josh. I have something coming to me right now that no one has yet, or knows of yet.

 

[FAST4DR]

Josh sells the kits now. He worked out the legal details and offers them for sale along with the brass plugs to disable the rear pressure reducer and give full line pressure.

And yes they will make a difference if you have the larger front rotors. I have the Baer 13" setup up front and the rears don't feel like they are doing much. After several laps at Summit the rears were not very hot. I am going to do the rear upgrade and disable the pressure reducing unit.

The upgrade is not really reccomended if you do not have ABS or larger front brakes because the rears may tend to lock up easier in a light load situation.

William

<small>[ August 04, 2002, 04:16 PM: Message edited by: FAST4DR ]</small>

 

[BigCaney]

I can't tell any difference other than appearence, but I upgraded my '90 SHO to stock '94 SHO rear brakes.

The '94 SHO's have the solid rear rotors instead of the vented rotors that were originally on my '90 SHO. If nothing else I personally think the solid rotors look better. Not as much area to rust and look ugly, if nothing else. Also the rear brakes do so little compared to the front brakes, so you really don't have to worry about over heating the solid rotors, unless you are doing some serious racing.

Now for the front, when I upgraded to 12 inch rotors that are 1-1/8 inch thick with dual piston PBR calipers, that was a big improvement. Words cannot describe the difference that the front brake upgrade did.

Later,
Mike

 

[Splitz]

just wondering, how would you set up your E-Brake if you take the brakes from the front? Probably a stupid question...