Well everything has been installed on Jason's car, and there was more than a few issues With the instal. The first issue was that the caliper is so large that you need a 1/8" spacer between the wheel and the rotor, or to grind the outside of the caliper to clear the wheel. Since this wasn't expected I made sure to bring my grinder and cleaned up the outside of the caliper off to clear the wheel. In Jason's case, his wheels had sticky weights on the inside, and they hit the caliper, so a little more grinding of the caliper was needed. This won't decrease the strength of the caliper since it's over built and was intended for a full size truck.
The brackets fit perfectly on the knuckles and bolted right up. The rotor fit perfectly and the only issue was 2 of the bolts I bought for the bracket to knuckle were to long, so they got cut down to clear the rotor. Calipers fit on with the new pads and then found 1 other issue. The truck calipers have a different position for the hose, so I had to cut a slot for the hose opposite side of where the slot is for the hose. Once installed we bled things out and checked for leaks. Te car had G body stainless/teflon hoses and everything looked good so we took it for a ride.
Pedal felt mushy according to Jason so we took it back to bleed it and check everything over again. When it was back on concrete Jason spotted a drip around the right front, so we thought the caliper or the copper washers were leaking. Got it up and cleaned everything, and it wasn't what we thought it was. Found some fluid on the hose coming from the connection where the steel line and hose attach. Tightened it up and I held the pedal down while Jason bled it. He yelled for me to stop because it wasn't the fitting, it was a pin hole in the hose.
Off to oriellys to get 2 new hoses and load the turbobuicks garage account for another member.
The new hoses were installed and the system bled out with a much harder pedal this time.
Took her out or a slow drive and went a little better this time. Pedal is still mushy but the brakes hit much harder than the stock ones ever thought of doing. Still needs some refinement so the pedal is harder but everything works. The one thing I'm thinking about is whether it's the piston size on the calipers is so large that the master cylinder can't provide enough pressure, of if it still needs some bleeding because there's air in the system. Here's a few pics to show the calipers and complete set ups, as well as some other pics to give you some ideas of what it looks like mounted up.
