I am looking for a machine shop in southern or central Maine that can do fancy waterjet or similar cutting. I want to make some brake adapter brackets to blot on nissan 300zx fixed calipers to a Subaru.
As many of you know, this isn't breaking new ground. A company in Japan makes these adapters, and a few people In the states have done so in the past. But currently there is no one cutting these brackets.
For those of you that don't know... You can get aluminium or iron 4-pot front calipers and 2-pot rear calipers that were used on various 1988-1996 nissans for dirt cheap. They can be sourced from a remanufacturing company, a junkyard, or the interwebs. These calipers are made by sumitumo, the same company that makes Subaru 4-pot and 2-pot calipers. The nissan calipers use the same pads, pistons, and rebuild parts as the Subaru calipers
The difference is the location of the nissan mounting tabs. This prevents you from just bolting these onto a Subaru.
With a properly manufactured adapter bracket, you can use Legacy GT 314mm x 30mm front rotors, and in the rear you use a celica turbo 294mm x 18mm vented rotor that you just re-drill for 5x100 bolt pattern.
Long story short, for the price of Subaru 4-pot calipers only ($600), you can get a bigger, thicker front rotor, and a rear vented rotor that is as large as stock wrx front brakes, and nice front and rear fixed calipers!
You just need the brackets like the ones seen here.... http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2196085
So who knows of a machine shop that I can talk to about making these!?
As many of you know, this isn't breaking new ground. A company in Japan makes these adapters, and a few people In the states have done so in the past. But currently there is no one cutting these brackets.
For those of you that don't know... You can get aluminium or iron 4-pot front calipers and 2-pot rear calipers that were used on various 1988-1996 nissans for dirt cheap. They can be sourced from a remanufacturing company, a junkyard, or the interwebs. These calipers are made by sumitumo, the same company that makes Subaru 4-pot and 2-pot calipers. The nissan calipers use the same pads, pistons, and rebuild parts as the Subaru calipers
The difference is the location of the nissan mounting tabs. This prevents you from just bolting these onto a Subaru.
With a properly manufactured adapter bracket, you can use Legacy GT 314mm x 30mm front rotors, and in the rear you use a celica turbo 294mm x 18mm vented rotor that you just re-drill for 5x100 bolt pattern.
Long story short, for the price of Subaru 4-pot calipers only ($600), you can get a bigger, thicker front rotor, and a rear vented rotor that is as large as stock wrx front brakes, and nice front and rear fixed calipers!
You just need the brackets like the ones seen here.... http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2196085
So who knows of a machine shop that I can talk to about making these!?
