Sorry if my reply was a little too verbose. Here's another one...
I run a complex arrangement of brake parts. I don't have the specs on what is done, I'm not a shop, and I don't have plans to do the job a second time. This is the unfortunate thing about many of us who do the work ourselves. I start out wanting to document the job, but in the end, I have to ensure that it gets done and works safely, especially when weekend upgrade timelines must be met in order to get the car back on the road as the only form of transport. I suspect a lot of Datto upgrades are achieved under similar circumstances. So this is why many of us can only supply vague recollections of the parts needed. I don't have the money or the time to go and do it a second time, just so strangers can save a dollar at my expense.
My parts list is as follows.
2x DBA undrilled rotors to suit 96,97,98 model Verada (KL? KR?), if you have to get them drilled, then the non-ABS ones are better than the ABS ones (less holes).
I unfortunately cleaned up a little too quickly and threw away the hubs of the "large axle" 180B struts.
The 180B struts are identified by looking for 180B struts with a perfectly circular hub face. No scallops out of the circumference. I instead used what I think are R30 skyline hubs, I don't know for sure, because I had so many different "unlabelled" struts laying around at the time. These hubs needed a few mm machined off the back side to position the rotor in the middle of the caliper. These 180B struts have caliper brackets that suit the VLTurbo,VN,VP commodore front calipers. I use them.
As you would have read in the "previous posts" in addition to the tech section, the Stanza struts..and most other ones are too long for a 1200. The results in the car either sitting too high, or the suspension travel being limited. To resolve this, I cut about 50mm out of the strut tube to suit a 240Z sports insert.
As you would know, the 180B struts have large cups and springs, too big for a 1200, so I machined the cups from a larger diameter stanza strut, and rewelded them into place on the 1200 strut, using lowered/shortened sports springs to suit a stock 1200. I ensured the the springs were under 1/2 inch of preload when assembling the struts, to stop them rattling about while airborne.
The rear brakes are VL disc brakes. As fitted to the VL diff which I shortened.
I've spent about $2000 getting the brakes/diff/front and rear suspension right, and that's doing most of the work myself. So probably double that to get someone else to do it. I know I wouldn't do it for someone else, even at 4 times the price. It was a lot of hard work. ( If a gorgeous babe asked me..I'd consider it
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I hope this gives you an insight into why the details aren't always clear, and also give you an idea of what I'm running.
The conversion is documented somewhere on the web "Cam McKinnon's 1600 site?"
I'd rather say that I'm not sure on something, than be like the 60% of online forums "BS" artists, and tell you it's the best..and I had them fitted to my car before I bought my R34 GTR v-spec and married a supermodel..
Hope this helps.
Chris
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