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Car Forum / MINI / November 2003Metro disc brakes
Hello all, I have an 82 mayfair that i hope to fit with metro brakes. The car has 10" wheels. I know ye olde cooper s brakes will fit but I don't want the expense really and was wondering if this means that I have to sacrafice my 10" wheels??? Also wondering: if I do fit metro brakes can I just swap out everything between the suspension upper and lower arms and hook up to fluid supply or is it less simple than this? Thanks! Tony There are only two ways of retaining 10" wheels with disks. 1. Fit 'S' disk setup. 2. Fit 4 pot alloy calipers from a specilist company such as KAD You may be advised that some steel weller wheels will fit over the 8.4" setup, but I suggest you try before you buy. Machining metro brakes to fit under the 10" setup is possible but very dangerous. My life is worth more than ?200 - ?300 so I opted for the 'S' setup. If you want to fit 12" wheels with the vented metro setup you will need: Hub from a disk braked mini (Not metro it destroys the suspention geometry) Calipers and disks from a metro Drive flange from a metro (You may need to grind off the lugs depending on wheel choice) Bolts from a ERA turbo (see your Rover dealer) > Hello all, > I have an 82 mayfair that i hope to fit with metro brakes. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tony > Hello all, > I have an 82 mayfair that i hope to fit with metro brakes. > > The car has 10" wheels. I know ye olde cooper s brakes will fit but I > don't want the expense really and was wondering if this means that I > have to sacrafice my 10" wheels??? Metro brakes will not fit under 10" wheels. You will need to use 12" . > Also wondering: if I do fit metro brakes can I just swap out > everything between the suspension upper and lower arms and hook up to > fluid supply or is it less simple than this? Simple answer no!! . For simplicity get a set of disc brakes from a post 84 Mini, they will fit straight on. Metro geometry is different to a mini. if you fit metro hubs to standard Mini arms you will destroy the handling. 12" wheels will still be needed. Stewart. > Thanks! > > Tony IF you are going for a post 84 mini setup(the best thing to do) get a servo for the brakes to .... > IF you are going for a post 84 mini setup(the best thing to do) get a > servo for the brakes to .... Why? ive fitted metro turbo discs to mine (with mini hubs though) * you also need to fit a two way splitter to make the single brake line into a double to fit to the 4pot calipers > > IF you are going for a post 84 mini setup(the best thing to do) get a > > servo for the brakes to .... > > Why? There is no point fitting a servo to an 8.4 inch disc mini setup. I can skid my Yokos fine without. All it does is change the feel of the pedal. What next? Power steering? The Muffin Man > IF you are going for a post 84 mini setup(the best thing to do) get a servo > for the brakes to .... I found it to be a great help on my system, but i think the drums were getting a bit worn down to. So that might be it There is a way of doing a conversion using Mk1 Fiesta callipers http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DaveNoone/minidisk.htm |
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