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Here's a few photos of the Wilwood disc and caliper conversion I came up with. This also includes Wilwood's Spot Caliper, (parking brake).
I fabricated the disc brake "hat" from the original cast iron Jag disc brake. The main caliper bracket is steel and the spot caliper bracket is aluminum.
Ken
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Looks real good Ken, that should do the job.
Jim
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That looks fantastic. what is the part # for the rotor you used???
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Nice - Suddenly I'm nearly motivated to put mine on -- but they'd be outboard and be more Unsprung Weight.
Still considering on the Pinion though. I could be motivated for that!
Cheers - JIm
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The rotor is their 160-0471:
The caliper is 120-6806:
The caliper part number may change of course, depending on the front caliper and master cylinder used in each application.
I might have fabricated the rotor hat from aluminum but it would have involved many more hours for me on the milling machine and the lathe. Considering it's Unsprung Weight, I felt this was a good compromise.
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Can we purchace these convertion kits to convert rear calipers on my Jaguar rear
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If you do a web search on:
"wilwood jag irs conversion"
You'll get several results including:
- I found this most interesting.
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Do you have any drawings of what you made?
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No specific drawings to speak of. My CAD system consists of cardboard aided design. I used the original caliper brackets for bolt hole measurements and the new Wilwood caliper specs and put the two together.
Ken
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what process did you use to make the hat? more specifically how you you align the mounting holes so the hat was properly centered??
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Daze,
I used a milling machine that had the X and Y axis feature. After centering the rotor on the table, it was just a matter of mathematically measuring over to each hole for the rotor. Then I mounted the rotor on a lathe to trim the diameter.
Ken
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