My early Xmas present .

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Woo!!! Woo!!! Look what Big Brown brought me today man I love that noise of the UPS Dude's truck pulling up to my driveway.
Hope to get them on this weekend and will post pics with my SSR GT1 Track Rims... and I'm crossing my fingers my street Antera 121s it will be a really close fit. Just to be safe I also had a front set of 7.5mm Spacers and longer studs sent along.



Steven 91 Blk/Ivory
 
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And what's inside.
 
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Re: Re: My early Xmas present .

D'Ecosse said:
http://www.stoptech.com/wheelfitchart/PDF/nsxfront.pdf

http://www.stoptech.com/wheelfitchart/PDF/nsxrear.pdf

Here are fitment guides for anyone considering the stoptech kits - note that I found when I printed they were samller than real-size - I remedied that by scaling up by 7% on a photo-copier.
Saves the guess-work!
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Yeah too bad the instructions to follow on the template are wrong!! The template is off about 8mm . my suggestion is to cut out the caliper in the template, then cut out the rotor within the caliper and slide the paper caliper over your stock rotor to see if your current rim will clear, or to show how much of a spacer will be needed. Steve and I found this out. The correct way Stoptech says to use the template showed that his Antera's would fit, but they are NOT even close like I said over 8mm off. The template said they would clear without a spacer, but in reality they don't even clear with a 7.5mm spacer!!! The trick I describe will work though. Just cut the caliper out of the template and cut the rotor out and set on your stock rotor.

Good Luck! P.S. I will also be buying these they are great for the price, and they DO have a staggered piston design like the Brembo to give even pad wear. Great job Stoptech!! Now just fix your template!
 
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T Bell said:
Yeah too bad the instructions to follow on the template are wrong!! The template is off about 8mm... .
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Are you sure you used it correctly?
You are supposed to position the wheel register inside the hubcentric boss of the wheel; then the shaded part of the template (which represents the new rotor hat) rests up against the outside plane of the hub boss.
If I measure the distance from the edge of the wheel register component to the edge of the hat, that is exactly 8mm, which makes me think you positioned that register piece on the outside of the boss. If the register piece confuses things, you could cut it off in a straight line across the edge of the (shaded) hat & then lay it flat against the hub boss; however the reason for it being there is to ensure you have it oriented in the correct plane wrt centricity on the rim.
 
There's nothing better then buying yourself just what you wanted for the holidays. It always fits and never seems to get returned. :D Have fun.
 
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D'Ecosse said:
You are supposed to position the wheel register inside the hubcentric boss of the wheel; then the shaded part of the template (which represents the new rotor hat) rests up against the outside plane of the hub boss.
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Original image courtesy of Stoptech:

In the modified drawing below, the red line goes against the plane of the wheel that would normally contact your rotor hat; the blue outlined part is what goes inside the wheel hub where the concentric boss of the hub would normally go (note that on the front this is 70mm & on the rear is 64mm)
 

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Stoptech template seems to be right..

D'Ecosse said:
Original image courtesy of Stoptech:

In the modified drawing below, the red line goes against the plane of the wheel that would normally contact your rotor hat; the blue outlined part is what goes inside the wheel hub where the concentric boss of the hub would normally go (note that on the front this is 70mm & on the rear is 64mm)
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D'Ecosse,

Yep, you are indeed correct, I used the templates provided by Stoptech to measure caliper clearances for the BBK on my 2 sets of wheels (GC-07's and TE-37's) and they were very accurate.

I performed a test mount of the front rotor, caliper bracket and the caliper on my car and then mounted my 2 sets of wheels, the wheels that cleared the caliper (GC-07's) had a gap that was fairly close to what the template indicated. And the other set of wheels with a spacer (TE-37's) had a gap that was again fairly close to what the template indicated.

So I think that there might have been some level of user error when using the templates, or perhaps they were not the correct templates, I downloaded my set about 4 months ago...

Ken
 
No - that does not prove the template is off - it might just prove that you didn't use it correctly.
The required difference between the wheel hub & the spokes for this kit is 43.3mm - that is almost 1 3/4" - yes, it's a big caliper!
To prove that your are right (& the template is wrong) please show a picture with a straight edge against the inside of the wheel hub, then a rule down to the spoke area. You need 43.3mm minimum (ideally 45.3mm) clearance - I'm betting you have less than 36mm.
 
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Here is a shot of the Template...Did I cut it out alright.
 
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Here is the SSR GT1 with the Template it looks close but it does move around the rim without touching.
 
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And another.
 
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And here is the Antera with the 7.5mm Spacer and the Template it looks tight but still can move around the rim.
 
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Good for you Steven! Those brakes look awesome and you'll have a blast getting them on and then road testing them. Are you using the Axxis pads they send along with?

FWIW, I cut the template out exactly as Steven with the template indicating that there was about 2mm of space in between the caliper and wheel. In reality once everything was mounted up, I needed a 7.5mm spacer and longer studs from Dali to make it work.
 
The pics show that the template is not being used being used quite correctly, so this might be the problem -
Preliminary - hopefully you also confirmed a dimension against the drawing to make sure it printed to scale (mine printed about 7% small & had to be scaled up on a copier)
But to use it properly - from the pics it appears that there are no hubcentric adapter in the wheels (I would recommend fitting some, regardless of the brake issue - you can get these at Discount tire, or mail-order)
What that has done is offset the position of the template - if you look at the drawing or the pictures, you will see a white section in the shaded area: this represents where the stud would go; on your pics, this is pushed closer to the centre which would make the "fat" part of the caliper locate differently, perhaps in a more conducive spoke location which would make it "fit". In the case of the SSR's this would not actually cause any difference as from the pics it looks like it would create more room; however in the Antera's spoke design it looks narrower further out?

However, I don't understand that there is a still a question of the 8mm, even allowing for this - the Antera pics are shown with the spacer on the rim, so why would you expect it fit without?

edit: misunderstanding on my part re final paragraph as I refer to the other thread on this subject - the issue is that it also needs the spacer for the SSR's. The other comments are still valid however.
 
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