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Old Apr 4, 2007 | 07:21 PM
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BBK and old Fronts

Ok I had to sit thru a very long meeting this afternoon and since the subject matter held my attention so well I started thinking (a very dangerous thing). I just ordered the Detroit Tuned BBK and was thinking about the rears. I was wondering how hard it would be to install the front calipers and rotors on the rear.... what would it take... to complicated to even worry about it?
 
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Old Apr 4, 2007 | 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by CARdiac
Ok I had to sit thru a very long meeting this afternoon and since the subject matter held my attention so well I started thinking (a very dangerous thing). I just ordered the Detroit Tuned BBK and was thinking about the rears. I was wondering how hard it would be to install the front calipers and rotors on the rear.... what would it take... to complicated to even worry about it?
While with much work it "could" be done it would present many problems and issues you'd not be happy with.

Complicated brackets aside, the resultant rear brake bias due to way too much piston area, combined with very poor pedal feel and the total loss of the parking brake make it a rather poor choice.
 
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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 10:03 AM
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The loss of the parking brake completely slipped my mind... but of course the subject matter of the meeting was so bad that I was obviously only semi conscious.

Thanks for the quick reply
 
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