WANTED Rear caliper relocation brackets, to move the calipers out and allow a larger rotor to be used on the rear. 02-06 new or used ok.

 

Ireland has a kit out there, TCE too maybe, I'm not aware of any others unless someone made their own.

Is your reason for this mod aesthetic or functional, I should warn you, the rear brakes do almost no braking (Ever tried to stop your car before with the parking brake only?) so this mod will be of little functional value.

On the track when my front brakes are at 1200-1400+ degrees F my rear rotors are usually half that.

 

I figured with the relocation brackets the front rotors will probably work on the rear. Just a guess I wanted to check out, if I can find the brackets reasonable. The plan is for Wilwood on the front, that requires some saving $$$$....

 

Ahh, no.
Not unless you plan to remove the pads.

 

any luck finding a kit for this? I'd like to put bigger rotors on the rear as well (100% for asthetics, the tiny rotors look stupid behind my open wheels)

 

Here's the Ireland kit.

Here are the TCE kits.

 

Bigger rotors on the back are covered by the links posted. And I can offer it in both my 8 bolt style hat as well as an 8 bolt Wilwood hat to match front kits.

"Front rotors to the rear" kits however remain a no-go.

 

Since no one has explained why, and some folks may not understand.... the front rotors are much THICKER than rear rotors... because they're vented... and the rears are single-layer solid... a front vented rotor can't fit in the space between the pads of a rear caliper. Hence the need for "special application" larger diameter rear rotors to make this concept work... and hence the cost of the kits... unless someone can come up with a different OEM rear rotor that's the desired diameter, and the right thickness for the MINI rear calipers, and the right bolt pattern and hub size, and...

 

Very right. I glossed over it and left it to ones imagination to figure out why. Probably should have been more specific. Bad habit of mine I admit.

Actually there is one way this could be done. You could use the front rotor and then fit the Wilwood combo caliper to it. Seeing this is what I do on the "full" rear kit it's done so by use of pad spacers to take up the gap created by the retained fit of a non vented rotor. (yes I could do a vented one too but that prevents former customers from updating) The bigger issue here becomes less of "could it be done" and more of "wha'ts it worth" to you.

The combo caliper and a related bracket, pads, hoses and work will still set you back an easy $800-900 by the time it's done. Personally I don't think there are a lot of interested buyers for this plan when for a few bucks more you could at least do the matching two piece set up to go with the front.