sjmatthews
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| posted on 26/12/12 at 06:29 PM |
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Sierra Solid Front Discs
Hi all,
As a little winter project I intend to change my old vented front discs (240 x 24mm, Sierra 1.8+ models) for some new solid discs (240 x 10mm, Sierra
1.3 & 1.6 models). Should also save some weight and allow them to get a little warmer.
I'm conscious that the pads (and therefore the calipers) may be different for the two models, and hence my query is can I simply fit the solid
much thinner discs and use same vented type pads? Appreciate the pistons in the calipers will move out, but is this too much?
Don't really want to have to change the calipers.
Hope that makes sense?
Cheers 
I'll be in the garage dear!
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coozer
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| posted on 26/12/12 at 06:50 PM |
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Yep, you need the matching calipers. Vented calipers don't fit unvented discs and the other way round..
May be worth upgrading the whole set to Wilwoods??
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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sjmatthews
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| posted on 26/12/12 at 11:19 PM |
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Oh poo! Thanks for confirming anyway.
Maybe time for another upgrade...
Cheers
I'll be in the garage dear!
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sjmatthews
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| posted on 28/12/12 at 10:49 PM |
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After some more research, it appears that later 1.6 models had solid discs and Teves type calipers/pads (same as vented set up).
So they are interchangeable.
I'll be in the garage dear!
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