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11.65" rear disc upgrade in 4 lug "Baer on a budget"
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<blockquote data-quote="Goodson" data-source="post: 3860886" data-attributes="member: 12879"><p>Lee, go ahead and post up if you want to. That's totally cool with me. I still have those subframes we chatted about over a year ago on the "to purchase" list from you. </p><p></p><p>Badboys, It really doesn't worry me at all. The rotor would most likely shear a stud off before giving way. The OEM rotors actually move a little when the wheel is off because the stud holes are larger than the stud. When the wheel is put on with 80 ft/lb of force on each stud the rotor is more in compression than in shear force when the caliper is grabbing it. With that in mind notice that the rotors on your car don't clunk from movement when you stop. They are held tightly in place because of the compression load from the pressure of the wheel and hub. And the redrilled rotor won't shear off anything because the tire will just lose traction and the brakes lock up before the breaking point force of the stud. It'd take a hell of a force to mess up the lug holes on that rotor. Many, if not all, aftermarket brake manufacturers use 5 bolt rotors that are drilled to 4 lug in their 4 lug upgrade kits and to my knowledge no one has had a failure with those systems because the rotor was redrilled to 4 lug. Some even open track with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goodson, post: 3860886, member: 12879"] Lee, go ahead and post up if you want to. That's totally cool with me. I still have those subframes we chatted about over a year ago on the "to purchase" list from you. Badboys, It really doesn't worry me at all. The rotor would most likely shear a stud off before giving way. The OEM rotors actually move a little when the wheel is off because the stud holes are larger than the stud. When the wheel is put on with 80 ft/lb of force on each stud the rotor is more in compression than in shear force when the caliper is grabbing it. With that in mind notice that the rotors on your car don't clunk from movement when you stop. They are held tightly in place because of the compression load from the pressure of the wheel and hub. And the redrilled rotor won't shear off anything because the tire will just lose traction and the brakes lock up before the breaking point force of the stud. It'd take a hell of a force to mess up the lug holes on that rotor. Many, if not all, aftermarket brake manufacturers use 5 bolt rotors that are drilled to 4 lug in their 4 lug upgrade kits and to my knowledge no one has had a failure with those systems because the rotor was redrilled to 4 lug. Some even open track with them. [/QUOTE]
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