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hope new house has a more alfa friendly driveway!

GTV27 wrote:hope new house has a more alfa friendly driveway!

not really - the slightly bigger rolling diameter of the 225/45/17s might stop me scraping the front lip... but i'm planning on knocking some ride height out of the tail to get some more clearance.

yeah - thought they sounded a bit taller. I run 205/45 17 and would like to go to a 215/45 but don't think they are going to fit on the front without some massaging of inner guard and spoiler - heaps of room on the back though and might go 225/45 to bulk out the guards and up my gearing a bit.

Argh. bought a pair of 166 front callipers for $100AUD... 147GTA/156GTA/GTV6 rotors apparently drop straight on... I'm not sure I really need to put a big brake kit on this thing... do I?

yeah, sure, why not? you have to replace rotors at some stage anyhow, its really just accelerated maintenance, which is good, isn't it?

la_strega_nera wrote:Argh. bought a pair of 166 front callipers for $100AUD... 147GTA/156GTA/GTV6 rotors apparently drop straight on... I'm not sure I really need to put a big brake kit on this thing... do I?

V6 calipers? The humongous ones? Why would you even consider putting them on a 269mm disc? The 166 V6 discs are dia 310mm and 28mm thick, pretty silly pad fit on a 269x22mm disc.

Not sure they even fit in a 15" rim on its largest inside diameter... They are incredibly large! (Much larger then a 156 GTA caliper)

I think he meant gtv v6 - not gtv6, otherwise it doesn't make sense.

oh, he's one of "them"... Calling the 916 a GTV6... Blasphemy.

Yeah, I meant GTV V6... the 305x28mm rotors look like they'll drop straight onto the 164 hubs - and I wouldn't be able to put the factory wheels back on unless i turned the rotor down to 290-ish mm (but with 17s it'd be fine)
The 24valve 164s got a thicker rotor, but it'd still be a bit light on for the 166 caliper (which I thought was the same as the 156GTA/147GTA caliper).
Stupid thing is I have maybe 5,000km on a new set of rotors and pads...

Still, $100AUD for a pair of quality 4 piston calipers, couldn't pass them up.

I have a set laying around too, for the same reason...
The plan was to bolt them onto the 155 and use a suiting disc. The calipers are probably a good 50mm longer then the GTA units, bolt spacing is huge, very good, means it's easy to find a bolt position that doesn't interfere with the stock spindle.

Still, $100AUD for a pair of quality 4 piston calipers - can't get RX7 ones for that!

I put one of mine in a 15" rim the other day and took a pic. Looked "quite tight"...

I'll upload tonight (UTC).

As promised..

Holy shit!
I haven't got them in my hands yet... but jesus they're huge!

That's what she said...