Sorry its been awhile since i posted here guys, i do have other things in my life besides the internet. If people are going to crack the s**ts cause i cant hold there hand with something, whatever.
Rory you seem very annoyed with me for not putting up the shape of the bracket we made for my brakes. Send me your email address and i'll scan it as soon as i can. I'm not sure how useful it will be to you because it does not have the diamensions on it) I dont know if you have read my other thread on what i did, but i thought there was enough pictures and info for everybody to SEE and READ what i did. If not, i'll try answer any questions from anybody asap. The calipers were off a 240 (which i stated. i think it was a 1983 or 1993 year, i cant remember exactly. I basically went to wreckers and LOOKED for a volvo with 4spots, and VENTED disks, lots did not have the vented disks, but still had the 4 spot caliper). Also, i have an LH, i dont know what the LJ stub axels look like, so again, i dont know if my setup will help you. I wrote down everything i used and what i did in my thread. The pictures should help more than what i wrote.
BTW I cut the disk off the torana hub and used that because it seems pretty hard to actually FIND an LH-LX with drum brakes on the front. The pictures that 82911 should help you more than anything i wrote/showed. Look here for more of what he did
http://www.gmh-toran...?showtopic=1500If LJ-LC front disk brakes are the 1 peice disk and hub, then maybe you could use the idea of cutting the disk off, and making a hub from that. (Instead of finding drum brake hubs/stubs.) BTW there is a wreckers next to Kilsyth Bargain Center on canterbury rd that has an LJ-LC with drum brakes on the front, for any1 interested. Rory, is the car your hoping to do a brake upgrade, a quick street car, or racing car?
Dattoman, for a STREET car, is a volvo 4-spot, vented disk conversion that doesnt muck around with track/camber etc, not a worthy upgrade over the standard brakes if it can be done for less than $300?? Ive only ever heard you bag out volvo brakes, when people seem to have used them with success in group NC cars, and i have not had i single problem with conversion yet. Who cares if who drives volvos to lawn bowls, and i think most people can deal with the calipers being a bit heavier than normal. You seem to suggest setups or calipers that would cost an arm and a leg (i actually looked for a set of these Wilwood Supalite 4 spots, $800 2nd hand??? Thats over 3 times what it cost me to do my whole conversion!!) But if rory is building an all out race car, then fair enough suggesting high end/expensive calipers, and about the volvos being heavy cast iron.
Back to the main question: If people cant afford setups such as the $1200 hoppers kits, is something like what i have done (for less than $300), not a worthy upgrade for a street car? Even though HQ conversions prob arent that hard, they still have the bumpsteer/camber issues, none of those problems with what i did.
Edited by NVMYLH, 29 October 2006 - 11:59 PM.
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Cant let him slacken off any...we need the expertise.
We will bore you to tears with orders! 
