Sorry to make another "Do FD brakes fit an FC" thread....

all the ones I've seen seem to be dealing with rotors...


I just want to know if an FD rear caliper (larger piston) will fit on an FC rear caliper bracket. and are the parking brakes similar?

anyone know?

 

not sure..but did HIGGI do something like this?.
Anyways Bump for ya,this should be interesting.

 

HIGGI ran 2 front calipers on the back rotor on his drift car That's the only thing I remember.

 

This thread was unhelpful

 

just the way it works out sometime man, buy a caliper and get to work!

 

That's the plan.

 

Crap..
How about a useless BUMP then..This would have been good material.

 

I went to NAPA on Saturday, they said FD calipers are back ordered until who knows when... mazda no longer sells them... Advance auto doesn't sell them

I'm going to have to order a pair from rockauto.

 

Wow... even rock auto barely had a pair... I think I got the last rear right they had. Maybe this isn't a good idea....

 

watch their shipping, I got some through amazon and another through ebay- much better shipping worked out in my favor

 

so... calipers arrived today and I probably should have actually looked at pictures first *sigh*

the way they mount into the brackets is totally different.

The FD uses weird bolt/pins that screw into the caliper and and the dust boots are in the bracket. it's probably the weirdest caliper design I've ever seen.

the FC is slightly more normal, it has one pin sticking out of the bracket and the other slider along with the dust boost are mounted on the caliper...

FD caliper no bracket


FD caliper with bracket:


FC no bracket:


FC w/ bracket:


not going to work...

 

Out of curiosity how much larger is the piston on the FD caliper?

The front calipers on both FC and FD have the same diameter pistons, right?

 

Yes, they use the same rebuild kits.

 

the rears are 35mm instead of 33mm.

so the area (what matters) is 962mm^2 vs 855mm^2 which is actually significant.

 

Nice idea maybe get out the welder and grinder fabricate up a braket I'd like to see this work.

 

hmm FD is like the Rx8 (and every honda)