Lee Mabee Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 Ongoing wt. reduction....Mike at Bultemeir Enterprises Inc...just completed my brakes....ductal steel brakes..drilled...alloy hats...Wilwood calipers...alloy hangers with stainless steel inserts....25# wt saving... will attempt to attach photos here he can be reached at www.boltmaker.com phone US 816-461-1600 FAX 816-461-1971 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team SLR No.77 Posted March 13, 2003 Leadership Team Share Posted March 13, 2003 Lee, what kind of price area? USD obviously. Some time back, there was some talk of Wilwood calipers only being suited to the track (not sure if all models) due to no dust sealing. Is this the case with yours? Stu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul McKenzie Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 Man, those discs look so fragile, I'd be frightened to strain my spaghetti through them. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team SLR No.77 Posted March 13, 2003 Leadership Team Share Posted March 13, 2003 I'm not convinced they'd actually hold back the spaghetti Paul Stu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asklepios Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 I am with Paul here. Minds sharper than mine will no doubt comment on the large reduction in surface area which these discs now present. Surely they will not work as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomBerlin Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 That's a lotsa holes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Mabee Posted March 14, 2003 Author Share Posted March 14, 2003 Can't take credit for these discs.....Chuck Meyers D-Mod (Solo 2) came up with them over a year ago.. wortking with Mike Bultemeir .... .as far as holding up.....they've had the ever-lovin s---t beat out of them, without fracture....Chuck's car ---grips well enought to break my 10th rib on a seat bolster.....(couldn't have been that I was too fat to fit the seat well or that I spun his car) the steel is ductal 10" radius steel....you'll have ask Mike Bultemeir the technical.....I'm a gynecologist by trade so more into induction and exhaust....than ductal steel...(he says it's what they use for brakes on F-16 fighter jets) calipers as shown are the billet Superlite singles.....as set up, this is for Solo or sprints.....(don't know their road use worthiness costs....set per Bultemeir enterprises $1200 US for rotors,hats,hangers, and bolts.....(caliper and pad extra from Wilwood $85 each caliper --pads another $10-15 per wheel)....so total conversions approximately $1600 US (forgot will be some change $ expense for plumbing adaptors as Wilwood uses 1/8" 27 NPT fitting) as far as straining sphagetti......no experience......but Jez Coates gave a nice desription of the rotors " holier than swiss cheese"...Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelspeed Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 I wouldn't get too wound up about dust seals or not. On a saloon car where the discs are buried inside wheels and get plastered with mud and salt etc and don't get seen for 50,000 miles between tyre changes this might be an issue. For a Caterham where the discs are in the open behind the wheel, gets used mostly in warm dry weather, gets pampered every couple of 1000 miles (or is that just me?) then it's a different ball park. Check the calipers every so often and clean up any road dirt, salt, pad dust from around the pistons and it'll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmandsd Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Looks great but begs the question 'where does the friction arise from to facilitate braking 😳' Home of BDR700 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Barbie Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 I just showed the pictures to a workmate (reasonably in the know as he once built a Westie). His comment on the "reduce the weight of your Caterham by 25lbs" was that the most likely way this was acheived was "you'd sh!t yourself the first time you had to brake" ! shrewdcookie - my site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prs Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Nice one Robert, think I'd have to agree with you. Great improvement now with that alloy throttle cheers Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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