Project Z06 Brake Upgrade

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Blazed

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Wow that sucks about the spacer because your rims already stick out a lot.
 

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Thats what I thought. Thanks though.. agh now I want to go back out real quick and test fit the stocks to make sure. If I can get the stocks to fit the I might have to sell the 26's and go with a different rim.

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No I had different spindles on my Tahoe. I had Mgh's and these are Beltechs. With Wilwoods I think you have to grind the top of the spindle of the bolt. With these brackets its on the inside of the spindle. . But as you can see in the pic red circle with red arrrow you grind that section for Wilwoods with these brackets you grind the area pointing in green.

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I'm going to post this, but it's not going to be favorable. I had to grind the same area on my spindle. Thought that was going to be it. Then once I had the rotor on, the caliper sat off the rotor hat too far and I had to grind more. Just not something I was entirely comfortable with, but I was determined to get it to work. I did get it running but was never happy with it. Didn't feel solid. Which is why I went with wilwood on the Burban.

Seems like you are headed in the same path as I was with the grinding, although I sincerely hope that you can just grind that small amount and everything lines up.
 
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Yeah I am hoping as well. I will see once I get the rotors. But tomorrow I am going to work more on getting the bracket to fit right and bolt it up correctly and test my rims
 
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Well today will be the day to find out if works or not. I am going to get the bracket bolted up correctly and the caliper put on correctly and test fit my 26's and also my stocks just to know. If they don't fit I think I am going to ditch this idea. I already have some slightly used Wilwoods that I might buy that are black and I will paint Yellow. But thought about it, I rather spend just a little more and get Wilwoods then spend a lot more on getting new rims.
 
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I think my stock spindles lined up just fine. I will test and see if the stock rims fit today when bolted up. I just didn't think about it at the time when I had them on yesterday.
 

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Did you get the new Z06 rotors or are you going to try it with the stock rotors...wonder if hat height / thickness is different b/w the two to give you different wheel offset.
 

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