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slyvan1

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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:52 am

was going to upgrade front brakes in my sierra to vitara calipers and vented disc.
Can get calipers of a 97 vitara. Does it need to be of a lwb, or are the calipers the same on all vitara's?
Thanks for any help

royce

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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:06 am

is it a 1.6 with vented rotors?

Fatzook

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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:07 am

slyvan1 wrote:

As long as the calipers are off a 1.6L LWB with vented rotors you should be fine.

The 2L have bigger brakes and will need 16" wheels with the right offset to clear them. :roll:

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Built4thrashing

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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:52 am

LWB 1.6 front disc and callipers are what you need. They are a bolt on but the backing stone guard needs trimming to allow for the bigger calliper. And you will need help to bleed properly as you need to unbolt the caliper and rotate it a bit to bleed as bleed valve is in the wrong spot for the sierra.

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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:40 am

Built4thrashing wrote:

Mine bolted straight on..

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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:38 am

so did mine but i had to trim a bit of the stone guard off. 30 secs with some tin snips was all it took.

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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:43 pm

Built4thrashing wrote:

so did mine but i had to trim a bit of the stone guard off. 30 secs with some tin snips was all it took.

B4T

Ive got a pic somewhere

I was expecting to have to trim, but none needed..

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slyvan1

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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:13 pm

thanks for the help, are the 1.6 of a swb the same too?

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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:15 pm

No, has to be Lwb to get the vented..

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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:16 pm

slyvan1 wrote:

thanks for the help, are the 1.6 of a swb the same too?

These are the same as a sierra.

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