[DeTomaso] Hall Corvette rotor question

[richard boschert]

Mike,
The Hall vette brake kit requires removing the stock rotors.You then use GT5 wheel studs as they are longer.The Gt5 had wheel spacers from the factory,hence the longer studs.There is also a washer that goes in between the wheel stud and the hub to make up for the missing rotor thickness as the wheel stud does not have any knurl at the base.This also moves the wheels outboard the rotor thickness.Not a problem with stock wheels but if you have the 10' GTS rear wheels without GTS flares it will look funny as they will be out too far.

I did this brake kit from hall back in 1990's.I actually went to Hall Pantera in person where Gary gave me a tour while they removed the rotors and swapped the studs.He fired up the burgandy GTS race car and the purple targa top big block car indoors in his showroom! I was in heaven :)
That being said i swapped to a full Wilwood brake kit later and it was much better than the vette kit.The vette kit is not bad,its just not that great for the effort.Does the guy your helping out have to use the vette kit?Another option if factory calipers are not available,is to use wilwood calipers on the stock rotors unless he is racing the car in which case go full wilwood with the floating outside the hub rotors,not the inside like factory hub rotors.I believe Scott at SACC Restorations sells a wilwood caliper kit for stock rotors.

My 2 cents,Richard
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   Mike,
   The Hall vette brake kit requires removing the stock rotors.You then
   use GT5 wheel studs as they are longer.The Gt5 had wheel spacers from
   the factory,hence the longer studs.There is also a washer that goes in
   between the wheel stud and the hub to make up for the missing rotor
   thickness as the wheel stud does not have any knurl at the base.This
   also moves the wheels outboard the rotor thickness.Not a problem with
   stock wheels but if you have the 10' GTS rear wheels without GTS flares
   it will look funny as they will be out too far.
   I did this brake kit from hall back in 1990's.I actually went to Hall
   Pantera in person where Gary gave me a tour while they removed the
   rotors and swapped the studs.He fired up the burgandy GTS race car and
   the purple targa top big block car indoors in his showroom! I was in
   heaven :)
   That being said i swapped to a full Wilwood brake kit later and it was
   much better than the vette kit.The vette kit is not bad,its just not
   that great for the effort.Does the guy your helping out have to use the
   vette kit?Another option if factory calipers are not available,is to
   use wilwood calipers on the stock rotors unless he is racing the car in
   which case go full wilwood with the floating outside the hub rotors,not
   the inside like factory hub rotors.I believe Scott at SACC Restorations
   sells a wilwood caliper kit for stock rotors.
   My 2 cents,
   Richard