[DeTomaso] Hall Corvette rotor question
richard boschert
theemonkey at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 16 18:23:36 EDT 2024
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
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