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 Post subject: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 4:17 pm 
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I have the old wide 5 drums on my buggy now and Im wanting to keep that bolt pattern. What are some good rotors at a decent price? I plan on using some 88 nova calipers or something like that and cutting and welding some brackets up.
any advice would help before I start to shell out the money.


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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 4:26 pm 
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I run a Ford Crown Victoria rotor with a machined down 4 lug drum for a drive plate. I use the GM metric caliper with a generic weld on bracket from Speedway, Summit, or Jegs.
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I ran and adaptor when I had wide 5 VW rims.

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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 6:57 pm 
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Nice Buggy!! Thats kinda what I plan on doing for the brakets my buddy is going to school to be a machinest so Im gonna have him make the brackets at school. I was looking appletree at 5 lug rotors and in there catalog it says you need a spacer but it doesnt show the spacer. Theres a set of 5 lugs on there that are 1in wider so thats what I wanna do if I can, Im just not sure if I can just buy the rotors and take off the drums and slide them on haha


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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:15 pm 
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I'm wanting to do the same thing to , I was looking at them on appletree too

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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:40 pm 
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Yea, Im trying to do it as cheap as I can to some extent Im not really worried about calipers I know I can go to the junkyard and find what I need its just finding the right rotor


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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:43 am 
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I was thinking about bolting a rotor on the back side of the drum after i cut the drum part off

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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:58 am 
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hmmmmmmm


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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 4:35 am 
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I know its an older thread, just wondering whatever came of the rotors/calipers for the wide 5?

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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:26 am 
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I used old Chevy lumina rear rotors and redrilled the bolt pattern then Nissan sentra front calipers .

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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:16 am 
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Pics?

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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 12:42 am 
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I used ford probe rotor drilled it to s10 pattern and have 95 mishibishi mirage front brakes. May have miss spelled that lol

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 Post subject: Re: Wide 5 discs
PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:04 pm 
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i used 86 nova front calipers. no need to modify at all


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