Is anybody familiar with an off the shelf solution to fitting a 10" wheel over metro turbo 4 pot brake set up?

I'm thinking I wouldn't mind having my car on 10" wheels and I have 4pots.

Or are there 4pots I can buy that fits the big rotors under an everyday 10" wheel?

JC

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Not going to happen. Simple as that.
Even the rotor by itself would be a squeeze to get under a 10" rim let alone having the room for the caliper.

Your options are 7.5 cooper s brakes or 7.9" 4 pots, if you have the money for them that it.

Or one of the Fiesta or Honda conversions.

.. or do what I have done and use MiniSpares 4-pot alloy calipers over 7.5" discs, for not significantly more $$ than Cooper S 2-pot calipers.

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Simon

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Are you sure?

However... Erm - I don't think that's advisable. Just like sticking 3" spacers on. Also note the marks from the tyre on the wheel well!! Waaay tooooo wide...




I can only guess that this is some sort of 'reversed' Weller wheel. Maybe for some sort of gold cart - I don't know. Didn't find the owner for a chat.

Anyway... Don't do it like this!!

Get a proper 7.5 or 7.9" setup! You could always fetch some money selling the 8.4" setup, there'S most probbly someone wanting it

Cheers,
Jan

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The question was can he get 10" wheels over metro brakes, not next to them!

Hi Jan,

How long would the wheel bearing have last in that set up? and did it have power steering?

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You can change the brake pads out without taking the wheel off.

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Can anybody say- "scrub radius"...???
They would tramline something terrible!

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speak to anybody who's had both metro 4 pots on 8.4 discs and twin pots on 7.5's.....

i've got the metro set up (car came with them and 12 inch rims). there's just no need for the 4 pot set up on a quick road car...

7.5's fresh good quality discs and good pads will stop a mini just a quickly just as many times....

i'd swap back to the smaller brakes and 10inch rims in a flash

just my 2 cents.

it can be done...

I've seen pictures of a set of metro brakes that had been modified - the mounting holes had been filled up and redrilled, and some of the lumps and bumps on the calipers ground off.

Would need engineer signoff I guess, and you'd probably need to have it done by professionals the engineer trusts

not sure which wheels they fitted under either

edit: oh yeah, rotors machined down

Simon does "not ... more $" include the usage of existing cooper s hubs? I only currently have a complete metro set up.

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Yes, everything in my setup is standard Cooper S stuff -- hubs, CVs, discs (albeit slotted), drive flanges, bearings, etc. The 4-pot calipers are a direct swap for the Cooper S part.

The only caveat is that these do restrict your choice of wheel somewhat. I run 10x5 Contessa's (standard, not LS offset) and they're good, Fat Boy Dave runs Mambas and they're good too. We tried Simon K's alloy version of the standard 'S' steel rim however and they don't fit. I've not tried a steelie, but I don't like your chances.

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yeah, no chance with a steel wheel..... the alloys were close

So I'm up for new:

Hubs
Calipers
Wheels
Tyres

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