seeing as I am only fairly new to the whole mini scene, I could use some advice.

I have heard about a Honda front disc brake conversion and I was wondering a bit about it.

Such as cost, where to get it done, how to do it and the like.

I live in tassie by the way...

Alister

I did one of the 1st ones here, when I bought the discs and adaptor plates from 13secmini. These were Honda City, he got from NZ.
I put them on my son's Clubby which has since been sold.
I did make a few mounting plates etc for people back then. But I no longer do it.

Basically the common conversion uses early Honda Civic rotors and calipers, Mini drum brake swivel hubs, C/Vs and drive flanges, and custom mounting plates to fit the calipers.
They will go under some 12" wheels or most 13" ones without turning the 9.1" rotors down. The drive flanges need machining to locate the rotors.
And with many wheels, a 25mm `spacer' is needed. This can be bolted to the drive flange.
AFAIK only 1 bloke ever got them engineered, he was in Qld. But there are quite a few sets in use. Some are in Tassie.
If you are going to do it, get them engineered in case the unthinkable happens. Otherwise insurance wise you could be up the creek in a barbed wire canoe.

To fit inside only some 10" wheels, the rotors need machining down to 7.9", and some serious grinding done on the pad mount bracket and the caliper. I no longer recommend this- no engineer would pass them.
No they will not fit inside steel wheels.

These days 7.5" and 8.4" new disc setups have dropped in price, so it's hardly worth bothering with the Hondas, IMO.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Thanks for that.


I have been looking on ebay lately and a couple of sets have gone for about $500 bucks, which seemed cheap. I was looking at 13 inch wheels and it seemed the way to go.

It looks like back to the drawing board for me then!

These are the wheels I had in mind
http://www.minisport.com.au/prod1478.htm

$500!

I just bought a clubman van that had a set of these fitted to the front subframe.

I don't want them but I'll be quite happy to part with them for much less than $500!

Only problem is that I'm up in the sunshine state....

cheers

Jacob

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'72 Clubman Van - 1022cc, 295 head, 731 cam - Daily Driver
'69 Morris 1100 S - Dinged by a bus, in shed under repair
'64 Morris 1100 - Early 1100, long term project

Really like those wheels mate. Huddersfield Spares in the UK stock them also. You'd be able to get them to your door for about half that price too.

here's the link
http://www.minispares-online.co.uk/?cat ... od_id=2193

Im glad that I put the effort into doing my Honda setup, it was a good little project.

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Jacob i might have those sold for you
i`ll bell you this weekend

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.