hay all just need to no some Questions about ra60 brakes on the ke30

done some looking around and can't fined the questions i need so abit

of help will be cool as.

 

ok I'm going to upgrade the brakes on my ke30 to ra60 brakes!

ive been told all about the camber problems when doing this so

i don't want any camber problems (as i can't afford new tyers all the time lol)

if i put the ra60 strutes in can thay be bolted to my stock ke30 LCA and

the ke30 ball joint????

 

note::: the ra60 struts have lowering springs in them will this cause any

camber prob's????

 

plz if someone has put the ra60 in there ke30 and have no problem's

with them fill us up on some info lol

 

i can't fit them yet as thay need new disk's padd's and bearing's

otherwise i would have try fiting them my self but as i drive

this will not be a good i dear to stuff around with my brakes

 

cheers shaun

thanks all to the people

that help :P

PM Raven on here. He had a 30/55 with RA40 or 60 struts.

It was RA40 struts in my KE36 I owned.

 

RA60 apparently have positive camber issues and I have a set of these struts but havent tested it out as of yet to see exactly how bad it is, if it even exists.

 

I think the main issue is the length of the strut, so get some lowered springs in there and it should pull the steering geometry back close enough to standard to make it more usable or do what I'm going to do and convert them to coil-overs and add camber plates :P

Edited September 2, 200917 yr by Raven

It was RA40 struts in my KE36 I owned.

 

RA60 apparently have positive camber issues and I have a set of these struts but havent tested it out as of yet to see exactly how bad it is, if it even exists.

 

I think the main issue is the length of the strut, so get some lowered springs in there and it should pull the steering geometry back close enough to standard to make it more usable or do what I'm going to do and convert them to coil-overs and add camber plates :P

 

 

hahaha thanks HEAPS

 

well when i get some new disks, pads, bearings and bake fluid

ill try and fit them and ill let yous all no how it gose and what

the out come is

 

cheers shaun

:D

i am looking at doing the same thing...

i have a set of ra65 struts here and i put them up aside of the ke30 ones in my car.... from hub to spring mount is same distance but the tube overall in the ra65's are shorter. there is a thread on toymods about it... well similar it might give you an idea about it... alot of people use xt130 struts i don't know whats so good about them though. anyway back to ra65..... the ke30 springs might actually fit onto the ra65 struts(not sure till i experiment) but if you are going to put a heavier motor in you would want heavier springs... a few people use ae86 lowered springs in this set up also. must be lower then celica or something on don't know.

hope this helps. and yes they have problems with positive cambers in the celica struts but people usually put sigma or crassida lower control arms in to correct it. but thats in an ae86 also.... maybe go to wreckers and just measure some control arms up and see whats longer.

Hopefully this will help

 

http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~bradw/FBU.html

Jeez I really like Brad's approach there. Good reading thanks for that.

damm how can you tell the difference between

RA40 AND RA60????????

i don't no want mine are i got them off some bloke

who said they where just celica brakes!!!!!! :)

 

 

well my rolla is of the road for abit as I'm doing some body work (rust) and maybe some new

paint :y: i put the RA40/60 in to day and yeah i have camber problems

my front wheels are like this / \ what will fix this????

 

note: i mounted to the RA40/60 to the stock ke30 LCA?????

 

 

:P

strut swaps are the best for big brakes but the worst for fit and steering geometry,

sometimes you get lucky with lower control arms, balljoints and steering arms that interface

together properly from different cars but you can still have geometry issues.

 

loads of people are happy to sacrifice the smaller issues for the gain of bigger brakes, bigger better dampers

and springs but you can also uprate your standard strut to suit as well at a cost.

Edited December 20, 200916 yr by styler

there is heaps on ra60 struts, i even have a thread on my old Rolladore (v6 into a ke30). I used ra60 struts and vented disks, i needed to add 50mm to the Lower control arms to fix the positive camber.

there is heaps on ra60 struts, i even have a thread on my old Rolladore (v6 into a ke30). I used ra60 struts and vented disks, i needed to add 50mm to the Lower control arms to fix the positive camber.

 

 

NickZ; a link to your thread will be cool :)

and i think i have to take-a-way 10mm to 20mm

out of the LCA to strighten them up

 

 

so i think mine are ra40 :P

damm how can you tell the difference between

RA40 AND RA60????????

 

If I remember correctly the RA40 are a solid rotor and RA60 are vented.

If I remember correctly the RA40 are a solid rotor and RA60 are vented.

 

 

yep +1

i found that out today :lol:

 

ra40 are solid and you can not put vented rotors on the ra40 coz

the ra40 caliper is not wide enough for vented disks!!!!!

 

ra60 are ventented???

 

what LCA have people used on this upgrade?????

 

i still have the stock ke30 LCA mounted to the ra40's

but have camber problems eg. /----\

 

i need a smaller LCA I'm thinking about 10mm to 25mm

smaller????

 

 

ke30 LCA ---mm??????

ra40 LCA ---mm??????

 

 

plz i need help for this one

 

cheers shaun

Hopefully this will help

 

http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~bradw/FBU.html

 

 

colonel did this bloke use the ra40 LCA aswell??

colonel did this bloke use the ra40 LCA aswell??

 

From reading it I assume he used RA40 LCA's & steering arm