I'm in need of a front brake upgrade and a diff upgrade.

either to buy or advice on what i can do.

currently have a 1.8 turbo engine and need brakes and diff that will also keep engineer happy.

R31 struts can be used if you either remove the dowels or drill out the bottom of the strut to keep them. Swap your spring seat over if you want to run whatever you have, or use coilover kit etc. Either user whatever R31 brakes are or use off the shelf caliper adapters to R32 4 piston setup. The kingpin angle gives you more positive camber though, which i have dialled out using camber tops.

Edited February 23, 201313 yr by bananaman

Strut tube did not require shortening and i used an SW20 MR2 rear shock so i could get koni yellows. Otherwise standard R31 replacements would do

Old dodgy photo of mine.. S12 hubs will give you 4x114.3, Z31 will give you 5x114.3

 

If u do the coilover kit what spring do u use?

Whatever suits the diameter and height you want. No use copying mine because you could place the coilover spring seat differently. From memory i sat it at the height i wanted, measured the height and described what i wanted to the spring guy. Mine are king springs, seeing i still haven't driven the car i can't really comment on how they are :P

 

I should probably get helper springs because at full droop the spring isn't captive, though this only happens on a jack. Well beyond how far it'd go while driving unless you went over a jump...

Did you have to swap the steering arm over to make the struts fit?