Ok, i plan to upgrade the front drums on my KE10 to discs. After searching for quite a while all i found was that KE20 hubs bolt up.

Searching through my local wreckers i have found one complete KE20 with massive amounts of rust the guy wants 500 for (dreaming) and a basic shell with the hubs and discs still on. Now i'm no mechanical mastermind so bare with me. On one side of the incomplete car, under the strut where the ball joint joins the strut, the 'cap' is missing meaning the control arm and strut are 'flailing'. Is it possible to use a cap off another corolla like a KE30, 35, 50, 55 etc or must it be from a KE20?

In another yard i found a KE25. The guy there tells me that KE20 and 25 use the same brakes. I was a bit dubious about this so i thought i would ask here first.

Also the guy with the incomplete car says he used to race them and that he once put a complete front end from a KE20 into a KE10. How much custom work would be invloved in this setup? He also says that i can just swap over the complete strut, is this possible?

 

Is there any other ways to get a disc on the front of my KE10. I'm really at a loss here and any help is much appreciated.

Read the brakes section in the FAQ

FAQ

Thanks mate. It always seem i can never find what i want when i want it.

Nearly all done. Went to the wreckers today on my RDO and picked up the parts i needed for 50 big ones. Know a chicky at a parts place who has some bearings sitting on the shelf with my name waiting on them. Still have to get some brakes lines made up as the old ones were pretty shagged. I really didnt think it would be so easy...

 

*EDIT* While i'm here can anyone let me know what sort of booster to use and what sort of problems you run into mounting it? Some pictures would be good if anyone has any...

Edited August 7, 200620 yr by mattress

the ke20 does not have a brake boster.

 

i took a picture but i can't seem post it.

 

pm me if you want a pic

If you want a twin circuit master cylinder though, there is an early model galant one that bolts straight up to a ke20 so i presume it will fit a 10. Good for safety.

I'll bolt anything up as long as it fits. Not really worried about having to mod it too much either. Still after some pics to give me ideas if anyone has any...

I'll bolt anything up as long as it fits. Not really worried about having to mod it too much either. Still after some pics to give me ideas if anyone has any...

 

 

Do you want pictures of a KE10 with galant master cylinder?????

 

Give ,me your email address mate.