78 GMC caballero (elky love)

[the ghoul]

C6 zo6 rotors showed today.
I test fitting my relocation brackets it seems I will have to do some modifications to the caliper hangers to get them to work.
This is just the rough form, sides and outter rotor surface of the hanger clearenced

The use of the zo6 355mm rotor with the blazer/jimmy calipers is possible

But it requires more modification than most DIYers are capable of doing, and more than I'd want to do to put them up for sale.

 

[liquidh8]

Sweet, The abutments fit. I assume the pistons can be collapsed enough to get the caliper over the pads? I think there are some DIYers would go on ahead and do something like that. I would have. The only thing I am curious about, is if you can use the corvette pads instead of the blazer pads. Maybe the arch of the corvette pad would follow the rotor better?

Definitely doable. You have the skills and tools to mod the PAB, and run with it. I have the corvette pads in the garage, I'll have to get out there and see if they fit the blazer PAB's.

 

[the ghoul]

Sweet, The abutments fit. I assume the pistons can be collapsed enough to get the caliper over the pads? I think there are some DIYers would go on ahead and do something like that. I would have. The only thing I am curious about, is if you can use the corvette pads instead of the blazer pads. Maybe the arch of the corvette pad would follow the rotor better?

Definitely doable. You have the skills and tools to mod the PAB, and run with it. I have the corvette pads in the garage, I'll have to get out there and see if they fit the blazer PAB's.

I haven't given it a look, but I'd assume the pistons can collapse enough, seeing its only 1/8" difference.
Actually, I was wondering, does your jimmy caliper fit on the c6 pabs? Thatwould solve the contour pproblems, and the pad shape issue.

 

[liquidh8]

Sweet, The abutments fit. I assume the pistons can be collapsed enough to get the caliper over the pads? I think there are some DIYers would go on ahead and do something like that. I would have. The only thing I am curious about, is if you can use the corvette pads instead of the blazer pads. Maybe the arch of the corvette pad would follow the rotor better?

Definitely doable. You have the skills and tools to mod the PAB, and run with it. I have the corvette pads in the garage, I'll have to get out there and see if they fit the blazer PAB's.

I haven't given it a look, but I'd assume the pistons can collapse enough, seeing its only 1/8" difference.
Actually, I was wondering, does your jimmy caliper fit on the c6 pabs? Thatwould solve the contour pproblems, and the pad shape issue.

I have not even tried, I haven't been in the shop since Friday. I have to get out there and try these out, I know it will speed it along for you, and me. 😀

 

[the ghoul]

I know the feeling,
busy and cold here too!
Im just motivated to get these darn brackets figured out..
to that end, I took one of the PABs to work and did a bit better job of clearencing it with an end mill. I took 0.0625" off each side of the opening and milled it straight across the inner and outter edge

I was able to get the caliper on with pads

it was a bit of a squeeze to get it all in but there is no drag so I think this might work out.
still some fine tuning to do on it

comparison between the zo6 rotor and Jimmy rotor

the rear brackets are looking very promicing

slight miscalculation on the height... 0.70" miscalculation...

however, the alignment is looking good

 

[L.A.X-RATED]

:shock: ...................veeeeery interesting.you are going to have that cruck stoping on a 5,with this badass set-up!!! looking forward to the "all said and DONE!!! 😀

 

[the ghoul]

:shock: ...................veeeeery interesting.you are going to have that cruck stoping on a 5,with this badass set-up!!! looking forward to the "all said and DONE!!! 😀

Hey thank you.
I still havent decided if I want to run it yet or not! LOL
My whole thing is I like 18" rims on a G body but there arent too many 20" rims that I care for. So if Im forced to run 20s I may not bother.

 

[liquidh8]

I am like how that rear is turning out. Did you make the spacer for the backplate in there?

The fronts appear to work good too. I have to get in my garage and lay the different PAB, calipers, and pads out, but my week is packed with stuff to do after work. 🙁

 

[the ghoul]

So a while back I picked up these strong arm UCAs, the ball joints were shot and the bushings weren't too healthy looking, but I got them at a reasonable price.

I striped them down and discovered the sleeves were fused to the spanner bars on both of them, with luck ride tech designed them to be used with the stock spanner bar. I didn't get as lucky with the bushings.
The energy suspension bushings I wanted to rerun had the proper outter diameter but that only extended half the length of the bushing, than it stepped down to a smaller OD. I suppose this could have worked but I didn't feel good about it. I found some pipe that had the same inner diameter as the bushings small latter diameter. This allowed me to make an adaptor bushing that runs the full length of the bushing. Than I modified the pipes OD to match the UCA ID. Last order of bus ness was to shave downthe energy suspension bushings to the same OD the full length.

Then I shot blasted and por15ed the body's

I then lost interest and let them sit for a month.
Today I got semi motivated and started working on them again.
I drrilled a hole on the underside of the bushing loops and slid the adaptors into them.

Than plug welded the bushings to the loops to keep the adaptor bushings in place

Than reassembled with the modified energy suspension bushings and stock spreader bars, also with the new Moog ball joints

I thentook the oppertunity to take a look at shock relocation. Because I ordered an air ride system I can no longer run the stock location on the shocks and I don't care for the after market kits avalible.... I don't like the looks or possible interference issues with the shocks attached to the leading edge of the LCA and mounted to the frame.
Instead since I am running a tubular UCA I want to run the shock between the UCA and spring pocket. So far it looks possible

 

[the ghoul]

Order from AVS systems arrived yesterday!
I really can't reccomend that company enough. they knew I was a rookie with air, never talked down to me, made great suggestions and reccomended some products I didn't know Ineeded! Awesome all the way around (all the free gear and parts ddidn't hurt either!

I have to admit I've been burnt out and haven't really been too inspired to work on this project much. Seems to me when I think about it I experience dread more than excitement. Then a few days ago I started looking things over and realized I really hate the back half of this frame

My attempts at compacting the rails and make a simple notch have failed miserably.
So I cut out some pieces for new rails and welded one of them together today (had a snow day from work so timing was perfect

Its constructed of 12ga steel with 1/8"wall 1.75" diameter tubing

I left a 1/4" lip running on the inside top edge because it was easier to construct that way and hopefully it will help with ridgidy.
It also gave me the excuse to go taller with the notch

I'm excited, this should look much better and be mutch more functional (I plan on mounting them 3" further inboard than the stock rails to accommodate wider tires.