Drum to Disc brake conversion Freelander 1
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Diesel Do
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What do you think they are? It's easier, but you can use twin or four pot calipers if you have a seperate handbrake
Diesel Do
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They are a bit ott but it looks the nuts
The D3 uses parking brake shoes inside the rear disc bell. The parking brake is operated electrically by an actuator (EPB) and is very powerful, when it works. The D3 uses a 200mm brake drum inside a 330mm vented rear disc.
For the Freelander, rear discs are OTT but look the business.
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These are 320mm they have the facility for shoes but it would be a lot of work to do so got handbrake calipers off an Audi S3. Fronts are 345mm with hispec four pots
With that swept area you could stop a D3 so the brakes will be very powerful on a Freelander. Are you going to fit a larger master cylinder?
Diesel Do
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So far pedal feels good with the four pots. Rear lines are clamped still so remains to be seen
RealBeale
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Just a thought so don't give me any grief. I've not gone into the reasons against but couldn't the components on a Honda Crv be used with some mods ? The pdc is the same as the Freelander so at least it's a start.
A few Honda's use 5 X 114.3 PCD with the same 64.1 centre. The Civic Type R springs to mind. This has got good sized brakes of a similar design to the Freelander's.
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Watching with interest.....
like that idea use my freelander1 for marshalling always pulling drums off to clean the mud and **** out of them
The normal way is to make up a caliper carrier bracket, that bolts to the drum backplate mounting bolts.
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Callaway have adapted the race car bred Callaway C12’s brake system for the Freelander concept.
The enormous 332 x 32 front and 304 x 25 ventilated rear
discs are grooved for added performance.
The enormous 332 x 32 front and 304 x 25 ventilated rear
discs are grooved for added performance.
Honda stuff from the same era is the most likely candidate, as Honda used the same centre bore and PCD at the time.
Freelander 2 is completely different, being Ford based, not Honda derived Rover / LR.
