Official Mitsi weirdo buys another weird Mitsubishi

[mjrstar]

Interesting,  I did the 276> 294mm upgrade using evo 4 rotors on my turbo airtrek with the evo caliper bracket. It was a plug and play affair. The knuckle architecture must be different. Or is there an alternative sensor which takes up less real-estate?

[fuel]

 

After fitting a took the car around the block and did some hard braking and I can definitely notice a difference. This now means the wagon has almost the same sized brakes as the GTO (294x26 twin piston vs 295x30 four piston up front and the same 284x20 single piston in the rear) which should help slow down its heft.

[fuel]

3 minutes ago, mjrstar said:

Interesting,  I did the 276> 294mm upgrade using evo 4 rotors on my turbo airtrek with the evo caliper bracket. It was a plug and play affair. The knuckle architecture must be different. Or is there an alternative sensor which takes up less real-estate?

yeah the Airtrek, Evo IV, later Galant/Legnum VR-4 and anything that uses that rotor has the ABS sensor reading off a done wheel on the CV axle shaft, while my Diamantes and earlier Galant VR-4 have the tone ring attached to the back of the hub flange and the ABS sensor sitting outside of that. 

The weird thing is the turbo JDM CU2W Airtrek has the smaller 276mm rotors whereas the poverty spec USDM 2.4L SOHC N/A 2005-2006 of that same generation has the larger 294mm rotors. I think the caliper carrier brackets from the pre-facelift 8G Galant/Legnum VR-4 are the same too, but for me it was easier to grab a pair of the USDM Outlander ones from a junkyard I was visiting in Toronto.