SA63 Celica brake upgrade please help

[moggie]

I need help with what options there is for brake upgrades on a SA63 Celica
I was reading that you can use nissan hubs and struts for the front??? Is this correct?
I cant seem to find much information about brake upgrades for the rear (drum to disc), do you have to fabricate yourself, ( I don’t mind having to fabricate my own setup its just a lot easier of there is a bolt on upgrade)
I anyone can give some advice id appreciate it.

[Screamn_Sleeka]

Is this for a track car, or just want some better stopping power on the way to the shops?
How much you want to spend?

Track car, S13 front gear, RA65/RT142 rear end with MA61 brakes - or even better search what the MA61 guys are doing for rear brakes (R33 gear).

[moggie]

It will be used on the street and track, to get it mod plated i need to have 4 pots on the front and dics on the back. I am doing a 1jz conversion.

[Screamn_Sleeka]

Front end:
-The cheapest way would be the hilux/pug conversion, that gets you 4 pot front (search for it on this forum).

-More expensive, but better is to get S13 struts/hubs and then upgrade the brakes to R33, you need to find a LCA that works, S13 will fit but is very long, gives massive neg camber, i think people use MX32 or some other cressida? Search S13 struts/hubs.

Rear:
MA61 gear can be adapted, or RT142 corona avante. I suggest swapping in a RA65 rear end in first cause the SA63 (although very similar) has a smaller diff, and no LSD option. RA65 has common F-series diff (7.5" crown) and lots of OEM and aftermarket LSD's.

[WDE_BDY]

For SA63, you may find it already has the 100mm caliper spacing you need. If not get the front end components out of an MA61/RA65 that let you bolt up Skyline 4 pots. Search out MA61 upgrades, there are heaps of threads on the brake swap.

Callum

[moggie]

Thanks guys for the help, I have a good starting point now.
Cheers

[ill-minded]

Rear:
MA61 gear can be adapted, or RT142 corona avante. I suggest swapping in a RA65 rear end in first cause the SA63 (although very similar) has a smaller diff, and no LSD option. RA65 has common F-series diff (7.5" crown) and lots of OEM and aftermarket LSD's.

just to point out, the RA65 rear end, although it has an F series diff, is drum brake rear end, and the swingarms will not be able to use discs/calipers.

suitable candidates for the swap are RT142, MA61 or MX73. though i think the MX73 rear subframe is wider than the first two and will push track out ~10-20mm each side. the swingarms are the same though, and they have the same discs.

[Screamn_Sleeka]

RA65 needs MA61 gear to make disc, as i said.

[ill-minded]

ah my bad dude... glossed over that bit :\

[Hen]

Excuse my ignorance if wrong, but I thought SA63 was live axle. If so then you can do the old *T14* Corona disc swap onto the rear. GA61XX wrote a how-to on it a while back.

On the front I think your struts should have the same caliper bolt spacing as Nissan calipers, and so open up a huge range of options.

Hen

[moggie]

Excuse my ignorance if wrong, but I thought SA63 was live axle. If so then you can do the old *T14* Corona disc swap onto the rear. GA61XX wrote a how-to on it a while back.

On the front I think your struts should have the same caliper bolt spacing as Nissan calipers, and so open up a huge range of options.

Hen

Yes it is IRS
thanks for bringing this up it was going to be my next question after looking into some of those options.

[WDE_BDY]

On the front I think your struts should have the same caliper bolt spacing as Nissan calipers, and so open up a huge range of options.

Hen

I've seen an SA60 and a TA61 both without the 100mm spacing (were 90ish mm from very very vague memory) so there are variations. These were both Jap spec though, don't know what Aussie got.

Callum