SV21 Camry rear brake upgrade?

[Rhyno]

Hi Guys,

The lil Camry is starting to get to the point where some decent brakes are required. I have just finished fitting RDA gold passivated slotted and dimpled rotors, with heavy duty brake pads to help bed them in. Now im having a crack at the rears.

Now she is just the base model stationwagon, the CS with drumbrakes in the rear. I have been trying to find a set of rear disc brakes but they are a bit quite rare, or at least hard to find.

A friend of mine who is a mechanic said that the wide body Camrys the V30's, have the exact same confriguration, where mostly disk brakes on the rear, and bolt straight on to the SV21. I have been to several wreckers and had a look and it is hard to say wheter or not they will work.

Just wondered if anyone could shed some light on this? Or knows where an Lexus ES 250 is hiding?

Link to wikipedia below for reference to the different models

Toyota Camry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Rhyno]

Bump Bump,

Car goes in for Dyno tuning on Wensday, so need to do something about the brakes soon

Any thoughts; input anybody?

[mattysshop]

i'd say just grab them and chuck them on...

i've done drums, to sx/gti discs on AE9X corolla's, trick is you need the handbrake cables, and the rear control arms..

and drums to SX discs (using the 4 stud hubs) on ST162 ST celica, just needed the handbrake cables.. and mixed and matched them

everything bolted on, and i never changed the proportioning valve in anything... works great to this day..

[Hiro]

the wide body Camrys the V30's,

Does not compute? If you're referring to the first widebody Camry, aka the model that came after the V21 in Aus, you'd have more luck looking under XV10/DV10 (as that is the proper model code, the V30 is the narrow-body JDM version that the rest of the world didn't get). There is an XV30 but it isn't what most people think of when you say "widebody" (by that time all Camrys worldwide were the widebody frame, the name only came about because of the JDM models retaining the narrow body in the 90s)

As an aside, the XV10 Camrys also went to a 5x114.3 PCD as opposed to the 5x100 PCD on the SV21, which could throw a big spanner in the works.. Perhaps you'd be better suited at looking at ST162 SX Celica rear brakes? Same time period, same PCD, reasonably common and all SX models were disc rear end.

[litldv8]

ive got a v6 sv21 sedan at work that will have rear disc brakes if you are still looking?
neil

[Rhyno]

Sorry for the late reply, for some reason I wasn't getting email notificaions for this thread.

Thanks Mattysshop, Hiro and Little V8, Great infomation. Hopefully the hubsize doesn't come into play...

Littlev8/Neil, I am very interested. Do you have the complete items with the handbrake cable and rear control arms?

Cheers,

Ryan 0447382196