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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:32 pm 
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As the title suggests.

Has anyone been in a position to examine both. In your opinion, what would be required to fit, say the BA XR twin-piston sets onto an EF?

Are we ultimately adding or subtracting material from the callipre?

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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:20 am 
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well yes. it can be done, but it would probably be just as cheap to sell the ef/l and buy a ba. . . . .
or the cheaper option is to get an aftermarket upgrade kit. then you can have 4 pot callipers
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:09 pm 
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:16 pm 
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cmon, it cant be that hard, if someone wants to give me a pair of calipers rotors and pads, i recon i could make em fit

 

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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:18 pm 
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Nick and myself have looked into this in the last week,
may have a answer soon :wink:
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:23 pm 
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well... u might be able to fit like an AUII stub? or a BA stub and wheel bearing setup to your ef? and bolt the callipers etc to that?
im not sure but its a thouht just the same
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:01 pm 
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its a bit harder than that, as you haev to worry about offset etc.

but it is being investigated and hoepfully we may have a solution very soon
Au2 brakes and ba are different but you would see a huge performance increase from putting on the au2 stuff but the fact is it isnt something you can do a straight swap over on

 

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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:07 pm 
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Going by what I've read it's a big job.
You'll need AU/BA uprights, and they won't suit EF upper and lower arms. May end up needing K frame and arms from an AU/BA.
But I haven't tried and may be wrong!

 

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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:07 pm 
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not if we have anything to do with it!

 

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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:11 pm 
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:17 pm 
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no i only promised not to tell about your plan to take over the world

 

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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:41 pm 
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Neo_nick wrote:
not if we have anything to do with it!


That's the right attitude, get in and try. :D

 

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