GrnMchn Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 I just installed some Power Stop drilled rotors last weekend on the pathy with some green stuff pads. I just want to let people know that if you do this your callipers may rub your wheels if you have 15" wheels. The drilled rotors are a little thicker and with new pads the calliper rubbed like a MOFO on the black 15" rockcrawlers. I ground the driver side calliper down and now it's all good but damn I was nervous until I found out it was just a rubbing calliper and not a fawked up installation on my part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dank Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 (edited) But your stock wheels were 16's weren't they? When I swapped in my brembo drilled rotors a few years back, I didn't run into any issues since I stayed with 15's. Edit: on a side note, I recall reading that drilled rotors are not supposed to be turned...can someone verify this? Edited July 26, 2007 by DJ Dank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Nope....the 01's have 16" wheels stock. Anything from 99.5 has 16" wheels from the factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trainman Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Sounds like he changed his stock 16" wheels for 15" Rockcrawlers, hence the issue. Thanks for the headsup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDCCD Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I just installed some Power Stop drilled rotors last weekend on the pathy with some green stuff pads. I just want to let people know that if you do this your callipers may rub your wheels if you have 15" wheels. The drilled rotors are a little thicker and with new pads the calliper rubbed like a MOFO on the black 15" rockcrawlers. I ground the driver side calliper down and now it's all good but damn I was nervous until I found out it was just a rubbing calliper and not a fawked up installation on my part. Wow, thanks for the heads up. I did as you suggested and went with 15" over 16" also, and my next project is a similar conversion to better rotors. I'm curious what backspacing you had, and if you had any pics of your grind job? thanks again. Great warning to have. I would have shat myself lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrnMchn Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 I did go from 16" stock to 15" steelies with 3.75" back space. I don't have any pictures of the ground down callipers but it was only about 1/16 to 1/8" at most taken off. I do also have about 1/16" groove around the inside of one of the wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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