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I heard that you can fit fiesta calipers to minis so you can have disc brakes on a 10 inch wheeled car.Is it just a straight swap or is there more to it? What mark of fiesta I,IIorIII.Anyone ever done it?
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Not a straight swap I'm afraid, but it is pretty simple. Very useful 'How to' video here.....
Hope that helps
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Last Edit: Dec 6, 2007 22:19:29 GMT by PSmurfy
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iirc mk1 and some grinding to the calliper body required.
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That video is spot on,its everything i wanted to know.
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That's a great little vid!
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Found this through watching that video.  That's what I love about this place, who'd have thought a K1 head would work on an A-series! |
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For 10" i thought you could fit metro 4 pots under a decent wheel with a little grinding?
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Found this through watching that video. That's what I love about this place, who'd have thought a K1 head would work on an A-series! Quite a few people since that vid was made! this should be arriving at mine very very soon:   For 10" I thought you could fit metro 4 pots under a decent wheel with a little grinding? don't think you can do it with metty 4 pots, but you can shave a little off the standard 8.4" calipers to clear 10x6 wellers with some spacers. the fiesta conversion is gaining poularity, and certianly a good one. Ive recently picked up some mk2 fiesta calipers to do this myself. needed: fiesta calipers (mk1 or 2) with carriers. conversion hoses (mini one end, fiesta the other) metro drive flanges 8.4" solid disks turned down to 7.9" Drill the mini hub to provide clearance for fiesta bolts (hub origonally threaded). Clean up (preferably milled flat) the back edge of the hub mounting flange. grind the lugs off the metro flanges to preent wheel fitment issues. grind the fiesta caliper carrier to clear the hub bolt up. |
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Fiesta calipers only fit non-vented discs though so you would then need to buy Cooper S discs and drive flanges
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Possible stupid question - how can any caliper only fit a non-vented disc?
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In some applications (so probably minis) the vented discs are thicker than the solid ones, so I'm assuming the caliper isn't wide enough.
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ah, fair enough, thats quite obvious :-)
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Fiesta calipers only fit non-vented discs though so you would then need to buy Cooper S discs and drive flanges why? |
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For 10" I thought you could fit metro 4 pots under a decent wheel with a little grinding? no you can't and the fiesta fiesta fitrs up 10's with 7.9" discs with no fgrinsding of the caliper. I did this conversion to a mates mini and is very effective. if you go on the mini forum, this is a thread on there with a step by step guide and a list of part numbers to sort out the hose connections. we used standard mini 8.4" discs machined down to 7.9" but you have to use the metro vented drive flange - this spaces the disc in the right place to line up with the fiesta caliper. oh, and you need the calipers of a mk1 or mk2 povo spec fiesta which i think the 900cc or 1100 engines . mk3 calipers are different and won't fit |
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Fiesta calipers only fit non-vented discs though so you would then need to buy Cooper S discs and drive flanges why? I looked into it, and got told that by guys who havent let me down before on mini related stuff so I just beleived em |
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Last Edit: Dec 7, 2007 18:47:22 GMT by trg1984
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Interesting. But seeing as our mini has about 29bhp, a little unnecessary.  |
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the fiesta calipers in question are non vented only. its amazing that the mounting holes align perfectly with the holes on the mini hub.
when done it looks like a factory fitment. the only issue you have to careful about is the connector to adapt the mini hose thread to the caliper thread - if you use a straight connector, you need to use mini drum hoses as they are longer. if using standard mini disc hoses, you need to order the adaptor as a 90 deg one.
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Or if you want less messing about just buy the fittings from rally design and make a couple of braided ones in the length of your choice/fitting of your choice for no more than a normal braided hose |
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Fiesta calipers only fit non-vented discs though so you would then need to buy Cooper S discs and drive flanges Wrong. cooper s disks are 7.5", not 7.9" and the flanges would offset the disks wrongly. |
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Fiesta calipers only fit non-vented discs though so you would then need to buy Cooper S discs and drive flanges Wrong. cooper s disks are 7.5", not 7.9" and the flanges would offset the disks wrongly. I'm waiting to hear back on this. |
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