2wd swap

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Love when new parts require more new parts.
Our camaro calipers won't clear our American racing wheels.

Rocket racing says theirs do.
Any one have experience with them.
I notice it's a holley brand now.
At $550+ I'd like some 1st hand experience

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by KQQL IT

Love when new parts require more new parts.
Our camaro calipers won't clear our American racing wheels.

Rocket racing says theirs do.
Any one have experience with them.
I notice it's a holley brand now.
At $550+ I'd like some 1st hand experience

Which AR wheels? TT's are known offenders of the 'do not clear' list.

The Rockets do offer greater caliper clearance but I've seen guys run spacers on them as well. What exact calipers/rotor combo? That's the bad thing about the 'big brake' set-ups from late model cars (or aftermarkets sources) they're mainly designed w/a bunch of pad offset required to clear fat/long calipers. Old school wheels don't have the same wheel center/barrel shape which helps.

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American racing Rodder

10 spoke 20x9.5 and x8
With a ss camaro brembo caliper. Would need at least a 3/4" spacer.
Of 2 wheel companies I emailed only rocket responded.
Said their attack wheel has 1.9 inches of caliper room.

The other option is baller stuff. 5k+ in wheels or 5k brakes isn't in this blazer project.

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Originally Posted by KQQL IT

American racing Rodder

10 spoke 20x9.5 and x8
With a ss camaro brembo caliper. Would need at least a 3/4" spacer.
Of 2 wheel companies I emailed only rocket responded.
Said their attack wheel has 1.9 inches of caliper room.

The other option is baller stuff. 5k+ in wheels or 5k brakes isn't in this blazer project.

2018 SS Brembo caliper
2018 Z51 Vette rotor

I'll ask for 100% verification but don't believe he's running a spacer:

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Originally Posted by SCOTI

2018 SS Brembo caliper
2018 Z51 Vette rotor

I'll ask for 100% verification but don't believe he's running a spacer:

If he isn't that settles it.
You know if those are 20s?

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Originally Posted by KQQL IT

If he isn't that settles it.
You know if those are 20s?

They are 18x9's. I would think 20's would clear w/o issue. You could always order 'off the shelf' from Summit to test the fit for clearance.
As long as they aren't scratched, dinged, or have tires put on them, they're returnable if there's an issue.

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Forward progress.
After 3 machine shops that didn't want my money we did it ourselves.
Big brakes are fun they say

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No one would cut the hubs from your rotors?

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No.
Got one I'm to busy
And this...
I never asked for a price.

And also open up the i.d of the camaro rotor 2.700 to 3.065

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And i was 2.5 hours into it not knowing what I was doing or been near a lathe in 20+ years

[SCOTI]

For my g-body Malibu, I opted for aftermarket alum hubs for similar reasons.

First, just being able to find someone that would do the work & even then I prob would have spent the same amount for older, heavier, iron hubs. I also went w/the billet hubs because for my app they were machined for the heavier-duty Camaro 1Le outer bearing vs stock. Win/win.

I have KORE3 C10 billet hubs but I've had them since '06 when I helped him w/the C10 brake package he offers. Not sure what he gets for them these days.

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After jumping thru these hoops I see why people buy this stuff instead of fabricating it.

Although teaching my kid these lessons now may save him headaches in the future.

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Wheels came.
Calipers need about .100 thou though
:/ kid wanted the 18" so we did those.
But the rotor looks awesome in the barrel

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Planning a .125" spacer then?

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If I can find a steel one.
I'm going by the kids measurements.

Haven't actually seen them yet.
Work keeps getting in the way of playing with the toys.

I see a wilwood makes a .196 in 5x5
I haven't looked much further yet.

[SCOTI]

Send Cut Send.

They can pop you out a set of spacers in the numbers you want within given material sizes. They did a set for my Model-A pretty quick & very decent price.

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Good to know.

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Also reminded me we have a local cnc plasma guy local

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Hay SCOTI, what hub did you use?

Went to pound stud thru ours last night and split the old rotor hub next to the stud.
Insert unhappy guy ��

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by KQQL IT

Hay SCOTI, what hub did you use?

Went to pound stud thru ours last night and split the old rotor hub next to the stud.
Insert unhappy guy ��

Mine came from KORE3.


I heard of the g-body guys have the same/common issue after milling their hubs. Trick is to do the studs before & minimize the dimensions for the press fit (some guys were using too large of a knurl).

I also verified the 18x8 Rocket cleared a C6 caliper & Z51 13.4" rotor. A buddy of mine said Weld Wheels is making a cheaper cast/flow-formed line of wheels. I looked them up but the BS options were limited vs. the Rockets.

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We took .200 too much off.
Or .400 total.

The knurl was wrong by a couple thou
And also learned the snout of the hub gets into the wheel center.
Gonna buy a new rotor and try again.
The kore3 is based around corvette stuff, I don't know if our camaro stuff is the same

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Also our cast iron hub snout doesn't fit thru the wheel center.
And won't fit without a 3/8 spacer.

The snout and caliper hit.

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Originally Posted by KQQL IT

We took .200 too much off.
Or .400 total.

The knurl was wrong by a couple thou
And also learned the snout of the hub gets into the wheel center.
Gonna buy a new rotor and try again.
The kore3 is based around corvette stuff, I don't know if our camaro stuff is the same

True. Not sure if the hub surface dimensions changed or not.

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Motivation has been lacking, but redo X2.

Also since finding our right quarter is junk, we have rounded up another and that's next.

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Not for our k5 but my brother's stepper