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 Post subject: Info needed: AU to AUII brake upgrade
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:11 pm 
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the old man has purchased a AUI Fairmont GHIA VCT.

Anyway the brakes are woeful. has anyone upgraded the AUI to AUII brakes?

Im guessing a new upright, lower control arm and a few other things would need replacing.
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:10 pm 
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Yes, the stub axle assembly is different, as is the brake master cyl.
and you'll need the brake hoses too, for the calipers, plus the rotors are thicker, front & rear. The rear calipers are also different.
I don't know if the brake booster is different or not.

 

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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:52 pm 
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you wouldn't need the lower control arm but what cjh said sounds right. I cant imagine the booster being different and would have thought the master cylinder would be the same.

But yeah - definately rotors, upright and calipers!

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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:46 pm 
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new lower control arms
new calipers
new rotors
new sway bar
new hoses

and new master cylinder are what is needed

iirc aufalcon.com has the mod


http://www.aufalcon.com/cgi-bin/index.c ... ocs/brakes

 

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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:26 am 
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whats the difference with the lower control arms?

Only difference i can think of, is the sway bar mount is different - meaning if you got a new arm, you would also need a new swaybar and link pin.

Waste of money i think - just keep your original arm
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would something like this work for an e-series?

on my fathers AU Ghia, we just wacked on a set of DBA's made a big differance.

 

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xf_xr6 wrote:
whats the difference with the lower control arms?

Only difference i can think of, is the sway bar mount is different - meaning if you got a new arm, you would also need a new swaybar and link pin.

Waste of money i think - just keep your original arm


u need the new sway bar as the calipers hit the old sway bar
hence new sway bar and lower control arm

 

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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:11 pm 
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rushed wrote:
would something like this work for an e-series?

on my fathers AU Ghia, we just wacked on a set of DBA's made a big differance.


YES! I too would like to know if it's possible to upgrade the brakes on an 'E' series to the AUII or AUIII setups :shock: .
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:33 pm 
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Disco Frank wrote:
xf_xr6 wrote:
whats the difference with the lower control arms?

Only difference i can think of, is the sway bar mount is different - meaning if you got a new arm, you would also need a new swaybar and link pin.

Waste of money i think - just keep your original arm


u need the new sway bar as the calipers hit the old sway bar
hence new sway bar and lower control arm


The sway bar mounts alot lower too, so there are brackets for them that mount on the chassis rail.

 

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