[ghettoluxury]

The past couple weeks I have had some free time so I started working on the old girl again. All summer and most of this winter I have been working on my house. That project started out as replacing and relocating windows. Once I was inside the walls it turned into a total gut job.

The time has come to figure out how to get my rims to fit up front. I started by picking up an extra set of spindles to figure this out. The plan was to find rotor that has the same inner and outer bearings as the S10 with a 5x5.5 pattern. A rotor from a '78 F150 has just that. The problem is even after cutting off the ears for the factory caliper off of the spindle the rotor still made contact with the spindle. This is when I decided it was time for surgery.



I decided that I was going to make a hub out of a rotor so I took my grinder with a cutoff wheel and separated the rotor from the "hub" (mind you this was a brand new rotor). Now that I had a very crude hub it was time to figure out what size brakes I wanted, after all there is a V8 in her now. So I went back to Advance's website and started looking up specs. What I decided on was a front rotor from a '06 Ram, they measure in at just over 13" and are 1.25" thick. These should stop much better than the 10" rotors that came on the S10.



Since I had the rotor and "hub" it was time to make them fit together. I took the hub to work and turned it down on the lathe. Making it fit inside the rotor wasn't too hard, I just cleaned up my crude cuts. The center hole on the rotor was just over 78.5mm so I turned the hub down to match.




Now everything fit very nicely together but there was another problem. Even though the bearing were the same on the S10 & F150, when tightening down the castle nut i could not get a cotter pin in the spindle. So I removed the outer race and proceeded to move the seat in by 5mm. After doing so I moved the dust cap seat & face in 5mm.



I still have to figure out the caliper & mounting bracket and enlarge the studs to 9/16" or 14mm. These things should not be too bad. I am planning on using 4 piston Wilwood calipers off of the dirt track cars, they seem very adaptable. That's not the only dirt track parts that will go into this build. Yesterday I picked up a single pass 19x22 radiator from a buddy for $40, only ran 1 season.