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Dana 44 rear brake project complete
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My Dana 44 rear axle came with impossible (for me) to adapt to my needs caliper brackets.
Jim Nichols (260MGB) turned me on to Nissan Altima vented rotors and some TBird calipers with internal e-brake.
My process was to LIDAR scan the caliper and my existing mounting bracket with my iPhone using Kiri, an app for 3d scanning. From there we brought it into Shapr3d to get proper measurements for all bolts, angles etc, and began an iterative process of 3d print, fit, modify, repeat (x5).
After 5 revisions everything fit up great and I sent it out to PCBWay for CNC.
Pretty happy with how it turned out! Total cost was around $500 start to finish.
$20 per print @ 5 print: $100
Final CNC: $200 shipped
Calipers & Calipers: $200
The joy of doing something fun and interesting: Priceless
NOTE: The angles are not wonky, its just my phone angle. I went out and double checked
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2024-04-26 08:39 PM by jotermoter.
Jim Nichols (260MGB) turned me on to Nissan Altima vented rotors and some TBird calipers with internal e-brake.
My process was to LIDAR scan the caliper and my existing mounting bracket with my iPhone using Kiri, an app for 3d scanning. From there we brought it into Shapr3d to get proper measurements for all bolts, angles etc, and began an iterative process of 3d print, fit, modify, repeat (x5).
After 5 revisions everything fit up great and I sent it out to PCBWay for CNC.
Pretty happy with how it turned out! Total cost was around $500 start to finish.
$20 per print @ 5 print: $100
Final CNC: $200 shipped
Calipers & Calipers: $200
The joy of doing something fun and interesting: Priceless
NOTE: The angles are not wonky, its just my phone angle. I went out and double checked
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2024-04-26 08:39 PM by jotermoter.
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