Radial Caliper Mounts ?

[Faldo]

Some of you may have seen previous posts by me whinging about how toss the front brakes are on my ZX7R, so today I decided to something about it!

Just won some radial 4 pot calipers taken from a GSXR 1000 K7 on eBay. £107 for the pair with pads, and brand new, bargain.

Anyone know of any engineering companies that will make up some mounting brackets specifically for a 7R? Someone in the Staffs/Cheshire/Shrops/Derbys area would be a bonus.

https://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff267/yellaninja/Random%20Shat/calipers.jpg

Cheers
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[NSR Mick]

It will be cheaper to buy the radial forks I would have thought.

Also I cant see the radial's being "that" much better.
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[Faldo]

Haha, cheers for the lightening fast reply!

I was afraid someone might say that! I think swapping the forks for some from a different model is beyond my spannering capabilities. Surely someone out there should be able to just make the mounts for cheaper than that ?

Fingers crossed
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[NSR Mick]

What's actualy wrong with the brakes now?

The 6 pots on the 7r should be more than up to the job.
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[Faldo]

I just find they don't bite very well, and have had a few brown pant moments when braking from a ton+. I think the master cylinder on this bike is on it's way out too, and the calipers could do with an overhaul. But I think even after shelling out on having this done, it's be better to fit a different system. Everyone I've mentioned this situation to has said the 6 pots are toss and suggested trying some 4 pots off something else.

Anything's gotta be better than the calipers I have at the moment! My other 7R has the gold 6 pot Tockicos, which Stu at Bikedevils tells me are from Busa/12R, and are actually better than the black ones. The reason I bought radials is as they look trick.

I could of bought some old manky 4 pot Nissins of a slabby (They are much better than the brakes on my 7R), but they just wouldn't look as cool!
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[sickpup]

I just happen to have a set of GSXR600 Radial mounts and stanchions for sale. Stanchion Diameter is 41mm.

[Fisty]

Ha! Ive been pondering this very thing for my ZX9R, the brakes are utter utter ham shank.

I work for a small engineering company and we have come to a conclusion. Yes it can be done, but the costs outweigh the benifits greatly.

It would be far cheaper to buy the front end off another bike and bolt it on. AFAIK a zx10r front end will go on both yours and my bike with a little modification.

Tom make those calipers fit would need a whole new fork bottom to be made, the tooling and design of this alone is fooking extorsionate!

The other way around it ( the way I am taking ) Is to buy a radially mounted master cylinder, braided hoses and better calipers that bolt straight onto the origional mounting points. Im going to use some GSXR K2/3 4 pots as im told they are much better than the junk I have got fitted at the mo.

Tom
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