How the Road Runner beats the Coyote

[jst8a5.0]

Yeah those wheels are spot on, just get that car out of the sky and a little closer to earth!

[pleasenosteve]

Those wheels are perfect. Now, just lower that beast.

[speedfreak68]

Dude I'm saving this thread to my favorites. Hopefully I will get my Charger to this point someday.

[terryr]

You might have a loose brake fitting. It's easy to forget to tighten one. If I'm in doubt I wrap the fittings with tissue paper and see if they get wet.

[GHOSTDANCER]

Those rims are Badazz

[dodge]

NIce ride..I like the look you achieved

[BanditDave]

Two Suggestions:

First, I did not read close enough, but if you still have any original rubber lines on there you may never get the feel you are looking for. Secondly, I woudl suggest what others are saying...possibly a loose fitting.

Good luck and as others have said, gorgeous wheels and car...now drop that bi+ch on the ground!

[ProTouring442]

Originally Posted by RaiderLefty

My only problem is that I'm still having issues with the brakes. The pedal occasionally gets soft on the first push and then much harder on subsequent pushes. I thought I still had air in the rear lines somewhere but I've tried both the normal "pump" method as well as gravity bleeding them and am about 99% sure all the air it out yet I can't get rid of the problem.

Any thoughts or ideas are welcome.

Check rotor run out. Any rotor movement side to side on a fixed caliper system can push the caliper pistons in, and cause a low pedal on the first application.

Shiny Side Up!
Bill

[RaiderLefty]

Well first of all........thanks for all the kind comments on the car. I'm pretty proud of what I've got so far and think it's only going to get better from here.

In regards to lowering her down.......after having changed so many components in the front end I wanted to see what the stance was back on the ground before I started lowering. I think with the much thicker torsion bars the car is going to ride a little higher then before so some 2" drop spindles and re-arching of the leafs may be in order.

I'm still unsure what's causing the brake problem. All the fittings are tight. The lines are completely bled. Frank at Prodigy thinks it might be a bad master so I'm going to try that as soon as the new one comes in.

My only other thought mildly echoes Bill's point below about the caliper run out. I purchased new Moser axle shafts and had to push new bearings on with the Wilwood backing plates. Wilwood gives a 2.36" dimension from the back of the backing plate to the axle shaft flange. If you go over that you can always shim back.

The passenger side shaft had no problem but the driver's side shaft I could not get it any less then 2.45". The bearing clearly bottomed out on the press with 20T on it. When the rotor and caliper were installed the outside pad was in contact with the rotor and so the caliper isn't totally centered on the rotor and there is no way to shim that side.

After having driven a little this weekend the black coating on the driver's rear rotor is still only 1/2 worn off as opposed to the other 3 rotors where it's completely worn off. I'm beginning to wonder if this is what's causing my problem.

The brakes are very solid, especially after 1 or 2 pumps......there's hardly any pedal travel. But if you don't push the brakes for say a few miles and then step on them........you have to pump them once or twice to get good pedal.

[Datsbad]

Love the overall look you are going for. Get that thing down about 2" or so and it will look real good. Might need to change the tires as they do look a little thick on there.

Neat car , thinking of doing a Road Runner my self