I would think that an engineers might require more substancial brakes on a 200B than the standard ones. I say this for a number of reasons, the main being the reason the 200b brakes are used on a 510 is to dramatically increase the stopping power, to go with a substansially more powerful motor. The 200b is almost 300kg (from memory) heavier than a 510. That's why the stock brakes from a 200b are bigger than a stock 510's. You would need in increase the braking capacity over stock for your car. I doubt 240K twin spots would suffice, you might need a vented mitsu verada system with commodore calipers. However don't take my word for it. Take half a day and visit a few authorised engineering signatories (a list available from the registration authority in your state). They'll sit down with you for a bit and they'll tell you what you need. As for suspension, there a different ways to go. For ultimate perfomance you'll have to spend accordingly. However very good results can be obtained using carefully thought out parts. ie (I won't mention brand names as I might get flamed) 1.5"-2.0" lowered heavy duty springs front and rear, increased diameter sway bar (front), quality gas shocks also front and rear. If I'm not mistaken the early 200b's had rear independant suspension, the late ones had live axle. I dunno if anything is needed, or even available for the rear of a 200b. Rear brakes on a 200B, one word, dunno. On a independant end 200B a r30 skyline rear disc conversion might fit with the same mods as a 1600 (article in the pipeline from elsewhere on the list). A live axle 200b, maybe bluebird TRX rear discs/calipers. You will need to look around at the wreckers and see what you can transfer. Again the engineers might have already seen and can recomend a particular avenue to go on. The 200b's are a pretty good car, but are a bit heavy. Without putting your ideas down, if you want a megaquick car you might find yourself in a better postition to save for a 1600 (or 1200) and be totally happy with a turbo conversion rather than 'satisfied' with a 200b conversion. There's a lot more info on conversions for these two swaps. Don't let me discourage you though, you do what you're happy with ! :) Hope this helps, Wardy FJ20T-510 ---- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Piggott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:10 AM Subject: 200b > hey all, > > i have a 200b (although i would prefer a 510 but couldn't afford it at the > time)that i got on the cheap and have slowly fixed it up to a more > respectable level, well as respectable as u can get a canary yellow dato. I > have plans on doing a turbo conversion in the near future and i was > wondering if someone could give me a few suggestions on getting the car > ready for this conversion, in regard to suspension and brakes etc. > > I see that a lot of people do the standard 200b brake conversion as a > minimum requirement for the turbo conversion, does this mean that i won't > have to do anything to meet this requirement? On that note is there a > conversion (somewhat easy) of the rear brakes into a disk system? > > The car will only be for road use so what sort of suspension are u looking > at for good runs through the the local S'? should i put on a rear sway bar? > > i apologise for the newbie questions but so far i have only seen brake and > conversion Q & A for 510 (of course) so im unsure as to how much of that is > transferable to the 200b. > > Too many questions i know hehe. > Any help would be appreciated > Cheers > Tim > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.datascribe.com.au/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.datascribe.com.au/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
