[GreyyDawgg]

Hi there,

I am just wondering if the Australian SE416 1.6 suzuki vitara LWB has the same brake setup as the equivalent year model suzuki sidekick JX sport 4 door? I want to upgrade my SWB brakes to LWB vented discs and calipers and can get remanufactured calipers with pads for a similar price to what wreckers over here want for 17 year old calipers. The models look the same and both have the 1.6 injected engines and use vented discs but I want to make sure before I buy them. Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers!

[tanshi]

when i had an import front cut from a 4 door it was the bigger brakes like what came on SV model vitaras here

[atari4x4]

tanshi wrote:

when i had an import front cut from a 4 door it was the bigger brakes like what came on SV model vitaras here

but the alloys that came off it wouldn't clear the caliper on my SV, maybe the caliper & rotor we the same size as an SV on that import but the rotor offset/caliper offset might have differed as the knuckles differ between SE & SV vitara & might explain why they didn't fit on mine.

[tanshi]

atari4x4 wrote:

tanshi wrote:

when i had an import front cut from a 4 door it was the bigger brakes like what came on SV model vitaras here

but the alloys that came off it wouldn't clear the caliper on my SV, maybe the caliper & rotor we the same size as an SV on that import but the rotor offset/caliper offset might have differed as the knuckles differ between SE & SV vitara & might explain why they didn't fit on mine.

different import

[atari4x4]

ahhh cool, didn't realise you'd had parted more than one jap import.

OP, you'll need 16" wheels to clear the calipers/rotors from a SV vitara & you will also need to swap over the whole knuckle to get the right caliper spacing on the rotor.

just upgrade to the LWB SE416 front disks & calipers & put a rear disk conversion on the back.

[GreyyDawgg]

Cheers for that. Ended up finding a good set of second hand SE416 calipers and a pair of new vented discs + brake pads to suit. Will consider putting discs on the back at a later stage.