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Old Jan 24, 2014 | 11:11 PM
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Default Re: Yet Another AMG Brake Upgrade How-To

Originally Posted by grip grip
I recently sold a set of 6/4 pots to a forum member, and I'm sure he's going to be watching this thread closely to see if the stock wheels will fit with 10mm spacers.
Awesome! Looking forward to their progress.

Originally Posted by grip grip
Pay close attention when you mock-up the spacer that if fully seats against the rotor. None of my larger spacers (15mm, 20mm, and 25mm) fit properly up front, but my 5mm spacers do.
For sure, I've been paying particular interest to the hub snout. The chamfer, specifically. The hat thickness on the new rotors versus stock was an unknown, so even if the wheel mated to the hat, there's almost no meat for the center bore of the wheel to hang onto; bad juju for hub centric. By the by, did you stack 5mm plates per hub?

Originally Posted by grip grip
If you're going to space the fronts out, have you considered moving the rears out to match?
Oh yes, planning on 'squaring' things up.

Originally Posted by grip grip
Have you checked fitment on the rears?
Insofar as the caliper, yes. Haven't fit the wheel just yet. If all goes well with the spacers up front, I'll be tackling the back this weekend, and posting pics of course.

EDIT: A turn of bad fortune today, as I learned R1 does not carry a 330mm fitment. I tried running the 2004 CLK55, etc, etc... No dice. So I'll be hunting down a set, somewhere...
 

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