Project SicMonte

[sr73bu]

This car totally Sucks!



hahhaha, just kidding Doug, I'm just jealous of your wheels!!!

We have to meet up this summer for a cruise!

-Sean

[SicMonte]

Thanks for all the kind words guys!!!!!

Sean...yes we do!

[The Stickman]

Great to hear the engine is alright. I still think we should plan a meet up at the GM Nationals in Carlisle.

[DoABarrelRoll]

I'm jelly

[SicMonte]

Great to hear the engine is alright. I still think we should plan a meet up at the GM Nationals in Carlisle.

I agree 100%. We need to get sean up there too.

[The Stickman]

I agree 100%. We need to get sean up there too.

How's this?
https://www.pro-touring.com/showthre...718#post797718

[SicMonte]

perfect

[SicMonte]

UPDATE:

After RTTS I had a lot of noise in the front brakes when I applied pressure to the pedal. It was a very high pitched squeal. Here is what I found. This will also serve as a "how to" on replacing brake pads on the new Baer T4 calipers.

Here are the brakes...

Before even starting the job I thought of where the capiler was gonna rest while it was unbolted. The upper A arm is perfect for this, just make sure you cover it so the nice new caliper doesn't get scrathed.


These are the caliper bolts. A 10mm allen socket fits them.




Caliper is off and resting on the padded upper A arm


The caliper bolts came with locktite on them from the factory, be sure to use more when installing the calipers again.

[SicMonte]

Looks like the pistons were digging into the backing material on the pads. This could be a major cause of the squealing. I added some grease to where the pistons contact the pads to help with the problem. **Note: Both sides had this issue.



I also noticed that the pads and rotors were glazed. I took some emory cloth and sanded off the glaze on the pads. You can notice a difference beween the two pads. The glaze occured because I did not properly bed my pads before I took it out onto the track.



Here are the glazed rotors.



To de-glaze the rotors I simply scuffed them down with a scotchbrite roloc disk on an air angle grinder. Glaze came off no problem.

[SicMonte]

Here are some shots of the Baer hubs with the ARP wheel studs. The caliper brackets are no joke!!



Here is a look at the inside of the T4 caliper. You can see the four pistons very well.




When I went to put the pads back into the caliper I greased the slots where the "ears" of the pads go into the caliper. There is a small metal bracket that sits in there that holds the brake pads just like every OEM caliper. I put some grease where the pads hit that metal bracket and there is now more squealing!!

[The Stickman]

Those brakes sure do look nice.

[SicMonte]

Those brakes sure do look nice.

why Thank you sir!!

[Vicinity]

Nice build. Lots of good stuff. Really like the brakes.

[CruizinKev]

*drool*

[Roberts68]

Hey, ya gotta check this out.

"I had to do it."

[SicMonte]

Hey, ya gotta check this out.

"I had to do it."

ok you got me.....good one!!!!!!

[Roberts68]

I thought you might get a kick out of that!
It is a sweet build thread,
Mine is more in the mostly stock car with a nice stack of boxes accumulated relatively nearby stage.

[hotrodgirl]

Very nice brakes. I can't wait to get my other rotors and rear brake set up too.

[Mr. Anderson]

Awesome build thread sir!

[Martin71RS]

I stumbled upon this build thread by accident.... I like what you did to the Monte.

Martin
www.pro-touring.nl