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Originally Posted by HWYSTR455
Did you use the pre-formed kick panels that have provisions for speakers, or did you cut out OE ones? The ones that come with the cutouts allow for the e-brake. If you didn't use those, maybe swap over?
You can also space out the e-brake assembly to clear the speaker. It will probably get wobbly though if you go too far. The kick panel kind of guides your foot straight so you don't put a side load on the pedal.
A lot of rear disc calipers require an e-brake to maintain proper preload, but would imagine that's redundant info for you.
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I used the kick panels from whatever vendors sells them, I forget now. But I installed different speakers in them and they stick out quite a bit. At this point getting a pedal in there will require way more work than I am willing to do, so it will just stay that way for now. The LS1 rear brake calipers are completely removed from the e-brake, so I don't see any issues there.
Some progress has been made. I feel terrible having to outsource some of this work, but I really have no choice. Luckily, the shop where the work is being done came highly recommended and they allowed me to hang out while they did the work. The owner's son was doing the work, and he was doing a good job.
Here is the new gear installed:
The brakes were mounted on the passenger side without any drama. The caliper abutment was well spaced away from the rotor and there was no contact even when the axle was pulled out all the way against the C-clip.
The driver's side, for some reason, wasn't as cooperative. The caliper abutment was nowhere close to fitting and after taking some measurements, we determined that the axle offset on the driver's side was .125" more than on the passenger side. I don't know why this is the case, but we ended up using some precision washers to space the caliper bracket away from the rear housing flange. Once that was done, everything lined up great.
Luckily, the guy doing the work was paying attention and he noticed that the driver's side hard line from the center to the caliper was pinched.
There were marks on the exhaust where it looked like the rear end hit during a hard bump. Since the hard line runs over the top of the axle it got smashed. New lines will be made and they will be routed along the backside of the axle tube instead of over the top.
Andrew