Front brake upgrade
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:44 pm
The vintage racing crowd really likes Honda CB series brakes, the 180mm CB160 and the 20mm CB77/CB450, and it won't be too difficult to adapt the Honda brake plate to the Ducati(Grimeca??) front hub.
Here's a picture of the stock assembly:
And here's the Ducati hub with the CB160 brake plate:
And, the inside of the CB160 plate:
The Ducati hub can remain stock, and the width will be stock if 0.230" is removed from the inside of the Honda plate.
You'll need a reaction arm to replace the fork lug, but there should be some real improvement in braking. The 2LS Honda plate will provide more power and the Honda brake shoes are available in several compounds.
My plan is to open up the fake vents on the speedometer drive plate, bore some holes in the hub, and have real cooling for the brake- the Honda plate is a good match with the Ducati hub since it's hard to find any place to mount a cooling scoop on the Honda brake plate- all of the arms and linkages get in the way. I'm going to add another reaction arm to the speedo side brake plate- the stock Ducati setup always looked a little wrong to my eye.
The CB160 brake plates are still cheap- I saw some Buy It Now plates on Ebay for around $30.00.
I need to build a fixture to hold the plate, and will report back with any problems I run into.
Rick
Here's a picture of the stock assembly:
And here's the Ducati hub with the CB160 brake plate:
And, the inside of the CB160 plate:
The Ducati hub can remain stock, and the width will be stock if 0.230" is removed from the inside of the Honda plate.
You'll need a reaction arm to replace the fork lug, but there should be some real improvement in braking. The 2LS Honda plate will provide more power and the Honda brake shoes are available in several compounds.
My plan is to open up the fake vents on the speedometer drive plate, bore some holes in the hub, and have real cooling for the brake- the Honda plate is a good match with the Ducati hub since it's hard to find any place to mount a cooling scoop on the Honda brake plate- all of the arms and linkages get in the way. I'm going to add another reaction arm to the speedo side brake plate- the stock Ducati setup always looked a little wrong to my eye.
The CB160 brake plates are still cheap- I saw some Buy It Now plates on Ebay for around $30.00.
I need to build a fixture to hold the plate, and will report back with any problems I run into.
Rick