Rear brake fitting help

[Bhawks]

Hello,

I have been building my kart for a couple of months now, and have started to look at brakes for it. I went and ordered a righeti rear brake caliper. The problem is, however, that I'm not sure how to fit it to my frame. As you can hopefully see in the photos, the mounting holes are on the far side of the caliper. How should I go about fitting it?

I'm new to the world of gokarts, so I apologise for the rather ignorant question.

Thank you.

 

[mckutzy]

Hello and welcome...

Here's how on pics...
https://www.diygokarts.com/vb/showthread.php?t=737

 

[anderkart]

I sure you realize It'd be a lot easier to buy the correct caliper for your chassis but:

Those Righeti calipers were used on Italian brands of racekarts (Biesse, Briel, and possibly Tonykart) back in the 90's/early-2000's. If you pause this video around 58 seconds you'll see how they bolted on through holes in the axle mounting bracket & cassette: https://youtu.be/tBvw2-rlsa8

If this video wont play, search for 'Racing go kart Biesse B3 update and info SuperCan, Shfiter, TAG' on youtube.

These calipers typically used a vented rotor that was quite a bit thicker than yours, but (if needed) an option might be to shim your brake pads out to compensate. I've seen the shims for sale from online shops the sell the replacement brake pads.

Those axle cassettes aren't easy to find for sale, but I was thinking this dude might sell his without the caliper: http://www.2040-parts.com/biesse-kart-disc-brake-axle-mounts-hubs-40mm-i1498979/

 

[itsid]

what you need is the caliper bracket
that depends on the type of bearing carrier you got

3hole makes me want to suggest this one (other types below):


all suit the K381 caliper (that appears to be what you have, no?)

'sid

PS chances are the KB200, KB230, KB232 calipers would fit without an additional bracket directly to your bearing hanger

 

[Bhawks]

Hello all

Thank you for the responses, im sorry for the slow reply.

I looked into everything that you have said, and have decided to just buy a different one(as some suggested).

Thanks again!