Okay now that I have your attention can you help me out? I was in the process of doin the brake coversion I mentioned a while back, until I was told I need a step drill to fit the drum ebrake cable to the fitting for the rotor backplate. I dont have access to one and they dont appear to be cheap, so I was wondering, would I be able to buy the rotor cable and just run the line through from the backplate up to the center consol?

Another thought I had was... since my eclipse was an original 95 manufactured in 94, they changed the drums in january 95. Would the 91-94 drum fit? Because as it stands now, I have no back brakes whatsoever, my old drums are entirely useless. Hense why Im doing the conversion but would the 1g drum fit just in case?

 

There is a write up on here somewhere abt the rear brake conversion. Fyi all 1g's never had drum brakes, they are all disc.

 

https://mitsubishiforum.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=27742

 

Yea thats the writeup that got me started on my project, and like I said after about half the job was done I found out I needed a step drill to open up the fitting for the ebrake cable to fit the drum cable to the rotor backplate. I dont have the tool and its a bit expensive for me. I suppose I could just use a drill bit that matches in size, come to think of it.

So if the 1g's never had drums then why did they keep the drum size for only a couple months for the 2g? Like I said, january 1995 they changed it to like a 9" drum (I believe, its been a while since I bought them) and my rs was from sept/oct of 94. I figured they gave the early production 95s the 1g drum and then changed it in 1/95. Seems like a waste of efforts if you ask me.

 

step drill bits are like 20 bukcs

 

Idk why early 2g's had drums? It never made sense to me either.

 

I think it was mainly an RS base model thing, because I found a 98 RS i the boneyard (had a moment of silence) and saw that it had drums. My buddy's 97 GS has discs.

And I was sent a pic from my beother, showin the step drill for $39. I went to harbor freight and picked up a cheap one for like 9.99 and a cutoff tool for my exhaust also 9.99 extended black friday deal.