12:05 Garage- ’70 Duster build

racerjoe said
The hub is 3/4" and the rotors are around 3/16-1/4" thick. This meant I needed studs with a long shoulder. The only ones I could find were these ARP studs. $75 for 5! They work perfectly, but go completly against the budget aspect of this project.

Don't remember what I used, but I think they are 3" and didn't cost $150. But it has been 5-10 years since I bought them so who knows what has happened since then. I know I struggled to find the right studs though, so there could be even less options than when I did it. Have to keep that in mind if I do up another set, pulled a set of old rotors to make another set and was thinking about it.

racerjoe said
In the end, I could have bought the aluminum hubs from Dr. Diff for the same money. The rotors that I had turned down were $25/ea. I paid a guy $100 to turn them down into hubs for me, and now $150 worth of studs. He sells his for $300. Oh well. Early on it was proof of concept and losing $150 vs $300 if it didn't work didn't sting as much.

I don't really like aluminum hubs for the street. Plenty are running them so probably not an issue, just makes me nervous.

And I think his hubs set the rotor further out than the hub machined from stock rotors do. No idea how much though, @72bluNblu said it wasn't much. Would have changed how much shim material you would have needed, but probably not much of an issue.