ATE Brake Caliper Bolts

Good day All,
I was curious if anyone has found a source for the ATE brake caliper bolts that secure both halves of the caliper? One of my calipers look to have been extremely overtightened to the point where the inside of the Torx bolt is now rounded... and I am going to have to drill out the bolt... argh... Interestingly someone did the same on the other side, as the bolts heads are completely different.

I have sent messages to the usual suppliers, but thought I would ask here too.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Sam

 

Good day Michael,

Indeed, I have been looking at these other makes as well with no success just yet. The problem is the Ferrari version of the ATE calipers use longer bolts in order to accommodate the spacer between the caliper halves. Outside of the spacer and bolt length, you are quite correct that the ATE calipers are the same. That being said, I am still looking.

Thank you for your post!

Cheers,

Sam

 

Good day Gary,

That was a great thread you created! I used it for a few ideas and had thought about buying rebuilt calipers for parts. Sadly, I could not find the Cardone calipers here in Canada at the various suppliers for a reasonable price. RockAuto has the calipers and will ship to Canada for about $160. The core charge is $22 for one and $35 for the other, but past customers have had a lot of issues with getting their core refunds back. Also, shipping the cores back to the US is somewhat pricey and so it would almost be awash.

I was able to find some bolts on McMaster Carr that are really close. Instead of the chamfered bolt heads, the ones I found are Allen Head shoulder bolts and are Black Oxide like the originals. They are stock and inexpensive at $8 for a quantity of 25:

https://www.mcmaster.com/91290a456

These would be suitable for the rear caliper. Interestingly, the opposite side caliper uses bolts that are very similar to the McMaster bolts. Here the bolt is not an Allen bolt, but a Spline (Thanks Paul for the Correction). I suspect that someone had the same issue as me and so replaced the bolts with this version for probably the same reason.

If I am unable to find the same ATE Chamfered bolts I will go with the McMaster bolts and if so I will post some pics on these.

Thanks again for your post!

Cheers,

Sam

 

Good day Michael,

Thanks for pointing out the 308 section on Superformance. I looked yesterday under the 365/400 section and none of these bolts were shown... and I did not think to check the other sections, thank you! I will have to e-mail them to find out the bolt lengths. Interesting, the front caliper halve bolts had a measured diameter of 9mm which I thought I made a mistake... but Superformance shows caliper bolts at 9mm and so I guess my measurement was not wrong. Thankfully the issue is with rear caliper bolts which measured 8mm x1.25 which can be easily get from McMaster Carr.

Before I go too far, I am checking with a local shop that apparently can get ATE parts from his suppliers and so I will see how this unfolds.

Thanks again for your post!

Cheers,

Sam

 

Good day ken,

Excellent, thank you! I will dig a bit to see what they have.

Cheers,

Sam

 

Good day Jeff,

Belmetric has a ton of metric fasteners, but I could not find the tapered head style like used on the calipers. I did order u[p the McMaster Carr Allen head fasteners mentioned about and they perfect and will work well until I can find the same bolts with the ATE style tapered heads. Sadly, I have not done anything further since my last post, as I got side tracked with work duties and other items. I will have to go back to my brake shelf to see where I left off and will report back if I found anything more.

With that said, Superformance does have the 7mm with the tapered head and the 9mm with a Hex head (thanks to Mike for pointing me in that direction). What sizes and head style are you looking for?

Cheers,

Sam