Also interested as my drums are getting pretty crispy.

I will be interested if you are able to start pushing these kits out again

I did see these the other day: Rear Disc Brake Conversion Kit (98'-02' Tacoma & 4Runner / 00'-06' Tundra)

That looks like a sweet kit and and awesome option to do a disc conversion on our trucks. Awesome that a larger company like LCE is making that. Only deal breaker is that it disables the parking brake. Having the parking brake is essential for me. Without it your really going to be stressing the parking pawl every time you park it and especially if your on uneven ground too. I pull the parking break and then throw it in P to keep the stress off mine. I can't be the only one that noitces when you park with any car without the brake it rocks back and forth quite a bit before coming to a stop. That can't be good for the pawl....

And in my state the ebrake has to work to pass inspection.


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Which is why I'm switching over to the lc80 calipers and wilwood mc4 parking brake caliper. The mustang calipers just are not working for me (between calipers leaking and poor parking brake performance). Everything midcoma made is awesome! Top quality stuff. But it just doesn't work for me so I am working on this now. Don't know if I'll have them reproduced though.

So I might have midcoma's caliper brackets up for sale in a while.

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I've got a used kit with less than 1,000 miles available.
Hardlines, rotors, calipers, pads, e-brake, everything.
Kit was awesome but parted out my 4Runner so no longer need.
Would prefer to keep it local, would consider shipping at buyer's expense if I can't find anything local.
East Bay Area, CA

If you do decide to reproduce the final product, I'd be interested.

Please sign me up for a complete kit, brakelines and parking brake when you start again!
I have alot of heavy mods on my 3rd gen and a trd supercharger do i need to stop this rig!
Can reach me at [email protected]
Robert.
Thanks in advance!!!

Hi, no idea if this would work, but have you ever thought of just using sendcutsend or equivalent to get the metal parts drop shipped and then just providing a list of bits people need to procure for themselves for the rest? Might be a way to supply "kits" at minimal effort and still protect your IP. I ask because it irritates me that this is the ONLY option that keeps the parking brake and its NLA.

Thanks,
Tara

I can not speak for midcoma, so this it just me from past experiences.

The ROI, it takes lots of time and money to test out parts, to make sure they work and fit properly. Having a 3rd party doing the work and not being able to QC the parts before they are sent out are an big issue. On top of any liability for part failure is a massive risk these days in a litigation happy era. And it won't stop someone from stealing the design or file and copying it. On top of that so little people do this swap its not really worth it to make a dedicated kit. Also a reason I never post up pics of said bracketry, as it can be copied to cad very easily, and poof there goes my idea.

This is just my .00000002 cents worth (again adjusted for inflation).

Give me a little leeway here but if you aren't interested in marketing what you have come up with then why would you be worried about someone using your idea? I need to do the brake backing plates on the wifey's 2002 SR5 Sport sooner than later and if I am going to go to all that trouble it would be time better served to just retrofit disc brakes w/parking brake functionality.

(Not being rude here)

Because it is something I designed, tested and made. Having someone else profit off my idea, well doesn't sit right with me regardless if I want to sell them or not. Learned that valuable lesson in my younger years. Never again will I let that happen. Nor design anything on company time too lol. But any ways, that's my thoughts behind it, agree or disagree we can still be friends lol.

Prado 90 has rear discs. Its basically a 3rd gen 4runner minus the difference in the rear axle. Lots of us Canadians (we get the imports from Japan after 15 years as opposed to after 25 years in the US) have been swapping in the Prado axle housing to get the rear discs. They are setup like 4th gen rear discs with the E-brake setup built in.

Any other considerations?

E locker compatible I assume, so just swap over your appropriate 3rd member?
Any in-line proportioning valve or MC tinkering needed?
Easy-to-find rotors/pads in NA, or are they just literally 4th gen?