[Lynn]

Bill,

I have a keen interest in how this turns out for obvious reasons. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are a couple of your photos that I have annotated to show what I think Jac Mac is saying. The yellow box roughly outlines a flat plate drilled with 4 holes to connect the two parts. The arced arrow in the first picture is to indicate that the calipers could be rotated slightly either way, if need be, so that the ears interleave and the calipers are fully seated down on the rotor.

In the second picture, because of the slight angle, it appears that the rotor is not centered in the caliper if the plate were bolted in as shown. Would bolting the rotor to the backside of the hat, as Jac Mac suggested, put the rotor midway between the installed pads? If not, the plate could be milled and/or shimmed on the upper and lower halves independently, as needed, to get the rotor and calipers properly aligned.

Does that sound right, Jac Mac?

EDIT FOR LEE'S PICTURE - Lee, nice pic that must have been saved as I was typing. The obvious advantage to the radially mounted caliper is that the caliper and rotor can be aligned by simply drilling the caliper bolt holes in the right position. Worries over ears overlapping is also gone. Noticed also that Lee's rotors are bolted to the backside of the hat.