Yea, I read that thread, I think it was the enduro seat stays he was trying to fit, but I can't remember what year he tried.
Since you mentioned this, I trial fitted the 2001 disc seat stay on the elite tonight.
I bought this frame, a 2001 Enduro with the disc seat stays a few weeks ago.
I took/stole the seat stay off of it, and put a Vbrake stay on it from a 1999 FSR ground control sport (black) that I picked up a long while ago.
I'm gonna build this bike up also from spare parts. I can't afford to put disc brakes and wheels on two bikes, so I put my spare XTR Vbrakes on it.
Here's a few pics of the 2001 Enduro seatstay test fitted to the 1998 Elite, this seatstay has the same clearance as the stock one and is a good fit.
I hope to have the rear end all together by this weekend, should have my fork by then too.
So you say the BETD link worked pretty good on your (mine is a 1998 ground control, the blue one) regular FSR? That might be something I could try. :idea:
I just measured the head tube on the Elite and it's right around 128mm (5") also.
I'm going to try and convert the Sektor
dual position 120 or 150mm coil to U-turn 110-150mm coil, so it'll give me some room to mess around with front travel.
The bike came with a short DH stem and I have a couple others to try, thanks for your thought on this.