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Disk Brakes!!!
My swap is being delayed for now due to money problems :( ...Hard being a 20 year old college student paying for an expensive PROJECT!!! but for now I need to know if I can stay with a 4 lug bolt pattern and I need to know where I can get a disk brake conversion kit for my 65!! any help would be highly appreciated! thank you guys.
Tom |
I checked some sources, and everything I saw was 5 lug. I just completed my 65 front swap using a Wilwood medium duty kit. Very easy to install, and pricing was not was I was led to believe. I was thinking it would go about 8-900.00, but made the entire swap for about $525.00, including new steel braided lines and a new M/C.
Ron |
Ron1, where did you get that Wilwood kit? It sounds really interesting. Got a link to it by any chance? Thanks
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This is the one I installed. Wilwood medium.
http://www.wilwood.com/products/kits/medbr/index.asp ron |
SSC
I think Stainless Steel Brake Corporation has a kit for 4 lug, but it won't be cheap. You could give them a call or check their web site. Sorry, don't have their addy handy.
Rev |
rev, did you reuse your existing drum spindles or did you have to replace them? it looks like all you need is to remove all the drum parts and backing plate and install the disk and bearing with the caliper. ?? thanks
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5 lug
My '66 was an origininal 5 lug front drum/V-8 . I ordered my front disk set op from Jim's Mustang in El Cajon Ca. for about $650 to my door in Houston.
Rev |
Rev, Did that kit also include the steel braided replacement lines for the swap out of the old rubber lines, and did it include screw in wheel studs?
Ron |
Mostly new parts
The flexible lines were NOT braided. The studs were pressed into the rotors. It was a Granada conversion and it worked well. Mostly new parts, including rotors and MC. Calipers were rebuilt. Spindles were used, but good.
Rev |
ummm......can I just stick with drums all the way around?? or is that too risky for the 302??
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Prase dyno
Try Prase (sp?) dyno brakes. They make pads/ shoes from special materials that work better. Again, not cheap. PM me if you don't find it as I have it somewhere in all my car crap somewhere.
Rev |
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Lift?
Ron1, your car seems to have a little more lift in the front than mine , hee, hee.
Rev |
And it will be worse this season Rev. The old drum set up weighed in at 32.6 per side. The Wilwood was 14.2 per side. And that was rotating mass, so I can't wait to see how far it will lift the nose this year. I do have to say, it was the easiest conversion. Just drop the old assembly off the spindle, slide the new one on. Done. I also removed another 60 pounds in other stuff, so ET should improve nicely.
Ron |
Ron1 and Rev:
On those conversions, will stock 14 inch wheels fit over the roter/caliper assemblies with your kit? I thought I saw that the granada kit required 15 inch wheels, but maybe that was another one, and I don't have any idea about the Wilwood. Thanks guys. |
I will check it out and get back to you....
Ron |
FWIW, I converted to Granada discs on my '65 and had change the stock wheels. The stock 14 x 5.5" wheels did not have a big enough opening in the center for the Granada hubs. It shouldn't be a big deal...most 14 x 6" Ford wheels will work fine. That's what I used for a while, and then finally got a set of Magnum 500's which worked also.
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I belive I saw somewhere that you will need 15" or bigger rims. I am also looking at there brake kit but an concerned that it said somewhere that you have to cut.
Wilwood - Phone (805) 388-1188 - Fax (805) 388-4938 Assembly Instructions http://www.wilwood.org/ds246.pdf |
The 4307-B is the exact one I installed. No cutting, no drilling, no modifications. Bolted right up.
Ron |
I should have never bought my 17X9 Cobra R's 4 lugs!!! I should have done a conversion to 5 lug first!! GRRrRR....thiS is just costing me more MONEY!!!
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