Go Back   Australian Ford Forums > Club and Speciality Forums > Ford Car Clubs > Ford Coupe Club of Australia > Coupe Restoration & Build

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 16-08-2014, 10:25 PM   #1
DaveD_XB
Regular Member
 
DaveD_XB's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 135
Default Re: brake upgrades for coupes

You may be restricted by the 15" wheels when it comes to a lot of kits... I went with a big 6 piston caliper front & mini 6 piston rear caliper kit from RRS... But I needed to go 17" wheels to be able to fit over them..

Remember that a lot of big brake kits need 18" of vacuum to work well, just fitting big brakes to a car with poor vacuum or a smaller diameter booster won't give the results you're after...

I'm about to fit a big brake kit (14" rotors, 6 piston callipers) to my Challenger but the lumpy cam is useless for vacuum so I'm fitting a Hella UP30 vacuum pump to compensate for the cam, also if your master is for a disk/drum setup you probably should swap it for a 4 wheel disk one & for best performance a balance/bias adjuster is a good idea
__________________
4.2 Supercharged V8 RangeRover Sport - Daily driver
1975 XB Fairmont GS Coupe - Ford Weekend Toy
1975 XB Falcon 500 Coupe - Undecided Project
1972 Dodge Challenger R/T - Mopar Weekend Toy
1969 GTO - Pontiac Weekend Toy
DaveD_XB is offline   Reply With Quote Multi-Quote with this Post
Reply


Forum Jump


All times are GMT +11. The time now is 04:02 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.5
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Other than what is legally copyrighted by the respective owners, this site is copyright www.fordforums.com.au
Positive SSL