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  1. ultrastang

    Disc Brake Conversion

    I remember reading a post where [one of many times] you've publically blasted Dennis, of CSRP, for producing a "Granada" based conversion for sale to Mustang owners because more-or-less in a summary of your words, "they are not original" and "not period-correct for any vintage Mustang", and "it...
  2. ultrastang

    Disc Brake Conversion

    The spindle on the left is from a '73 Maverick 5-lug drum brake car. http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/8153/73maverickspindlesultra.jpg It is the same spindle that would have come on the '70-up 5-lug drum brake Mavericks/'71-up 5-lug drum brake Comets. This drum spindle is also the same as...
  3. ultrastang

    Disc Brake Conversion

    '74-'77 Mavericks/Comets came from the factory with the exact same front disc brakes that came stock on the '75-'80 Granada/Mercury Monarchs. A brake system from the '75-'80 Granada/Monarch would be the very same front disc brakes that were available on the later Mavericks/Comets. The...
  4. ultrastang

    Disc Brake Conversion

    Ford doesn't offer any factory replacement parts for the vintage Mustangs, and hasn't for many years now. The only ones offering any kind of replacement parts, based off the original Ford production designs, are aftermarket companies. In the case of brakes and SSBC, their base A120 kit...
  5. ultrastang

    Disc Brake Conversion

    I can ony relate what has been the norm, in my experience, in the majority of anyone that has purchased from me over the span of the past 9-years. In that time, I can count on one hand the number of people who were wanting to keep their stock wheels. Most were switching to some other...
  6. ultrastang

    Disc Brake Conversion

    The 13" Cobra rotor is mounted on a '65/'66-style Mustang V-8 5-lug drum brake hub, with the larger A-12, A-13 bearing/race sets installed to fit the larger pin diameter of the Granada spindle.
  7. ultrastang

    Disc Brake Conversion

    The caption above the last picture in my previous post states that those brakes are for a '68-'73 Mustang and to compare the similarities between them and the Granada disc design. The rotors of the factory '68-'73 Mustang floating-caliper brake system are "bigger" than the rotors of the...
  8. ultrastang

    Disc Brake Conversion

    The stock '68-'73 Mustang front disc brake setups were also of a single-piston, floating caliper design. The '68-'73 Mustang single-piston, floating caliper design was also produced by K/H. The '68-'73 Mustang disc spindles/brakes are very close cousins to the '75-'80 Granada/Monarch front disc...
  9. ultrastang

    Rotisserie

    Last summer, I had intentions of building my own rotisserie. However, after pricing the steel to build it out of, just the cost of the steel was going to be over $1,500.00 and I would still have had to cut everything to length and drill and weld where necessary. --the $1,500.00 for the steel was...
  10. ultrastang

    Drum to Disc brake conversion

    It's the same for a '67-'70 Mustang, but not the same for a '65/'66 Mustang. Front end geometry and track width of '75-'80 Granada/Monarch is same as '67-'70 Mustang, but '65/'66 Mustang is 2" narrower. CSRP, however, also has new Granada-based spindle castings specifically designed to put...
  11. ultrastang

    Cobra brakes

    '94-'98 Cobras had twin-piston aluminum PBR front calipers with 38mm pistons. '99-'04 Cobra front calipers switched to 40mm pistons. '94/'95 Cobras had vacuum boosters with 15/16" bore diameter master cylinders. In '96, the Cobras [and Mustang GTs] switch from vacuum boosted brakes to...
  12. ultrastang

    1965 mustang gears..question

    A 3.73 rear ratio with an overdrive ratio of .68:1 would be a final drive equivilent of 2.54:1. --In 5th gear [overdrive], it would be like the rear end ratio is 2.54:1. 3.73 x .68 = 2.5364 RPM-charts Torque Multiplication
  13. ultrastang

    Help decoding a steering box

    The SMB-K code box is for a power steering car. It has a 16:1 ratio with 3-3/4 turns lock-to-lock. This is the same box I have in my '68 --which I later changed to manual steering [but retained the quick ratio box] because the power steering pump & brackets were missing off my '68 when I...
  14. ultrastang

    axel and wheel bearing question

    The act of pressing the bearings and retainers stretches them as they are forced onto the journal of the axle. They will not have as tight a grip the second go 'round if they are pulled off and then put back on again, which means they can separate from the axle allowing the axle to come out...
  15. ultrastang

    axel and wheel bearing question

    Unfortunately, new or not, axle bearings are only good for one pressing. If they have to come back off, they are trash can material.
  16. ultrastang

    9" 3rd member from yard w/ good ratio?

    Last year for a 9-inch being installed in a Ford car was 1980. Last year for a 9-inch being installed in a Ford pickup was 1986. All 9-inch 3rd members will fit any 9-inch rear end housing. The only catch is the differential's spline count has to match the axle's spline count. Cars will...
  17. ultrastang

    disc conversion on 1968 mustang

    CSRP didn't invent the 'Granda swap'. People recognized a long time ago that these brake components would work on early Mustangs and Fords years before CSRP came into existence. I had converted my [4-wheel drum brake] '68 Mustang to Granada front discs using wrecking yard components back in...
  18. ultrastang

    disc conversion on 1968 mustang

    That's a strange argument of why Granada parts and conversions should not be offered, but I'll play along... I'm not sure who's passing the 'Granada' brakes off as "stock Mustang components", but then again it's always the owner's/potential owner's responsibility, in reference to purchasing a...
  19. ultrastang

    disc conversion on 1968 mustang

    There are two options if installing Granada front discs; purchase wheels that will fit over the snout of the rotor, or have the snout turned down to fit the center hole of an early stock wheel. In the case of the Cobra front rotor setup, the front hub is an early Mustang hub. Any 5-lug drum...
  20. ultrastang

    Which 302 block is best ?

    Compared to a late-model 302 U.S. block, mid-'70s Mexican blocks have thicker main caps like those on a '65 289 block and are supposedly cast with a higher nickel content. According to various Ford sources, Mexican blocks do not have thicker cylinder walls than standard blocks. Most non-Boss...
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