The car had split tri-bars on it before I bought it so what your saying makes sense on the wheels that will fit on my current setup. I thought about spacers also but I just lowered the car and would be afraid the spacers might cause wheel to body clearance issues.Yeah, the old school 5-lug rotors won't fit some of the newer Ford wheels. The snout of the rotor contacts exactly where pictured.
You can try spacers, different wheels, or convert to Sn95 brakes. You can't just swap the brake rotors on, it's a more involved conversion requiring a spindle change and new calipers and potentially a new MC as well depending on if you do rear disk brakes or not.
94-97 Cobra wheels, 94-95 tri-bars will fit those rotors. 96-98 Split 5-spoke 17's will mount up, but you won't be able to run the center caps up front.
99-04 GT Front : 44.5mm pistons
-6220mm^2 x2 calipers (piston surface area)
87-93 60mm calipers
-5654mm^2 x 2 calipers (piston surface area)
99-04 COBRA 40.5mm pistons
-5152mm^2 x2 calipers (piston surface area)
This is correct, I bought the 94-95 tri-bars off of the previous owner. I installed one to see how it looked and I was able to install the center cap.I think you can get caps on the tri-bars. Never had a set in hand but the Cobra R version used the 1993 chrome pony center cap, so I would assume it would work.
I will be using the stock k-member so good to know I can only use 94-95. Do you know if the V6 will work and are the same as 94-95 V8?If your going to use a stock K member the 94-95 spindles are the optimum way to go....
Some aftermarket K members allow the usage of the later 96 spindles.. Check with the supplier first..
The 94-95 spindles have a dog leg to the tie rod connection
The spindles in the pic are both 94-95.. This picture was a before cleaning and after pic.....
Thanks for the info and pics! Ultimately, this is what I would like to do but I will need to start gathering parts. I guess I'll just run the Ranger wheels I have for now until I get all of the swap stuff together.What you have ( Ranger ) works fine but limits your use of upgrading brakes and limits what wheels you can use...
When upgrading to the 94-95 spindles you have many more options of wheels, options of better stock brakes, and you switch to a separate hub/rotor assembly instead of an " all in one" like what you have ( Ranger )...
Pic of what I did.... 94 spindles, 99-04 brakes, a separate sealed hub.... All bolt on using MM brake lines.....
Thanks for letting me know I can use 99-04 GT or 99-04 Cobra calipers with my drum brakes and drum master cylinder. If in the future I wanted to upgrade to rear discs would I be able to keep the 99-04 GT or 99-04 Cobra caliper and just install the rear discs and change to a 4 wheel disc master cylinder?There isn't.
So with rear drums you stick with your current MC and pick the best calipers to use. Any of the 4-wheel disk MC's are just too big and will give you a very firm pedal.
So 99-04 GT calipers gets you a slightly softer pedal due to increasing piston surface area relative to the MC/rear drums not changing
And 99-04 Cobra calipers gets you a slightly firmer pedal.
There is a local yard with a 94-98 convertible v6 car; I'm not sure of the year but I'm going to try and stop by in the next few days to see if it's a 94-95. I'll check local wrecking yards online also.I would recommend you start looking for 94-95 spindles first.. Once you have them the rest of the stuff you can buy..
If you have some local wrecking yards online, check their stock of cars daily if not weekly...
If one comes in get on it immediately and get the spindles... They are out there, but they are getting harder to find..
I was buying parts off an 84 at my local yard and looked up 94-95 cars... They had one and it still had its spindles.. Went the next morning and got them...
Thanks for letting me know I can use 99-04 GT or 99-04 Cobra calipers with my drum brakes and drum master cylinder. If in the future I wanted to upgrade to rear discs would I be able to keep the 99-04 GT or 99-04 Cobra caliper and just install the rear discs and change to a 4 wheel disc master cylinder?
I would recommend you jump when you see one in a parts yard... ... People charging big money on Ebay selling these.... LOTS of people looking...There is a local yard with a 94-98 convertible v6 car; I'm not sure of the year but I'm going to try and stop by in the next few days to see if it's a 94-95. I'll check local wrecking yards online also.
Can I use V6 spindles or do they have to be from a V8 car?
Ok, thanks for the advice. If I see a '94 or '95 car with front spindles I'll snatch them up asap.I would recommend you jump when you see one in a parts yard... ... People making big money on Ebay selling these.... LOTS of people looking...
I'd buy it like that and then use northracecar brackets for the fox axles.Not a bad deal for a 94-04 GT rear setup already pulled. Just need 94-98 axles. Will work if you plan on running only SN95 17x8 rear wheels. If you ever want to go 9” or 10” you’ll want fox offset axles
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