Don't forget the Lincoln LS has a 43mm rear caliper too, and uses a pad that is very similar to the 93 Cobra rear pad vs the stock SN pad. It will bolt to an SN Mustang rear caliper bracket as well.
gotcha and yeah, after posting this yesterday I stumbled onto the sve ones on lmr...had no clue they were repopping them. I guess I will just move forward with it and deal with the anti moan brackets later. just do it all at once. I grabbed a rearend from a 2003 gt on thursday from the u-pull. might as well just do everything all at once.
swapping to this vs the stock rearend in my 95 gt vert. 2.73 to 3.27 gears, 3/4" wider on each side to push my wheels out just that extra bit to fill the wells out better. going to put the cobra clutch packs in it and a girdle and then convert it to the cobra brakes before jamming it up under the car with a flowmaster catback I snatched from the u-pull a couple months ago. just do it all at once. oof.
What's the deal with the Taurus caliper failures, saw it mentioned a few times but no real details? Pretty hard to screw up that design so what's failing? fords been using it for years, I mean hell the turbo coupe/93 Cobra where varga calipers with a 45mm pistons. Not finding much on Google but and not into social media so probably not seeing it.
some of the rebuilds do not use metal pistons from what I have read. I just grabbed mine from the u-pull as well as a spare set of pistons from a lincoln continental that were all metal. I will say though, when I rebuilt them, I had issues with the one piston binding up while trying to screw it down. had to re-align the spring retainer a couple of times to get it basically perfect so it would screw down.
It's the quality of the rebuild that's the issue. I'd have to imagine the demand for taurus 43mm calipers is up and question where they are getting the cores.
Some guy on SVTperformance took a few apart and said they had a lot of rust and such on the bore even for a fresh reman. Was trying to find the pics and more info. Apparently, this causes them to bind up I would imagine.
There was a pretty notable failure of a guy running the 43's that had one lock up completely on track at speed. It totalled the car out. Had a video of it was well.
I'm gearing up to put the ATS brembos on the front of my box and just going to run the standard 38mm cobra setup that's been on my car for years even though I have a set of Taurus 43's in a box from well before word of these calipers spread.