Brake Upgrade

[88GThatchback]

Im looking into getting new brakes on my car. I was looking at diskbrakesrus.com and found a kit that I think is what I want. I have to keep 4 lug because I already bought wheels and dont have enough money to buy new ones. Heres a description of the kit:

"Complete 73mm bore front calipers and T-Bird rear calipers 4 lug plus stainless steel brake like kit made by Russell and two aimco hoses. Front 11inch rotors and rear 10 11/64 inch rotors drilled and slotted. And flange brackets for rear brakes."

The price with Hawk no dust pads is $1200. Is this reasonable? Will I need a new MC and booster? If so which one? Anything else I will need to make this work?

Heres a link to the mustang brake page is anyone is interested. The ones im looking at are a little past half way down the page. There called "Kit Complete front and rear wheels 1987-1993 drilled and slotted 4 lug Mustang or 1966 Cobra kit car"
http://www.discbrakesrus.com/make/ford/mustang19871993.htm

Thanks,
Clay

 

[jrichker]

Cheaper at the junkyard...

The 73 MM front calipers are less than $30 each exchange at Autozone. Those are going to make the biggest difference in stopping power. The drilled/sloted rotors are mostly eye candy for street use.

I have the TC disk brake rear end & 73 MM calipers. I had to use a 94-95 Mustang master cylinder as part of the package. The increased piston size requires more fluid and a bigger MC to make it work right.

See http://www.svo73mm.cjb.net/ for brake upgrades.

 

[ratrapp]

you can get the 73mm front calipers through federated autoparts at the jobber price of $18 each,i just put mine on yesterday.without going to a larger m/c your brakes could actually be worse,mine are.i'm just waiting for my turbo coupe rear to arrive so i'll upgrade the m/c to a 94/95 gt unit when it all arrives.i think everything will be great if you do it all at time and try to piece it together like i am.

 

[trbkrb]

If you want new, look at the North racecars 4 lug disc setup:

http://www.northracecars.com/catalog/brakes/brakes.htm

For $549 you get the complete rear setup, add the front 73mm calipers, MC and PV and brake line conversion kit, and you have a very similar setup for less than $800 or so. You can go quite a bit less if you can find the rear TC setup used.

Read Matt's website above that jrichker listed.... he has all the info you could want for upgrades.

Good luck!