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Mustang5L5 · Apr 18, 2018

Ok. Currently drying. Pic doesn't show true color as they look almost orange here. It's a darker red in person.

Seal kit. Really a single piston seal and a boot. Simple

Got myself a fuel rail pressure gusge. The cowl grill mounted one is coming off. Not really needed.

Mustang5L5 · Apr 19, 2018

Smaller or larger pony? They both fit well

Mustang5L5 · Apr 19, 2018

i went small

However anyone see my problem? Do the bullitt calipers have ponys both running forward? Or do both calipers have the horse left to right? Need to find a pic.

Coupe of coats of clearcoat going on the finished one.

Mustang5L5 · Apr 20, 2018

I'm sure it can be done just matter of finding one.

But yeah...this more appropriate

Noobz347 · Apr 21, 2018

Mustang5L5 said:
Thanks I appreciate that. 2.5" from nose to tail. So do you think the material will survive heat from being on a caliper?

No. You would need a sticky stencil so that the emblem could be painted on.

Mustang5L5 · Apr 21, 2018

Noobz347 said:
No. You would need a sticky stencil so that the emblem could be painted on.

Next time.

I'm not too worried about heat. I drove around an hour this afternoon and got oh the brakes hard a few times. Rotors were hot, but the actual caliper face was cool to the touch. I'm not road racing

Mustang5L5 · Apr 21, 2018

Ok. Quick caliper rebuild how-to. Probably took more time to write this than to actually rebuild them.

Step one is remove the old inside seals with a small pick. They are just square o rings

Next you'll want to lather up the new inner seals with some synthetic brake caliper grease. Rub it all over and then insert seal in the groove. Do NOT use petroeloum based as it will cause the rubber to swell.

Now, slide seal on bottom of caliper piston like a skirt

Then Seat the bottom of the skirt into the small channel on the caliper around the bore

Mustang5L5 · Apr 21, 2018

Next slowly begun to feed the piston in with your thumbs while pulling the boot up the piston towards its channel

Once you seat the boot fully in the channel

Send it home

And one caliper is done

Mustang5L5 · Apr 25, 2018

Tosses these rotors on today. Gt500 14" rotors cut down to 13.1". They are 1.25" thick and massive compared to the stock Cobra 13" rotor

It's close, but they fit

Mustang5L5 · Apr 25, 2018

Damn. It works

Mustang5L5 · Apr 25, 2018

$60 for the rotor and $90 to have it machined. I didn't have It done using my resources. A friend went out and found a shop, so that is average joe price.

But, $150 per rotor for 13" x 1.25" rotors is cheap. It's close but I am pretty sure it would work out ok

Of course, you need the C5/C6 style caliper to fit it

Credit for this goes to "pkstang" over on the corral for doing the legwork buying, measuring and machining a rotor to figure out what worked. I just slipped it on and tested it.

Mustang5L5 · Apr 25, 2018

Oh, yeah I did this too

Mustang5L5 · Apr 25, 2018

NIKwoaC said:
I can see if you're operating at the thermal limit on the race track

I have no intention of running these. I never get my current rotors hot enough just doing street driving, hence why I run fancy drilled rotors just for looks mostly. My brakes are damn good as is, and my limitation at this point is tires.

The person I test fit the rotor for however will push the brakes to the limit of a track, which is why they are doing this setup. Really just some preliminary exploratory work considering haven't actually driven on the rotor just yet.

Weight difference is about 1 lb. 20.6lb fir the 1.25" rotor and 19.2lb for the standard 1.1" thk rotor.

Mustang5L5 · Apr 30, 2018

Got the other caliper completed. Now I gotta find time to pull the wheel and swap it out.

Mustang5L5 · May 1, 2018

Rebuilding the other caliper on the kitchen table

Mustang5L5 · May 18, 2018

Ok. Day off from work. Didn't work on stang but drove it around as I ran some errands.

My WOT hesitation is still there. It's not every single time but if I go WOT the engine bogs and slowly revs, and then it's like a switch is flipped and it goes.

Not fuel as I have 39-40 psi while this is occurring.

Ran codes. 11,11,44
Cylinder balance test OK

Dead spot in TPS maybe? Didn't have time to confirm this today.

Obligatory photo of the day

Mustang5L5 · May 30, 2018

So I bought this bad Larry.

Hear me out. I bought it to allow me to anchor a car seat in the back. I figure I can put an eye hook in those holes and all me to tether a car seat, which is what my car seat Nazi wife requested before I take the boys for a ride.

Figure it would work perfect to fab something up here.

Should mount like this

Of course, do rear strut tower braces actually do anything? Up for debate. If it stiffens the rear hatch area up a bit, added bonus. But that wasn't the intent of the purchase.

I have something much better coming in Friday.

Mustang5L5 · May 31, 2018

Tested the TPS. 0.85v at idle and 3.54 at WOT. Only a difference of 2.69 volts. Since WOT is 2.71 volts over idle reference voltage, I'm coming up short. Might makes sense why the problem is worse when car hot as wire resistance increases

Installed new Ford TPS. In fact, i installed a new throttle body. I installed the explorer 65mm I converted back this past winter along with the new TPS. Was too late to fire up the car and perform the base idle reset, so I'll try to do that tomorrow.

Why did I swap the TB? Well this is an explorer TB off a newer explorer that had the raised TPS mount. My modification to run a mustang TPS was not pretty and I didn't want to deal with it if it was part of the problem.

SO that TB is now off the car and my good 65MM TB is on then car.

But I'll s base idle and check TPS range tomorrow and drive it a bit. I don't want to swap regulator until I'm sure the problem isn't the TPS

Mustang5L5 · Jun 1, 2018

My wife loves when packages for me come for me and she has to drag them in

95BlueStallion · Jun 1, 2018

Whats in the beat up box? Hopefully not a beat up part....

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