Gosh i make my way to the junk yards every few months looking for the caliper brackets that go on the Granada spindles but every time i find and Granada, Monarch, Versailles all the stiff is plasma cut off. I'm wondering if the yards know about the conversion and they cut them things off before they even put them out there. Anyone have the brackets?
Check the exchange books. I'd be willing to bet there are other bodies that also used the same parts, such as the Maverick, Montego, etc...
Talk to dennis at discbrakeswap.com. He reproduces the entire Granada setup and has been known to just sell parts. Sounds like that might be the only way for you to go. I hear ya tho, Crites pays the junkyards around here $80 for granada setups, which is why there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a "used granada setup" in the state of Ohio.im in Victorville. last year i found a granada with everything still on it so i pulled all the stuff i needed and for some odd reason i took the caliper brackets off and put them on the ground under the car. the reason i pulled everything apart is because i had new calipers, brake lines and rotors etc etc at home so i was only wanting to buy the spindles from the junk yard. well it was so damn hot i got up and took off with a huge smile on my face because i had finally found the brake conversion but when i got home i said aaaawwwww S**T the caliper brackets are still under the car. went back the next day and they were long gone. it was dead summer at the time so i put the parts under the car in the shade so when i grab them to walk to the pay booth they were cool enough to grab but nooooo i didnt grab themso now when i do find a granada all im going to take is the brackets and leave some one else with the same problem. kinda sucks to pillage 2 cars for one conversion.
why bother with trying to find granada spindles and brakes when you can get new caliper brackets, rotors, calipers, etc. for putting stock four piston calipers on your stock spindles. or you can get brackets from scarebirdmechanical and put disc brakes on. or check out mustangsteve.com for brackets for installing 13" cobra rotors and calipers on your stock spindles. these options allow you to keep your stock spindles, you dont even have to remove them from the suspension is you dont want to, and you dont have to realign the front end, or worry about changes in suspension geometry that can occur with the granada spindles.
Yeah, the only thing that stinks is if you are wanting to upgrade from the early-70's stock single pistons to 94-04 Cobra "big discs". First, you have to find drum spindles and toss your factory disc spindles; because nobody makes brackets to adapt the Cobra calipers to single piston OEM spindles.
Well, maybe by then, I'll find somebody with a 71-2-3 Mustang/Cougar that wants to ditch their front drums for factory discs......
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