Quick Q - Front Baer Track increases "track"?

70vert

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Hey all Bear Track front disc owners,
Quick question - does it increase track, i.e., push the front wheels out farther towards the fender? I know Wilwood does, and I searched the forum and couldn't find any discussion on Baer's increase or decrease in track. Just wanted to make sure.
Now that I need to change wheels, and I'm going to have wide rubber, need something to fill out those wheels and use that rubber to my advantage! No, I don't have the $ to do the rear right now, just the front. Switching from manual drums to manual disc front, then maybe a booster if I need it.

thanks in advance,
Joe

 

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Bump

no replies? Not even Historic Mustang telling me I'm wasting my money?

 

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No one likes you. Not even Historic,

 

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70vert said:

no replies? Not even Historic Mustang telling me I'm wasting my money?

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Maybe too many people are out of town with relatives this weekend. Hopefully someone will answer tomorrow. I have no idea, but if the track width is increased enough, you may be able to run more modern wheel backspacing in order to put the track back where you want it.

 

coolblue65

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I know it does, I just don't know by how much- 1/4" or so I think.

 

70vert

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thanks 65

i'm now almost certain my 275/40/17s don't have a chance of fitting on the front w/o major fender rolling. But I'm going to mount 2 and then try them on the front first to see, then figure maybe 1/4 inch more out with Da Baers.

lance, that's cold dude.

Hack, I know I always bug you for photos of what you're doing since I'm obsessed with '70 verts, so

happy 4th guys!

 

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I dont know.
doesn't Baer know??

Global West makes a kit using mostly Wilwood parts that doesnt change "track"
Hub face same location as stock.

 

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BAER-TRACK Explained

Here's the deal...

The "BEAR-TRACK" is an Outer-Tie-Rod replacement that lowers it's mounting point in the spindle, and is adjustable by adding or removing shims. The idea is to make the pivoting part of the tie rod parallel with the lower cpontrol arm during all angles of suspension movement, both up and down. The purpose is to eliminate "Bump-Steer", which most Classis Mustangs have a little of.

I used in in my Rack & Pinion Conversion years ago, and it killed a bad case of bump-steer caused by the rack's location. I wrote extensivelly about it in a previous issue of HEMMINGS MUSTANG MARKET & TECH GUIDE, of which I am staff. If you want, I can find out which issue it was in if you want to back-order it. Do a search here in the archives, there were a few good threads a few years back when I was researching the article.










BTW, Historic dislikes me too! (He seems to dislike many of us!)

 

70vert

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no, the baer "track" brake set

I was hoping there wouldn't be any confusion, I should have been more clear. They have a "Serious Street" and a "Track" brake set. The Track is a 13" rotor. I'm planning on getting that with a slotted but not drilled rotor. Slotted would let me perhaps use some cheap pad if I ever needed to but the real reason is that it promotes even wear on the rotor and gives a visual indicator as to when the rotor is worn out. The slot acts as a scraper to the pad since the edge is not chamfered or radiused, and swept area is not affected as much as with drilled.