Rear Brake Brackets

[svogt]

I searched this and found someone was asking the same question with no answer.
Does anyone make the brackets for the rear brake upgrade? I know Steeda, Powerslot, Ford & Baer all have kits with a bracket and some rotors. it seems that someone would make a kit that is just brackets (In case you have your own Rotors).
Has anyone made these brackets? Has anyone tried? It does not look difficult but I am not a machinist. I mean the price of the other ones are pretty cheap (198.00) but that is with rotors, I wonder how much would the brackets themselves cost.
Just a question.

PS: What is the cost (Rough Guess) to change heads and cams on a 2000 GT? What would I need? Anyone knows someone that would give me a good price near Chicago?

I was quoted $1300-1$400 to swap heads. I paid $700 for the heads so I should have gotten a super charger.


Any help

 

[Mustang5L5]

What kind of brackets are you looking for exactly? What rotors do you have? You want to use the stock calipers?



The rear Cobra kit is only $175. The two brackets alone are nearly $100 each. I've often wondered if i could make more money buying the Cobra kit and then selling the rotors, axle brackets, anti-moans and dust shields on ebay separately.

 

[svogt]

Rear brackets

What I saw in the other kits were brackets and rotors for about $300. But that is for two brackets and two rotors. The brackets look pretty simple so I though that if they are selling the kit with the rotors maybe someone sells the kit with just the brackets so we can put larger brakes on the rear. Just a thought.

 

[Mustang5L5]

That's the bear 13.25" +1 rear kit.

You still haven't said what rotors you already have. How else would we know what brackets you can use

 

[svogt]

Hey all,

I don't have any rear rotors yet. I have front drilled rotors being shipped today.
I wanted to order Front & Rear and these are from a company online. They are the stock 99-04 Cobra replacement size except drilled. I read in an earlier post that if you get the 13+ size it may affect the parking brake. I park on inclines often and do not want a size that would ruin my parking brake's effectiveness. I saw in one of the Ford kits that disk are not included so you would have to buy your own disk. I thought that maybe someone may have tried to succeeded in fabing a bracket like the one used in the kits mentioned in the above post so that people could put the factory cobra sized rotors on the back of their cars drilled/Slotted/Stock.
I have seen people fab spacer units for the upper plenum years ago, and was just was wondering if anyone had tried this yet. Maybe someone knows where to get a hold of just the brackets or a kit (other than Ford) with just the brackets like the Steeda kit (without rotors) ,where you have to supply the rotors.
This kit would be cheaper & because the Power Slot/Baer/steeda kits come with disk that may not be the same type a car owner is using.
I saw a post on here earlier when searching this topic the guy had the Steeda upgrade kit on the rear and with slotted disk and a regular smooth vented disk in the front. It looked a bit strange and a couple of people even posted that he should have ordered slotted disk up front too. Since i already know what kind of disk I want and I had the chance to buy them in a package I thought that maybe someone noticed that a similar problem could occur. I ordered drilled front rotors until I could afford the Ford kit w/o the rotors or in case someone had a solution.

as stated earlier
any help thanks

 

[Mustang5L5]

There isn't a Ford rear kit without the rotors.

Basically what you want to do is buy the Ford 2300M rear Cobra kit for $175 and sell the rotors (can prob get $100 for them). The remaining brackets, anti-moans and dust sheilds will cost you well over $150 separately.

The brackets separate I beleive are $75 each from Ford. That's why the kit with rotors is just the way to go. It's what I did. I have Cobra brakes on my Fox and use crossdrilled bling-bling rotors I purchases elsewhere. However, when i go autocrossing and have to abuse the brakes, i swap the bling bling stuff out for the stock solid plain rotors.