front disk break updates?

If you need "late" spindles, I have a full setup.

im going to use this ones on my sw, they are 14 " with the six piston calipers from the corvette.

galhetas wrote: im going to use this ones on my sw, they are 14 " with the six piston calipers from the corvette.

Been watching on your facebook page.   I wish I had the computer/ design abilitys you have to do this for my car.   Looking forward to seeing how it all turns out.

Thanks guys thought you all where going to call me crazy for using this brakes, yes i also want to use the 13" corvette rear disk brakes, but first i want to get the design of the spindles done first.And also the plan is to erase the corvette letters and engrave torino on them

Late to the party, but why not use OEM spindles with brackets to adapt the Vette calipers?

Ah, I didn't see the 'dropped' part. 

TomiTomi wrote: I need a pair of caliper mounting brackets for the big (11 13/16”) rotor.

I'm still looking for this part. Could anyone give me the part number?

It can be found on the following models:
1974-1978 Ford LTD
1974-1977 Ford Custom 500
1974-1979 Lincoln Continental
1977-1979 Lincoln Mark V
1974-1978 Mercury Marquis
1974 Mercury Monterey
1974-1976 Mercury Montego
(and some others)

Tomi

WOW! That looks great.

I'd route them the other way... mounted with a bracket to the bottom of the fender, tucked up hidden from view. 

Well, I'm really late to the party.  However, I'd like to upgrade my brakes to the police handling package disc brakes, as well.  I'd like it to install just like the factory would have done and using the parts Ford would have used.  So far from what I read, all I need to do is buy the appropriate police/taxi rotors from someplace like AutoZone and find caliper brackets off a full size Ford or Lincoln car.  I'm seeing that I can use my existing calipers or rebuilt calipers of the same kind.  My only issue might be the spindle size, considering early or late model year build of my Torino.  My car was built in late February of 1973.  Finally, backing plates for the police brakes???  Do I need to take the backing plates from the full size car, as well?  Thanks! 

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/BBR1/6028RGS.oap?year=1972&make=Ford&model=Thunderbird&vi=5139983&ck=Search_6028rgs_5139983_4841&keyword=6028rgs+

Any competent hotrod builder or engineering shop should be able to fab up some brackets to take any calliper.....I'm having that done on mine eventually. Will be able to run a bigger disc and a four or six pot wilwood or whatever up front 

what's the other two muscle cars, you have?

Hey John,

I have a 1967 Plymouth  GTX (1st year for the model) with a Super Stock 426 Hemi with two four barrels, a 4 speed and a Dana 60 rear.  It is all new and is never driver due to extreme value and impossibility of replacing super stock parts if the car was somehow damaged.

The second car is a 1994 Roush Mustang Cobra Convertible with factory supercharger and factory side pipes.  Roush equipped some of the cars he built in 1994 with the automatic transmission (Just like the five Indy Pace cars he built for the 94 racing season), which my car has.  This car was wrecked when I bought it.  Now, every piece is brand new.  The engine was professionally race prepped and so was the transmission.  However, the transmission shifts as came from the factory, although it is equipped with the hammer shifter which appears to be factory by fitting inside the factory console as though made for it.

The Torino is 'Q' Code (Four Bolt Main).  It has the heavy duty C6 and 9 3/8" rear pumpkin with 3.50 gears, posi and 31 spline axles.  It has the 2.19 intake and 1.76 exhaust valves in the 4V heads.  It has the factory Ford aluminum intake manifold for a Holley.  It has the 780 CFM dual line Holley.  And it has solid lifters.  The engine was fully race prepped.  And so was the C6, which shifts normally.  Importantly, the car has a complete Shaker Ram Air Hood system on it, which is fully functional.  That is the one with the scoop sticking up through a hole in the hood.  And it shakes.


Edited by jester - 30-September-2015 at 1:22AM

Pretty simple interchange: