[DeTomaso] headlight rings/brakes
Tomas Gunnarsson
guson at home.se
Wed Jun 17 13:13:40 EDT 2009
Ken,
I found this pic online: http://i543.photobucket.com/albums/gg471/bobc0/webpageimages/revhbrak1.jpg The black part is the caliper body, the slots in the body slide along the rolled in edges of the bent piece of iron(?) as the pads wear. It's basically a floating caliper with a simplified sliding mount.
Tomas
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Green
To: guson at home.se ; detomaso at realbig.com ; JDeRyke at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] headlight rings/brakes
Jack,
I looked at the Wilwood mechanical calipers and it looks like they would require an odd mounting bracket. Do you have pictures of yours?
Ken
--- On Wed, 6/17/09, JDeRyke at aol.com <JDeRyke at aol.com> wrote:
From: JDeRyke at aol.com <JDeRyke at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] headlight rings/brakes
To: guson at home.se, detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 9:33 AM
FWIW, our '72 L has run 4-piston Wilwood Superlite 2s in front for more
than 10 years with zero problems. They are extremely easy to mount to the
Pantera and work well, but have no dust boots so no weather protection at all for
the sensitive parts. For e-brakes in back, I use Wilwood mechanical
calipers (meant for Go-Karts!) that interface to the stock Pantera e-brake cables.
You must make your own caliper mounting brackets and do some other mounting
chores. The little pucks with their steel-disc backings are loose in the
Wilwood e-brake calipers, so at any speed you can hear them rattling from in
the car. Marino Perna at Pantera East sells a nice kit of these (or similar)
mechanical e-brake calipers to the Pantera. All my brake adaptions use
stock-thickness 0.850"- wide x 11-1/2" dia vented rotors; for the heavier
1.25"-thick GT-5-type rotors, precision spacers are needed between the halves of
some calipers, or calipers specifically made for that thickness of rotor. And a
warning: screwing around with brakes is serious business so if you have no
experience in this game or aren't really sure what you're doing, go to the
vendors for a kit. Spending a few bucks extra beats running under an
18-wheeler trailer if you do something that doesn't work! FWIW- J Deryke
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