[DeTomaso] headlight rings/brakes

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Julian,

Simply because it's a whole lot of weight (compared to a spot caliper or an integrated mechanism) where it makes most sense to get rid of weight.

Tomas
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Julian Kift 
  To: Jack Deryke ; guson at home.se ; De Tomaso List 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:37 PM
  Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] headlight rings/brakes


  If you have stock width rotors on the rear why wouldn't you retain the stock caliper to act purely as the parking brake and mount the aftermarket brake caliper on the leading edge of the hub? The stock e-brake is as effective if not better than the kart calipers.
   
  FWIW I have an OEM rear caliper that has been widened to fit a 1.25" rear rotor making for a cheap parking brake.
   
  Julian
   
  > From: JDeRyke at aol.com
  > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:33:11 -0400
  > To: guson at home.se; detomaso at realbig.com
  > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] headlight rings/brakes
  > 
  > 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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