[DeTomaso] Brake Upgrade

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/11/11 17 13 36, cuvee at sbcglobal.net writes:


> I know someone over the years has asked...What if you put a set of stock 
> front calipers on the rear? With everything Chuck has tested, adjustable 
> proportioning valve and all, would it be worth the effort? $$$ Maybe not 
> great, but better then the stock rear brakes???  
> 
>>>It would be an enormous amount of work.   You could put just about any 
caliper on the back if you tried hard enough; there are hundreds of OEM and 
aftermarket options that would be better than stock Pantera front calipers.   
Just cruising through a junkyard, you could pluck rear calipers off a BMW 
or Volvo or Firebird or whatever, and be better off (you'd have a fighting 
chance at a parking brake, for starters).

There's nothing terribly wrong with the stock Pantera front calipers, but 
it's kind of pointless to try to make a dog into a cat.   If you're going to 
adapt some other caliper to the rear of the Pantera, it might as well be a 
rear caliper of some sort....

Mike