[DeTomaso] Brake Upgrade

[B. Seib]

>MikeLDrew at aol.com MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
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>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

>>>>I have read that some Pantera owners have used two stock rear calipers
per rear wheel. It looks pretty easy to do this. Does anyone know how this
balances with stock front calipers and a stock master cyl? Does it come
close to the correct proportions without a correcting valve? Anyone tried it
and know?

Just curious.
Barry