[DeTomaso] Stock brake calibers & other musings

Will Kooiman will.kooiman at gmail.com
Thu May 16 07:16:50 EDT 2013


I would suggest calling porter field directly.  They know Panteras, and
you can verify that you are getting rear pads with the slot that allow the
emergency brake to work correctly.

The price is the same.

I have the phone number in a box somewhere.  I am moving.
--
Will





On 5/15/13 6:48 PM, "dave londry" <davel at emspace.com> wrote:

>This was my LPI invoice Freddy
>PORT AP 63 (R4S) Porterfield R4S Performance Street Pads,
>              DeTomaso Pantera, Front 1 118.00 118.00T
>PORT GD535 (R4S) 1 Porterfield R4S Performance Street pad Rear 68.00
>68.00T
>dave
>
>On 15/05/2013 3:03 PM, Freddy Henningsen wrote:
>> Does anyone have the correct part numbers for Porterfield brake pads to
>>the
>> original modified calipers? and where you buy them?
>>
>> Freddy
>> 7207
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <eb0711 at kolumbus.fi>
>> To: <detomaso at poca.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Stock brake calibers & other musings
>>
>>
>>> Have been driving around with the rebuilt stock brakes with Porterfield
>>> pads. I appreciate this may not be greatest news, but I've got to admit
>>> I'm surprised how well it brakes. Not sure how good thin, stock style,
>>> rotors are for track use, but I really like what I got with small
>>> investment and elbow grease.
>>>
>>> -Janne
>>>
>>> 4/30/2013 1:12 PM, eb0711 at kolumbus.fi kirjoitti:
>>>> I rebuilt my stock front brake calibers recently and took them fully
>>>> apart while on that. I'm sure many know, but thought I'd share for the
>>>> benefit of other newbies:
>>>>
>>>> - Calibers seem like a decently nice design with big and little
>>>>pistons,
>>>> with some oddities in fluid distribution by strange tubing
>>>>arrangement.
>>>> - Outer pistons are individually at a dead end, meaning the fluid will
>>>> not change there, when you bleed them just for changing the fluid.
>>>>Would
>>>> really need to squeeze the outer pistons to the bottom to get most of
>>>> the old fluid out from there.
>>>> - Changing rotors it's important to have the rotor and hub mounting
>>>> surfaces very clean and make sure the rotor is perfectly seated
>>>>against
>>>> the hub. Otherwise the rotor will wobble and grab the pads at some
>>>>point
>>>> of rotation. Easy to be sloppy here. :)
>>>> - Only way to use thicker ventilated rotors with stock calibers would
>>>>be
>>>> to build a spacer to fit between caliber halves and use longer bolts.
>>>>I
>>>> wonder if someone already makes them?
>>>> - Noticed also that the Porterfield pads have 1mm thicker (~20%) steel
>>>> backing plates than stock pads. So it's not just the compound, but
>>>> stiffness and (maybe?) heat handling improvement.
>>>>
>>>> -Janne
>>>>
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