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I did the 6 piston swap and did the FoMoCo bleed procedure (posted above) but it was mostly for the new fluid. If you are only swapping the calipers, I wouldn't sweat the clutch at all.

This is the Ford procedure for bleeding the clutch on the S550.

The rotors are coated from the factory with a corrosive preventative that shouldn't be painted over if you want to maintain that protection. The hats should be able to be cleaned fairly easily with scotch brite and dish soap. If you have a picture of what your trying to redo, I may be able to...

I've done what it would cost to replace the car (~$35k) through Haggerty and the rate has always been reasonable to me at $160 a weekend. I carry it because I don't know who I'm on track with and don't know where their head is at. Both in terms as a driver and their maintenance habits. I've seen...

Rear brakes are the same for the whole line (sub GT350) with the only change being solid rotors for the V6 and base EB. EB PP and Base GT, as well as GT PP all get vented rear rotors. A base GT adding PP Brembos doesn't need to touch the rear brakes at all. The MC should be changed if you want...

I swapped out base GT for PP Brembos and tracked on OEM pads and was pleasantly surprised how well they did. Dusted like crazy, but I don't care about dust, I care about stopping. For this season I bought blanks and Hawk DTC-60 pads for track use. I'm a believer in a track set and a road set as...

If the sale falls through, I'm interested.

Under standard conditions the wheel well is low pressure. The inverted hat rotor utilizes that to get airflow through the face of the rotor and keep the temperature lower than a standard hat. Add the recent attention to aero and undercar airflow is being directed away from components to get the...

After a track weekend and the subsequent review of all the footage... I knew the next logical upgrade was a harness. I was sliding all around and doing a lot of bracing with my head and I wasn't even aware of it until I watched the video! I looked into harness bars, but was told that they are...

I went down to Petit LeMans at Road Atlanta and played with a GT350 shifter. Obviously, they aren't the same as they have different transmissions, and different threads, but the aftermarket makes a pretty good replica for the standard Mustang. Got it in before the end of the season and it seems...

I wouldn't recommend drilled rotors for all the reasons stated above. Upgrade the pads and fluid and you should be more than fine for the street. If you're still on OEM all season rubber, ditch that too. The brakes can only stop the car as well as the rubber can hold the road. I did the complete...

1st Track Day (2018) In 2017 I went with a friend who is an instructor to a track weekend at Grattan Raceway in Michigan. It was a great time and I got a feel for the event and a little taste of what these cars can actually do. For 2018, I wanted to drive my car and I had done the brakes so I...

For 2018 I decided to finally get the car on track. I have friends who have been doing it for more years than some folks I know have drawn breath. The sum of their advice was to get good brakes and fluid and go. I’m not going to find the limits of the car on my first track days and any “upgrade”...

Not explicitly Mustang related, but we got a new garage door installed at the house. Besides the obvious better looks, it’s insulated and now the garage never gets below 50. (It used to drop below 20 in the winter.) My wife wanted to have an opener installed as well, and believe it or not, it’s...

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Continental designed the 4 pot GT/EB PP caliper. No part of it is Brembo, outside the requested specification from Ford that it match the performance of the S197 Brembo brakes. You can find the caliper's first cousin on certain Audi's. To the OP's question; there is too much difference in...

While the weather hasn't been the most cooperative, it has warmed enough for me to get some things done with the car. First, I grabbed an updated map SD card for the navigation system. Hardly nessasary, but $40 every two years to keep it useful with the POI database is worth it to me. Much...

Strictly anecdotal, but I had a dealer refuse to special order guard because if I didn't take it, he wouldn't be able to sell it. (his words) I don't know if it was country wide, but for whatever reason, in the northeast, dealers I spoke with did not want to order guard as they all thought it...

I did a thing! Ordered on Friday, delivered on Monday, not bad! I hate to say that I'm not going to get to it until the spring, but that's looking to be the case as I'll be putting the car away any day now. (I tried to make those pictures go the right way... they are in every app I...

Sorry to wake up a sleeping thread, but I just wanted to chime in and say that pulling the battery is what you should do. Mine was put in the garage with the negative battery terminal pulled from December to April and once it was hooked back up everything was fine. It even remembered the radio...