Technical question about the front brakes.

[I Bleed Ford Blue]

Does anyone know the center to center distance of the mounting holes on the front calipers? Also is the front spindle the same on all S550 mustangs, excluding the GT 350?

The reason I ask is I stumbled across a guy on YouTube who is using 4 piston brembo calipers from a caddy ATS-V and mounting them on SN-95 spindles in a fox body and using 13" sn-95 cobra rotors. He has to modify the spindle and the ears on the calipers to make it work, so I suggested to him to look into the 4 piston GT brake calipers from our s 550's. With them being an actual ford part they might require less modification to make them work.

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[kent0464]

Does anyone know the center to center distance of the mounting holes on the front calipers? Also is the front spindle the same on all S550 mustangs, excluding the GT 350?

The reason I ask is I stumbled across a guy on YouTube who is using 4 piston brembo calipers from a caddy ATS-V and mounting them on SN-95 spindles in a fox body and using 13" sn-95 cobra rotors. He has to modify the spindle and the ears on the calipers to make it work, so I suggested to him to look into the 4 piston GT brake calipers from our s 550's. With them being an actual ford part they might require less modification to make them work.

There’s a guy on turboford.net that sells setups for foxbodies using the caddy Brembo’s, it’s all about costs, the caddy Brembo’s are pretty inexpensive compared to the Ford Brembo’s.

 

[I Bleed Ford Blue]

I know the caddy calipers are cheaper, new, but if he gets a hold of a used set from someone who upgraded to the 15" six piston set, he can probably score them pretty cheap.

What I was concerned about is the caliper mounting. Using the caddy calipers require you to enlarge the mount holes on the spindle itself and offset drill one of them, rendering the spindle useless for stock sn-95 calipers in the future without major repair work. Then you have to shave about 75 thousandths off the ears on the caliper to center it over the rotor. I thought maybe the ford calipers might work better and require less work. That's why I asked for the center to center distance.

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