curtis
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I'll make this quick and easy.
Neighbor has a 97 Cougar special edition. 4.6, IRS rear suspension and a 12 inch brake package with vented rear disks and single piston front cast iron calipers.
He wants wheels
Finds bullet style torque thrust d wheels.. 8 inch. Actually look good by the car
problem they no fit /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rofl.gif
Mustang are 5 on 4.5 where the cougar is a 5 on 4.25 or something
Solution. I located my 13 inch cobra rotors on his rear hub and milled 5 new holes for the studs. Rear done
Front the hub is tapered so I can't mill them
We ran to the junkyard today and he was getting hubs from a Crown vic or anything he could find that would match up the same depth and bearing id. Fords just change sheetmetal most Fords have interchangeable parts
Well while he was messing with the crown vic I yell stop come here.
The 04 I guess Mustang I was standing by had PBR aluminum calipers but 11 inch rotors. Car had a new set of pads and new rotors like it was put on and a week later went off an embankment..... Scratch head they look like my LS1 PBR calipers I have for mine. We pulled the stuff then found a cougar and ripped it apart and tried everything. It all bolts up.
We come home and he tries the 12 inch rotors on his with the PBR twin pistons. They work..... So I take one of the calipers over to the shop and compare. Piston DIA is the same in both calipers and almost identical to the LS1 the arch where the rotor lives looks the same. The Mustang has 6 cooling fins where the LS1 have 8. Now the LS1 pistons are spread apart a little more between the two bores and the 3 fingers I call them that hold pressure from the outside pad is a little different look but If your wanting a LS1 and cobra front rotor brake combo instead of anything else might want to walk over in the Ford section at the junkyard and look around.
Not 1000% on these yet but will compare closer tomorrow and dig out my ron's brackets and make sure they bolt up.
Now examples I found on ebay
The GT ones not the ones that say cobra but they may work since there PBR
page down for good pictures
I'm actually going to look at his rear tomorrow we compared the hat height of the fronts to the rears and they are deeper but so is ours. I really wouldn't mind a vented disk in the rear. He's considering putting 13 cobra rotors up front now and thought the 12's might fit in the back. We'll see how that works maybe nothing more than a simple bracket to move his rear calipers up. and to the correct step distance. If I learn anything to better the VR4 I'll add to all this info. Enjoy.
Neighbor has a 97 Cougar special edition. 4.6, IRS rear suspension and a 12 inch brake package with vented rear disks and single piston front cast iron calipers.
He wants wheels
Finds bullet style torque thrust d wheels.. 8 inch. Actually look good by the car
problem they no fit /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rofl.gif
Mustang are 5 on 4.5 where the cougar is a 5 on 4.25 or something
Solution. I located my 13 inch cobra rotors on his rear hub and milled 5 new holes for the studs. Rear done
Front the hub is tapered so I can't mill them
We ran to the junkyard today and he was getting hubs from a Crown vic or anything he could find that would match up the same depth and bearing id. Fords just change sheetmetal most Fords have interchangeable parts
Well while he was messing with the crown vic I yell stop come here.
The 04 I guess Mustang I was standing by had PBR aluminum calipers but 11 inch rotors. Car had a new set of pads and new rotors like it was put on and a week later went off an embankment..... Scratch head they look like my LS1 PBR calipers I have for mine. We pulled the stuff then found a cougar and ripped it apart and tried everything. It all bolts up.
We come home and he tries the 12 inch rotors on his with the PBR twin pistons. They work..... So I take one of the calipers over to the shop and compare. Piston DIA is the same in both calipers and almost identical to the LS1 the arch where the rotor lives looks the same. The Mustang has 6 cooling fins where the LS1 have 8. Now the LS1 pistons are spread apart a little more between the two bores and the 3 fingers I call them that hold pressure from the outside pad is a little different look but If your wanting a LS1 and cobra front rotor brake combo instead of anything else might want to walk over in the Ford section at the junkyard and look around.
Not 1000% on these yet but will compare closer tomorrow and dig out my ron's brackets and make sure they bolt up.
Now examples I found on ebay
The GT ones not the ones that say cobra but they may work since there PBR
page down for good pictures
I'm actually going to look at his rear tomorrow we compared the hat height of the fronts to the rears and they are deeper but so is ours. I really wouldn't mind a vented disk in the rear. He's considering putting 13 cobra rotors up front now and thought the 12's might fit in the back. We'll see how that works maybe nothing more than a simple bracket to move his rear calipers up. and to the correct step distance. If I learn anything to better the VR4 I'll add to all this info. Enjoy.