Reply to "Big bearing front spindles?"

panteradougMember

Thanks for your input BW.

This is one of the things that was very hard to research.

I finally came to the conclusion that some of them had the aluminum Girling 18/4, 16/4 units, front and back.

This is what the 68 gt40 "Gulfs" ran. The earlier GT40's ran the aluminum Cobra Girlings.

In investigating it appears that the front has the same braking power as the stock caliper. It is used so they could use a 1.25" thick rotor for race reasons. They don't give greater braking power though.

The rears 16/4's were used for the same reason, to use 1.25" rotors.

Aluminum on these calipers helps tremendously.

I can't immagine why they ever used the iron Girlings on the race cars to begin with.

I can make you a better set up with the big Lincoln calipers and T-bird rotors.

That set up would really be nice with aluminum calipers. Don't you know some of those showed up on the race cars too?

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