Reply to "New brakes and rotors"

Gary,

Didnt see that picture of the gen 1 uprights ..my plan was to at least clean up the castings of the spindles and uprights ..saving a little wieght then shot blasting them.

Not sure you can acomplish this with a lazer cutter. The thickness of the brackets you can see are .350 & .583 respecively of including a shim of ..060 (if memory serves me ..so that future you have some play if something needs a slight adjustment. I had Mel and his factory at my disposal.

No doubt there is a weight diffence .. but mine decision was actually .. after doing 165mph and coming in hard into a sharp right turn @ Pocono and having the stock brakes go soft ... I thought it was an abvious upgrade. Should ahve gone larger ..I could put these on 9138 ..but I;m going to revert it back to bone stock.

The aluminum uprights ..we might be talking a strength issue in a place you may not want to sacrifice that.

" proper back spacing (removing spacer). " thats is why I stuck with the HAT BEHIND THE AXLE .. to add back spacing.

If you change all this I think you will be the first going around the track .

I have to tell you one thing 9138 at POCONO I can assure you the PANTERA handles WELL with a SOFT suspension ... bone stock the car handles very well .. STIFFEN HERE UP and you have to be sure your going to have to change A LOT OF things ...

Take a look at this book I have had for about 20 years " COMPETITION SET UP by Pro-Motion Enterprises Inc. 1973 ... some of the pictures in the book resemble a PANTERA.

Ron