Reply to "OEM TYPE ROTORS"

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Originally posted by PanteraDoug:

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Originally posted by Rocky:
Rob -

You need to buy several sets of these, for a couple of reasons....

1. So that you can report back to the group that they work well with our existing Pantera Hubs and Studs....

2. So that you can tell us any issues you had with the installation.....

3. To keep this vendor in business, and producing these rotors so that after you complete Steps 1 & 2, the rest of us can all pile on and buy them.


I also like Doug's suggestion of Lincoln rotors & calipers, and the Girlings on the back.


TRIVIA (True or not?): I thought that the spindles on our Panteras were the same as Pinto spindles. The bigger Mustang spindles (Doug refers to them cutting in in mid '70) came after our cars were designed...

Are you going to get all pissy now about this and make me go out and take everything apart, measure and take pictures?

The replacement front dust shields are from a 67 Mustang with front disc brakes too?

I said they were the same sizes as the Mustang, i.e., cross over.



You can switch the spindle over to a cotter pin and castle nut too and get rid of those suicide locking nuts. Well they lock if they feel like it?

Probably depends on whether the local soccer team won or lost and who they were playing in that "match"?


The stock Pantera spindle is so soft, you can drill the hole for the cotter pin right on the car with your 18v Ryobi drill. No temper to the thing at all.


The Lincoln set up is definitely going to be cheaper than the Girling Gp3/Gp4 front calipers. They came off of a Bently or Rolls Royce and probably weigh 50 pound each. The Lincolns weigh about 12# each. No lightweight at all.

There was a company in California that BRIEFLY cast those calipers up in aluminum but they had problems with porosity in the castings and stopped doing them. Those would be the calipers to run if you could find them.

Rebuild kits and pads of various compounds are all over the place since it is a very popular caliper to use on the T/A Mustang set ups. It looks period correct vs. something like a Wilwood or the Gucci gaudy type Brembos.



Girlings are ridiculously expensive and hardly worth the effort.

On a street car you definitely DO NOT need the 1.25" thick front rotors of the Lincoln set up. They are really for reducing brake fade when red hot because the cool off faster.

Even the stock Pantera front pads are better for the street.

My Porterfield R4S pads suck cold and you have to get them warm before they work.



Where's Bosswrench? The Pantera outer wheel bearing is definitely the same as the small Mustang outer. The inner I don't remember. Did them 10 years ago or so.