quote:Originally posted by Bosswrench:quote:Question for Bosswrench, since you have seen a couple of Gp-3 cars in person, are these iron Maserati calipers the same ones that you saw on the Panteras?
Very similar. I'm hedging because Girling made many variations of their calipers front & rear. Some are alloy and some are iron but all use the pair-of-pliers style e-brake. All the Euro GTS/GR-3s and the GT-5/5S used iron 3-piston calipers (from a Rolls-Royce, modified) while the GR-4/GT-4s used aluminum 4-pistons, as did big-block Cobras. Alloy Girlings are also found on some Mangustas. But I know of one Goose with tiny iron 3-piston Girling rear calipers on 9" solid rotors. It also uses the same style e-brake. Those assemblies are off some model of Fiat.
Since genuine and original Gp3 and Gp4 cars are kinda hard to come by these days, can we get someone with a GT 5 to post some brake pictures here maybe?
Are there any cross-over part numbers from that car to other car manufacturers you know of Bosswrench?
Actually I've been looking at Girling calipers and they all are not pretty and all are very ugly hunks of iron.
Even those 18-4's aren't anything to put into a beauty contest.
When I Googled LarryW's Maserati Quatroporto, they all come up as Brembos with a "Maserati" logo on them.
The "hot" caliper to look at I think is the Volvo "R" caliper. That car has got massive brakes on it.
For me, I may just come to the conclusion that by far the simplest thing to do, and the most cost effective, is to mill off the Wilwood logo on the brake calipers and go that way and make those work? After all it would seem that everyone has gone to the two piece "race" type rotors with the separate aluminum hub hat and bolt on brake ring already?