Is there a part number for the rotors?
What was the original installation of the rotor? Is it behind the Pantera hub or does the "hat" sit over the outside of the hub?
Ohhh...almost forgot, everyone has been searching for information of the studs for the lug nuts.
I do not know if they were just stock studs or if there were longer ones made for racing? Did you find any information on that?
Thank you for any information that you have to share.
I am looking forward to the offering of the calipers and the components of that system.
The girling 507.33.047 uses 4 pads ?
Does somebody have pictures ?
Thanks
Does somebody have pictures ?
Thanks
quote:Originally posted by Push1267:
The 8-piston calipers used by Detomaso on the Pantera were AP Lockheed Armadillo Calipers. Part no. 507.33.047/048
They use 4 brake pads and They have been reproduced in the past.
Here's a Picture of the set I have for my Gr4.
Will these fit the car with the stock production Campagnolo wheels?
Is this the front caliper?
In my understanding it is not a matter of these Calipers fits under 15" wheels but more a matter of if you are willing to take out a new mortgage on your house to finance them........
They are insanely costly!
They are insanely costly!
quote:Originally posted by goodroc:
In my understanding it is not a matter of these Calipers fits under 15" wheels but more a matter of if you are willing to take out a new mortgage on your house to finance them........
They are insanely costly!
Yes, but they're supposed to stop the car
Those Calipers are "mandatory" for a historic correct Gr4 Pantera.
What I am saying is that if you are just curious if they fit under stock wheels, you better know that that is your least concern.
What I am saying is that if you are just curious if they fit under stock wheels, you better know that that is your least concern.
The cost of the Girling's is already known. The cost of the Lockhead's is not.
I suspect that the cost is going to be similar.
In looking at these brakes we are looking really at how the Pantera was raced in Europe at the time.
Girling brakes are on virtually every car made.
In the US, Panteras that were being raced were all privateers.
Here racers would take what was available to them and adapt them.
In the case of the Trans Am Mustangs, Kar Kraft was the development source of race parts.
What they did initially was source greater capacity brake systems that already existed that were available.
The '67 Thuderbird/big Ford system was a natural.
It gave each caliper 4 BIG pistons and the largest surface area pad available off of the shelf and gave bigger brake torque because of the 12" diameter rotors, greater cooling down rates because of the 1.25" vented iron rotors.
It was designed to stop a 6,500 pound car from 120 mph. Put it on a 3,000 pound car, IT HAS TO BE EFFECTIVE.
ALL off the shelf items and not priced like custom made parts like the Euro cars had. The way race cars go through brakes, this is a big help.
I saw a "vintage Trans Am Mustang" go through FOUR sets of rotors IN PRACTICE. What's your plan on your race Pantera? Find a Sugar Daddy"?
The reason I say all of this is simple, if I was racing a Pantera here then, I'd need all the financial breaks I could get.
I would go with a version of this Thunderbird brake system on the front, take the front Pantera stock calipers and put them in the back of the car.
To add interest to this thought, there is a "classic brake" company here in the US that is making new castings of these brake calipers.
ABOUT four years ago they were offering the calipers in ALUMINUM. In questioning them about the aluminum, they said that they had porosity problems with the castings and stopped selling them.
If you can connect the dots I've laid out here, you can see that to me it makes more sense to use the T-bird calipers, rotors and pads.
I need to make adapters for any of these calipers anyway and I'm not going to charge myself $1500 to make the adapter plates?
An ALUMINUM caliper instead of iron would just make me have an unlimited amount of unprovoked orgasms!
I have already seen pictures of three US Panteras that were heavily raced here in the US and all three had this "Trans Am" brake system on the front and the stock front Pantera calipers on the rear.
Oooops! Sorry. Just another unprovoked orgasm. I've got to get over that. Wifey is getting very jealous.
I suspect that the cost is going to be similar.
In looking at these brakes we are looking really at how the Pantera was raced in Europe at the time.
Girling brakes are on virtually every car made.
In the US, Panteras that were being raced were all privateers.
Here racers would take what was available to them and adapt them.
In the case of the Trans Am Mustangs, Kar Kraft was the development source of race parts.
What they did initially was source greater capacity brake systems that already existed that were available.
The '67 Thuderbird/big Ford system was a natural.
It gave each caliper 4 BIG pistons and the largest surface area pad available off of the shelf and gave bigger brake torque because of the 12" diameter rotors, greater cooling down rates because of the 1.25" vented iron rotors.
It was designed to stop a 6,500 pound car from 120 mph. Put it on a 3,000 pound car, IT HAS TO BE EFFECTIVE.
ALL off the shelf items and not priced like custom made parts like the Euro cars had. The way race cars go through brakes, this is a big help.
I saw a "vintage Trans Am Mustang" go through FOUR sets of rotors IN PRACTICE. What's your plan on your race Pantera? Find a Sugar Daddy"?
The reason I say all of this is simple, if I was racing a Pantera here then, I'd need all the financial breaks I could get.
I would go with a version of this Thunderbird brake system on the front, take the front Pantera stock calipers and put them in the back of the car.
To add interest to this thought, there is a "classic brake" company here in the US that is making new castings of these brake calipers.
ABOUT four years ago they were offering the calipers in ALUMINUM. In questioning them about the aluminum, they said that they had porosity problems with the castings and stopped selling them.
If you can connect the dots I've laid out here, you can see that to me it makes more sense to use the T-bird calipers, rotors and pads.
I need to make adapters for any of these calipers anyway and I'm not going to charge myself $1500 to make the adapter plates?
An ALUMINUM caliper instead of iron would just make me have an unlimited amount of unprovoked orgasms!
I have already seen pictures of three US Panteras that were heavily raced here in the US and all three had this "Trans Am" brake system on the front and the stock front Pantera calipers on the rear.
Oooops! Sorry. Just another unprovoked orgasm. I've got to get over that. Wifey is getting very jealous.
About the pad dimensions, there is no great difference between the 3 pot Girling and the standard Pantera except in the rear.
Group 4 cars were homologated :
3 pot Girling
4 pot Girling like BIG
8 pot Lockheed
All should fit within the 15 inch rim if you have the group 4 wheels.
I will go for my project with the 8 pot which I'm trying to reproduce. My target is to make 20 of them. A lot of work is already put in , even material stress simulation with different types of T6 aluminium.
Does somebody know if the 8 pot calipers are available and would be the price before I have to reproduce myself ?
Group 4 cars were homologated :
3 pot Girling
4 pot Girling like BIG
8 pot Lockheed
All should fit within the 15 inch rim if you have the group 4 wheels.
I will go for my project with the 8 pot which I'm trying to reproduce. My target is to make 20 of them. A lot of work is already put in , even material stress simulation with different types of T6 aluminium.
Does somebody know if the 8 pot calipers are available and would be the price before I have to reproduce myself ?
The 8-piston calipers was reproduced back in 2002 by the Danish Team Witch Craft. That was done with permission from AP using the original drawings. They were allowed to make 10 sets.
If you are to reproduce them, maybe you should ask AP if they are OK with that?
If you PM me I may be able to provide more info about availability and Price.
If you are to reproduce them, maybe you should ask AP if they are OK with that?
If you PM me I may be able to provide more info about availability and Price.
I get the part that those brakes are what is "homologated" for vintage racing but look at this picture of the '67 T-bird caliper and rotor on the front of the Pantera.
They are about 1000% cheaper and more effective.
They are about 1000% cheaper and more effective.
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Another view.
The rotors are 11.7" in diameter, 297.18mm.
They are 1.25" thick, 31.75mm thick and vented.
The original OD was 12" but they were "averaged" down to 11.7 to fit later model cars. IF you can find the original full 12" diameters I am very sure that they WILL fit the car also.
The rotors are 11.7" in diameter, 297.18mm.
They are 1.25" thick, 31.75mm thick and vented.
The original OD was 12" but they were "averaged" down to 11.7 to fit later model cars. IF you can find the original full 12" diameters I am very sure that they WILL fit the car also.
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This is what the T-bird caliper pistons look like.
They are 1-15/16", 1.9375", 49.125mm. There are 4 of them per caliper.
The clamping pressure in many cases is better than expensive race brakes that are available.
These are not much heavier then the stock Girlings are. Certainly lighter than the Group 3 iron Girlings.
Why does anyone WANT to pay $2,000, per caliper? Beats me.
They are 1-15/16", 1.9375", 49.125mm. There are 4 of them per caliper.
The clamping pressure in many cases is better than expensive race brakes that are available.
These are not much heavier then the stock Girlings are. Certainly lighter than the Group 3 iron Girlings.
Why does anyone WANT to pay $2,000, per caliper? Beats me.
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Those T-bird calipers may not fit all Pantera wheels. Specifically, that raised ridge at the outside bottom holds the connecting passageway for fluid flow between caliper halves so it cannot be ground away, and it hits passenger car Campagnolo wheels unless a spacer is used. They work OK on some aftermarket wheels without spacers. And the one time I tried turning down the OD of a brake rotor to fit, I wound up using carbide lathe bits and slow speed- those suckers are TOUGH and the cuts are interrupted so your carbide tool chips!
This is a common mod on a 65-70 Mustang. In order to fit them, you machine off that outer "vein". You also may need to take something off the curve on the caliper as well.
Yes, the fit is VERY CLOSE and still requires a 1/8" spacer. Longer competition length studs are a very good idea as well.
I have them on my 68 Shelby. The vein is machined off. (80% +/-, like picture) It is NOT a fluid vein. I have to presume IF it was intended for fluid, it was never used.
I have done two sets of these and neither set had fluid passages in that part of the casting.
I always presumed that it is there as a casting reinforcement?
A simple 18 grit disc in a grinder cuts it right off. It is not high nodular iron. It's soft like GM blocks are. Not like Ford nodular iron is.
ANY way you look at it, it is still cheaper than $2000 a caliper.
The Tbird caliper weight is 6 pounds. I don't have a rotor here to weigh for you but as I recall, the difference between the .830" stock rotor and the 1.25" rotor was much more significant then the calipers? You are doubling the mass of the rotor. That you cannot avoid.
You can't run aluminum rotors, just iron rotors with aluminum hats. That really isn't going to save you much. Maybe a pound total?
SOME of those aftermarket aluminum hats have a very bad reputation for exploding under racing conditions. I'll take my chances with the heavier iron one piece rotors.
How much does that Group 3 Girling set up weigh?
This is still a better deal. Parts are still available for this set up.
I can't post a picture of the Shelby with these on right now. I don't know where that folder is at the moment.
Maybe later this week if someone needs to see that?
Just trying to help here. Very few perfect solutions are available.
If you want a direct bolt on (which for $10,000, those aluminum set ups still need modifications) then you are going to pay someone for that.
Like the commercial says, "pay me now or pay me later" I suppose?
Here is a Tbird caliper with most of that vein cut off. Takes about 5 minutes to do. I have seen them with it completely removed.
It does not seem to cause any kind of issue.
This one is about 80% removed.
With a 225/50-15 tire, on an 8" DT rim, you have quite a bit of room to use spacers before you have fender interference. Sitting on pavement, I can put my hand between the tire and the fender lip.
A 245? Well that's a completely different story right Jack? That's the proverbial 10 pounds of mud in a 5 pound sugar sack? But there always is that 5 pound lumping hammer in the tool box.
Yes, the fit is VERY CLOSE and still requires a 1/8" spacer. Longer competition length studs are a very good idea as well.
I have them on my 68 Shelby. The vein is machined off. (80% +/-, like picture) It is NOT a fluid vein. I have to presume IF it was intended for fluid, it was never used.
I have done two sets of these and neither set had fluid passages in that part of the casting.
I always presumed that it is there as a casting reinforcement?
A simple 18 grit disc in a grinder cuts it right off. It is not high nodular iron. It's soft like GM blocks are. Not like Ford nodular iron is.
ANY way you look at it, it is still cheaper than $2000 a caliper.
The Tbird caliper weight is 6 pounds. I don't have a rotor here to weigh for you but as I recall, the difference between the .830" stock rotor and the 1.25" rotor was much more significant then the calipers? You are doubling the mass of the rotor. That you cannot avoid.
You can't run aluminum rotors, just iron rotors with aluminum hats. That really isn't going to save you much. Maybe a pound total?
SOME of those aftermarket aluminum hats have a very bad reputation for exploding under racing conditions. I'll take my chances with the heavier iron one piece rotors.
How much does that Group 3 Girling set up weigh?
This is still a better deal. Parts are still available for this set up.
I can't post a picture of the Shelby with these on right now. I don't know where that folder is at the moment.
Maybe later this week if someone needs to see that?
Just trying to help here. Very few perfect solutions are available.
If you want a direct bolt on (which for $10,000, those aluminum set ups still need modifications) then you are going to pay someone for that.
Like the commercial says, "pay me now or pay me later" I suppose?
Here is a Tbird caliper with most of that vein cut off. Takes about 5 minutes to do. I have seen them with it completely removed.
It does not seem to cause any kind of issue.
This one is about 80% removed.
With a 225/50-15 tire, on an 8" DT rim, you have quite a bit of room to use spacers before you have fender interference. Sitting on pavement, I can put my hand between the tire and the fender lip.
A 245? Well that's a completely different story right Jack? That's the proverbial 10 pounds of mud in a 5 pound sugar sack? But there always is that 5 pound lumping hammer in the tool box.
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side view. These are thin castings so unless you have a spare housing, don't go any further. Use a spacer if necessary.
On a wide bodied car with the original Gr4 Campi wheels I can't see where you even need to cut the vein off at all but I don't have any of those here to try the fit.
On a wide bodied car with the original Gr4 Campi wheels I can't see where you even need to cut the vein off at all but I don't have any of those here to try the fit.
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great , I love this idea !
Does the calipers fit without spacer on a standart front axle ?
or do you need the longer steering arm from gr3 cars ?
thanks
Peter
Does the calipers fit without spacer on a standart front axle ?
or do you need the longer steering arm from gr3 cars ?
thanks
Peter
I am working on this now. I can't answer that precisely yet.
The Tbird caliper actually measures EXACTLY the same to the center of the caliper as the stock Girling unit does.
It is a LONGER caliper then the Pantera unit. That enables it to use a larger brake pad.
That and the four MUCH LARGER pistons give it much better clamping force.
Just as I write this now, I found the bolts that I need. They are not local. I need to order them and I will have them in a few days.
I PROBABLY will be able to answer your question early next week?
I think that the Tbird caliper will clear the inside of the 8" DT wheel. I don't think it will fit on the 7" wheel.
Those 7" I don't have anymore. Those I sold. I am using the 8x15 and 10x15 DT wheels.
It is also possibile that IF the caliper does hit the wheel, that one can use a two piece rotor.
The hat could be deeper which would push the rotor further inboard. The caliper can be spaced inboard by shimming.
I am using a 3/8" thick adapter (9.525mm) for the caliper.
So far it has the caliper centered on the rotor.
I won't know precisely until every thing is trial fit.
I have done this before on my Shelby and the fitting can be so tight that even 1/16" can be life or death on whether or not everything will fit.
I actually LIKE doing things like this. For one thing they are not supposed to be possible to do. I like defying the "experts".
They are like Donald Trump and will never admit that they are wrong even when you just proved them wrong, not by just a little bit but by as we say, "a country mile".
When I get this mounted up I'll take some pictures and post them.
The pads that are needed for this setup are the Porterfield R4S. That is a street pad but it is a just a little hard for the street and you need to get them warmed up, unlike the standard pad which is good even when cold.
The difference would be the high temperature limit is higher with the Porterfield. Much higher with the race compound but you will get killed on the street with that one.
When they are cold, it feels like you have no brakes at all?
The Tbird caliper actually measures EXACTLY the same to the center of the caliper as the stock Girling unit does.
It is a LONGER caliper then the Pantera unit. That enables it to use a larger brake pad.
That and the four MUCH LARGER pistons give it much better clamping force.
Just as I write this now, I found the bolts that I need. They are not local. I need to order them and I will have them in a few days.
I PROBABLY will be able to answer your question early next week?
I think that the Tbird caliper will clear the inside of the 8" DT wheel. I don't think it will fit on the 7" wheel.
Those 7" I don't have anymore. Those I sold. I am using the 8x15 and 10x15 DT wheels.
It is also possibile that IF the caliper does hit the wheel, that one can use a two piece rotor.
The hat could be deeper which would push the rotor further inboard. The caliper can be spaced inboard by shimming.
I am using a 3/8" thick adapter (9.525mm) for the caliper.
So far it has the caliper centered on the rotor.
I won't know precisely until every thing is trial fit.
I have done this before on my Shelby and the fitting can be so tight that even 1/16" can be life or death on whether or not everything will fit.
I actually LIKE doing things like this. For one thing they are not supposed to be possible to do. I like defying the "experts".
They are like Donald Trump and will never admit that they are wrong even when you just proved them wrong, not by just a little bit but by as we say, "a country mile".
When I get this mounted up I'll take some pictures and post them.
The pads that are needed for this setup are the Porterfield R4S. That is a street pad but it is a just a little hard for the street and you need to get them warmed up, unlike the standard pad which is good even when cold.
The difference would be the high temperature limit is higher with the Porterfield. Much higher with the race compound but you will get killed on the street with that one.
When they are cold, it feels like you have no brakes at all?
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