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Originally posted by lastpushbutton:
One of the board members tells me you can use 66 mustang vented rotors on the front as a direct replacement and use the stock caliper for inproved braking. I have seen them on Ebay, drilled and slotted for less that $100. Parapantera...back me up on this.
LPB,
Yes you are correct, the 65-66 V-8 mustang rotors are a direct bolt-on replacement. The offset, bolt pattern, and thickness are the same. More importantly, the inner to outer bearing spacing is right on the money, both the Pantera and Mustang use the same part numbers for the bearings and seals.
The differences: The Mustang studs are inch and the Pantera metric, thus you have to use inch sized lug nuts (bye-bye ISIS Logo nuts), and no, you cannot press the metric studs into the Mustang rotors. The base of the metric stud is smaller than the inch stud thus it does not have the required press fit. Just for kicks, I did tap/die down one of the inch studs to the correct metric size on my "experimental" salvage yard rotor and it did clean up nice, but industry advice is that is a no-no thing to do so I played it safe and used inch lug nuts. This swap also requires different dust caps than stock, as for Mustang dust caps.
Model years: I reference 65-66 as the years to use because I
know they will fit. In actuality
most 65-67 rotors are the same, but sometime during the 67 production year they changed the outer bearing size and these
will not fit the stock Pantera spindle.
This swap was by far the best bang for the buck I have seen as long as you desire stock sized brakes. I know of at least 4 of these swaps that have been done so far.
But as a warning, this leaves you with the desire for even more braking power, in which case I agree with George, go with a vendor supplied kit.
Ron
really should be no problem.
