Ultimately big bearing housing ends is the way to go. You'll have options like aftermarket (Wilwood, Baer, etc.) brakes, the Currie "Explorer" brake, or North Racecars caliper brackets with either SN95 or S197 brakes (depending on the housing ends). You're going to be buying new axles but they're not too expensive and you can upgrade to 31-spline.
Good info, but for people wanting to retain their parking brake, it doesn’t appear that these calipers allow for that. Curious if you came up with a solution, or just run without?
Man I really dig your car. Heard it the other day on Gearheads channel. I had just bought Spintech ProStreet 6000s for my coyote swap fox without having ever heard them. If it sounds half as good as yours I'll be ecstatic.
Thank you! Those mufflers are way louder than mine so you’ll prob love it. The issue with my car is some tracks have decibel limits so I can’t be too loud. Also i have neighbors so loading the car on the trailer real early must drive them nuts.
-Rear GT 500 brake rotor "13 inch ish" -S&S repositioning adapter for SN95 caliper & bracket -maybe longer brake hose.... Pick your pads.... Increased leverage on rotor while keeping the more reliable oem smaller piston... Saw system on different video... Any thoughts?
Look into Moser 7700 (SN95) or 7705K (S197) housing ends. They are non-C clip and utilize OEM Mustang brakes. Another option is Strange H1138 housing ends. The purpose is to trade the c-clips for positive axle retention, and get larger bearings to carry more cornering load.
Thanks for posting this. I do have a comment/question. IF my understanding is correct, if you have an SN95 bracket and caliper and you upgrade to the Taurus caliper, then wouldn’t it make more sense to just run this with a regular SN95 rotor? (If I understood correctly SN95 caliper bracket + Taurus caliper + stock SN95 roto .. 10-ish inch will work). This is because if the stock SN95 rotor works with this set up, putting on a larger rotor and buying brackets to push out the taurus caliper achieves nothing (other than perhaps aesthetics of a bigger rotor) since the braking surface is limited by the caliper size, which is set by the taurus caliper. Meaning the additional brake surface on the larger cobra rotor (13-ish inch) will never be acted upon by the pushed out taurus caliper (by the very expensive $250 bracket). If I am wrong please forgive me, and thanks again for posting.
The cobra rotor is a double vented rotor compared to the regular single rotor sn95. It’s also larger moving the caliper out increases braking, and the Taurus piston is larger than the regular sn95 piston. I needed this setup to match my ATS brembo front brakes.
far as I know the GT rotor/caliper matches the GT bracket which clear 15" wheels with ease. you can not use the GT bracket with the cobra rotor/caliper you have to use the cobra bracket because the GT bracket will not match to bolt up.
in other words I think this guy had the wrong combo from the start to run this set up, sounds like he had GT set up and went to cobra set up which wont work, you got to have to or the other.
Certainly there's a leverage difference between an 11 5/8" Cobra rotor and a 14" GT500 rotor (a 20% longer radius). But the square area of the caliper pistons needs to be considered first. Rule of thumb seems to be 70% front, 30% rear. I've got a 12" Crown Vic rotor with Cobra calipers on the front of my SVO and a non-vented V6/GT setup in the back. Even on a lighter Fox I need more brakes. I'm going to try the Cadillac ATS fronts (13" rotor) and the Taurus (Cobra rotor) rears. Then I'll experiment with master cylinders.
