Brake Upgrade ????

[keirangrogan]

My car is in the Garage having all four Ball joints replaced. The offside bottom joint had seized and I thought I might as well get all four done at the same time and save any further trouble in that department for another fourteen years.

Anyhow, whilst the hubs where being stipped, it became apparent that the Flexi Brake hoses need attention, no problem, trawl thru this forum and order braided hoses from David Geralds.

Now this got me thinking, whilst everything is in bits, would it be worthwile upgrading the Brake Disks and Calipers to something more beefy, possibly 2WD Cosworth.

This then gave me some problems to think about,

Is it Worthwhile

It it Possible (Will they bolt directly onto standard Sierra hubs)

If it is possible, will the standard Brake Master Cylnder be able to cope ??

Your Thoughts Please !!!

[Podie]

Do a search on the S series forum.

Griff 500 260mm discs and callipers should fit, as do series 2 Ford RS Turbo brakes (again 260mm).

Standard S brakes are 240mm...

[Psychobert]

Griff 500 brakes do fit, will let you know how they feel when bedded in..

[shnozz]

has anyone on here done a rear disk conversion on their drum braked S? i remember talking to a guy at Virginia Waters at the first ever meet there (2001?) who told me about it on his white S.

[Psychobert]

Bitch of a job IIRC. Spoke to Joolz about this a while ago and decided against it as it was looking pricey due to the amount of components that need to be swapped over..

[joospeed]

Also completely pointless. the rear drums on teh s are 9 inch, they're massive, and they do little work anyway .. you might get them to fade on very hard use on a track but I never have with the V6 S cars I've driven on track ..

My tip : buy those fake disc covers that go behind the wheel!!

[keirangrogan]

Psychobert said:

Griff 500 brakes do fit, will let you know how they feel when bedded in..

Any idea of price, part numbers etc

[M@H]

Psychobert said:

Bitch of a job IIRC. Spoke to Joolz about this a while ago and decided against it as it was looking pricey due to the amount of components that need to be swapped over..

Hmm.. interesting comment as this is something I was idly pondering the other day... doesnt the S use the same uprights as the Sierra, so if you had an old XR4 you could strip it down and and rebuild the S rear with the bits...??

Cheers,
Matt

>> Edited by M@H on Thursday 22 April 12:47

[shnozz]

joospeed said:

Also completely pointless. the rear drums on teh s are 9 inch, they're massive, and they do little work anyway .. you might get them to fade on very hard use on a track but I never have with the V6 S cars I've driven on track .. My tip : buy those fake disc covers that go behind the wheel!!

but if it wasnt a V6 S Joolz - if it were 300+ bhp?

[M@H]

forget 300, what if it was 200bhp ..you wouldn't have Drums on the back of a V8S would you..

[Podie]

Rear brakes:

1) How about a Sierra drum to disc conversion...? 2) EBC do harder wearing rear drum shoes....

>> Edited by Podie on Thursday 22 April 16:26

[shnozz]

M@H said:

forget 300, what if it was 200bhp ..you wouldn't have Drums on the back of a V8S would you..

indeed.

Graham was probably right starting on an S4 platform