Brake Size Chimp 95/96 500 ?????

[andy jb]

In view of upgrading teh front discs on a 1995/6 Chim 500, the supplier is telling me that the same size fits 4.0, 4.5 and 5.0. I always thought the 5 litre had larger diameter brakes from the RS Cosworth.

Can anyone confirm this - as my car is in storage ?

They quote 260 hub diameter, 146 height

[that daddy]

he,s wrong about them all being the same,my 4.0hc came with 240mm front discs, my brothers car is a year later and thats got 260mm fronts with the vented rear discs too,there both 4.0 mines 95,brothers 96.thats why i uprated the fronts they had no feel or progresive bite.

[shpub]

Actually he's not. From about 1996 all Chimaeras came with 500 spec brakes. Earlier 4.x cars had the 240mm disc setup though. The changeover was not that clean though.

[mick_coupe]

Mines a 97 4 litre, has the 500 brakes !

Mick

[roy the boy]

96 4 litre - 240mm fronts

[pupp]

285mm with 4-pots fit mine quite nicely

Were 260s as standard, 97 400

[.Mark]

April 1996 4.0 here with 500 brakes, is this helping?

[myquest]

Mine's a 94 4.0, October, and had 240 discs, I've just upgraded to 260, and they're XR4i 2WD disks with Granada calipers....

[That Daddy]

actually were both wrong both cars are reg 10/95 mine & 11/95 brothers, so i guess they must have been fitting what they had at the time,sounds very 70s ford to me.probably both on the change,oh well you live and learn.

[andy jb]

Thanks - sounds as though they may be right then. I assume an upgrade to 285mm is possible without any significant mods and could be teh way to go. I was merely looking to upgrade to zinc blind drilled/grooved discs and EBC reds.

Perhaps teh later 500's had bigger diameter?

[that daddy]

283mm cossie sierra discs,granada cossie callipers, luverly juberly.