How to upgrade to cossie brakes

[makaveli96]

I was thinking the same too morph but for some reason it brakes perfect with no lock up with hard braking I think it's all down to how well balanced you can set the brakes up and plus the rear brakes are hardly that much stronger than the fronts only slightly by the way I did have them fitted by Jamsport who do know what there doing.

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[morph]

Originally Posted by makaveli96

I was thinking the same too morph but for some reason it brakes perfect with no lock up with hard braking I think it's all down to how well balanced you can set the brakes up and plus the rear brakes are hardly that much stronger than the fronts only slightly by the way I did have them fitted by Jamsport who do know what there doing.

yes i think its because the small calipers on a rear disc conversion bite quicker therefore lock the wheels as you have gone for the 4x4 calipers they are the same size as the fronts therefor use the same amount of hydraulic pressure through the brakes lines as the front.
good setup! all you need now is a bigger master cylinder.

[rs_dude]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ford-Escort-RS-Turbo-Cosworth-4-Four-Pot-brakes-big-283_W0QQitemZ230409588986QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Car sParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item35a57b50fa

READY TO FIT!!!

[Red_bull]

Are the calipers of a Ford Scorpio Cosworth the same as the sierra 4x4 for the front of a ERST?

[botters]

will the 2wd 4 pots fit with standard wheels?

[xrmalin]

Ive finally got round to getting my cossie 4 pots on my estate this weekend ive not tried them out yet because the cars not on the road yet but they look so much better.
Firstly i got my calipers off b19 cvh off here (cheers pal) with the right hoses to fit straight onto my car. After reading up on the conversion i got a friend to machine the required 4mm off the mounting face so they looked like this





after getting the discs from a local motor factors i offered everything up and the disc sat smack bang in the middle of the caliper so let the drilling comence.
The standard calipers use an m10 mounting bolt where as the cosworth stuff uses m12 so i drilled the hubs out and tapped them m12



now the mounting holes in the hubs are slightly out of line to the holes in the calipers so i opened the holes out in the calipers from 12mm to 13mm and this gave me plenty of room to line them up and get the bolts in.
Now with the calipers all bolted up



dont they just look so much better that the standard jobbies and even better still my wheels still go over them so i dont have to change to alloys



hope this helps some one out if there planing on doing the same thing once ive got the car on the road ill do a little update on how they perform

cheers for reading mark.

[luxembourgrst]

hy i have front 4x4 calipers and 4x4 discs i need to put 20.2 mm spacer between the bolt and i c an t fit the standard 15 rs trubo wheels on i need to buy me 2wd discs an fix it with 1mm spacer that i can again put my 15 standard rs turbo wheels on