hey,

can anyone advise me on a break upgrade, i´m wanting something for a st220, the usual things such as 330mm ap kit is coming in at £1700 which is well over my budget and i just can´t find a second hand set.

what is it that makes the kit specific to each model, obviously i realise its going to need to be 5 stud but would a kit for a focus or escort have the same stud pattern?
i heard someone say that is possible to collect each part seperatly and just have a bracket fabricated, but i didnt really understand what they ment.
could i really collect discs, callipers, lines and pads seperately and then have a bracket made up to make it fit the mondeo, what bracket is this and would it be expensive?

so basically could i get a set made for another ford and adapt it fairly easy?

sorry if i´ve made it sound more complecated than need, i just dont really know what i´m talking about

 

the bracket your on about will be to hold the caliper as it has to be bigger to get around the disc,as for collecting bits,check to see if the other cars use the same standard parts as your car then if they do i cant see why you cant use them.

 

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so if i get ap discs and calipers from another ford, i can just get a bracket made up to adapt it to my mondeo?

what you say i need the bracket to hold the caliper around the discs as they are bigger, do you mean if i use stock calipers and bigger discs?

 

speak to martoon (reyland) he might be able to give you some ideas .. was alot cheaper when he quoted for mine ..

 

You need to consider what size you can fit inside your wheels firstly, then scour parts list to see if another car uses the disc size you want with a similar offset(height).
You can't just go buying bits and assuming they can be fitted and made to work, if the offset was wrong it could foul on the inside of the wheels for example on the spokes, if it had a much higher offset(height) would put it closer to the spokes of the wheel.
If you are starting from scratch then you can buy the closest thing that you need, may(very likely) even be able to find a disc from another ford or other make that suits your needs and just redrill it to your pcd, totally safe and been done loads of times.
You can also use other makes of caliper, ie mb/porsche/evo 4 pots etc with a bracket.
Your car should have 300mm with a height of 47mm, they are a bit thin at 24mm(new) for a 300mm disc, but phone ebc and get a application book, then scour it, is the best way, for example the 5.0 mustang cobra uses 330mm height of 53 but 28mm thick, which I very much doubt your calipers would accomodate.
The best way I find is decide which calipers you want to use first 4 pots will give better braking but cost, but a upgrade to say 325mm/330mm would be noticeable but not great, I don't have the dims on the mk2 FRS but I wouldn't be surprsid if these were bigger and could be pursuaded to go on.
tabetha