Im fitting the Frs 4 pot brem's to the cougar got spacer's an made the brackets , what Im thinking is maybe probs with rear brake bias , anybody know of this conversion and was the bias ok ?

 

Im doing the same with my cougar at the minute using the Coupe brakes before my turbo lump goes in.

I know of two experiences with large brake conversions on cougars as I run the uk owners club.

1st was on a supercharged v6 and that had 325mm Baer 4 pots. He reported a very poor feel to the brakes but no twitching.

2nd was a 3litre conversion and he had willwood 4 pots and reported they were very very stable under braking.

 

thanks bobster so I guess the above problem could be the master not having enough pressure / volume ? or is that a bias problem ? did the brakes work fine on both cars and just the feel was lacking on one setup ?

 

The master cylinder appears to be man enough for the job for both the applications I quoted just the baer ones were crap lol. The willwoods have a larger cylinder capacity as well.

The other use for cougars is for farrari look alikes and they run larger brakes with the standard master cylinder. Look up DNA

 

Good to see you went for the Brembo option mate, would be really keen to hear your thoughts on this once completed... I'm looking at options if/when I'm re-doing brakes on the 200.


Cheers,
Grant

 

Nice one Bobster good to know the masters effective ! looks like the focus brems will be fine then , if anybody wants dimensions for the brackets let me know .

 

No worrys grant , Ill let you know how it go's , It was your post on the last thread that got me on to the idear ! , so I hooked into Ebay and a set of good calipers with new disks and pad had just turned up not to bad a price neather !

 

If you wouldnt mind sending me a PM with them to compare notes that would be appreciated