alright people need some advise on my brakes i want a upgrade and wondering what i can get for my money right i want rear disks a must i have a sierra saph running standard calipers on front and drums on rear with a crappy diff (open)
i have about £300-£400
and i think i have front cosworth hubs in the garage as they are different to the ones i have on my car at the mo
can someone help me out cheers
im a friend in need lol and its a 2.0 dohc (twincam) 8v
need a diff aswell but im using t9 box at the moment so prop or drive shafts might be a problem
any help would be very helpful to me cheers

johnandhissaffy

 

so you've either got an 89 spec dohc or a 92 spec gt yes?

seeing as everything else came with discs all round in the dohc flavour AND the larger servo and master cylinder

so what you need is the following:
dohc all disc servo/master cylinder combo
mondeo mk3 calipers
st170 focus 300mm discs
disc'd rear end from a sierra, any sierra
16 inch rims

with a bit of haggling and luck, you shoudl get this lot for around the £400 mark

when you've got this lot you can fit them together, without this lot you are going to have brake balance issues as well as soft pedal travel issues because the calipers are too big for the master cylinder you've got to psuh fluid into

 

how would i go about cosworth 4 pots am i going higher in price then

 

then you need to fiddle the hubs to make them fit
and then you won't be albe to do anything else unless you use cossie stoppers due to them having tapped hubs rather than holes in the hubs for the calipers to bolt thorugh

ok, so yuo need to work the hubs on the mondeo conversions, but it's just making the holes bigger, plus yu can get the brakes for peanuts and a set of discs and pads from fleabay for less than £100

 

BTW mate, surely its not a DOHC 8v? it's either one or the other?

 

Just weld the rear diff. Lot of people use granada cosworth brakes as there the same cossie 4x4 ones and there cheap and easy to get hold of. I think you have to mod either the cailper or hub no matter what setup you go for though. As for the rear you'll probably be best off get a complete cossie 2wd rear beam and with that you'll get a rear anti-roll bar aswell.

 

4 valves per cam

 

cheers for that dojj that what im going to do mate just seen some covers for the mondeo calipers brembo covers so they will look goo on my car cheers you might of saved me some money to as for the rear you dont know anyone selling a rear sub frame at all for a dohc cheers

 

never knew they did a 8v dohc sierra i must say...

 

Its basically an 8v version of the I4 engine in the MK5-6 rs2000.

 

one inlet cam
one exhaust cam
4 inlet valevs
4 exhaust valves
it's the same engine that wetn on to get 16 vavles in the rs2000 and the galaxy and scorpio in 2.0 and 2.3 displacements

loads of peole now simply bolt the 2.3 version in place of the 2.0 lump, all you need to do is find a manual one as the clutch/flywheel's are slightly beefier versions and block off the balancer shafts

 

See me on the 7th April, can show you what you need for front and back.

 

what sort of time you going to be there