my rear disc brakes

[Movin]

I have confirmed that indeed, I was full of $#!+. Must have had a few too many hard ciders the day I put those together and thought they fit perfectly. Lol. With non stock bearings, they may fit. I'll double check the next time I say something fits.

Please retract that statement, hard cider or any other beneficial remedy
could not possibly have caused information to be erroneously gathered.

Obviously you have been under extreme stress from matters unknown
to us and insufficient quantities of the suspect substance are most likely
the cause of such a minor blunder.

You must take care to use proper quantities of such for medicinal purposes
so that accuracy of reported information is beyond suspicion..

Proof of corrective action not required..

[DriverOne]

Please retract that statement, hard cider or any other beneficial remedy
could not possibly have caused information to be erroneously gathered.

Obviously you have been under extreme stress from matters unknown
to us and insufficient quantities of the suspect substance are most likely
the cause of such a minor blunder.

You must take care to use proper quantities of such for medicinal purposes
so that accuracy of reported information is beyond suspicion..

Proof of corrective action not required..

I second this.

[russian]

While we are on the subject of rear wheel bearing, here is compatibility sheet for say our A4 bearing: http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/BCA0/A4.oap

So far I see 85-94 Mitsubishi Galant uses the same A1/A4 bearing pair in it's rear hub! With 4x114.3 wheel bolt pattern it could be our potential hub/rotor donor...

[Advancedynamix]

Score! Those are a lot easier to find than Capris too.
Movin, you are right. I downed 4 strongbows last night to check, and I made zero bad judgements, so it was definitely something else. :p

[russian]

Picks of the welded assembly?

Welding is not really necessary - I tack the sleeves just not to loose them. Here is how a bracket looks like:


If anyone wants a set please let me know

[Advancedynamix]

do you think you could somehow incorporate e-brake cable brackets into that? Of coarse that also would require figuring out how to run a double cable setup rather than the festiva single cable.

[Christ]

Anything with rear discs well have a cable actuated caliper in the rear, except large vehicles that retain the drum parking brake.

Making the plate for the caliper you want is the only problem.

[Advancedynamix]

many vehicles don't have parking brakes in their rear calipers. ( Porsche 911,924,944, Subaru XT ...) but either way, I wasn't sure but I thought the parking brake cables on EGT, Capri ect. was captured by a separate bracket that wasn't on the caliper. Then the cable pulls a lever on the caliper. It's been a while since I've looked at the rear cable setup on those cars though. It would be nice to have an E brake, but the festiva setup would be difficult to convert to disk. My best solution was hydro. Has anyone used a cable setup on the back disc conversion?

[russian]

On escort/mx3/capri, cable pulls a bracket which is bolted to the caliper itself. While the guy who did this conversion was able to make e-brake work http://fordfestivaaspire.yuku.com/to...el-disc-brakes I am not yet sure how exactly he did this.

I have not yet looked into this, but seems like on festiva cable pulls towards the middle of the rear beam, I think escort/mx3/capri pulls towards the front of the car.

I guess next step would be finding these little angle brackets in my junk box, bolting them to the calipers & taking a picture

[Advancedynamix]

Very interesting. Well, I'm keeping an eye on this. Good work man!

[htchbck]

Score! Those are a lot easier to find than Capris too.

Don't forget, the majority of the Galants came with drums though. I think I've seen more Capris than I have disk brake Galants.

[Christ]

On escort/mx3/capri, cable pulls a bracket which is bolted to the caliper itself. While the guy who did this conversion was able to make e-brake work http://fordfestivaaspire.yuku.com/to...el-disc-brakes I am not yet sure how exactly he did this.

I have not yet looked into this, but seems like on festiva cable pulls towards the middle of the rear beam, I think escort/mx3/capri pulls towards the front of the car.

I guess next step would be finding these little angle brackets in my junk box, bolting them to the calipers & taking a picture

You may be able to index those arms. If not, it probably wont be much trouble to adapt the Escort setup.

[MrFishah]

On escort/mx3/capri, cable pulls a bracket which is bolted to the caliper itself. While the guy who did this conversion was able to make e-brake work http://fordfestivaaspire.yuku.com/to...el-disc-brakes I am not yet sure how exactly he did this.

I have not yet looked into this, but seems like on festiva cable pulls towards the middle of the rear beam, I think escort/mx3/capri pulls towards the front of the car.

I guess next step would be finding these little angle brackets in my junk box, bolting them to the calipers & taking a picture

Maybe I'm crazy, but adding an E-Brake to a car that only sees track use could just be a recipe for warping rotors. Pull that handle after a bunch of hot lapping will very quickly mean that it's time for new rotors....

[russian]

If I understand right discs grab better than drums. Now that you've figured out a cheap and ingenious way of putting them in the back have you had to play with the brake proportioning valves at all?
Neat idea you have there.

Here is some opposite view on the issue:

"Drum brakes benefit from something called self-energizing action where the leading shoe uses the rotating drum to help push the larger trailing shoe into the drum with additional force, requiring less hydraulic pressure to apply the brakes."

Put simply, drum brakes require less pressure to apply the same stopping power as discs. Normally, brake bias is always towards the front, so the rears arn't so eager to lock up during turns. However, after converting your rear drums to discs, the brake bias is going to be too strong on the front brakes. "

[Advancedynamix]

Festivas don't build much rear brake heat, but you are right about it being bad practice to set the parking brake right off the track. It does help to have a parking brake in the pits. you just have to teach yourself not to set it right after a race or session (I forget all the time but it doesn't seem to hurt the drums). If you frequently left foot brake then you'll l probably get the rears hot, but if your driving like that you'll know better than to set the brake.