my rear disc brakes

[jjk1224]

my rear disc brakes

I wish he gave a more detailed write up. I'm curious about his modified parking brake setup.

[Huli]

Re: my rear disc brakes

Here it is!!

http://fordfestivaaspire.yuku.com/forum/viewtopic/id/1368#.UReed8oo7bW

It is dead, but the guy made it work!

[Huli]

Re: my rear disc brakes

I have a complete escort GT subframe including E brake cable to the handbrake at my father in laws. could have sold it to a willing escort owner for the GT disc swap but I held on to. I'd like to try and make the brakes work on my aspire rear beam thats going int he festiva. already has the aspire front rotors, and I plan on using the escort GT rotors along with the escort MC. Not sure when I'll get around to that, there is enough work with gettning the bp in.

I found a thread on how to do that on another forum. You need to make. Either a bolt on caliper plate like they did or weld a tab. Personally, I would weld a tab.

Brb with link. :sly:

[hasteranger]

I have a complete escort GT subframe including E brake cable to the handbrake at my father in laws. could have sold it to a willing escort owner for the GT disc swap but I held on to. I'd like to try and make the brakes work on my aspire rear beam thats going int he festiva. already has the aspire front rotors, and I plan on using the escort GT rotors along with the escort MC. Not sure when I'll get around to that, there is enough work with gettning the bp in.

[Huli]

Re: my rear disc brakes

True, mine didn't either. Would come off a 96 explorer.

[bhazard]

Re: my rear disc brakes

Depends on the 8.8

My 88 Turbo coupe didn't have the drum park brake.

[Huli]

Re: my rear disc brakes

I know!
Ford 8.8 axle rotors are drum park, disk regular.... I bet it fits right over our stock brake shoes!

Well, it would look like disc brakes...lol

[kellen302]

Dead thread revival! Here pondering the glorious sunny days of other locations in the country and how other people have fab capabilities. For a parking brake solution for your fabulous rear disc conversion, couldn't one pumb in a hydraulic handbrake used for drift and rally and put a pin or ratchet in the lever to hold pressure so you could use it as a parking brake as well as an oversteer brake. yes I know this dfeats the purpose of redundancy with a mechanical handbrake but it sure sounds more fun than my weak cable handbrake that can barely lock the wheels on gravel and I'm not sure I would trust it on a hill. (Yes it's been properly adjusted, any tighter and it drags, if anybody knows how to increase the amount of travel between engaged and not with the stock cable I would love to hear it.) Just my 2 cents

[russian]

I think to start a For Sale thread in a week if you would be interested

Here you are - http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=44494

[russian]

I think that the 100mm bolt pattern is the key here. I love it when it's not me doing the experimenting and preliminary dog work, all I stand to do is gain from encouraging this kind of activity. Rear discs on one of my cars? Sure if it's straight-forward and proven to work. Press on lads!

I think to start a For Sale thread in a week if you would be interested

[Bert]

I think that the 100mm bolt pattern is the key here. I love it when it's not me doing the experimenting and preliminary dog work, all I stand to do is gain from encouraging this kind of activity. Rear discs on one of my cars? Sure if it's straight-forward and proven to work. Press on lads!

[DriverOne]

Excuse me, how exactly do you see this? So far it sounds like "why not just keep disks in the trunk?"...

Exactly!

[russian]

Is there no way to fab a bracket for a Festiva beam?

My bolt-on bracket is for Festiva beam, but same exact approach could be used for Aspire beam (the only difference I am aware of would be the axle stub bolt pattern)

To use Festiva drums turned into hubs one would need some other brake rotors & probably different bracket dimensions.

[zoom zoom]

Lol, I've got extra aspire disks if anyone wants to put them in the trunk! Let me know!

Is there no way to fab a bracket for a Festiva beam?

[russian]

Stupid question: Why not just mount discs to the Festiva rear drum then?

Excuse me, how exactly do you see this? So far it sounds like "why not just keep disks in the trunk?"...