Originally posted by Stealth SVT:
It's easy. All it takes is buying the rotors and calipers from Ford. If you get the newer SVT caliper design, it turns out to be the same caliper with different brackets that move the caliper out for the larger rotor. I got the older design that is actully a different caliper, and uses different pads.
All you do is actually swap the rotors and calipers and you are done.
As far as tips are concerned, all I can suggest is keeping the caliper with bracket and springs in one assembly, and then installing the brake pads into this assembly. Then install this entire assembly over the rotor and bolt on the bracket to the hub. Getting that caliper spring back on is a ***** for me.
By the way, you of course have to screw the brake line into the caliper before mounitng the bracket.
[This message has been edited by Stealth SVT (edited September 23, 2000).]
I have looked into the large rotors for my SE and figure that the current large rotors with the "universal" pad size are for "looks" only . The early SVT "larger" pads do increase swept area but the newer pads do not; and there is an area around the circumference that is not touched by the pad which I assume will rust. Can anyone confirm?
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