I just saw a pretty late model looking pinto with vented 4 lug rotors and big sliding calipers. Is this a stock setup for 80-whatever pintos. All mine have been 73 and earlier.
Thanks,
Duff
Not a stock set up. Must be some aftermarket parts.
sounds like we need pics of this critter
FrankBoss
Are we talking about the type of rotors with the slots drilled into the outer rim of the metal? If so, that is what I had before and what I just recently installed on my 78 Sedan (shown in my project thread).
http://www.fordpinto.com/smf/index.php/topic,7356.msg54459.html#msg54459
http://flickr.com/photos/24472700@N04/with/2688113180/
The numbers on the pads are 7027 BX HQ FF 7026A.
I think the pads and calipers are pinto. The Calipers are definitely stamped FORD.
Maybe just different rotors? Anyway this is a pretty clean car with a good black interior
and lots of new looking parts. At the Hayward, California pick-n-pull.
To me they look like what I've always seen on my car. I do not know if they are stock or not, but as far as I know the calipers that were on the car before and now are the same as stock.
I have never seen a Pinto in a yard with a front end still in tact though....
Perhaps it's stock for late models?
OK, now I see what you were looking at. When you said " vented" I assumed you ment a rotor with either slots or holes in the " face" of the rotor. The rotor I see in the pic is a stock rotor.
Uh no, those would be slotted or drilled rotors.
So late Pintos came with vented rotors then?
Thanks,
Duff
What ever...............
So I found out today that 1980 pintos had vented front discs. I wish I knew that when I built up my racer!
I also found this for anybody who is confused on disc brake terminology...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_brake
Without a standardized language we would descend into chaos.
Duff
Quote from: duffro on July 23, 2008, 09:55:27 AM
So I found out today that 1980 pintos had vented front discs. I wish I knew that when I built up my racer!
I also found this for anybody who is confused on disc brake terminology...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_brake
Without a standardized language we would descend into chaos.
Duff
I think Brad read your first post the same way I did at first. By saying "big" (calpiers), some of us read that to be "bigger than stock", and I too thought you were impling drilled/slotted because IIRC all Pinto discs are 'vented'. Without a photo or more detail I can see where people could draw the wrong conclusion.
Not a 'big' deal, but you were not too clear to start with. Being rude to those that were willing to help you...... wow......
BTW: Your statement implies that ONLY the 1980 Pinto has vented discs, and thats incorrect. Also you wrote "80-whatever pintos", impling that Pintos were made after 1980; again, incorrect. (that is what you were saying in both of those, right?) The 74 to 80 all had the same brake rotors and calipers, and 1980 was the last year for the Pinto. I hope this terminology is not confusing. Even with a standardized language........
Bill