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Welcome to FordPinto.com, The home of the PCCA => Pinto FAQ => Topic started by: Pintony on December 19, 2006, 12:28:32 AM
Hello group,
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I'm trying to make this a purely how to section.
Here I will take you through the way that I do the Fatmans or Heidts 9" Hot Rod brake rotor to use ford 5 on 4.5 wheels. This rotor can be purchase through any HOTROD book or on ebay.
Now many of you may feel the need to use BIG Granada rotors. My experience is that.. IF I can lock the front wheels with a smaller rotor and 50 seriese tires then I have no need for the BIG heavy brakes.
My conversion uses all the original parts "except the rotors" of course.
Here is a photo of the parts I purchased from Doc.
Photo used by permission. Thanks Doc
By Pintony
Hello Group,
Starting with a streetrod 5-Lug rotor that has a min. thickness of .81" you take the rotor down to the min thickness removing .090. my cutter cuts both sides at the same time and I take .010 off each side 4 times on a hurried pass to save time. the final "Finish" cut is .005 and is cut much slower to make a nice smooth surface.
Here is 1 of the .010 passes.
The leather strap cuts down on the chatter from the what would be a loud ringing sound.
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Hello Group
Here you can see the other side during the finish cut.
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After machining and removing all the metal shavings off the rotor, fit the rotor to the spindle.
Using dry bearings and no grease seal.
The reason for not using a seal at this time is because you "MAY" need to fit a few times and might damage the seal.
NOTE: The use of the stock Pinto dust shield.
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Test fit the caliper bracket to the rotor this is where you may need to remove a fw thousands of material from the bracket.
This one test-fit pretty good.
So I went ahead and installed the caliper to see how everything fit.
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The STOCK Pinto rotor is "wider taller thicker"? How ever you want to say it.
The street-rod rotor is aprox 5mm or 3/16 thinner so you have to pay close attention to your wheel choice.
most wheels will work w/o a spacer.
The positive side to this is you can use a bit wider wheel and it won't stick out as much.
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Notice how close the rotor face is to the caliper bracket.
If need be the caliper bracket could be thinned a few thousands.
More later...
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