74 Mav Disc brake upgrades

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  1. 7D2 Grabber

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    Does anybody make an upgraded caliper and bigger disc for the 74 maverick spindle?
     
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    Bryant forgot more than learned

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    that that i know of. if you want biger and beter brakes there are severall ways of doing it. all that i can think about use drum spindles. you should be able to get them for free. then you can use use this kit from http://www.mustangsteve.com/cobrabrakes.html
    that would be the most budget way to get biger and beter brakes that i know of. also the drum spindles allow you get aftermarket brakes that are offered for 60s-early 70s mustang. like the kits from willwood, and brembo.
     
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    soooulpower Semi-Informed Tinkerer

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    So I need V8 spindles for this to work? This sounds a little bit like a dream come true to me.
     
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    I already have all the disc stuff off a 74 maverick and wanted to upgrade what it has.
     
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    If your thinkin of going the cheby conversion route, you could probably work a swap with someone on here for your disk spindles and get some cash too(y)
     
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    you may be able to get sloted and cross drilled rotors and some really good pads. thats about all that you can do to upgrade the stock disk brakes. the stock brakes have the two ears that go over the od of the rotor limiting the size of the rotor that you can use. i suspect that you can cut the ears off and machine mouning holes for different brackets into the spindles but that would be more work than just geting drum spindles to start with.
    i belive that the 6 cyl spindles and the 8 cyl spindles are the same so the posted conversion should work on any maverick drum brake spindle.
     

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