Thread: Project Sebring GT Spyder

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WARNING - What follows is very long post with no pictures. Just a story about a bored hot rodder.

As I said earlier, I was down with a bad back for most of August and it kept me pretty much out of the shop. While I was just sitting around, I got pretty bored and a bored hot rodder is a dangerous thing.

I decided for some reason to look into improving the brakes. May have been the meds I was on at the time. Actually, I had been thinking about brakes for a while and this down time just gave me time for my imagination to go crazy.

I had a brake kit laying around from a company called ECI. I've had this kit for quite a while and had originally thought about using it on this car. The kit uses 11" rotors on aluminum hubs and the huge cast iron GM calipers from the 70's as opposed to the smaller Metric calipers in most kits. These big GM brakes were built to stop 3 tons of the largest GM cars, so they would no doubt stop my little car just fine. Overall, I don't think it's a bad kit, but a hot rodder's mind never rests.

While I was over at a fellow rodder's shop one evening, we got to discussing brakes. He suggested that I look at adapting Mustang GT brakes to my car and it just so happened that he had a large box full of GT calipers under a work bench that were free for the using. They went home with me and a quick check showed that they would work with my ECI hub and rotor. The needed brackets appeared to be super simple. The Mustang calipers are 2 piston aluminum parts which would save some weight and they have fairly large pads.

All this was well and good and should have been the end of this story. That is.........UNTIL I got bored.

Originally Posted by Hotrod46

WARNING - What follows is very long post with no pictures. Just a story about a bored hot rodder.

All this was well and good and should have been the end of this story. That is.........UNTIL I got bored.

OOOOOoooo....... I can't wait for chapter 3. but it better have pictures!