at the time I was dealing with 10-15 year old cars likely with the o-e calipers
- I had 2 april 87 build date shelby z's, at the same time
your stuff might be "newer"
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the early april car was single diaphragm booster (t top)
late april car was duel diagram (o-e sunroof)
Regards,
Miles
DD '87 Sundance T1, SLH with rear disks
'87 CSX #432 2.5 CB TII, SLH
Harry,
I'm really having no trouble locating them. Centric, Raybestos, AutoZone's Duralast brand all seem to have them in stock with and without bracket. Price range from $35 to around $60 plus core. Looks like left has more stock than right, but I had no trouble locating either.
Todd
4467450 sure would like a new set of rear drums whatever brand, anybody know? I have 809 CSX-T
Tell that to the TC guys. There's been a number of them over the past year or so trying to source the rear calipers and there is "0" in stock and they have to be sent out to be rebuilt as there's no cores.
Miles, those rotors must be CRAP to be "warping" in the back. I've NEVER seen that on our cars!
I have also had a number of cars with these calipers, and beyond the parking brake being out of adjustment, I've not had issues with them, either.
I could see why it might be difficult to find a simple part when you call and say I need a___ for a chrysler maserati somethin somethin... as opposed to asking for an 88 daytona part
like putting a turbo 400 u-joint in a rolls royce
same part .. very different price
I would tend to agree with you, however these people are on the forums (or FB) and are informed of the other vehicles that cross over. Now, true, we aren't there looking stuff up, and I personally haven't tried as I don't intend to use them (going 11" for this car), but without fail they always report back that there's no inventory and that their units would have to be sent out for rebuild.
I *just* looked on Rock Auto and they do have both sides listed. Since they are a "close-out" reseller, those probably are in stock.
Chris,
I can just picture this scene. Typical gray hired original TC owner looking up auto parts stores in the yellow pages and not finding any luck at his/her local Auto-Zone, as opposed to doing a national search on the Web. Many TC owners think the only parts source for their cars is Larry at TC parts. A great source for parts, but hardly the only place to look. "Someone" is still rebuilding them, as they're still charging for cores. So a couple people strike out looking for them and it becomes official there is ZERO stock left, so we all need to send cores to TC parts. He gets them rebuilt, rightfully tacks on his upcharge, freight charges several directions, and that's how you end up with a $300 rebuilt caliper.
Todd
three of those would get you a set of wilwoods
I actually want to ask them next winter if it's possible to drill their backing plate to fit our spindles .. and if they have a rotor what would have the right hub / spindle stack height
I spent a couple of weeks researching the neon stuff and found a thread here or on TD about using neon parts but it seemed more a work around than a solution
and I even found a wilwood kit for neon from one of the neon enthusiast shops ... but that has no parking brake option
then I looked at newer vans ... lol (not gonna work)
and the "cloud" cars at the wreckers didn't impress me much either
my solution for the time being is simply a set of caravan 5x114 drums and spindles
(I want the wider track and noting modern performance's race car neon busted a spindle without good reason makes me think bigger is probably going to be better)
- and the big drum SHOULD work ok with the big front brakes .. it might even stop the rears from locking like the discs as the force is spread in the drum unlike the discs with a small initial "pinch" point
If you are going Wilwood there is a vendor that has experience making kits for our cars, including the T3 GTP that Brian Slowe did. There’s a Daytona on the below page as well.
http://www.tceperformanceproducts.co...stoms/kits-46/
well , THAT link went straight into my desktop chassis file
THANK YOU very much Oggie
that's THE post of the month for me right there !
- 'cause the guy with the parts makes 299 for rebuilding calipers ?
Perhaps we should start a thread with pics of each design, including casting numbers/part numbers and create a database that shows what parts came on what cars and see what interchanges with what. I don't see the TC calipers being that different from the American built cars, unless the Italians had some crazy idea that they thought was better than Dodge's parts.
I am down with that! Having more information in the KC is always a plus!
The TC's rear calipers are exactly the same as the '87/'88 Daytona Shelby Z. The fronts I think are slightly different than the regular single pin K-H calipers, but I'll have to look again when I get home.