I must re-look into this! After prolonged searching last summer (other than the Marina calipers which have frankly tiny pad area), I could not find anything except the early (flexible) VW Golf/Polo calipers that were chamfered sufficiently on the outer perimeter to avoid fouling the steep taper and rivet ends on my standard rims! Others have confirmed my findings, but please point me to the Ford calipers. If a disc with suitable depth exists to cater for the combination by drawing the caliper inboard enough to clear the rim, then please, someone, point me at it, as exhaustive checking through ATE dimensions failed to highlight anything when I was going through this! I think Clio ones would work by grinding a slight amount from the interference zone, but I was not entirely happy with this move!chrisryder wrote:marina and ford discs can both be fitted with standard rims. although can require a thin spacer with the ford setup until the pads wear down a bit!
For me, the attraction of discs is not the extra stopping power, as the 9" drums will happily lock up the 155 tyres; rather the unexpected but occasionally neccessary hard braking from 70+ when the fade starts, also the frequent need for adjustment and replacement of relatively expensive shoes, as the modern environmentally friendly lining material is akin to cardboard! (God knows how B*******e manages to make his shoes last infinitely, he must tackle downhills in first gear at 15mph and ignore the traffic queue behind him!
I have original long lasting/non fading shoes in my 9" drums.......
VERY nice, and that's PRECISELY what I want. Bit out of my price range right now...$350 for just the five wheels, not to mention shipping which would add at least $200...but that's exactly what I'll buy in the future. Wonder where they're getting them?
I'm blind sometimes, I swear. Anyway, excellent wheels!
