Here is my philosophy on that.  The bracket has a machined groove in the back to capture the bearing 360 degrees around its perimeter.  There is a slight amount of crush applied.  About 0.002" but there is some.  If you remove the crush on part of the bearing perimeter, there might be some distortion in the bearing for the unsupported area.  I prefer to have the bearing 100% supported.  The other bracket sets you show are cut to make them easy to install, not to protect the longevity of your parts.

This fits right in with my favorite MustangSteve saying:I refuse to sacrifice functionality for ease of installation.  With my parts, you might complain the day you install them because it was a bit of work, but you will enjoy the superior performance from now on.  With a lot of the aftermarket stuff designed to “bolt on”, you will enjoy one day of easy installation but then complain about the lack of performance from now on.

Do it right.
Do it once.

I would replace the bearings.

So, I love the GT brakes. They stop fantastically. Such a good pedal with the 13.2" GT brakes up front also.

I used lokar cables that I already had for the crappy eldorado calipers I'm discarding. The cable needed to loop under the axle, and I needed a big washer for the caliper e brake bracket and I had to slide a cable stop onto the cable since it needed a "barrel" type end and the Lokar cable had a ball type end. So now the ball holds the drum-shaped cable stop on. Worked great.  

Oh, and just for fun we used a 2" linear actuator for the ebrake with push button activation, and the e brake will lock up the wheels while we're moving. 

Note the glowing red button on the console below. That's the e brake engaged :-)


 

Last edited by rbtconsultants (4/06/2015 3:06 PM)

Hey RB...please tell me more about the linear actuator.  I've been wondering if one of those would supply enough torque to actuate the Exploder parking brakes.  I have BB'd my stock P-brake system to work with the 'sploder stuff but a push button would be much nicer...'specialy for Jean.  Also, does the actuator have to remain energize or is the a latching mechanism?

Any info greatly appreciated.

BB

Ok, I checked and it's 225 pound pull. I got this particular one as it appears to be better suited to the elements.  It had no trouble this past winter in ice,  snow and salt.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heavy-Duty-2-Inch-Linear-Actuator-225lb-12-Volt-DC-Trunk-Hood-Tonneau-Cover-/191241419465?hash=item2c86e07ac9&vxp=mtr

The cables,  mounting brackets, actuator,  flat bar, button all came to ~$200, which is way less than $450 for e-stopp.

Bob

Excellent innovation !

RBT, thank you for the info.  That just looks like a really cool winter project in the making.  The thought of doing something like that has passed briefly through my little pea brain but at the time I was thinking of a linear motor...entirely different animal, I think. 

Cool, thanks again.

BB

I'm out of town til Friday. I'll grab e brake pics this weekend.

The fiero seats were not hard.  Got them for 50 bucks.  We mounted the tracks  by drilling some holes in some steel flatbar and attaching the original mustang tracks to the flatbar with bolts and nylon spacers and bolting the flatbar to the bottom of the seats. There is a thread somewhere that i found with Google that describes it with pics. I just followed that thread so not my idea.  Apparently lots of folks have used fiero seats. They are awesomely comfortable and fit just right. Work great with 3 point seat belts.

We had front and back seat upholstery made by mrmikes.com. We reupholstered the seats ourselves.  I have a couple threads about doing that over on vintage mustang forums. We don't use the speakers in the headrests but you can,  and Mike will even put the speaker holes in the upholstery If you want. I can't say enough good things about Mr Mike.

Bob

$400+ from speedway for a linear actuator in a box with cables and a button.  I originally built mine with the actuator in a steel toolbox,  but I like the direction I ended up with better, and for half the price.

Bob

Sorry. Busy week. I'll grab some in the morning.

Bob