cobra brakes

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Fri May 08, 2009 6:25 pm

what is needed and involved in doing a cobra brake swap?

2003EDGE · Post by **2003EDGE** » Sun May 10, 2009 11:40 am

Ok, I have done this once before on a 97.

You need the 89 up beams and 95 and up spindles. Then you of course need the rotors and calipers.

These are the brackets that you will need. I will be ordering a set soon for the front of my 84. Really nice group of people to work with.
http://www.nekustoms.com/colecraft.html

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Sun May 17, 2009 11:01 am

so there is no way to this swap with out ordering those brackets? nothing I can just find and clean up?

Foxracin · Post by **Foxracin** » Sun May 17, 2009 5:47 pm

Nope. Got the buy that stuff. Its the only kit I have ever seen also. I would love to get it one day.

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:22 pm

so what rotor is used the mustang one or a 95 ranger?

Foxracin · Post by **Foxracin** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:32 am

Mustang. The kit comes with the bracket for the Cobra caliper and a new hub that accepts the Cobra calipers. You have to use 95-97 spindles.

2003EDGE · Post by **2003EDGE** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:01 am

Yeah, you use the big cobra calipers and rotors. It is a really sweet setup when you get it all done. Pair that with the disc brake explorer rear and you are good to go.

cgrey8 · Post by **cgrey8** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:39 am

So the 95+ Ranger front spindles will hold a Cobra rotor?

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Mon May 18, 2009 2:43 pm

that kinda sucks that I can't just steal the mustang brackets, since I work at a mustang shop. so i got to order the bracket and hubs! >8(

2003EDGE · Post by **2003EDGE** » Mon May 18, 2009 5:04 pm

But the calipers and rotors will be super cheap...which were the biggest investment that we had on the one that we did.

Foxracin · Post by **Foxracin** » Mon May 18, 2009 8:16 pm

cgrey8 wrote:So the 95+ Ranger front spindles will hold a Cobra rotor?

With the hub that comes in the brake swap kit.

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:20 pm

what year do the cobra brakes come from? '94 - '98 or '99 - 04?

cgrey8 · Post by **cgrey8** » Tue May 19, 2009 5:32 am

Foxracin wrote:
cgrey8 wrote:So the 95+ Ranger front spindles will hold a Cobra rotor?
With the hub that comes in the brake swap kit.

Is that a standard rotor or a specially made rotor just for Ranger to Cobra Caliper conversions??? If it's proprietary, that would shy me away from doing that setup. On a daily driven vehicle, rotors need to be turned, wear out, and are a common maintenance component. I don't want to be leashed to a proprietary source for things like rotors.

MalcolmV8 · Post by **MalcolmV8** » Tue May 19, 2009 8:00 am

Looking at that link posted above it appears all you get in that kit is a caliper mounting bracket and a set of hubs. The rotors and calipers are probably the standard Mustang pieces.

cgrey8 · Post by **cgrey8** » Tue May 19, 2009 8:19 am

I was used to the hub and rotor being the same thing. So does that mean Cobra rotors are floating rotors?

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