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Custom Master Cylinder and brake swap
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Posted by: Aussie XAXB

Well as some of you know I've been working on doing the infamous Granada disc brake swap on my wife's '66 Mustang. I have preliminary pictures of it now. Pics of the brake assembly, 1" swaybar, and custom aluminum polished master cylinder in which I machined a custom design, my wife's license plate number. I machined the mc myself but had it professionally polished. I polished the aluminum combination valve myself, which is not pictured real well. Like I said, these are preliminary pics.

Evidently I forgot to take pics of the shock tower after drilling the Shelby drop while I was cussing up a storm.

I sandblasted and painted the upper control arms and ended up having to replace the right one. The lower control arms are all new, along with all new balljoints, outer tie rod ends, bushings, upper control arm shafts, and spring perches. The springs were new a few years ago. The rotors and calipers are new.

I had to press the MC rod connecting pin in the brake pedal arm out of the arm, machine and weld in a plug, and locate and drill a new hole to relocate the mounting point for the power brake booster rod. As installed the pedal was way too low.

Steve

Posted by: bdass92

Not bad, looks good to me.

Posted by: Aussie XAXB

Thanks. Here's a "before" pic. Originally these cars were only available with a dangerous single reservoir MC. It's also an original manual brake car. This power booster is from a 1987 Mustang.

Steve

Posted by: Jarhead46

Very cool, nice work