up front, at the moment, i've got standard uprights, calipers and discs from a bedford midi. if they're good for a van, they should be fine for my car i'd think.

discs are vented, calipers are the single piston slidey type, like sierra ones


what do i want on the rear? should i go for sierra jobbies on the back with solid discs?

ideally i want wilwood calipers all round. but to start with whats the thought on sierra rear calipers and bedford van ones up front?

i don't think it makes any difference, but is there any preference for calipers on the rear being mounted on the front or the rear of the axle? i'm just thinking for when i do come to switch over, i can just weld on new mount brackets, rather than cuting off the old ones.

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Originally posted by blakep82
what brakes do i want?

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all in good time

eventuallly i'll get the big racing discs and calipers on the front, and the wilwood hand brake calipers on the back, but i guess what i'm really asking is are sierra rear calipers going to be a decent match with the bedofrd front calipers?

With your weight distribution the rear brakes only need to do less than 25% of the work of the fronts.
Two main things that dictate how much " bite " your brakes can produce are the disc diameter (more accurately the radius at which the pads grip the disc) and capiler piston area (ie the area of caliper piston(s) acting on one side of the disc).

With standard Sierra discs and calipers If you use EscortMK3/Sierra solid front discs on the with Sierra rear calipers then you will probably find you have slightly too rear bias.

If you upgrade the front brakes and need more rear brakes then MGTF rear calipers have much greater piston area than Sierra rears.

So measure the diameter of the Bedford caliper pistons. Istr Sierra ones are 2" (52mm)

i'll go and whip 'em out (so to speak

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Originally posted by britishtrident
So measure the diameter of the Bedford caliper pistons. Istr Sierra ones are 2" (52mm)

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