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Which Sierras have rear disc brake?
Patching Cars - 9/4/06 at 08:55 AM

As the title says really.

I know the Cossies did (but they're too expensive for a donor) as did the XR4s but I don't want a V6.

I saw a K reg Ghia for sale the other day and the advert said it had new rear calipers, did all the Ghias have rear disc brakes, or was this one an oddball?

Any other models with rear discs as standard?

JohnN - 9/4/06 at 09:02 AM

The 1991 2.0 GLX I used had rear discs

ruudbeckers - 9/4/06 at 09:14 AM

I took mine of a Ford Scorpio, they should be the same.

dave1888 - 9/4/06 at 09:39 AM

Quite a few sierra's had discs at the back.
1800 turbo deisel
2.0 dohc 89-93
1.8 cvh 88-93
2.3 deisel 82-90
and all the 4x4
usaully the higher spec models
check out this page.
http://www.speedways.co.uk/shop/index.html

badding - 9/4/06 at 10:37 AM

All the sierra's that have ABS have discs all round, only problem is that they also have power steering and that is useless and no LSD.
Best donor would be a pre '90 xr4i 2.9i

badding - 9/4/06 at 10:40 AM

Why do you wanna have disks at te rear?
The useall cars don't weigh more than 600 kgs, so you don't need that much stopping power...I just imagin ot's for the looks.

mookaloid - 9/4/06 at 01:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by badding
All the sierra's that have ABS have discs all round, only problem is that they also have power steering and that is useless and no LSD.
Best donor would be a pre '90 xr4i 2.9i


The XR4i had massive 10" drum brakes - these wont work with the Indy uprights as the handbrake cable doesn't clear the wish bone bolt.

fairly minor job to source smaller ones though or if you are making your own uprights you can cater for this.

Cheers

Mark

Patching Cars - 9/4/06 at 04:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by badding
I just imagin ot's for the looks.


I quite like to look but I can't any point in spending aditional money/effort converting from drums to disc, so I use whatever the donor has.