Brembo's From Other Cars

[PSI O6T]

as title says ,what other cars calipers will fit our fords ,seems to be loads of them in the UK and a hell of a lot cheaper too.

[gsxrboy]

Only problem with Brembo's from other cars is fitment, you may need brackets and brake lines to make them work.

Best to stick with Race Brake Sydney, Matt does awesome deals.

[PSI O6T]

whats an awesome deal

[User55555]

It's a hard call with fitment, had a full set of brembo's 6 piston fronts and four piston rears with discs sitting around from my dads 2011 cl63 AMG as he upgraded to a carbon setup, I new that mercs and ford had same stud pattern so had a crack at trying them on one day discs fit perfect but the caliper brackets did not come close. Compared them against fords brembo's thinking I could just change the brackets but they mounted to the caliper in different spots, put it in the to hard basket.

[julesk_1972]

If you can get the measurements of the Ford mounted Brembos then you can ask sellers supply the same.

Match them for a fit.

[XtRmn8]

Check out the Brembo site and download their current catalogue. There are 20+ types of 4 and 6 piston calipers to suit different diameter discs. Best bet would be to find do what cars use the same calipers as what FPV/Ford fit to Falcons.

IMO it's not worth the stuff around unless you can fabricate your own brackets etc. If you are patient and keep an eye on local forums and eBay etc, good parts pop up for a good price and you know they will bolt up without issue.

[Ralph Wiggum]

^WHS cheap brembo's will rapidly become expensive brembo's if you wind up needing to fabricate mounting brackets.

You only need to look at the price difference between Ford Brembo's with and without brackets.

[Wenier]

Yea the price ends up about the same when having to make your own brackets.

I'm am going through this process with some 4 pot brembos from an audi, although they are a similar size to the falcon ones (audi is slightly larger) I doubt the bracket that ford use would work. Also it is basically impossible to get the bracket on its own. So I am on the fabrication track.

Also because of the slightly larger pads I can only run the DBA5000 series as these have a larger pad wear area than the 4000 series.

So basically if you want to be different and spend the same money go for it, otherwise just buy the kit.

I'll post photos once finished.

[gsxrboy]

Black 4 pot Brembo's from Ford are $700 each not bad, thinking about some for the FG

[Seaton]

Nope, I priced them through ford recently. And I work in a smash repairs that gets good discount on parts. You cannot even by the bracket on its own. You need to buy the caliper and bracket. Can't remember exact but it was around $1600-1800 per side for an FG.

Not worth it. Buy some used ones from a wrecker. Or Race brakes is around $2800 for front only 4 piston, braided hoses and T3 rotors.

Then $800 ish for the rear PBR large single piston.