Recent content by THNX SVT

While doing an oil change recently on my ‘21 Explorer I discovered what appears to be a broken stud with matching nut laying in my undertray. The stud and nut are M8x1.25mm, and the remaining stud is 22mm of thread/26mm end to remaining end. This was on the extreme left side of the truck near...

Mine looks exactly the same. I also thought something seemed off. I completed removed the bolt, checked the threads and all looked ok. I then reinstalled it while getting a bit more aggressive with the floor jack under the diff pumpkin just to make sure the screw wasn’t binging and preventing...

Oh, interesting. I didn’t realize they discontinued the GT500 a year earlier than the rest of the S550 Mustangs.

This setup uses 2020-2023 GT500 calipers and rotors. Edit: Thank you to @2020FordRaptor for the clarification. This setups uses 2020-2022 GT500 calipers and rotors.

I wanted to share an update on the front brake line install. Thank you again to @UNBROKEN and @Cruising68 for your install tips as that helped immensely. It’s no joke that the threads for the flare nuts on the hard lines are beat up from some kind of weird/aggressive install method at the...

Thank you for your appreciation and good call on the 20” wheels maybe being a possibility. With how tight things seem with the 21” wheels I didn’t see how the 20” wheels would be an option, but I suppose that’s possible since the GT500 comes with 20” wheels so the rotors/calipers could fit...

Yes, lots of concern from people with the front/rear not feeling balanced. From what I can tell the brakes feel great both at threshold braking and beyond where I’ve purposely engaged the ABS.

I’ll do the rear upgrade when someone comes up with a way to do it cost effectively. To me, I can’t see paying a minimum of $1700 for just a pair larger rear rotors and brake caliper brackets, but am hopeful someone will come up with an setup for the rear that uses OEM components of some sort to...

Sorry, no before/after tests as far as different stopping distances. Feel wise, the new brakes feel a bit more firm which could partly be the hoses. The GT500 setup doesn’t feel as wild as you would expect in normal driving.

This can get expensive when buying everything new, but here are the part numbers for anyone that would like to go that way: GT500 adapter brackets from Tony Hernandez (mofospeedengineering@gcom) GT500 left caliper (KR3Z-2B121-C) GT500 right caliper (KR3Z-2B120-C) GT500 left rotor (KR3Z-1125-F)...

Final result plus a few glamor shots of the brakes

Pictures of the trimming that I did to the backing plates. I originally did not do this as Tony’s brackets just barely push into the backing plates, but that minor amount was still enough to push the backing plates into the rotors until I trimmed them.

Pictures of the original calipers and rotors as compared to the GT500 stuff. The stock front calipers look comically small compared to the GT500 calipers. Stock rotors are 14” vs 16.5” for the GT500

I bit the bullet and did the GT500 front caliper/rotor upgrade. Here’s what I learned, in no particular order: 1) This is almost entirely a direct bolt on using the brackets from Tony Hernandez 2) The only modification needed is trimming the backing plates slightly to clear Tony’s brackets. I...

I have the CVF DP’s and am 100% satisfied with the. No odd vibrations or anything like that either.