Mike's TR7 Ford repower project

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Thanks for the info Mike, I realized after I posted, that Christmas break was probably not a great time to ask questions.  :-)

Just to confirm,  did you move both bearings or just the outer one?

It looks like you sandwiched the brake rotor between the hub's wheel mount surface and a custom bolt on wheel spacer/adapter.  Did you source the spacer pre-made from somewhere or machine it up to your own specifications?

To mount the calipers did you use straight alloy plate for the adapter or did  you need to mill an offset or  recess into the plate for either the caliper or strut bolts to align everything correctly?

regards

Mark

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Mark,

I only moved the outer bearing.  

I needed the wheel spacers to get the tires away from the strut tubes.  They are just standard 1.125" wheel spacers.  

There is an offset in the caliper mounting.  I made flat brackets (1/2" stock) and then made spacers to bolt the calipers onto the brackets (about 0.200").  You could mill the offset into the bracket.

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Mike
Much difference was there in the offset between the original front hubs and the trailer hubs?

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4 years later, I'm still loving the 5.0 TR7.  After a few cruise in's with people thoroughly impressed with the repower (but not the body of the car), I decided the body was no longer good enough.  For myself, I wanted the bottom to be perfect when I'm under it on my lift, so I embarked on this little project:


Spent a lot of time getting things straight.  I left some factory wrinkles and spot welds.  I'm so happy with the pristine looking front air dam.  I remade the triangular braces that hold the air dam because they were never going to be back to perfect.  


How long will it stay like this?