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Originally Posted by Ron Sutton
Hey Lance,
Speedway can weld on "common" race brake caliper mounts during the process. But if you want to run your Ford Explorer rear brakes, we'll need to send them along with the housing or you'll need to weld on the brackets yourself when it returns. Do those Ford Explorer rear brakes use rotors with a built in hat that slips over the studs?
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They do use a rotor that slips over the studs. The caliper mount is more like a brake backing plate than just a mount as it also holds all of the e-brake shoes and springs in place.
It's all very tight back there, I had to rotate the backing plates 180 degrees from normal mounting position to put them forward and down of the housing to get them to clear the frame and it is still very close.
That would be my concern about sending the housing off to have different ends welded onto it, making sure it would all still fit once it came back.
I'd consider switching to a different style of rear caliper if it made a switch to a full floater easier for packaging...if it wasn't too costly and I could keep my same wheels.