Bobby,
The rear disks for the 79 Lincoln Continial are 11 1/2" dia and a
minimum
of .895 thick. The fronts are 12" dia and a minimum of 1.12" thick.
With an aluminum wheel with 3 3/4" backspacing, I have 1 1/4" from outer
edge of front disk to the inner part of the wheel. The rear surface of the
front disk is 1/2" down inside the wheel. On the rear, the rear surface
of the disk is 2 1/2" down inside the wheel. There is 1 3/4" from disk
outer edge to the inside of the wheel. The wheel pattern is 5X5.
The rear disks come in right and left because the internal cooling vanes are
curved. The front disks have streight internal cooling vanes and therefore
there is no "right" or "left" version.
Jim Barrett Tiger II 351C and others.
At 04:26 pm 7/10/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Jim
>
>Thanks for your input regarding the Lincon rear end. I'm still leaning
>toward the use of the versailes 9" inspite of the increase in unsprung
>weight. I
>road raced a tiger 20 years back and to spite cross drilling the rotors,
>and ducting cool air to the front brakes, there still was some brake fade
>after repeated hard uses. The tires I will be useing are 24X11.5X15 F and
>25X12.5X15 R
>an full inch wider, at both ends, than the tires I ran back then.
>The disks for the Versailles come in 10 and 11 inch sizes, and are vented,
>so with the additional cross drilling they should fill the bill.
> Running at different tracks also will require the use of different final
>drive ratios 3.36, 3.54, 3.73, at least, so the ease in changeing 3rd
>members is attractive, as well as the lower exspence
> This car is far from done. It's much closer to being
>started. With materials for the tube frame do in any day, I'm about to
>smoke my drafting board trying to finish the design. So much to double and
>triple check, it's really a butt-kicker, as I'm sure you know. Do you know
>if the fellows running Tigers in the Indiana, and Ohio areas (Barry
>schonberger, and Tom Patton, I think???) are useing the Tiger rear ends?
>And, one more question, If I may.How is the clearence on your wheel/ rotor
>set up? Again, thanks for your
>responce. Hay, keep me posted on
>your 1/4 miler, if you can, my son is very enterested in the same racing
>discipline as you. - May have to build two frames- Ha!
>
>
>Take care
>Bobby Jones B382001345
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