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Princess calipers

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Hi,I think its time to upgrade my front brakes before I venture on the road,What is or was the fuss over princess brake calipers? are they better than using xr4 calipers or not? cheers dave



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Post by Coops »

i used the princess ones upto september last year with no probs at all, they are a good upgrade as long as you find a decent set of calipers, which now days is near beyond impossible,
the granada conversion is a good conversion, and i have had the pleasure of trying them on a car, and was impressed,
Im now using the next generation of caprisport brake packages, and believe me they are f@@king awsome
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Thanks for comments,think I will go for princess calipers as they are in my garage somewhere,then upgrade later when funds allow,was there a spacer kit for these princess calipers? if so where from,Cheers Dave

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yup you will need a spacer kit,
i think rally design sell em for the escorts etc,
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Hi,my princess calipers are needing seals,would you re-seal princess calipers and buy a spacer kit,or would you buy the caliper bracket and go straight for the caprisport gtr260 system,has you have used both you know what works the best,cheers

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the gtr260 mate,
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I have a GTR 260 system thats only done 800 miles that I will be selling very soon together with coil over Bilsteins if your interested.

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Post by 2.eight turbo »

Re build kits are available for the ap/princess calipers,not expensive either.
I re built and spaced 6 of em recently!

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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: Princess calipers

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Hi,I think its time to upgrade my front brakes before I venture on the road,What is or was the fuss over princess brake calipers? are they better than using xr4 calipers or not? cheers dave
Think you have the answer to that one?

The Princess caliper is a cast iron antique - the only reason people used them was is ease of fitting and were cheap in the dim and distant.

Now there are much better solutions, there is no good reason - leav 'em to the Escort fanciers.

You won't like this but here's how it is - stop wasting time asking questions and have a deal with Reg.
When you finally see the light and do it, you'll wonder why you didn't do it years ago, and you too will laugh at the Princess caliper joke.
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