Photography by Tim Suddard
If you’re going to put your early Mustang on track, you’ll want to have brake ducts.
We turned to Cobra Automotive for a pre-fab duct kit for our 1965 Mustang vintage racer. The company offers kits for both the stock-type, 11-inch rotors or the 12-inch setup that we installed. Both work with the Shelby-style front apron.
The two kits each use its own dedicated bracket, but either way it needs to be mounted to the spindle before fitting the brakes.
To make this installation easier, we removed the front apron before securing the hoses with the included clamps.
Once we reattached the apron, we ran the hoses beneath the lower A-arms and, using the supplied hose clamps, attached them to the spindle brackets.
The final step is to attach the hoses to the frame and brake lines with the supplied clamps and tie-downs.
That brings back memories.
I was amateur racing in the early 1970s through the 90s and it was a group that tended to do their own mods based on whatever they thought would work. I recall more than a handful of projects like this where the owner/modifier had miscalculated the amount that the steering lock would affect things - we even coined a term for it - when someone was absent in their first practice with this sort of demon tweak, and later came in on the end of a line, they were referred to as 'going slinky' as the dryer exhaust hose they usually used looked like a giant disemboweled slinky toy strung across the track.
Great series of posts, BTW.
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