Hot Rods Disc brakes & wide five wheels?

Has anybody put wide five wheels and disc brakes onto a 37-48 Ford? How much did it increase the track width of the front end?

 

Who's kit are you using?

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...c-brake-front-hubs-for-early-spindles.860206/

 

I bought the narrowest kit (from Magnum), but it still adds 1/2" of width compared to stock 37-39 drum brakes. Plus the Wide Five adapter is 1/2" so my wheels each moved out 1".
Has anybody else used disc brakes and Wide Fives? Did you modify the wheels to have more backspacing? Or did you leave them stock, and did that affect the steering performance by having the tires moved outboard?

 

Part of the beauty of the wide fives is NO hubcaps and the smooth drum showing through...**clic pic for larger image**

 

Agreed S**** Metal 48, they do look good. But I figured that someone before me had used them with front disc brakes? Surely it has been done by somebody?

 

What axle? Is it dropped and narrowed, or a narrowed, dropped new axle? If so, your not likely increasing track width much over stock.

 

I'm using all the standard 1937 Ford parts except the new disc brakes. The difference between new disc brake hubs and the old 37 brake hubs is 1/2" per side, plus 1/2" per side for the wide 5 adapters. So the track width increases 2" total.

 

Chris Haggerty.... KingHag on here is running them on his dad's 39, but it's a dropped, narrowed axle.

 

thanks! I'll find him and ask about the steering effort. It seems that it should be a bit harder to steer with the tires moved away from the kingpin. But the narrowed axle does keep the track width ok.

 

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Really nice coupe. Starting to warm up to that unchopped look.[emoji41]


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Here is the way to do it.

 

Well, what to do...how....thanks.

 

split screen van wide 5 disc

afterall, the vw is a 37 ford - runs and hides
205mm pcd = 8 inches
will have m14 -1.5 studs
outer bearings a 3/4 - 19.05
dont matter on inners as you can fabracobble that

 

This is what I did, it is not an answer to your question but I thought I would share. I wanted the complexity of the wide five look but did not want to use the flat adapters and did not want to try and come up with a method for using wide five drums on a modern rear end, (I am sure there is a solution there).

These are from the second set I had cast at an aircraft part producing foundry in the NW. They are cast out of A-356 aircraft grade aluminum, heat treated and I machined them on a milling center.

I have had a set of the first casting run on a 31 sedan a friend of mine built for several years. He has put a bunch of miles on them in some of the roughest roads in the NW.

I designed them to take on the utilitarian look of racing parts from the past, I love the early Halibrand parts. I started of the design thinking I was going to machine them from billet but I kept going back to the cast look, something that is unmistakably traditional. I was going to try and sell some to offset my costs, and there were plenty, but the company I worked for shut my division down and I had to start a new career, so the project got back burnered.

I almost did not post this because it does not really help you, but maybe there is some interest in an offering like this.




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