A Five-lug upgrade made simple with all-inclusive swap gear from SSBC
Be it through hearsay or firsthand experience, most Fox Mustang owners are all too familiar with the fact that there's a limited assortment of stylish aftermarket wheels available for four-lug '79-'93 'Stangs... It's important to keep in mind that the switch to five lugs wasn't necessarily done for appearance purposes. Improving a 'Stang's stopping ability is always good: It didn't take 'Stangbangers long to realize the best way to have looks and functionality with a five-lug swap on a Fox is to ditch the drum brakes in the rear and set up a true four-wheel, disc-brake system... They had the car back on all fours-well, all fives-in about four hours. Getting a 'Stang safely elevated high enough is key. Once that's accomplished, you'll find SSBC stocked its kit with all the goods necessary to make the transformation easy ... click here for the rest of the article

Our little LX coupe takes a giant leap forward in the braking and looks department.
Ask anyone about Fox Mustang brakes and there will be some hesitation about their functionality. Some say they're merely adequate; others say they're downright dangerous. Obviously, apart from the SVOs or '93 Cobras, Fox Mustangs aren't known for their braking prowess. In past years, the aftermarket, in addition to other Ford products, has contributed to making sure Fox Mustang owners are able to bring the whoa after the go. Lincolns, SVO Mustangs, and even Ranger trucks have helped the Fox Mustang cause. But with our former four-cylinder coupe, we chose to forego the salvage yard and get our brake parts from Stainless Steel Brakes Corp. for a complete front and rear brake package. We also had to source several other companies to make everything come together, so watch for them as well for ideas to make your Fox Mustang brake with the best of them ... click here for the rest of the article

Article: Brake Stuff
Magazine: 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords (August 2002)
SSBC product: FX2 front kit A112-7 and standard rear kit A111-3. 

Stainless Steel Brakes has the answer for performance braking with OE serviceability.
It seems as though people are beginning to get the message. We're seeing more and more high-horsepower street Mustangs with serious brakes on them. This proliferation of big brakes is coming from the '94-and-later Cobra parts bins. This stems, of course, from the fact that the Cobra is an OE system, and service parts for it are no farther away than your nearest parts house ... click here for the rest of the article

Stainless Steel Brakes And LaMotta Performance Remove The Drama From Our Fox Brakes.
In a battery of tests conducted by Motor Trend magazine back in the day (Sept. ’92 issue) between a 5.0 LX and its contemporaries, the Mustang placed dead last in braking distance. It took the Mustang 138 feet to come to a halt from 60 mph, while the average braking distance between all the cars was 122.9 feet ... click here for the rest of the article

Installing SSBC’s Tri-Power Front Brake Upgrade.
Now more than 15 years after its introduction, the ZR-1 is still an incredible car, but it no longer ranks with the world’s best sports cars. Sure, its 400hp LT5 engine still packs an awesome punch, but compared to the new Z06 and other similar cars, the ZR-1 doesn’t have nearly enough braking power to match its top-end performance potential. That’s a deficiency that could leave you in a situation with no good alternatives. Fortunately, if you think ahead, there are alternatives. The best one is to install a new brake package in your Vette, and one of the companies that can help you with just such a task is Stainless Steel Brakes Corporation (SSBC). SSBC’s kit for the ZR-1 (and other C4 models) will replace your twin-piston PBR calipers with SSBC’s three-piston, Tri-Power calipers and larger 13-inch slotted rotors. The kit also includes braided stainless brake hoses and all of the hardware necessary for installation ... click here for the rest of the article

Improve Your Third-Gen F-Body's Braking Performance With Stainless Steel Brakes Products
Our resident Third-Gen project car Blue Thunder was in dire need of a brake overhaul, but we felt an upgrade was in order, as both the engine and suspension have moved further up in their respective performance realms. That being the case, we looked for an inexpensive way to accomplish this and found a solution with Stainless Steel Brakes Corp. (SSBC) of Clarence, New York. This solution included upgrading the stock front brakes from steel single-piston calipers to aluminum two-piston pieces with SSBC's Quick Change Caliper kit. The kit comes with a pair of SSBC's SportTwin two-piston aluminum calipers, hardware and a set of high-performance brake pads. Calipers can be ordered in several powder-coated colors, and clear anodized or polished finishes are also available. The SSBC kit is a simple remove and replace job, hence the Quick Change name ...

Article: Braking The Control Freak S197 Mustang
Magazine: Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords (September 2006)
SSBC product: Front Force 10 V8 8-piston caliper kit A112-17 

Going on a stopping spree and an astonishing driving experience.
Last month, we launched our buildup series about an S197 Mustang modified right in the middle of the San Diego Auto Show ("Independent Thinker"). The first installment was on the Control Freak front suspension conversion from struts to tubular A-arms. One important item was not covered in detail, however: the brakes. That's because they deserve special attention all on their own, since they have eight--count 'em, eight--pistons in each front caliper. Offered as an option on the Control Freak package, the Force 10 V8 eight-piston calipers and 14-inch rotors are made by Stainless Steel Brakes Corporation (SSBC). Why so many pistons? Obviously, increasing the clamping force is desirable, especially when you add a lot of horsepower... the stock binders have only a pair of 45mm pistons, while the SSBC calipers have eight 40mm pistons. Not only that, the grooved and plated rotors are 2 inches larger in diameter than the factory units, so this conversion provides a significant gain in clamping surface area... If you dive into a bend a bit too hot, just make sure you have your seatbelt on because those SSBC brakes haul down this Mustang like a body slam from Hulk Hogan. Repeated stabs at the brake pedal didn't faze these binders a bit ...

Our open-track warrior gets real stopping power from Stainless Steel Brakes' Force 10 Extreme kit.
When it comes time to upgrade the reins on your colt, the Clarence, New York-based Stainless Steel Brakes Corporation (SSBC) has just what you need. Thirty years of experience designing performance brake upgrades for musclecars have taught the company a thing or two about keeping up with the Jones'. The SSBC line for Mustangs has several choices that will meet or exceed your needs... you certainly can't complain about the performance of the SSBC brake system, as it boasts the lowest 100-0 mph stopping distance of any brake kit we have ever tested. After a full day of hot-lapping on the MM&FF handling course, Technical Editor Evan Smith said there was not even a hint of fade; the binders performed flawlessly all day long. Previous visits to this course with the stock brakes would allow only three or four laps before the brakes would noticeably fade, whereas the SSBC brakes hardly broke a sweat. The increase in pedal feel and reaction time alone, in addition to the incredible power in the front calipers that literally plant your nose on the windshield at will, has the potential to allow late braking at every single corner on the track and effectively reduce lap times ... click here for the rest of the article

FAST FIX FOR FAST FOXES
For many Fox-body owners, straight-line performance is the name of the game. Pumping one of these classic bodies to haul down the quarter is relatively easy with all the aftermarket support these cars enjoy. They even handle decent out of the box. The important question comes at the long end of the track. It’s a short track and there isn’t much room for slowing down. The stock brakes are just not quite enough to slow down an 11-second Pony. Don’t find out the hard way... For our race-oriented ’92 Mustang, we wanted a lightweight system that required a minimal amount of modifications and would work with stock wheels. The solution was easy - Stainless Steel Brakes Corporation... The Mustang was tested before and after, using a Vericom VC3000 data-logging performance meter. This extremely accurate computer measures speed, braking time, braking distance and g-forces. The results were impressive... In the 0-30-0 testing, the stock Mustang took 2.82 seconds to stop at 63.35 feet, at an average speed of 31.43 mph. With the new brakes, the car only required 1.98 seconds to stop within 46.36 feet, at an average speed of 31.53 mph. This is a difference of nearly 20 feet and one second, more than enough to make a difference. The 0-60-0 testing results were similar, with the stock car stopping in 6.37 seconds and 286.51 feet while the modified Mustang stopped in 5.85 seconds at 197.65 feet. That is almost 100 feet shorter than the stock Mustang, which is substantial in the world of fast braking ... click here for the rest of the article

POWER BINDERS ARE JUST THE TICKET FOR THIS TRACK CAR, AND WILL GET THE JOB DONE ON YOUR STREET PONY AS WELL
When building a race car you never quite know what you need until you hit the track. Since this was the maiden year for the Evolution Motorsport entry into the OH/IN American Iron series (EvM AI 2005), the EvM team quickly found that out. Obviously they had done their homework and managed to build up what seems to be a competitive car. To be more specific, they built a 1995 Ford Mustang outfitted with a host of aftermarket product sponsorships and EvM’s own components. In its final form, the car seemed to take to the track quite well during testing. However, by the time the second race came around it was apparent that the EvM AI 2005 Race Car needed a brake upgrade ... click here for the rest of the article

Improve the looks and performance of your street-driven F-body with a Tri-Power Force 10 brake kit from Stainless Steel Brakes Corporation
When the fourth-generation Camaro and Firebird were introduced in 1993, it was heralded as the best F-body yet. With 27 hp on tap, a 6-speed manual transmission, fighter-jet styling, razor-sharp rack and pinion steering, true double A-arm suspension up front and standard 16-inch alloy wheels wrapped with Goodyear's best Gatorbacks, you could really haul the mail... But there was trouble in paradise. V8-powered F-bodies had marginal 10.9-inch diameter rotors up front, and they were clamped by over-worked single-piston calipers made of cast iron... you could find yourself in trouble really quick if you had to slow down in a hurry from a buck twenty... Meanwhile, we had been watching the folks from Stainless Steel Brakes Corporation with interest. They had just released their new line of Tri-Power Force 10 calipers for the C5 Corvette, and we knew from experience that C5 brake parts adapted very well to fourth-gen F-bodies... the best part of the system is the new three-piston Tri-Power caliper. Three pistons do a much better job than one piston for one simple reason: clamping force is evenly distributed across the pad surface, and that makes a given pad area more effective. The caliper itself is made of aircraft-quality billet aluminum for weight reduction and strength, but each of the three 38mm pistons is made of corrosion-resistant stainless steel. This minimizes heat transfer from the pad to the fluid resulting in zero brake fade ... click here for the rest of the article

Tri-Power Stopping For Fourth-Gen Camaros
While late-model Camaros may not posses the raw power of a big-block Chevelle or the high-revving twist of the 302-inch '69 Camaro they are well known for their awesome stopping power. Our Road Rage testing provided us with 60-0 mph numbers consistently at 132 feet, a very impressive number for a stock vehicle. After all, four-wheel discs, ABS and a set of 275mm tires make all the difference in the world. After looking at the import market and a few of our competitors' vehicles we determined that squeezing a few more feet out of our '02 Z28 was a must, but not at the cost of pedal comfort or extreme financial cost. Stainless Steel Brakes Corporation offers a "quick change" caliper and rotor upgrade for the C5 and Gen IV Camaro. The Tri-Power (we love the name) kit provides new calipers, rotors, flex lines, pads and all the hardware necessary to make the switch. The beauty of the kit is the use of the OE cradles, master cylinder and power booster. It was our observation that the kit really was a quick change over, taking all of 90 minutes wheel to wheel. 60-0 mph braking was 132ft with stock brakes; it was 118ft with the Tri-Power calipers, a 10% - or about 1 car length - improvement.

Putting the brakes on it
Powerful, reliable brakes are critical not only when performing spirited driving maneuvers, but also in everyday traffic, where a few extra feet of stopping distance can mean the difference between a moment's drama and a hefty repair bill. After a lengthy search of the performance-brake aftermarket, we settled on Stainless Steel Brake Corporation's Front and Rear Short Stop Slotted Rotor and Upgrade Brake Pad Kit (Part No. A2350008). Priced at a reasonable $695, the system features plated, stock-sized front and rear rotors with curved vanes and directional slotting. A set of high-performance organic brake pads is also included ... click here for the rest of the article