yeah sorry i wasn't very specific about the rear brakes.
I have the rear brake kit which bill evanoff sells through
www.supercoupeperformance.com
so no, i didn't change to the mustang hub (bolt pattern). but i could easily if i wanted to, the hubs are interchangable (99 cobra is the only year i know for sure works, 03 have more splines) and the rotors are actually mustangers redrilled for the bird, so both patterens are on there.
so for the rear brakes i got the kit which comes with the "braket" required to offset the "thunderbird" calipers so they will fit with the bigger rotor. as far as i know, you canNOT use the cobra rear calipers, because of the way the ebrake cable attaches, i have not verified or even experimented with this, but i doubt that there would even be any increase in performance.
however if you have the time to make your own caliper braket, i would suggest doing so, that way you save about 200 bucks. you can get some directions and lots of info from doug's website, listed by fastedn.
as far as brake lines go, i replaced my rubber hoses in the front only. i don't have the info with me here at school but i think i can get ahold of it if you need it. basically just a
www.russellperformance.com or earls universal braided hose, i would suggest about 22inches minimum, an adapter and a banjo end. i think autozone carries russell stuff, but i think
www.summitracing.com has better prices.
for the front brakes, i got my calipers from
www.discbrakesrus.com. they came with everything required to intall (on a mustang). so in that sense, yes they will fit right on. i don't have my car at school, and don't remember how the caliper looked, but i suppose if you bought used calipers you could potentially be missing the braket that the calipers rest on.
as for wheels i got knock off cobras 17x9 from a company on ebay. they are located in sarasota florida, i don't remember the name of the company something like OE wheel distributors or something. i got the painted ones delivered, for 660 total and that is with valve stems, chrome lugs and locks and a "snake" cetner cap, and shipped all the way to california. ohh yeah they are made by "detroit wheels"
also i don't recall exactly what the offset was, but i had a problem with them. the inside lip rubbed on my spindle, and i had to make a spacer. I don't know now, but i did hours of calculating and stuff trying to figure out how to put the 03 cobra wheels on my car and resolved that i couldn't, but then i had problems with the wheels i have now, so i'm not sure exactly on what range of offsets is acceptable.
I wish someone could do a geometric comparison of the spindles between 93+ and the earlier models.
only thing is that the original center caps "SVT" from a 2000+ cobra will not fit because the hubs are different sizes. unfortunately now i have a set of center caps waiting until i sign up to be an ebay seller.
i've been writing so long, i don't know what else to include. if something doesn't make sense or you want to know something else, please ask. I spent a lot of hours trying to figure stuff* out. when something goes awry i hate that, but i've gotten used to it.
jim