Attention now turned to performance enhancements to the Ford Zephyr. Starting with the triple carburettor conversion which consisted of two additionally linked carburettors that came into operation above 30mph.
The set-up was quite successful but was only sold in relatively small numbers. It did not reach a point where it justified a new manifold casting, although this had been designed and costed. With the increase in performance a front disc brake conversion was designed using Girling callipers. The balance between front and rear on this servo-assisted set-up was not so easy to achieve because there was not the range of rear wheel cylinder sizes to reduce their braking effort. A juggle of different brake materials achieved a satisfactory result.
Resulting from the wire wheels used on the Palm Beach, a wire wheel conversion was produced for both Ford Consul and Zephyr models. Around the 60’s it was still the vogue to fit wire wheels, plus it did improve the airflow past the brakes. Inevitably there was a request for a disc brake version of the wire wheel conversion, however the cost of another new hub design and manufacture precluded this request.
Following on from the larger Ford saloons it was only time before there was a call for a disc brake conversion for the Ford 105E. This was, in the end, the most successful disc brake conversion produced with over a thousand sets being made. The Ford 105E was gaining in popularity in both rally and race form and the inadequacies of the standard drum brakes were very apparent. The demand was such that it was hard to match the ever-increasing number of orders.