Hello
We need to work out what you have on your car.
Are the disks vented or solid? i'd expect solid.
VEs used a PBR caliper with square pads. this is a 2 piston caliper 97.5% sure yours will have them
however i'd normally say a UK car will have been messed with and what was available at the time used to update it
so you can't be sure... however you sound like you can be sure if the car is a 1 owner car
but it is still worth checking
are the calipers Kelsey calipers where the caliper head slides on bushes and pins. A 1 piston slider caliper
or
Girlock calipers where the caliper head slides on a crab claw type bracket and is held on by spring plates and half height bolt heads. visible when the wheel is off again a 1 piston slider caliper.
These look like mid 80s to mid 90s US 1 pot calipers but are 1/16th of an inch different in a number of dimensions meaning pads don't fit and swaps are awkward
be good to know you wheel PCD as well would expect 5 bolts on a 4 inch PCD
VE could be had with disks but many in Oz had drums so yours has either an Option or special UK spec Export only brakes i.e the option won't be called out as it would be in Oz as all UK export cars got them
VF VG and VH used a kelsey caliper
VJ onwards used a girlock.
later again 1976 chrysler went back to PBR with a crap aluminium caliper that warped badly they are not very good and you won't find any here in the UK
VE pads for the PBR caliper
https://www.pentastarparts.com.au/store ... etail&p=47
VE disk brakes in total (2 pages in the link below) check the caliper image to help ID yours, look also at VF VG VH and VJ each has a picture of the caliper and the pads to help discount any changes made.
https://www.powerbrakes.com.au/shop/ind ... daf0a99cc4
here (link below) is all the gear for a car that could be a VE from 1968 or indeed a VF 69, VG 1970, VH 1971 i.e a Car that got kelsey calipers for some reason, used initially in a piecemeal way VE and VF (probably supplier problems with PBR) then always from very Late VF (the ones that got VG bits) onwards until the end of 1973
check the image of the pads. definitely not square but you do have the potential for these to be fitted to your car in which case refer to them as VG 1 year only solid disc brakes on a VE if you speak to a supplier
https://www.empoweredautoparts.com.au/d ... -fro~11444
Pads for all could be ordered via your local bendix supplier but it is easier to just get this stuff from OZ, your local parts store will just have a guy who asks you for you registration number and then gets all hot and bothered when he can't work out what your car is, and you insist on buying a part he can't link back to data on his computer.
computer will say NO and so will he.
if completely stuck i think a set of VJ 73--> calipers brackets hubs and rotors will bolt on to your car i.e Girlocks but your wheels might not fit afterwards. this is the best aussie set up if your wheels fit. but 5 on 4.5 inch PCD hubs are necessary and that won't match your wheels or your rear axle
all is not lost
just need to work out what you need....
keep in mind that australia used the same factories for GM Ford and Chrylser parts so there may be cross pollination
for example pads for my VJ Girlock disc set up cost 2 times the price of the very same pads when they are advertised for a Holden
getting the part number from a website or ebay and then searching for a supplier based on part number alone brings rewards, and rewards that are usually enough to pay the import duty, you would have paid, had you purchased the part as advertised for a valiant.
....Mopar Tax is alive and well in Australia as well as the US, the parts always cost more if chrysler, Mopar or valiant appears in the advert, but in Oz the market was small and the same manufactures made parts for all 3, Ford GM Holdens and Chrysler.
some parts are just better sourced from the US (drum stuff especially, is identical with US 9 inch drums so with a bit of research getting rear drum stuff cheap from rockauto.com is the best way).
Investigation indicates that Aussie front brakes are Aussie front brakes, conversion to US spec involves changing everything from the stub axle outwards. The caliper mounting holes in the stub axles are however in the same place as US A body cars. and you would need a friendly bearing place to assist with fitment of the hubs to the spindle.
nothing wrong with standard brakes provided the brake bias junction thingo still works
your master cylinder is standard VE VF VG VH and i have a spare lid seal somewhere if you need one. i have no idea about servos but believe an aussie one can be swapped with a UK one from a similar vintage rootes or ford. can't remember who designed them but the recipe was the same across continents UK sourced diaphragms and springs can be fitted to aussie servos etc are they lockheed??? dunno mine doesn't have one
PS I steer clear of Hemi performance as a supplier...i just don't like them, i use them only if they are the only sellers of a product i want. This is based on prior dealings where i have been most annoyed by what arrived and the excuses made when I complained. having said that i have bourne this grudge for 10 + years and recent dealings on oil seals etc have been trouble free
let us know how you get on. and if i've just served to confuse matters let me know and i'll do a YES/NO or 1 sentence answer
Dave
