Rear disc conversion 92-99
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has anyone attempted a rear disc conversion? the stock brakes...suck!!
A couple of 80-90mph stops on the autobahn :(
A couple of 80-90mph stops on the autobahn :(
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First clean up what you have then get a proportioning valve an change the balance from a 80-20 split to a 7030 split that will help quite a bit. Then if its still lame drop me a line and I can get you a kit.
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Why get rid of the rear drum brakes? I thought about it too, mostly because of cosmetics reasons. Because it didn't make my rear wheel look good, but I later found out through research that drum brakes are much better for stopping than disc. Because drum brakes lock the wheel from turning, while disc brakes use friction to slow down the vehicle. Plus they last a hell lot longer ![Smile](https://www.gmforum.com/gm/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Don't waste your time and money for performance stopping, drums work great and just as viable.. hell you can even paint them to your liking
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Don't waste your time and money for performance stopping, drums work great and just as viable.. hell you can even paint them to your liking
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They both use friction to stop a car, the drum just pushed OUTWARDS onto the drum, and the disc pushes into a disc. Disc brakes have MUCH better performance, i don't know where you got that info...
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Originally Posted by BonneMeMN
They both use friction to stop a car, the drum just pushed OUTWARDS onto the drum, and the disc pushes into a disc. Disc brakes have MUCH better performance, i don't know where you got that info...
Well now however; brake disc technology has gotten really advance.. and with ceramic tiles it can do alot more. But to each his own.. 4 disc brakes on a early bonneville would be for total for show in my view.
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Sometimes disc brakes are not all that good. For example. My mom owns a Suburu Legacy Wagon I believe it is a 98 but I might be wrong. When she first started looking at it she noticed that the model that was made the year before had rear disk brakes standard and hers came standard with drums. She ended up finding out that they had a lot of problems with the rear disk brakes wearing out to quick they would go in like half the time the fronts would go so Suburu switched back to drums the following year. Now that we have ceramic breaks the wearing time would probably be greatly extended.
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Originally Posted by parallelcircuits
Sometimes disc brakes are not all that good. For example. My mom owns a Suburu Legacy Wagon I believe it is a 98 but I might be wrong. When she first started looking at it she noticed that the model that was made the year before had rear disk brakes standard and hers came standard with drums. She ended up finding out that they had a lot of problems with the rear disk brakes wearing out to quick they would go in like half the time the fronts would go so Suburu switched back to drums the following year. Now that we have ceramic breaks the wearing time would probably be greatly extended.
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Originally Posted by Rogue
Was this AWD? In FWD your front brakes do 2/3 of the braking...
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