View Single Post
  #1  
Old 10-26-2009, 07:18 PM
Northeast Rod Run's Avatar
Northeast Rod Run Northeast Rod Run is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 363
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Question 4 wheel manual disc brakes?

just looking for some experienced input here.

right now I have power front discs and rear drum brakes on my big block '69 Camaro. Even with a vacuum canister, it's never produced great vacuum because of my cam profile.

So i'm wondering if i went with manual 4 wheel discs, would the car still stop good or would it maybe stop worse than my current set-up? I also started thinking about this because I like the idea of a cleaner firewall without the booster and vacuum lines.

it's been so long since the car had manual brakes, and it never had discs all the way around. I just remember, back in the day, with manual drums it used to be a SOB trying to stop at the end of the quarter mile (and that was only high 12, low 13 second times with a small block)

anyone have some good input for me?

Last edited by Northeast Rod Run; 10-26-2009 at 07:23 PM.
Reply With Quote