67 Mustang Drum Brake Question

Why not BOLT ON the 67 Mustang Factory K/H style Disc Brakes. 4 Piston per caliper, 11 19/64" rotors of Safe Braking?

Yes, this will bolt on your spindles. Every 67 Mustang made had C6OA Spindles, That is what you have.

Not only much better brakes, but will increase the value, and be Assembly Line correct.

Dan @ Chockostang

Like Chocko says, the best balance of performance and originality is the K/H discs.

I don't know of anything that will dramatically improve your drums' performance.

I have power drums, they work fine for everyday driving.

i also recommend using the factory style front disc brakes. as the others said, they bolt on, and look stock.

rbohm said:

i also recommend using the factory style front disc brakes. as the others said, they bolt on, and look stock.

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And don't suck.

It is worth mentioning that with a disc conversion some people have expected less pedal travel, only to find that what they were expecting is more the effect of power brakes. Others have found that they had to carefully adjust the rear brakes (as I probably need). There was a thread with a good discussion of this several months back.

I just want to repeat what everyone else has said...i had 4 wheel drums on my 67 and upgraded to front disc.....and it was night and day difference, then I had another free weekend and put the power brake booster on it....again another dramatic leap in the braking of my car. If its just a 67 coupe, there were tons and tons of them, if anything you will increase the value of your car by doing this conversion.

Mystang66 said:

I'm restoring a 67 Mustang and want to keep it as original as possible. I'm trying to stick with the drum brakes but since I will be driving this somewhat regularly, I want to know if there is some sort of performance drum brake setup out there that is more responsive and safer?

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The drum brakes work perfectly well when properly installed and adjusted. Not as an answer to anyone here, but when I get a car, driver complaining it pulls and wanders, invariably it turns out there are out of true drums, overcut drums, improperly installed shoes, frozen or stiff adjusters, poorly adjusted front bearings, even mis-matched wheel cylinders. Naturally, if your drum brake car has only one of these problems, newly installed disc brakes will seem like a huge improvement. If your drums were in perfect shape, not so much.

Dan Gurney tested a K code 289 High Performance Mustang, with the 289HP, close-ratio 4-speed, 4.11:1 rear, and drum brakes. He had no complaints about the brakes.

The stock drum and stock disc brakes have virtually identical swept area. The disc brakes are much less effected by fade in repeated hard use, and recover more quickly. Many times I've had people ask for disc brakes, and before proceeding, I ask them why. If they are driving the car hard, or in competition (even for fun), towing a trailer, etc., I go with it. If they just want the pedal to be easier, I encourage them to put power on the drums instead. Manual discs are actually harder than manual drums. Not one of these people has ever complained, they are always very happy with the results.

Drums do generally have less parasitic drag than discs...and 2+2 does have a valid point that properly adjusted drums work very well....but its a lot of moving parts, springs, tensioners, adjusters, what have you....discs are simple and no adjustment necessary.

i ditched the drums for disc and have never even thougth to look back... car feels 10000000000 times better. Drums ...