Budget front disc brake conversion

[Scarebird]

Hi Carl, did not know you frequented this board. When are you going to shut off the rain?

 

[Stangboy67]

Hows April-May sound!

 

[BullittStangV8]

I'm planning on making 350 or so HP outta my new motor, so i want to have the breaks needed to slow it down..Stangboy: from what you can tell, do you think they should be fine for strip use/some high speed slow downs?
Mike

 

[Stangboy67]

My setup still has the stock replacement pads that came with the calipers and I have not run into stopping issues on the street. This includes hard stops from 70 off the freeway when playing on the ramps. Have not noticed any fade, but have not made repeated back to back high speed stops either.

I'm looking forward to seeing how well they work at the drag strip. The stock drum brakes would fade pretty bad (serious pedal effort) on the second quick turn around pass on the drag strip (from around 100 mph) and the third time (only tried once, very scary and somewhat foolish!) I almost went of the end of the track with both feet on the pedal. I don't see that happening with the current disks. Also, as Scarebird mentioned, there are other more aggressive compounds to try out.

 

[Scarebird]

Also, you can get oversized calipers, they have larger bores; 2-3/4" vs. 2-1/2" for more front bias. I cannot personally recommend them- US Brake makes them, but they seem to be Chinese copys bored out larger. I was not impressed by their stuff at SEMA.