Rear Disc Brake Kit, who makes the best one?

[Ford.P51]

I bought the Summit Racing rear disc kit about a year ago, I think it was $500.



Its OK. The calipers are off of a 87 Ford Thunderbird turbo if I remember correctly. Once nice feature is that it re-uses your e-brake cables. I have a little brake pad chatter when the brakes aren't depressed due to the way the pads hang in the caliper. Drives me crazy, a soft tick tick tick when cruising.Gotta do something about that.

Brad's setup looks much nicer though, I would have gone that route if I had known about it.

[Chryco Psycho]

How wide is that caliper ? would it hit a sway bar linked to the middel of the leaf spring ?

[oldkimmer]

.....kevin 71..........r u using a stock width e body housing........springs in factory location.........thanks.........kim.......

[Mopar_Mudder]

Got mine from these guys http://www.getdiscbrakes.com/

Front and rear disc with new MC and booster. Sorry can't say if it is any good yet because it is far from ready to drive, everything seems to fit well though.

[dodj]

A little off topic, but why fit disc brakes to the rear of an e-body. They seem to be over braked in the rear already. I've installed a valve to reduce rear braking force. Wouldn't discs make the rear brake problem worse?
Unsprung weight improvement? 

[Chryco Psycho]

A little off topic, but why fit disc brakes to the rear of an e-body. They seem to be over braked in the rear already. I've installed a valve to reduce rear braking force. Wouldn't discs make the rear brake problem worse?
Unsprung weight improvement? 

It goes back to the problem with front drum brakes , you could stop OK & even lock the wheels on the first stop but after repeated stops the drum fade to nothing , if you want the rear brakes to always be there on repeated stops disc is the way to go

[Mopar_Mudder]

Has nothing to do with more braking power. Why don't they still use drum's on cars? Cause they are a real reliablity nightmare. Never pull even, rusted together in the spring when you go to move the car, don't work 1/2 the time. When they are in the back you don't notice it much, most people would notice if the back brakes didn't work at all.

[Road_Runner]

Has nothing to do with more braking power. Why don't they still use drum's on cars? Cause they are a real reliablity nightmare. Never pull even, rusted together in the spring when you go to move the car, don't work 1/2 the time. When they are in the back you don't notice it much, most people would notice if the back brakes didn't work at all.

I started driving when new cars were just starting to convert over to discs on front, virtually none had them on the rear, yet.  For cars that get driven regularly I'm not sure I'd agree that drum brakes were or are a reliability nightmare.  I'll never forget the first time I romped down on the brakes in my mother's Olds 88 with power discs ...  WHOAH!!! One large cloud of tire smoke later I had learned how much more stopping power disc brakes had than my Roadrunner's 'police spec' 11" drums on all 4 corners.  At least in the beginning, the added stopping power of discs were the draw.  It may be true that modern disc brakes have fewer moving parts, but in my experience I've had more issues through the years with faulty calipers, etc.  No doubt discs are better, and the Roadrunner is getting them on front for sure.

Later, Jim