dart4forte
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Anyone here use this setup? Seems pretty straight forward. I favor the single piston caliper which this kit uses.
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I had a kit from SSBC on my 65 Fury but it was 4 piston. Mine were Corvette calipers and pad replacement was done by giving the counterman the year of Corvette. Unfortunately the SSBC wasn't up to the job of stopping my car well and when I upped the horsepower they were even worse. Not too sure the weight of your beast but I would think that you need all the stopping friction you can muster and I'm doubtful that a single piston caliper would be your best choice. To be sure, calculate the total square area of the friction material on your existing shoes and then the pads. Shoes use a 1" piston and the calipers probably 2" so you have a great pressure multiplier using the larger piston in the calipers but a much smaller contact area than using drums. And it's that contact area that makes for excellent braking. They'll probably work OK but you'll most likely be changing pads frequently as they'll wear down sooner due to the small contact patch. Save your money a bit longer and buy a heavier braking system.Anyone here use this setup? Seems pretty straight forward. I favor the single piston caliper which this kit uses.
They use dodge ram calipers.Scarebird uses GM-based calipers
I had a kit from SSBC on my 65 Fury but it was 4 piston. Mine were Corvette calipers and pad replacement was done by giving the counterman the year of Corvette. Unfortunately the SSBC wasn't up to the job of stopping my car well and when I upped the horsepower they were even worse. Not too sure the weight of your beast but I would think that you need all the stopping friction you can muster and I'm doubtful that a single piston caliper would be your best choice. To be sure, calculate the total square area of the friction material on your existing shoes and then the pads. Shoes use a 1" piston and the calipers probably 2" so you have a great pressure multiplier using the larger piston in the calipers but a much smaller contact area than using drums. And it's that contact area that makes for excellent braking. They'll probably work OK but you'll most likely be changing pads frequently as they'll wear down sooner due to the small contact patch. Save your money a bit longer and buy a heavier braking system.
They use dodge ram calipers.
If anyone has a brain out there and the smarts to create a adapter, the best and a most common caliper to use would be a Trailblazer/caddy CTS style aluminum caliper (very light and plentiful) drawback is adapter needs to carry the pad load, the caliper does not.
I think they do use GM calipers on some of their conversions. I think most of the mopar conversions are with 90s Ram calipers and pads, and early 70s Ford rotors.Thanks for that update. I suspect they also use the Ram brake pads? Seems like all of the earlier Dodge Rams went through brake pads pretty quick (some in 20K miles of normal driving), from what I heard back then. But that was the OEM pads, fwiw.
I haven't looked at the Scarebird deal lately, just recalled the more common GM calipers were used back then, but things have changed since then as to what's plentiful as reman calipers or salvage yard items.
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