Re: Disc brake conversion

Cory, your paying for the correct adapter and their time and effort put into getting the correct items for you to put together. So you'll have a quicker stopping and safer car to go out and cruise in. Now you may have the time and resources to find all this stuff and design the bracket to fit your car, have it made and buy all the other parts, and make sure it works?

When you really think about it, that is not that expensive, and no I'm not a rich man and yes $165 is a lot to me also, but go to your other conversion kit companies, they do supply all the parts, at what mark-up, at least Scarebird will tell what parts to get, then you can shop around and find the best deals. jm2cw.

From: Cory Rempel <cory_383@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 12:24 AM
Subject: RE: Disc brake conversion

Hey Gary, that scarebird kit is misleading. I emailed them a couple weeks ago, and from what I understood their kit did not come with the rotors, callipers, hoses, etc, which is pictured on their ebay ad. If you read carefully it states right below a picture of the fully assembled product, "Listing is for brackets, bearing adapters, banjo bolts and install info only." If they want $165 for that, they better give their heads a shake. That's a copied line from their ad.

> From: 62to65mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Disc brake conversion
> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 04:49:28 +0000
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> From the Ehrenberg article, the section on C-Body cars, that's linked from the 62-65 Tech page: "...for good, lowbuck brakes, with ready parts availability, you need to find a junked...1973 (or late '72) disc-equipped C-cruiser, and take everything (incl. rotors, calipers, knuckles, hoses, adapters, etc.) You won’t need the control arms, since they are identical from 1965 thru ‘73. For cars now equipped with 4-piston brakes, you will, however, need to swap the lower ball joints; but this is a blessing in disguise: The needed ball joints are way more common (read: cheaper!) Another option for C-bodies is the Scarebird kit...."
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> http://www.scarebird.com/index.php?id=32 is the Scarebird kit he refers to; it calls for using 1970-72 Ford Galaxie rotors and 1994-99 Dodge Ram 1500 calipers.
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> As for future parts availability, who knows! Too many unknown variables.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary H.
>
> > -------Original Message-------
> ... What would you, or anybody else, recommend I get these brakes off
> > of? I might be able to score a set off my buddy's 71 300 parts car. Or
> > maybe it's a 70. Are these parts still fairly accessible at parts shops
> > and will they still be available in years to come?
> ...
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